expireddubba-low | Staff posted Jun 14, 2024 11:51 PM
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expireddubba-low | Staff posted Jun 14, 2024 11:51 PM
Costco Members: Wyze Security Cams: Wyze Cam v3 1080p Camera
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I have several of the Wyze V3s and several of the Tapo C120s, and they're all good, but the C120s are better for my use case:
Tapo pros:
Reliable live view
Reliable recording to microsd
Native RTSP support
Easy access to microsd recordings by zooming in on timeline or playing at 4x
AI includes vehicles, pets, and people
Tapo cons:
No rich notifications in mobile app
Wyze v3 pros:
Reliable live view
Reliable recording to microsd
Rich notifications
free cloud backup of 12 second event videos
cons:
5-minute cool-down period between notifications
AI for people only
Tedious to find events that occur during cool-down period without pulling microsd
No native RTSP, but there are workarounds like Tinycam pro
Overall, if you want live view and microsd recording just-in-case then they both work fine. If you're fine with the 5-minute-cool-down-period then Wyze v3 has better notifications. If you need to regularly review events that could happen more frequently than every 5 minutes (i.e. did mailman come 2 mins after a car drove by) then Tapo is the way to go.
Both offer more features if you pay monthly, but I can only speak to the free plans.
Viewing Playback with a MicroSD Card through Live View still works, it's only the Playback (direct view to timestamp on SD card) in the Event Clips that is bugged.
So users now have to either write down or memorize the exact time, then go to Live View, then Playback & scroll to the time to see the full event (before & after the 12 second clip).
This bug first appeared around February 2024, a Wyze Employee claimed in April they found the cause, but so far there is still no fix & honestly doesn't look like they'll fix it since we're on the free grandfathered Cam Plus Lite subscription.
Here are some of the more active threads about this issue:
https://forums.wyze.com/t/playbac...out/292957
https://forums.wyze.com/t/playbac...iew/296184
Pre-ordered V4 off their site, apparently it came with a free subscription that was activated at purchase, I was billed a month later and even after contacting their CS they would not refund me. Note that the cams weren't even opened yet. Y u do dis wyze?
Their move to aggressive sub models is gross.
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I have several of the Wyze V3s and several of the Tapo C120s, and they're all good, but the C120s are better for my use case:
Tapo pros:
Reliable live view
Reliable recording to microsd
Native RTSP support
Easy access to microsd recordings by zooming in on timeline or playing at 4x
AI includes vehicles, pets, and people
Tapo cons:
No rich notifications in mobile app
Wyze v3 pros:
Reliable live view
Reliable recording to microsd
Rich notifications
free cloud backup of 12 second event videos
cons:
5-minute cool-down period between notifications
AI for people only
Tedious to find events that occur during cool-down period without pulling microsd
No native RTSP, but there are workarounds like Tinycam pro
Overall, if you want live view and microsd recording just-in-case then they both work fine. If you're fine with the 5-minute-cool-down-period then Wyze v3 has better notifications. If you need to regularly review events that could happen more frequently than every 5 minutes (i.e. did mailman come 2 mins after a car drove by) then Tapo is the way to go.
Both offer more features if you pay monthly, but I can only speak to the free plans.
I'm a free user as well and bought Wyze lamp sockets hoping to activate them only when they detected a person approaching the house or me walking in the yard, and you can't do that without the paid subscription.
Incredibly frustrating, since the *general* motion detection that applies to triggers will activate on everything from cars passing by (or just ambient light from passing headlights), to bugs. Basically unusable without a subscription.
Once I format the SD cards, they start recording and playback is available again until the cards are full. What is the issue? Are the SD cards causing the problem?
The main advantage of the Cam Plus is that you can watch the footage live on your portal on wyze website. I had a 3-month free on a few cams, and watching them on my laptop was fun.
I was grandfathered in their free Cam Plus Lite. In February 2024, I added six v3s that I purchased in Dec 2022 and came with a free 3-month Cam Plus which I activated. I do not have Cam Plus Lite on these cameras now. I still have 12-sec footage on v2s but not on v3s. So I guess it depends on when you activated the cams.
https://github.com/gtxaspec/wz_mi...stallat
With this Rtsp support can I use local streaming ?
Once I format the SD cards, they start recording and playback is available again until the cards are full. What is the issue? Are the SD cards causing the problem?
The main advantage of the Cam Plus is that you can watch the footage live on your portal on wyze website. I had a 3-month free on a few cams, and watching them on my laptop was fun.
I was grandfathered in their free Cam Plus Lite. In February 2024, I added six v3s that I purchased in Dec 2022 and came with a free 3-month Cam Plus which I activated. I do not have Cam Plus Lite on these cameras now. I still have 12-sec footage on v2s but not on v3s. So I guess it depends on when you activated the cams.
edit: did you try clearing app cache? from googling, In the App click on Account then App Settings. You should be able to clear the App Cache.
edit2: I just setup the same v3 and at the step where it asked to confirm/continue with the 3-month offer, I declined and backed up a step and could proceed without attaching camplus. then I went into my account and successfully attached campus lite to this camera. No issues
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Once I format the SD cards, they start recording and playback is available again until the cards are full. What is the issue? Are the SD cards causing the problem?
The main advantage of the Cam Plus is that you can watch the footage live on your portal on wyze website. I had a 3-month free on a few cams, and watching them on my laptop was fun.
I was grandfathered in their free Cam Plus Lite. In February 2024, I added six v3s that I purchased in Dec 2022 and came with a free 3-month Cam Plus which I activated. I do not have Cam Plus Lite on these cameras now. I still have 12-sec footage on v2s but not on v3s. So I guess it depends on when you activated the cams.
Now I have my own question, is the pan v3 considered a "v3" that can still get cam lite plus? Pan and non pan version are 1 version away. Any significant upgrade from pan v2?
https://github.com/gtxaspec/wz_mi...stallation [github.com]
With this Rtsp support can I use local streaming ?
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