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expiredIndigoThread6938 posted Jan 05, 2023 03:46 PM
2-Pack Roku Smart Home Wired 1080p Indoor Cameras SE
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https://youtu.be/iKex04C5hUo?t=3
That is probably a deal breaker unless you want to pay for their yearly subscription.
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https://www.bestbuy.com/site/wyze...Id=65081
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Haha I did not even notice the Roku part. My mind went straight to "oh more clearances on the older V3 Wyze cameras..."
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When did they take it away?
Actually Roku had plan to jump into camera market since first launch of Roku TV 🤣.
Wyze just jumped ahead of them...
Chinese manufacturers give not damn about IPs. You ask them to make counterfeit of anything, they would happily do it...
In US, it is easy to sue on the IP related case. Why Roku not go after wyze?
https://youtu.be/iKex04C5hUo?t=3
That is probably a deal breaker unless you want to pay for their yearly subscription.
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so it's not that roku is getting their stuff from wyze, it's roku getting their stuff directly from the original manufacture. if you know who the manufacture was you could go get your own identical camera from them too, you will have to put in a very large order and they will do it. this is not news buy the way.
My Vimtag indoor/outdoor camera allows all this, albeit with a clunky PC app and I haven't been able to copy the footage on the MicroSD card directly to my PC as the card uses either some funky format or encodes it in a way that I haven't been able to decrypt, seemingly the way that Truecrypt/Veracrypt do. I can copy over WiFi, but it's painfully slow and seems kind of stupid if I have access to the card itself.
My Wyze allows me to view footage on my phone or tablet, for free, but I have to pay extra each month to see it in a crappy browser-based app, and I haven't found a standalone PC app. It does, though, allow me to view or copy the card contents directly on my PC as it uses a standard formatting method and doesn't encrypt the contents. I've read that there are 3rd party PC apps that work with it but I haven't looked into it.
My view is, if I pay for the camera and put a card in it, I shouldn't have to pay anyone to see its live or recorded footage, and should be able to view these on my phone, tablet or PC, with a robust app that allows FF, RW & pause and all that. I'm willing to pay extra for a decent such app.
Camera makers are trying to apply the razor/blades model to cameras. But that makes no sense as there's nothing that wears out or needs replacement.
https://www.wired.com/story/roku-...ober-2022/
"The Roku Smart Home app includes data encryption and two-factor authentication (although we think it's worth noting here that Wyze left a security breach unfixed and unannounced for three years until earlier this year)"
Roku used Wyze hardware (which wyze just used a 3rd party OEM to make anyhow). Roku remade the entire software package (app/roku connectivity/encryption) to work with the hardware and firmware. I had bought the wyze a long while back and stopped using it and now use the Roku cameras, there is a difference and I'd recommend the Roku - their software is superior but out of the box they don't have all of the wyze functionality which really isn't a big deal since the main functions work fine.
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Any recommendations on such cameras which are reasonably priced?
Here is one from Amazon [amazon.com] which the picture below is captured with. BTW, this one is "only" 2MP. Typically day time capturing just need something that is zoomed in. Night time takes some adjusting to make it work right. Note that the night time capturing is tuned to see the license plate only. You actually need another camera to see the overall vehicle.
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