popularphoinix | Staff posted Dec 11, 2025 08:05 AM
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popularphoinix | Staff posted Dec 11, 2025 08:05 AM
[AC] $29.98: 2 × Wyze Cam OG Indoor/Outdoor 1080p Wi-Fi Smart Home Security Camera with Color Night Vision ($14.99 each) at Amazon
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It came out with another camera or two, probably to get people to move away from the v3 free cloud stuff.
Even at the time, I wasn't sure what they were going for with it, although I still bought a few on sale, including the little floodlights, when I was still big on Wyze (and before I realized they used a different chipset from the older models, and couldn't be flashed with custom firmware to make them fully local).
I always really wanted to love Wyze, but it didn't take too long for me to realize that running their Micro USB cables (probably USB-C now) wasn't really much simpler than just doing it properly with PoE and skipping the whole WiFi cam idea altogether - in many cars, it's actually more of a pain, since Ethernet cables can be a lot longer, can be run through walls, and there is a whole dedicated market for tools/parts/accessories for a safe, clean and building code-compliant installation.
When compared to trying to run thin Micro-USB cables that were really designed for relatively short, indoor runs outside, and doing it safely, without having exposed/easily accessible cables that someone could just cut/unplug, I just gave up, first on having them outdoors, and eventually, using them at all.
Sorry for going slightly off-topic there...
I used Wyze cams back before Thingino was a thing (and actually had to look up what it was), but the main reason I and everyone I knew bought Wyze cams over the years was for the ability to bypass the entire Wyze cloud ecosystem, and install custom firmware on them that let you run them completely local, recording to your own local machine that you (and only you) could access and get notifications from from anywhere.
Wyze themselves have had a rather shaky record over the years when it comes to keeping your camera feeds private using their services, and I would definitely hesitate to rely on them for any camera placements you would feel uncomfortable for random strangers to see feeds from (which actually happened years back - due to a bug, the app would show streams from other people's cameras instead of your own).
Thingino sounds pretty sweet, and seems to significantly simplify/streamline the whole process, which used to be a bit of a hacked-together mess that really wasn't suited for the technically disinclined.
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