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This looks to be the original v1 wyze sense from 2019 and has long been discontinued.
They had a nifty design issue where if you let the batteries in the sensors go dead, they could brick and never work again. Being that these are probably old stock from 5+ years ago I wouldn't doubt they're already junk.
The v2 cam itself originally only sold for $25 and has not aged well. I still have a couple that get set up temporarily to check on the dog and they need to be factory reset and re-added to the app every time they get unplugged from power. Probably a related design issue to the sense components where a capacitor fails and wipes nvram.
Stay away from this junk. I transitioned away from wyze to tapo that has built in person detection like they USED to before they went subscription. For about $8 more you can get a 2k camera on amazon like the c120 and I've seen "used like new" under $20 fairly regularly from amazon warehouse or whatever name it's using now.
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Now it is all in app upsell, and everything of value is a sub for baseline features.
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The quality of the camera is very midrange compared to later models, but this is one of the few Wyze cameras that can be flashed to run RTSP locally.
Home Assistant support is very hit or miss, but it does look like there's a few projects floating around.
They had a nifty design issue where if you let the batteries in the sensors go dead, they could brick and never work again. Being that these are probably old stock from 5+ years ago I wouldn't doubt they're already junk.
The v2 cam itself originally only sold for $25 and has not aged well. I still have a couple that get set up temporarily to check on the dog and they need to be factory reset and re-added to the app every time they get unplugged from power. Probably a related design issue to the sense components where a capacitor fails and wipes nvram.
Would not recommend these
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