[stevenicr]

Two Wyze cams for $50 - solved. No monthly fee, has some AI stuff that boxes around heads / people.. has android app notifications, remote viewing..

Have a location that uses one of these on the inside plugged into a battery backup and a blinkxt wireless cam on the outside (can put these anywhere / wireless ) that needs fresh l-ion batteries every couple months.

no monthly fees, text alerts, apps with real time and recordings of what happened earlier / yesterday..

no idea where the data is sent for these for their cloud, but the Wyze also has on board sd card for secondary backup data..

or how long they will last or the cloud will do the video for free basically.. my samsung indoor cam lasted about 3 years before it bricked and these a replacing that.. at that price if they last that long it works for me.

[dr_kiszonka]

Thanks for the suggestion! From what I read, Wyze's cloud doesn't store continuous recordings. They only store 12 sec event-triggered videos with events being at least 5 minutes apart.

They say that continuous video can be saved to a microSD and played back in Wyze app. Do you know if this playback works remotely or would I have to be on the same WiFi?

[stevenicr]

not sure about all that, I see another posted a reply that seems to allow app access remote - have not tried yet.

For continuous - I used an offline completely ,swann wired security system outside, and a secondary wired system from nightowl that has an app they say after setup never touches their servers, for remote access, also now has Human detection technology. - around $250 More expensive on the front end, and have to deal with wires, but keeps days worth of recordings, keeps it local - have not tried the app / remote access setups yet because I see a rabbit hole of getting into router settings for private network setup and all that. One of these days when it's more needed.

[girtdzc]

Works whole not on the same WiFi. I just tried it by disabling WiFi on my device and accessing camera playback.