Landscape View For Tablets

Time to jump ship and ditch wyze.
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Unfortunately it’s $120 year unlimited cameras (same location)

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The Wyze App remains a mess regarding screen orientation.

When run on a tablet in landscape mode, some screens in the app display in portrait mode and some display in landscape mode. Inexplicably, sometimes when viewing a camera the video will show in landscape, and other times it will display in portrait. This is evident on multiple Android tablet devices running different versions of Android. Let’s clean this up.

All displays in the app should obey the device’s screen orientation.

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The App needs a complete re-write for all platforms, and, IMO while doing so, the Wyze Web View should emulate all functionality and views that one see’s on an iPad, Android Tablet and/or iPhone or Android Phone.

Wyze has or is hiring developers to take on this monumental task of rewriting the app to deal with it’s current glaring issues such as this. (or so I am lead to believe)…

I came to this game later than some (dreaming of a Wyze Landscape fantasy world).

I’ve turned my frustration and annoyance to entertainment and humor in this specific thread, as I see nothing tangible occurring with the Wyze App’s current flaws such as this.

I look forward to Wyze popping into this thread someday before I’m dead and buried, and sounding the trumpet that Wyze App V3 has arrived, as well as Wyze Web View “V1”…

Me thinks I’ll be pushing up daises first.

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Thank you for contributing to keeping this entertaining “Wishful Thinking List” alive :slight_smile:

SJ

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Adding support for iPads and Mac users has never been easier with their new programming algorithms that allow your coding to work over every platform! Please add an iPad version that will allow those with iPads, like myself who uses my iPad as a baby monitor and camera viewer for the Owlet and Nanit baby Cams. Adding support for the iPad would be simple, yes some tweaks would need to be made, but of all your beta users out there as well, like myself, we would assist in finding any issues that may need addressed.

IMPORTANT
I would be more than happy to assist in writing the application and incorporating everyone’s wish of landscape view.

PLEASE ADD IPAD VERSION (especially iPad Pro) OF THE WYZE APP!!

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Wyze is hiring: Wyze Careers :+1:

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After 4+ years, hundreds of requests, dozens of hard ware devices, many firmware updates and several app updates; WYZE DOES NOT CARE!

The exec team doesn’t care that the app is [Mod Edit] up. They just don’t. If the execs don’t care they will never allocate resources to the dev team.

We need to accept their position and either live with what is available or go to a different hardware/software platform.

MOD NOTE: Post edited to conform to the Community Guidelines.

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100% agree. The cameras are starting to fail and products are getting [Mod Edit: worse and worse].

MOD NOTE: Post edited to conform to the Community Guidelines.

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Edit 7/25 of…? What year? Post shows 2018

Don’t know what year the 07/25 edit was at the top, but my original post about this issue was on Mar 25, 2018 when I wrote … “Given that you own an iPad Pro, do you feel that landscape mode support throughout the app is a priority, as I do? Very awkward now to use the app on an iPad (esp. if in a case). FWIW … I use the app exclusively on a iPad Pro 9.7” (2016 version)." This led to the Wishlist item.

I don’t think iPad support is ever going to get added. It’s been 4 years and 800 posts, they must surely not consider it a priority. I think it’s time to move on and with Matter launching soon, more cameras will be coming that might have good apps, at least with basic idevice support.

MOD NOTE: The reference here to “Matter” prompted a thread of discussion not specifically related to Landscape View For Tablets". Those posts have been split off to this more directly related #wishlist topic: Support Matter protocol. Please hop over there to follow or contribute to the discussion about Matter.

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At least the mods are just editing the bad words out of our posts instead of deleting our posts.

But it’s obvious we are mad at the lack of real effort by Wyze in fixing the landscape issue.

But if we still keep coming back after 4+ years, it’s like being in an abusive relationship, “yeah but he says he loves me.” (Do they really need to change if we are still here?)

Thanks Wyze. :neutral_face:

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A post was split to a new topic: Longer load times and WCO battery death

View in Landscape

I would really like to be able to view my Wyze Cam app, in Landscape not Portrait on my IPad 7.

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I research on the regular for better products at reasonable prices, so that when my camera’s fail, i’ll start to replace them with other brands. I already own four Amcrest Camera’s, so it’s a no brainer that my doorbell replacement will be an Amcrest Doorbell (it supports RTSP and a microSD Card). I have the original Video Doorbell, and the “Pro” version did not have the features I want to justify purchasing it.

I have many Wyze products, and for the most part am happy with them. LANDSCAPE support… not so much.

Wyze needs to realize that there are other options out there. And my loyalty to Wyze tetters on this Landscape Issue. If and when I find a better option where the company has a Landscape app that is written for the iPad Pro 12.9" and has products that meet my needs (RTSP, actually works with my Amazon Echo Show, etc…), It might become time to start transitioning away from Wyze as the products fail or are no longer supported.

SJ

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I looked into Amcrest, was ‘sold’ until I saw the pricing. Free cloud only gets you live viewing. The cheapest paid subscription is $6 per camera per month!
Any other camera options?
I have 4 arlos with a hub station and I’m paying nothing.
I only have one Wyze cam and so glad I do.

I agree with both of you. I am transitioning away from wyze as products need replacing, but I’m not going to throw away anything that is still working. I have not purchased anything new from wyze in a long time and will not.
The landscape issue is important to me.

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I have four Amcrest Cameras they are all RTSP compliant. I don’t use the Amcrest Cloud services. I use Blue Iris and/or QVR Pro on my QNAP NAS and/or various other RTSP compliant software, as well as the Amcrest apps on my phone for the two ‘classes’ of a cameras from Amcrest that I have. I receive email notifications of motion, and view them from the microSD Card and/or Blue Iris / QVR Pro.

I can live without the use of Amcrest Cloud Services with the way I’m using the cameras.

That said, I wanted to use my four Amcrest camera’s (two each of: Amcrest Model: ASH26-W & IP2M-841W-V3) with Amazon Echo Show, but it requires the Cloud Services Subscription to do so. Thus, I don’t get to use that feature from my Amcrest Cameras (I can’t use my Wyze Camera’s with Amazon Echo Show either…, and I DO PAY for Cam Plus on all my Wyze Cameras)

I do find Amcrest’s website to be somewhat annoying with its chat ‘popups’. And I’m not impressed with their support in any way.

And… to keep this on topic, Amcrest has two apps… Amcrest Smart Home is iPhone only, but rotates properly for an iPad in Landscape mode, so that those of us with an attached keyboard can actually use that app with out having to turn our head to the side to see the app properly. (I use this with the flood light cameras ASH-26W)

The other Amcrest app: Amcrest View Pro actually looks to be fully aware of this concept of Landscape on an iPad… imagine that! (I used this with the IP2M-841W-V3 model)

SJ

Wheewwwwww

You should be able to see your WyzeCam on echo with no issues. You have to enable the wyze skill and do device discovery. They should show up after that. They even have guard mode fixed on the show 5 and it seems good to go. You have to do this from the phone app for Alexa. Hope this helps.