I was at a hardware store and 8-32 would make a couple turns and then get very tight. I see people on Amazon are claiming that’s the thread, but what I think they’re doing is reforming the thread to work with the screw. Whether it’s stretching the thread or kind of recutting it, I’m not sure. As for M4 .7 , I would say it’s sloppier. I don’t know if it would loosen up over time. I had put a not of that thread on the stand and and even had someone else confirmed that it seemed a little wobbly. Whether or not it would tighten down. I don’t know what I didn’t bring the camera. That may be a little loctite or thread sealant might help take up the slack. They’re possibly is a M4 .5 pitch but they didn’t have one to try.
I am certain of the size because I have measurement tools for screw threads. Here is the post of the ball mount from the OG camera compared to a screw checker plate at 4mm and .7mm pitch gauge. If you hold a #8-32 screw against the threads of the post, you will see that the threads do not line up exactly. Matching screws by feel is risky because of differences in measurement standards and tolerances between metric and imperial systems. Some screws do appear to fit but will end up with damaged threads. It is best to have a specification or measure. I have not seen an explicit specification from Wyze Lab. If you want, you can find screw checking plates at hardware stores and online for less than $10. They are nice to have. I have them because I have been a Machinist and a Manufacturing Engineer, so I am wary about guessing screw sizes.
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Good to know. Yes I checked the store plate and that is how I determined 8-32 was wrong but a fresh .7 pitch nut IS sloppy, allot of wiggle but works. I assume when the plastic washer is butt up it tightens it . But I would think if one is not butting up the came to the new screw base, it might have a wobble. However, I understand some tolerences vary from maker to maker.
The change to 4mm for the threads is really a bummer, making mounting of the single telephoto OG a pain. I have tried using an adapter from the standard camera mag mount screw size 1/4 inch to as close to 4mm as I could get. It seems to be holding.
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ok, glad it saves money. now is there an adapter for this connector so that we cn use it with other mounts?
How do the Wyze # want us to mount these devices with standrd mounts.
@WyzeJasonJ A source for a thread adapter for previous mounts (from Wyze? ($2) would be very very very helpful… @UserCustomerGwen
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Hi, there. Please refer to Wyze OG mount is sort of a bummer, also there is a new thread size for mount screw post - #12 by poor_financier . . .
So we need to buy an $8 black adapter to save Wyze money on the new OG cam ‘design’? Glad to see Wyze ongoing considerations of cost savings but please standard mounts.
@WyzeJasonJ please pass this along to the design team. Standard interfaces please. Thanks.
Does this need a wishlist to be fixed?
This has definitely been passed along, it came up right when the product was launched, and are making sure to take this feedback into future designs.
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I have the same problem indeed. The thread is no longer compatible with my outdoor wyze housing mount unit so I decided NOT to upgrade my wyze cam v2. to OG.
The new housing are dirt cheap on Amazon, i replaced 8 old V2 that i had outside with OG model and got the housing on amazon and the new clear double stick think tape i put a OG zoom on a few cams
Which one are you referring to, link please?
Wyze cam OG. The thread is no longer standard camera stand so 3rd party housing unit won’t work any more. Also, note that OG does not support free 12 seconds video record. That means you must subscribe monthly or annual Cam Plus plan for recording any event. So, It is not worth it to buy this one. I would stay with v2 or v3 instead.
Does cam plus lite work? Your missing out on a lots of different features…my wife loves the V3-PRO,i set up an account just for her and loaded 7 cams on it for her
Cam Plus Lite is supported only on Non-Doorbell cameras released before 2/1/2021.
Supported Devices:
- Wyze Cam v1
- Wyze Cam v2
- Wyze Cam v3
- Wyze Cam Pan v1
- Wyze Cam Pan v2
- Wyze Cam Outdoor v1
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I do not know what cam lite is. the free stuff works. You still get free thumbnails of events and they claim sleightly quicker connection speed since it is not trying to pull the cloud 12 sec clip.
It does have a LONG cool down period in the free version were it does not record after 1 minute in each 5 minute period
The trick with these cams to not miss anything is to st it to continuous with larger SD card. I found you still get trigger alerts but if you think you missed something or it was cut off you will not have this issue on continuous.
I think Wyze OG developers made a huge mistake with the cool down. Too many events will be missed . At least with V3 the triggers might not alert but the camera would still record events in the altert cool down. I guess that is a pain as well as you do not know if in that cool down if there was other activity if solely looking at the event log, .
But what I asked with the mounting base was that someone mentioned some base that works with the OG available on line and I wanted the link for that.
I was able to put a screw and use my V3 base but I am curious what else is out there.
Cam light is free…go look and go look on Amazon search wyze camera thats how i found the enclosurer,and the adapter to go from 1/4 to m4
My reply was to kae4560.
I’m not aware of any M4 threaded mounts. I just use these M4 to 1/4-20 adapters to use Cam OG and Tele with my existing v3 mounts:
https://www.amazon.com/MECCANIXITY-Adapter-Female-Camera-Microphone/dp/B0BJ9TSCMN?th=1
Yes we have bought them as well
