Wyze outdoor cam theft protection?

Another security feature that Wyze added was a WCO cannot be added to a second account, if it is still assigned to the first one. (This is not to be confused with SHARING your WCO. That is the same as other Wyze devices.)

For example, I have a WCO registered to “mike@anything.com” and the kid down the street thinks it’s cool and steals it. When he tries to add it to his Wyze account he will get a message that the camera is already assigned to another account and to contact CS. As long as I don’t delete the camera from my account, that punk kid (yeah, I know who you are) can’t use it. I have actually tested this with 2 Wyze accounts that I created.

There are 2 things that I don’t know. The first is what if the camera is factory reset can it be reassigned. My suspicion is it wouldn’t matter. I think it is based on either MAC address or camera SN. The second is if Wyze is doing anything on the back end when someone attempts to register a stolen camera. I tend to think they don’t, but can’t say for sure.

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