I know that & have seen this & others … will they bring back offline recording for the V3??
Cheers, Jon
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if you want to see and color you have to use regular light such as a flood light or a bright light bulb in your porch light. infrared light will only work with the infrared filter on the camera turned on over the lens, which in fact turns everything black and white. depending on your environment though you might not need that much light with the V3 as it picks up an astounding amount of light and shows color quite well
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Yeah I figured but was hoping otherwise. So the starlight sensor that makes color night vision in low light possible can only be in the camera itself. There is no way to mimic the same starlight sensor effect with any camera using a separate stand alone device? Sorry about the questions, I am trying to understand how this works, I have never had a camera with a starlight sensor and had no clue that such technology existed. Fun to learn about it with real people thru these forums though. 
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It WILL work without WiFi to some degree just like the V2 (continue recording to the SD card even when WiFi goes out).
So, basically, if you are putting it up somewhere where you don’t have a WiFi signal, one thing you can do is use the “Mobile Hotspot” option on your phone. Tell the cam to connect to the Mobile Hotspot SSID through your phone. Once it connects to the Wyze Networks and activates, you can disconnect your mobile hotspot and leave. It will continue to record to the SD card.
You won’t get notifications or anything from it, but if something happens and you want to go review the recordings, everything will be recorded on the SD card for you. Or you can use any of the other features this way too (time-lapse for example). You can come back anytime, load up your mobile hotspot near the device again and it will connect and allow you to view playback directly from the device that way, or you can pull out the SD card and stick it in a computer (or directly into your phone if it takes MicrosSD cards, or use an OTG connection and adapter).
Using this method, as long as your phone has a data connection available (and you have a mobile hotspot capability), you can put these cams ANYWHERE, start up the cam, then disconnect and walk away and they will keep recording to the SD card even without any WiFi. Connect them up to a battery or solar power system and they’re then 100% mobile.
Examples of instances this could be useful:
- Recording somewhere too far away from your house to reach WiFi
a) My grandma lived in a forest in upstate NY with tons of acres of land that she owned. She could place cameras at the far edges of her property using solar or other options, and while these wouldn’t give her notifications, she could always go recover recordings for certain time periods if something happened and she needed to check things out later. - Leaving a camera watching the outside of a rental property you own, but don’t have your own WiFi/internet account for.
a) Let’s say something does happen, maybe a tenant claims something, you notice some vandalism, or who knows what. If you had these cameras set up, you could go review the last X number of weeks of recordings (depending on your resolution, and whether it is continuous or motion capture only). You at least have protection to have recordings in case you need them later, even though you can’t view live or get notifications about things. - Take it hiking or camping, use a portable battery, like a 20,000mAh portable cellphone charger battery. Connect it up and use time-lapse features, or connect it to a flexible tripod and tie it to your backpack and record the hike, using it like a $20 Go-Pro. Have it watch your campsite while you’re gone (you can’t get notifications, but you can review the recording if you later notice someone walked through your campsite or stole something, etc).
Honestly, the WCO Travel feature might be better for some of those situations, but you can do all of them with the V3 (cheaper, longer recording, better lens, etc).
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It would just be nice if it would just start recording to the card without the requirement to get it going on WiFi first. I just want to use it where ever without hassle. Just turn it on & leave my car in a parking lot! I think there are other easier options.
Cheers, Jon
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That’s usually a special design of dashcams (this wasn’t designed to replace dashcams), but they said they are researching a dashcam and it is a possible option for the future. I imagine this is possibly something they’d consider building in for their future dashcam. Any dashcam worth its cost is way more than $19.99 though!
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Get it done Wyze
Cheers, Jon
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Happy Birthday @carverofchoice 
Great write up on using V2 w/o internet! 
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Just adding enough regular light outside, like a flood light would allow color vision at night with other “regular” cameras like the V2, but of course that’s highly visible to everyone. If I understand it correctly the starlight sensor is still just a regular camera with nothing additional, it just has a really light sensitive camera sensor that needs very little light. Even with my V2 cameras, there’s a point of time in the evening where it’s starting to get dark, but looking at my camera feed still looks like daylight, a lot brighter than what I see out the window.
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Will it work properly with Google Nest Hub and Amazon Echo Show? Specifically, have the connection and buffering issues been fixed for it?
Went to order 3 Wyze Cam V3s and discovered the free shipping offer had expired. Dooh!
Maybe they’ll offer it again.
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No free shipping on pre orders. It’s in the details.
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Ah … thanks.
Pre-ordered.
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I do not know if there is a root cause or common factor(s) to the decisions made that seem to be causing general controversy, and by all accounts don’t contribute anything positive to the company and its goals.
Patterns, once established, seem to be very difficult to break from. Wyze seems caught in a self-propagated loop of making decisions that simply move the goalposts rather than addressing systemic causes.
End results may even be their desired outcomes, but the debris caused by broken good will could and should be avoided, and yet this pattern persists.
I know the V2 with the out of the box firmware will record without the need for a wifi signal, at least after the initial setup. Power and a micro sd card is all it needs.
The issue for many was that this ability was impacted several times as firmware and App updates have rolled.
Do you test your use case often? I’ve only had a few occasions to need a truly offgrid solution, typically I have 4g/Lte to fall back on, but had several fishing trips that would have benefited from a clean offgrid video solution.
Internet search for Tenndelux IR illuminator, i have b18 lights up great
@davidnestico2001 which reship service did you use? I used to get mine sent to a parcel service across the border but now that option is closed with the border 
Its a reship service called “ShipItTo”
LINK: Shipito | Shop In The US & Ship Anywhere | Free US Address
Sounds like there is a real opportunity for a handler between US and Canada.
Covid changed a lot of processes, but it also just illuminated a lot of existing deficits in systems.
I have read so many comparable complaints on so many other manufacturers sites, same issue, no solutions.
Is it a matter of profit, regulation, or simply a need yet to be filled?