Wireless Security Camera System

[Chester]

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Got mine setup last night. Important to note, they ONLY work on 2.4Ghz Wifi. (I had the 2.4 wifi turned off for some reason so I had to go set that up on the Shaw router.)

Once that was working the setup took about 5 minutes. So far I'm very impressed with the quality and the night-vision, considering the price! Now I can check in on my dog during the day. Have to finish setting the other cameras up tonight

I can't let myself buy the v1 knowing the wyze cam pan is out there haha

[Mitsu3000gt]

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I can't let myself buy the v1 knowing the wyze cam pan is out there haha

The ones on Amazon.ca are V2's. I don't even think you can buy the V1 anymore. The Pan is just a V2 in a different body.

[mr2mike]

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The Pan is not in Canada yet as far as I know. I spoke to WyzeCam staff and they told me that Amazon.ca is actually selling their products against their will. Apparently they have tried many times to get them to stop and it's proving difficult.

YEah, it sucks when a 3rd party is still making your company large amounts of money.

[Mitsu3000gt]

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YEah, it sucks when a 3rd party is still making your company large amounts of money.

I agree it was an odd excuse however it was more to the point that they are unable to offer hardware support to Canadian customers or honor the warranty. Not a big deal at the ridiculously low price point though - you can't even buy a crappy 720P generic IP camera for $37.

[klumsy_tumbler]

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I can't let myself buy the v1 knowing the wyze cam pan is out there haha

I ran into this exact same thing yesterday haha. I guess I'm gonna have to finally join the Sweetgrass, Montana club one of these days soon...

[bulaian]

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I ran into this exact same thing yesterday haha. I guess I'm gonna have to finally join the Sweetgrass, Montana club one of these days soon...

Group buy?!!?

[Chester]

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Group buy?!!?

That's what I'm thinking...

[nagooro]

I'd recommend picking up an sd card to go with them too. I have mine on continuous record with a 128gb card, plus I get the 12sec notifications as well.

[Kijho]

What MicroSD did you buy? I misunderstood the cloud, the 14 day cloud only stores notifications (12 second clips) - Not actual footage. So I need an card for it haha...

The ones on Amazon are indeed the V2s.

[Chester]

I caved and bought the amazon ones. Picked up a couple of these micro sd cards during the prime sale for $18, didn't know what I would need em for, but now I do!

https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B07...?ie=UTF8&psc=1

[Mitsu3000gt]

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What MicroSD did you buy? I misunderstood the cloud, the 14 day cloud only stores notifications (12 second clips) - Not actual footage. So I need an card for it haha...

The ones on Amazon are indeed the V2s.

Any $10-15 Micro SD card from Sandisk/Samsung/Lexar that isn't a knock-off is 100% fine. The bitrate is very low, any slow U1 / Class 10 card will work just fine. You can buy high endurance micro SD cards but since normal ones are so cheap they are basically free, I wouldn't bother. You don't need a huge card either, even 16-32GB is going to give you a ton of footage.

Something like this for $10 and you're good to go:

https://www.amazon.ca/SanDisk-Ultra-...+micro+sd+card

[nagooro]

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What MicroSD did you buy? I misunderstood the cloud, the 14 day cloud only stores notifications (12 second clips) - Not actual footage. So I need an card for it haha...

The ones on Amazon are indeed the V2s.

I bought a samsung 64gb from amazon and 128gb sandisk from costco, both work fine.

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Any $10-15 Micro SD card from Sandisk/Samsung/Lexar that isn't a knock-off is 100% fine. The bitrate is very low, any slow U1 / Class 10 card will work just fine. You can buy high endurance micro SD cards but since normal ones are so cheap they are basically free, I wouldn't bother. You don't need a huge card either, even 16-32GB is going to give you a ton of footage.

Something like this for $10 and you're good to go:

https://www.amazon.ca/SanDisk-Ultra-...+micro+sd+card

I personally would disagree, anything below 64GB to me is a waste, provided you want to record in HD.
A 32GB card will get you ~2 days of HD footage and ~7 days of SD footage, before it rolls over. My 64GB samsung rolled over after about ~6 days of recording, whjich is why I bought a 128GB card for my 2nd camera.

[ipeefreely]

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I personally would disagree, anything below 64GB to me is a waste, provided you want to record in HD.
A 32GB card will get you ~2 days of HD footage and ~7 days of SD footage, before it rolls over. My 64GB samsung rolled over after about ~6 days of recording, whjich is why I bought a 128GB card for my 2nd camera.

Cool, I was going to ask if larger cards work!

I think I'm going to pick up a couple since they're so cheap!

[rage2]

It’s too bad they don’t have a paid record to cloud subscription. Recording locally sucks, especially with unlimited internet plans. Rather not deal with storage and view archival footage from anywhere.

[nagooro]

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It’s too bad they don’t have a paid record to cloud subscription. Recording locally sucks, especially with unlimited internet plans. Rather not deal with storage and view archival footage from anywhere.

If you have a micro sd card in the camera, you can view historical footage anywhere (via phone app). You will get the 12sec clips saved on the cloud for 14 days, but you can also go back in through the app and go to a specific time frame and view the footage.

[rage2]

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If you have a micro sd card in the camera, you can view historical footage anywhere (via phone app). You will get the 12sec clips saved on the cloud for 14 days, but you can also go back in through the app and go to a specific time frame and view the footage.

So if I come and rob your house, make sure I jack the cameras? Haha

[nagooro]

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So if I come and rob your house, make sure I jack the cameras? Haha

No need to go that far..just take the sd cards, leave the cams alone

[Mitsu3000gt]

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I personally would disagree, anything below 64GB to me is a waste, provided you want to record in HD.
A 32GB card will get you ~2 days of HD footage and ~7 days of SD footage, before it rolls over. My 64GB samsung rolled over after about ~6 days of recording, whjich is why I bought a 128GB card for my 2nd camera.

It just depends how much footage you want. If something happens, chances are you are going to check it that same day (or more likely within the hour) so you may not need many days of footage. Some people like to keep more, that's fine.

I don't know what the bitrate is but its weird that you get 3 times the footage on a card double the size unless the birate is variable, but then neither would be consistent.

[nagooro]

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It just depends how much footage you want. If something happens, chances are you are going to check it that same day (or more likely within the hour) so you may not need many days of footage. Some people like to keep more, that's fine.

I don't know what the bitrate is but its weird that you get 3 times the footage on a card double the size unless the birate is variable, but then neither would be consistent.

Yeah, to each there own. I found that odd as well. Once my 128gb fills up ill see how many days of HD footage it holds and report back compared to the 64gb. I should note, the 32GB and ~2 days and ~7 days was taken from the Wyze website.

[Mitsu3000gt]

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Yeah, to each there own. I found that odd as well. Once my 128gb fills up ill see how many days of HD footage it holds and report back compared to the 64gb. I should note, the 32GB and ~2 days and ~7 days was taken from the Wyze website.

Just looking at the screen, it looks like the bitrate is 100 KB/s. It might be higher when writing to the card, but assuming it isn't, it should work out to roughly 8GB per day which is actually quite a lot.