Wyze Cam Pan: Can't view recordings on PC

[pedrovay2003]

My Wyze Cam Pan WYZECP1 works perfectly, recording everything all day long to its 32GB micro SD card. But when I remove that card and put it into my PC, the only things I can see are three weirdly-named files. I can’t do anything with them, and if I try to copy the files to my hard drive, it doesn’t work.

I’ve fully updated the camera’s firmware. I’ve tried using more than one micro SD card reader, a full-sized SD card reader with an adapter, different USB ports on my computer, and trying to see the actual video files in both Windows 10 and Linux Mint 20.3, but I can’t see my videos at all; when I put the micro SD card back into the camera, everything is still there, just as it was before I removed the card. I want to get them onto my computer so I can make a sped-up video of an entire 24-hour period, but that seems impossible at this point. Is there any way at all to see my recordings on my PC, or on anything other than the Wyze app?

[WildBill]

Not sure if it is related, but why do you see two F drives? I’ve connected multiple SD cards to my Ubuntu systems without any problems. The cards should be fat32 format. Have you tried different cards?

[pedrovay2003]

That’s just one F drive, it just has two links to it on the side there, a side effect of how I have my layout set up. Both would bring you to the same place.

The card is FAT32, I even had the camera itself format it. I’ve tried multiple cards, and they all end up this way.

[WildBill]

Here is what I see on ubuntu (note: using RTSP on the camera):

[pedrovay2003]

Holy crap, mine looks nothing like that.

EDIT: I just dug out and tried my other Wyze Cam Pan, and that one works. I have no idea what the issue is with this one.