How To Record With Wyze Camera

Wyze replaces complimentary cloud recording with limited "Cam Plus Low-cal" plan, hereafter cameras might crave paid subscription

The Wyze Cam was a success when information technology was outset released in 2017, thanks to its low price tag and ability to record both locally and to the deject. Wyze has introduced several more security cameras since then, and the paid subscription options accept also been shuffled a few times. At present the company is changing its deject recording plans once more, with a new 'Cam Plus Lite' selection set to supplant the current free deject recordings.

Wyze appear in a forum post, "Meet Cam Plus Lite, a service that brings you lot 12-second Outcome recordings and Wyze Person Detection at whatever cost yous cull, including $0. Cam Plus Calorie-free gives you Wyze Person Detection and 12-second Outcome videos as often equally every 5 minutes, saved in the cloud for 14 days. Information technology will allow you to receive and filter motion Event videos with people in them to make certain the notifications you go are meaningful. This will apply to our current lineup of Wyze Cam models, no matter how many of these devices you take on your account – now or in the future."

Cam Plus Lite provides 15-2nd cloud recordings instead of the 12-second recordings on the existing gratuitous recording program, but it also restricts cloud recordings to person detection only. Anything that isn't detected as a person volition exist saved to the cloud as a thumbnail epitome only. Update: Wyze told XDA Developers that Person detection is not required to trigger event video recordings with Cam Plus Lite, or whatever Cam Plus plan. Movement events and sound events volition still tape videos.

	Cam Plus Lite	Cam Plus	Cam Plus Pro
Cost	Name your price	$1.99/mo/cam $15/twelvemonth/cam	$3.99/mo/cam $39.99/yr/cam
24 x seven Professional Monitoring			✔️
Friendly Faces Facial Recognition			✔️
Visual Alert Notification			✔️
Person Detection	✔️	✔️	✔️
Package Detection		✔️	✔️
Vehicle Detection		✔️	✔️
Pet Detection		✔️	✔️
2x and 4x Event Fast-Forwarding		✔️	✔️
Subscriber Discounts		✔️	✔️
Real-time Video with Live View	✔️	✔️	✔️
Event Video Length	12 Seconds	Unlimited	Unlimited
Cooldown betwixt Event Recording	5 Minutes	Back-to-Dorsum Recordings	Dorsum-to-Dorsum Recordings
Video Events History for 14 Days	✔️	✔️	✔️
Motion-Triggered Alerts	✔️	✔️	✔️
Sound-Triggered Alerts	✔️	✔️	✔️
Smoke + CO Listener	✔️	✔️	✔️

Source: Wyze on Reddit

The switchup is a bit confusing, partially considering Wyze itself is still experimenting with its plans — the company says it nearly went bankrupt in 2020, and is attempting to observe a residual between profitability and keeping buyers happy. Wyze also hasn't decided if future cameras volition have Cam Plus Calorie-free as an option at all.

On the vivid side, local recording is also improving. Wyze said, "We simply acquired a license to an exFAT patent and will officially support microSDXC cards bigger than 32GB! This is already included on the latest Wyze Cam v3 firmware and volition be coming to the balance of our cameras in their next firmware updates." The app will too be updated with thirty-second rewind and skip forwards buttons when viewing local recordings "by mid-February."

Wyze too says it will shut down cloud recordings for everyone who doesn't motion to Cam Plus Low-cal (or i of the paid subscriptions) starting February 15. Wyze device owners can switch to Cam Plus Lite at any engagement, but after that February borderline, yous won't have new cloud recordings. That seemingly ways gratuitous cloud recordings are going abroad entirely for the original Wyze Cam, since the Cam v1 isn't listed equally a supported device for the new Cam Plus Lite.