We’re Giving Wyze Person Detection to All Users at Whatever Price You Want - 1/11/22

Only thing you’re doing wrong is looking under Events instead of each camera’s View Playback section - that is where the SD recorded events are (if you’re set for SD motion recording and not continuous). That setting is independent of cloud event recording.

Yeah no. That’s not what’s happening. If you opt in to the new thing - Cam Plus Lite (ugh, dumb name) - you’ll still get regular motion events just as always. Events are NOT limited to person only. It doesn’t work that way. The person detection takes place in their servers, so you have to upload all motion events anyway. You’ve got it wrong.

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This move is is to

Get legacy grandfather v2 purchasers off their free 12 second plan

It will then move us to a new tier and we lose the original legacy terms

They will provide this free lite service and then sometime down the line say zero is not sustainable and everyone has to pay

I defended them on the robot vacuum causing damage but this rubs me the wrong way and we should think class action.

Wyze is not doing you a service by giving you something, they are taking something away under smoke and mirrors.

Btw. I am still grandfathered on my att plan. They didn’t try to move me to these unlimited plans, but they won’t force you. It is against all ftc trade laws and rules.

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Same here, as well as ambulances. My mom loves to watch the mice and possums at night in her garden, and got a great shot of a bobcat straddling the camera.

None of these plans really work for her.

I just want you to know I just subscribed to wyze cam light for free to see if I like it. If I do am I able to easily up my contribution? I felt uncomfortable selecting a money contribution not knowing what the service will do for me but if I like it I will definitely contribute more than the suggested amount.

I need to see the events in the “Events” section. I don’t want to have to go the playback section for each camera. I have 10 cameras. I need to see all cameras together chronologically.

Here’s the deal: I think Wyze is lying. They say they want to do what’s best for users and they love their customers, but they regularly make decisions to push us toward a subscription service. I do not want a subscription service. I bought Wyze because of the “no fee” claim.

Every few days I see an advertisement in the app to get me to buy the subscription. How is displaying this advertisement so often in my best interests? It’s not.

I’m done with Wyze. I don’t trust the Chinese back-end software they use. They seem to do a “rug pull” every couple of years by taking away functionality while claiming it’s an improvement.

Why don’t you just add RTSP to the stock firmware and then I’ll Agent DVR or Blue IRIS to manage my cameras the way I want?

John

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I’d like that too but how would it work? Either the app would have to poll ALL your cameras’ SD cards every time you use it and built a local table, or else Wyze would need to build and maintain an index of each SD card’s contents on their servers in a table similar to the current cloud Event format. Neither is a trivial undertaking, and the first option sounds way too slow and unwieldy.

When the first Wyze cam came out it had person detect, then “oh they couldn’t pay the cost so we’re removing it. I’m like ok, camera was decent, once in awhile I had to unplug because the sd card was not detected or it would just go off line, I understand. The person detect came back but you wanna charge me like Ring, I’m like “no”. New cameras came out, nice, colored night vision, nice, warranty replacement for defective microphones on 3 cameras replaced quickly, nice. But now you wanna change terms again, just sign up and optional “0” pay. You know, that’s known as “Bait and Switch”. I have a Minion Stuart cam by Tend given as a gift, unlimited cloud storage for 24hrs because it has no SD card option, I’ve never had to unplug to reset, never had it shutdown or denied access. The only thing is they changed the app over to a dedicated Tend app and all of my features are still on the camera. With Wyze’s reliability track record, changing of terms and features, it’s just time to go look at other products.

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I cannot say exactly how the new integration will function, but in theory, you will be notified and the event will have a link or button to launch the actual video of the event on the SDCard based on the timestamp.

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Despite the heartwarming long letter, the CamPlus Lite offer is a tad insincere to existing subscribers, who have paid up for a dozen cameras for the entire year. The intro price was good, but it is likely to double in the next year. Another low cost player Kangaroo, is doing that.
This means I could have gotten cloud recording for nothing paid. Do I get my money back?
Is this a vague socialistic notion, that paying members, subsidize other users who don’t wanna pay?
The “pay as you like” scheme is laffable. It is nothing but a ham-handed fishing expedition. First you cast a wide net to get the big fish, namely paying customers. Then you use a smaller net to get non or little payers, and later on hit them up emotionally to pay a little more in few months, once they are hooked on it.
I look forward to not renewing my CamPlus subscription, and going the local recording route.
That said, I also look forward to integration of locks and all cameras into the home monitoring service. Ability to make custom groups of devices and adding a second security keypad for the backdoor, could addressed rightaway, sans these shenanigans.
I do hope the cameras going offline frequently will be rectified, as cloud and server space is better managed. That wud be the barest minimum to stick with you.
Go fish!
Mano

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The metadata for the event (camera name/number, date/time) would be uploaded to wyze servers, but the video itself wouldn’t be. The video is what creates the cost for Wyze, not the metadata. My door and motion sensors are sending a trivial amount of data to Wyze servers so that the app can display history and notifications. I’m saying the cameras should work in a similar way.

That would work, right?

Sounds like a great offer!

That is it sounded like a great offer when I opened the Wyze app this morning and was greeted by the offer. So I followed the link in your popup and it took me to the Wyze website where there was no offer for any Cam Plus Lite. The only choices were for Cam Plus and Cam Plus Pro.

So, if this offer is real, how do I sign up for it???

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You can go here Opt into Cam Plus Lite.

I believe you will need to scroll to the bottom where you saw Cam Plus and Cam Plus Pro.

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You always could; this is mostly about person detection. But I agree with some of your post.

Sure, I never said they would have to upload the video. Still, it’s not the bytes, it’s the creation of a database and access system that currently doesn’t exist at all. Thus not trivial.

They really would have to overhaul the SD playback in order to get this to work.In it’s current incarnation, Even locally there is no way to see previews of the recorded events. They have them for the cloud version but not the SD card version. I Don’t think that they have to scan the SD card, just do what they’re doing now and instead of the video, just have an image which is stored on the cloud, and then use that time stamp to search locally.

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This is kind of their own doing because they haven’t done anything to improve SD playback since the beginning. It’s ridiculous to have them in two completed different parts of the app.

Great. Now on CamPlusLight with 4 cams (and paid!). I see AI detection enabled for all 4 cams, but no people are actually being detected even when standing directly in front of the cameras. Is there another place in the app I need to select person detection specifically?

Hello, I am new to Wyze, I just set up wyze can V3 camera’s for in my business, this is a bit confusing to me? At the moment the camera’s provide what I need as I am able to look back a few days if need be, my question will this feature discontinue?
TY

Yes, you will be able to increase your contribution at a later time if you choose to.

Do you have a multi-camera discount for Cam Plus? I have 3 cameras. 1 has Cam Plus, 1 has Cam Plus Lite and 1 has nothing. If so, how do I access it?

Everytime I try to toggle this on for a camera it immediately untoggles and the seup person detection button never lights up.