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by function_seven 1308 days ago
It’s also garbage and also phones home still.

The “outdated” knock on it is relevant because it points to Wyze once giving a nod to tinkerers, and apparently deciding it’s not in worth it to maintain that branch vs working on the firmware that drives monthly revenue.
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jsjohnst 1307 days ago
> The “outdated” knock on it is relevant because it points to Wyze once giving a nod to tinkerers

The RTSP firmware for the v3 isn’t even a year old (was released after June 2021), so “once was a nod to tinkerers” combined the rest of your vitriol makes me wonder if you have an axe to grind. Did Wyze kick your dog or something?

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function_seven 1307 days ago
My experience is with the V2 firmware. Read the notice at the top of this page:

https://support.wyze.com/hc/en-us/articles/360026245231-Wyze...

I might have a small axe to grind. My Wyze cams were much more capable when I bought them 3 years ago than they are today. Now the app takes much longer to load, and has the uncanny ability to insert an advertisement under my finger just before I touch the camera feed I want to view. Scrubbing through saved footage is slower now than it used to be.

It all smells like feature bloat that I can’t opt out of. RTSP was how I tried to escape that, but as their own site says, they no longer offer it for my cams.

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jsjohnst 1307 days ago
> Now the app takes much longer to load, and has the uncanny ability to insert an advertisement under my finger just before I touch the camera feed I want to view.

Which platform? I’ve never once seen an ad in the official iOS app. The app was always slow to load for me in all the years I’ve used it, so that doesn’t have me riled up. My beef with them is the AI detection has taken a significant step backwards the last six months (why I flipped a bunch of my cams to the RTSP firmware).

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function_seven 1307 days ago
Sorry, I should be clearer. The ads I’m referring to are for Wyze’s add-on features. “Try Cam Plus”, “Get Cam Protect”, “Home Monitoring”, etc. Not any third party ones.

And somehow I always seem to either click on the ad rather than my first camera, or click on a camera listed above my targeted one as the ad appears just as my finger lands on the screen.

And also to be clear, the axe I grind is small. I generally like these Wyze cams. For $20 each they’ve done a decent job. But knowing there is third party firmware out there is promising.

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jsjohnst 1307 days ago
> The ads I’m referring to are for Wyze’s add-on features.

Ah, gotcha. I’ve seen those before, but haven’t experienced same issue with getting in way. Maybe I’m just slow to click.

> And also to be clear, the axe I grind is small. I generally like these Wyze cams.

The reason why I bought so many of them is because they don’t upload to the “cloud” unless they detect motion (or sound trigger). Yes, they phone home like crazy, but at least they aren’t streaming 24x7 to Google or Amazon or worse like some competitors products do. Add on to that that they are cheap, and I’m mostly a happy person. If only they could tell the difference between a person and absolutely nothing (no shadow, no movement, nothing!) I might still have all my cams on the mainline firmware.

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