This thread has jumped tracks onto a Doorbell train. Back to the Google Assistant track - I found a solution to most of my Nest Home Hub streaming issues, it’s simply broadband access speed. The awful 15 second latency remains, but at least there’s fairly stable streaming not available previously.
Previously I had sucky DSL internet - 12 Mbps rated - and couldn’t ever get a stable Wyze cam streaming display on my Home Hub. I even bought an Echo Show 8 but it still stumbled. Recently CL offered me a 30 Mbps plan (I later found out that T-Mobile just set up a 5G home broadband tower <1 mile away, ain’t competition wonderful!), and my streaming problems went awaaay! though I still mostly have to hot start to display on the Hub. No issues streaming on the Echo Show at all.
So what’s going on? Let’s look at the upload speeds here, since the cameras are sending and anyway the download access would be adequately fast for 1080 video. With the new 30 Mbps plan (hey, I live in a forest), the DSL upload speed is consistently 1.5-1.8 Mbps (and all is copacetic), but the old 12 Mbps only provided 0.6-0.8 Mbps upload (and Wyze streaming to the Hub was a stumbling mess).
Checking out the bandwidth indicator on the Wyze app (which uses its own specialty protocols, no problems) shows 80 - 120 KB/s in Apple apps and 80-120 kBs on Android. Since kb/s and kB/s are very different things, which is it, bits or Bytes? It’s obvious on the scale of things that it’s Bytes.
1 Megabit/s = 125 Kilobytes/sec (kB/s)
So now it’s clear that my old stumblebum DSL speed of <0.8 Mbps (bits, 100 kB/s) was not gonna cut it when the Cam is constantly squirting out > 100 kB/s and totally choking the narrow 0.8 Mbps channel (like Suez but with lots and lotsa Ever Greens and smallers all jostling).
“Hub choke” manifested for me as a black streaming screen with a timeline play bar sweeping L to R continually. Many of the gripes (justifiably) in this thread will recognize this behavior.
So there we have it. I wonder how many other folk with Hub issues have DSL (DSL always has bitsy upload speed). Maybe there are other problems too, but I for one am finally in the clear - all good on my Echo Show (WebRTC protocol) and OK hot start on my Hub (WyzeFrederik says they’re working toward WebRTC). WebRTC should get rid of the latency issue with the Hub too.
I think that Wyze ought to nail down the requirements and include the minimum speeds in their Cam specifications.
WyzeFrederick knows about this, ForumModerater Loki gets thanks for a good kb/s discussion from yesteryear May '18. Most Forum members adhere to high standards and help show these problems are not just one off, thanks!
