Thanks! I didn’t know when I got this thing that it was eventually going to lead me down a path of 3D design and fabrication. I guess that was just a bonus, because I enjoy learning.
For the record, I also really like your minimalist approach to the mount. There’s an elegance to how clean it is.
I get that. Even though I wasn’t using professional CAD software, I figured out how to dial in the angle I wanted using the original design as a template. Once I developed that process, the rest was very easy, so further revisions at this point (if I did them) should be relatively straightforward.
Yeah, I’m still getting a little more overhang than I need, but I felt like I had to draw the line somewhere and didn’t want the angle away from the wall to be too extreme.
I considered something similar, but I had already installed a different camera a few years ago that provides a view of most of the front of the house, including the porch. (That camera is actually visible in the “before” and “after” photos I included on the Printables site.) The fun thing about that camera is that its IR blasters come on at night, so if the Video Doorbell v2 is in Night Vision Mode it appears to have a spotlight shining right at it. That got me to try setting Night Vision Mode to Off, which actually turned out to be a better view (and in color!) anyway.
I saw the announcement video yesterday and have so far looked at the revamped Monitoring tab only briefly. The interface isn’t as intuitive as I’d like, and I had to repeat some actions to get the multi-view to fix itself (it was overlapping the live views like a stacking window manager), but I expect that it’s a work in progress and will probably get better over time.
I haven’t subscribed to anything yet—one of the major draws to Wyze for me is the ability to have local storage, so all of my Wyze cameras do continuous recording to microSD cards—but I’m always willing to see what they come up with for features and plans.