I just have the V2 driver cam and the V3 dash cam. When I bought my first V3 cameras, I temp had a V2 and a V3 pointed forward. That lasted a couple months and then removed the V2 forward looking camera. For the driver cam, the V2 is fine.
My first two cameras were activated on 2 May 2018, so I likely joined the forum about the time I ordered the first two cameras.
@K6CCC
How do you have it set up/configured in your cab? Is it a suction cup mounted to the windshield and plugged into a USB port on your dash? THis sounds like a fairly inexpensive way to get a good dashcam.
Dan
Read my post from 18 hours ago and it answers those qeustions.
Great info K6CCC,
I called Wyze and they said that the V3 needs a constant WIFI connection to work. Has this not been your experience?
Dan
Wrong. It (like all Wyze cameras) requires a WiFi connection in order to watch it, but it will record to the uSD card just fine without a WiFi connection. One important note is that after powerup, the Wyze cameras are essentially brain dead and will NOT start recording to the uSD card until they are able to check in to the Wyze servers. Once the cameras have checked in, a WiFi connection is NOT required as long as power is not killed.
In my case, the cameras in my truck connect to my WiFi when Iâm at home.
So if you go to a store, it will check in from your house on the way to the store, but then from the store home do you use a hotspot for it to check in to start recording, or just no recording for the trip home?
No. The cameras are powered 24x7 and set to continuous recording.
Oh wow, so they use your battery power after you turn the car off? Never been worried it will drain it? I guess you drive it often enough that hasnât been a concern. Iâve always been scared to do things like that. It seems the smallest light inside my vehicles, if left on will kill my battery in a few hours, so Iâm terrified a constantly recording camera (or 2) would definitely kill it. Youâre a braver man than I. Any special safeguards to ensure that doesnât happen? I would love to do that, but Iâm paranoid.
Yes, the two cameras plug into a cigarette outlet that is powered from the normal vehicle battery. As I said in another thread recently, the only time I had them run the battery down was when I had COVID and was not driving at all. My router reported that both cameras failed after about 5 days. One advantage I likely have is that I am driving a full size pickup, so the starting battery is larger than the battery in a compact car.
One of these days, I keep threatening to move the power for the cameras to the aux battery system (powers all my radios). That way, if the battery gets run flat, the starting battery is not affected.
It was clearly the other guyâs fault if he ran the red light. That being said I will switch to my fatherâs way of talking to me:
You survived this time! But maybe we should ditch the aviators so that white commercial trucks donât sneak up on you. And maybe land those left turns into the leftmost lane to avoid getting smacked on the cheek. Cameras donât do the job of defensive driving especially in the face of vehicles that you can see coming a mile away. Your kids might want to take away your car keys soon. âHead on a swivel.â And all that.
Glad to see youâre okay. 
Making a left turn into the inside left lane is not always practical. I make a turn like this at least 4 times a week and the biggest concern is the !@$$ &^$ who donât know what YIELD means, I am not going to drive another block to make my right turn. My truck has a loud horn 
My situation was similar to Antonius - I needed to make a right turn not much more than 100 yards after making the left. And as stated earlier, California does not require turning into the left lane in this situation.
As for my Ray Bans, on a bright sunny day, I can see far better with a good pair of sunglasses. BTW, I am a pilot, and would not consider flying on a bright sunny day without my AviatorsâŚ
I totally disagree with this California law (as mentioned above) and this is exactly why. My defensive driving lessons (and laws in other places) would have kicked in. 'I needed to turnâŚ" replace with âI wanted to turnâ. I would have done it another way and yes it means sometimes I go around the block or take other actions but it saves the hassle of what the OP just experienced and generally doesnât inconvenience other drivers, only myself. In all fairness Iâve messed up too and been in a small accident or two. Itâs also possible the OP might have been rear ended in the left lane so you canât avoid everything. Fortunately this accident doesnât appear to be too serious.
And I guess you donât like âRight on Redâ turns either, (Your are supposed to stop first) but around here most cars wheels never stop turning in the forward motion. Aka. California rolling Stop. 
And how does it inconvenience other drivers when they are supposed to be motionless at the RED LIGHT going in the forward direction?
You Should go to Korea or Los Angeles, Red Light means 4 more cars are coming straight through. 
LOL I lived in Haiti in the late 90âs, there were no traffic lights or stop signs that I remember, and very few traffic lawsâŚmore some common practices (especially whoever is biggest gets the right of way because they arenât afraid of getting dented). I was terrified in vehicles there for a long, long time. Everyone pushing through to everywhere and doing crazy things. Iâm still traumatized and amazed I didnât witness traffic deaths daily. After my first day I refused to ever drive there. Did I mention Iâm still traumatized? 
I went back again many years later and driving was a little more civilized than it used to be with some traffic lights existing in the busiest areas, etcâŚbut I still refused to drive while I was there. Did I mention the trauma? (stopped going back now that I have a family and kidsâŚtoo many other people I know started getting kidnapped and held for ransom, so it hasnât really been safe, and it wouldnât be fair to my family to put myself at such riskâŚbut I definitely donât miss the TRAFFIC!)
six motorcycles and a bus
Nope, my trips to Korea are done. I went there Very Frequently between 1970 and 1996. Between 1990-and 1993 I was there about every 20 days for a 5 day stay. I have Kimchee Powers still.
My wife says Los Angeles Korea Town is more Korean than Korea, maybe I will go next trip.
Havenât been back since 97â but I can still taste it.
The kimchi becomes one with your inner soul, or is it Seoul.
My dadâs a pilot. He never uses his aviators to drive. Because of this I have a drawer full of sunglasses I never use. LOL
Weâve all seen it - that left-turner who goes wide and slips by intersection stragglers and somehow avoids rolling-right-turners on the opposite side. But the Law of Averages comes into play at some point and these folks make it on âDashcam Lessonsâ on the YouTube. Pulling this off 4 times a week? I wonder if thereâs a route thatâll trade the inevitable collision for an extra 5 seconds of driving.
(Strangely, the Law of Averages doesnât guarantee Iâll have a âsure thingâ after asking out the umpthteenth woman.)
