Wyze Cam 1080p Pan/Tilt/Zoom Wi-Fi Indoor Smart Home Camera with Night Vision, 2-Way Audio, Works with Alexa & the Google Assistant, White - WYZECP1

Great WiFi camera. We use it to check in on the pup throughout the day. It was recommended and thought for the price it wouldn’t be much of a loss of it didn’t work well. I can tell you that this camera has features that some more expensive camera do not have. The image quality is really good even if this was bought at a higher price point. The ability to remote control the camera position is great as well as the 2 way communication. If you have a good WiFi connection you will have good results with the Wyze cameras. Another cool feature is that the app allows you to group cameras together which allows you to set up outside and inside cams or different homes if you have a vacation home. Once you set up one camera the rest will be a piece of cake. As great as it is there are a couple of cons. A couple of the cons include instructions that non tech folks may find a little lacking and there is motor noise when the camera is moving and you’re listening in. Not a deal breaker but I wouldn’t use this version as a baby monitor. They do have other models that are not motorized and give you various mounting options so noise from the motor is not an issue. Those cameras are about 25 bucks and the night vision works extremely well. All in all I gave it the 5 stars because it does everything it advertises. Are there better options? I’m sure there are dozens out there but these guys put out a solid product with web servers that are based in the US, the ability to set zones for motion detection, programming for when to record, and the inclusion of a micro sd card slot for recording.

This little camera is VERY impressive. I currently own a Nest IQ indoor camera and have owned a couple Foscam indoor cameras in the past. This Wyze camera produces excellent picture quality and has a very easy to use app. The fact that you get 14 days of clips storage for free just blows the Nest cam out of the water. This camera does so much that the 10x more expensive Nest Cam IQ at a fraction of the price. So how does this stack up against the much more expensive Nest Cam IQ indoor camera? * You don't get continuous recording stored online, you only get clips stored online. However, you can pop a $10 32GB microSD card into this Wyze camera and get continuous local recording (meaning it's being recorded on the card in the device). You can view your recordings in the app. At HD quality, you get a couple days storage on a 32GB card, more if you go SD quality. *You don't get the ability to turn the camera on/off based on whether or not you are home. Personally, I really like this feature so it isn't recording us when we're home. Just feels weird. Wyze support says they may add this via IFTTT in the future. You can control whether or not motion recording is on when you are home using IFTTT. However, I"ve found it a little buggy. *You don't get the Nest IQ facial recognition which is very high tech. I'm not sure how important this is for an indoor camera. It's amazing for the Nest Hello doorbell. *You don't get a monthly fee with the Wyze cam. You pay a fee for the Nest Cam IQ. I can't believe this thing is so cheap and works so well. It has so many features like the big guys. Even the two-way audio is decent. If I had one complaint, it's that the motor that rotates the camera is a little loud. I'm still giving this 5 stars. I guess its sensitivity to sound is a little high too. It seems like it's too good to be true. If you are looking for an indoor security camera, you found it. TIP: I am using this SD card in the camera and it's working fine. Inexpensive and does the job if you want local recording - . Silicon Power-32GB High Speed MicroSD Card with Adapter - New Edition NOTE: In the video, I have the camera attached to a mini-tripod. The camera has a standard screw mount for a tripod. You can get a little tripod for around $10. I like it because it raises the camera a bit and provides some extra stability, decreasing the chance it can be knocked over. ----- 07/2019 HERE ARE SOME ANSWERS TO COMMENTS PEOPLE HAVE LEFT BELOW ---- - Yes, it will continue to do its cloud recording when you have an SD card installed. There is an "events" tab on the main page of the app for the clips. You can also open a specific camera and tap "view playback" to see the continuous recording. When viewing on the SD card, there is a delay as it loads up the video. For example, you scroll the time line back 8 hours then there is a 3-4 second delay as it loads the chunk of video around that time. Once it loads, you can move back and forth in it instantly. - I am going to say my 32GB card is getting a little over 3 days recording in a room with only light activity. I can't speak to how that time grows as you increase the size of the card. I'm not sure if 64GB would get you 6 days. Seems like it would though. - To the person that thinks the app is useless, I'm sorry to hear you are having such troubles. I think the app works well on my Android phone (I don't know about iOS). However, I do believe that those kinds of things can happen. It's not a perfect app and they are adding features which can introduce bugs. Considering the cost of this camera, the app is phenomenal but some people are going to have problems. Hard to predict. - The other app question about it being efficient - yes, it works much better than those other cheap camera app. There is about a 2-3 second delay before it brings up live video. I'm not experiencing freezing. However, that is heavily dependent on the network in your home and the network you are using on your phone when you access it (e.g. mobile, slow WiFi, etc.). - I'm not sure about the comment about not auto-rebooting when you lose WiFi? I'll say that the cameras survive power failures perfectly. We just had a three hour one last night. Booted right back up. I have reset my network periodically which causes my WiFi to go down for about a minute and the cameras come right back online. I'm still using this one and the regular Wyze cam. I still think these are SHOCKINGLY good values. I feel like I wasted so much money on my Nest cam. I should sell it and buy 5-6 Wyze cams.

Update review:_____________________ Still getting great images. I don't record anything directly to the SD card and don't use the built-in motion detection etc. I use rtsp: to connect to my NAS and other security monitoring software on my PC, and use their settings. One very disturbing issue just 20 minutes ago: I use the YouTube app on my smart TV, and after watching an episode of Antiques Roadshow, instead of going to the next video, I had 5 minutes of what I assume is some Chinese woman and her cam feeds. Reference the video. Not a joke. This didn't come thru the app, but across my network to my TV. My TV isn't connected to my phone, so I can't see where changing the password would or could have any effect. It appears that they (whom ever "they" are) have access to my internal network. Not impressed at all. I'm going to change the sub net on the wireless router I use for these cams, change the password and see if it happens again. If it does, in the trash they go! Original review: ____________________ These cams are a snap to setup. Install the app and follow really simple instructions. At one point it will have you will need to have the camera read a QR code on your phone. Don't forget to remove the protective plastic film that's over the lens. I have (2) Pan cams mounted outside with black silicone covers, and (3) V2 cams inside the house. All have been updated to "demo" firmware, that allows them to be accessed from my PC desktop, laptop, NAS etc. using rtsp:// protocol. Search "Wyze WiFi cam desktop viewing" to locate the "demo" firmware. There's a version for both V2 and Pan cams. Both work great. I don't use SD cards in any of them (except to upgrade the firmware). I use free software to connect to the cameras and record with no time limit. The motion detection is cool. If you enable it, it will follow a car going by, as the car moves, so the camera rotates to keep it in frame. The color reproduction in good light is excellent. To get the best resolution from your cam, after initial setup, go to the live stream view. You'll see an "SD" in a light blue outlined box just to the left of the words, "Live Stream". Select this, and you'll get a drop down list with: SD, 360P, and HD. SD is the default. Keep in mind that higher resolution will require more bandwidth on your WiFi, and affect how responsive the cam is from the app when viewing the live stream. I'v read many questions on here about whether or not the Wyze cameras are wireless. Some have answered erroneously that they aren't, that they need to be connected to power. Huh? They are wireless indeed. Wireless is how they communicate, but are powered by a USB cable connected to a power supply that plugs into the wall (both supplied). Think about what happens when your phone's battery runs out. You plug it into a charging cable. It still communicates wirelessly, but is plugged into the wall for power. It doesn't stop being wireless when you plug it in. Overall for the money, you really can't go wrong. My only uncertainty is how these "indoor" cams will work outside in weather. It can get to -20 here in the winter. Only the Pan cams are outside under the eaves. out of the lion's share of the weather. I wouldn't have tried putting them outside had I not read about others doing it with good results. Search YouTube as well. As I learn more, I'll update this review. Hope it's helped someone. :)

I'm not using my cam for internal monitoring, but want to monitor the front entrance of my house. I'm using a small 4GB micro SD card. You'll need this if you want to record about 9 hrs of continuous video. I have it on the front widow sill (inside my house). When sun is not shining on the camera, photo and videos are clear. When you try to zoom in on an object, there is pixelation. Someone standing 10 ft from the camera (through the window) can be recognized, 15 - 20 ft, no way. When sun shines on the camera, you get a ring reflection (sun shines on the window and reflects light and camera picks up the reflection). Night time, turning night vision on will also reflect on the window making viewing not visible. Notification when motion detection didn't work for me until Wyze support informed me that I needed to use an app from the apple store called IFTT. It basically has you connect to an API interface to your cam. It's like when use use a 3rd party app to connect to Amazon's Alexa enabled devices; e.g. plug to control a light. IFTT (if that, then this) has prebuilt macros and you tell it to do something (e.g. text you) when the cam is triggered (motion detection). Why can't Wyze do this without a 3rd party app. NetVue came can do this. Odd. In any case, I'm limited to 100 notifications a month (unless, I'm presuming I pay for additional notifications using IFTT). Notifications were being triggered and I was getting text whenever motion was detected. I noticed notifications were not consistent. I've walked in front of the cam several different days and it didn't notify me. Keep this in mind. Overall, Wzye cam is easy to set up and use. For internal monitoring, I'm sure you won't have sun reflection problems, and motion detection problems or night vision issues. Using for my specific needs, it's a little flawed. I wish the text notification was built into Wyze app. Perhaps a s/w upgrade will fix this. Not perfect, but decent for $ 35. I do like the 360 rotation and up and down mobility of the lens. I hope they improved the notification software as it is good, but not great. Lastly, if a notification occurs, it does record a segment of the video onto the micro SD card. You use the mention to look at Notifications and can replay the snippet.

I was looking for an inexpensive way to see the view from the west side of my house on my TV which is mounted on the west wall of my living room. Unfortunately, the downstairs of my house only has windows facing the west inside the master bedroom (directly behind the living room wall). Living in the main house we only had a view from our kitchen and living room to the backyard. The day we moved in I said I would find a way to get this problem resolved by using a WiFi cam that tied into the TV. After arbitrarily researching over the past 1+ years, I came across this little Cam and figured, "why not give it a go...". Reading some reviews, I kind of got the impression it would work with my Fire TV Stick. But first I investigated what App came on the Fire TV Stick and I saw 3 apps available. So I went ahead and purchased it hoping one of them might work. The day arrived, I got it - yea!! Now on to hooking it up, which was ridiculously easy. That is plugging it in anyway. Of course I downloaded the Android APP and did everything needed and I was up and running in no time. Now for the TV. Of course none of the APPS on the FIRE TV Stick worked. Well, that's not to say they won't but I wasn't ready to spend hours or days or weeks trying to figure out all the techno guru stuff required to make it work. After a couple of hours of researching I found someone indicate that it would work by going to and downloading the Wyze App at apkmirror.com. After searching "Wyze" I found the suggested download of 2.0.26, downloaded it to my USB thumb drive, mounted the thumb drive and my wireless keyboard to the Fire TV Stick, opened ES Explorer and installed the APP. Woohoo! It worked - But NO IT DIDN'T!! I mean it did work, but my picture was squeezed at the top of the screen - UGH!!! The APP was thinking Portrait mode, not landscape mode. So off to do more research on how to turn the image 90 degrees. After researching and researching, I came up with nothing. But then I thought, "I cannot be the first one to have this issue...". I went back to APKMirror.com and downloaded the latest APK 2.3.69 after reading through all the versions. I can't recall which version fixed this but one of them I read a blurp indicating they gave it the ability to rotate the image. So I went for it and downloaded the latest version hoping that the option flowed into the newer versions. SUCCESS!! After installing, I notice those 4 little "crop" marks in the upper right hand corner of my screen. Clicked on it and WALLAH! My screen rotated and I got my landscaped Full Screen of my Window. Now we can stair at the TV while cooking dinner and see the storms approaching from the west. Most people would have rated this between 1 and 4 stars. However, I went into this expecting not to get what I wanted. What I got however, was a great camera at a great cost. I am fortunate that I had been in IT for the past 40+ years so troubleshooting isn't a stranger to me. For those feint of heart, well - that's why you hire, Computer Techs, CPI or other technology firms to do this for you. Oh - one last note. For those who do not know how to work "inside" the operations of the Amazon Fire TV Stick, please take the time to research and understand how to use your TV stick "outside the box" so-to-speak... Good luck. Now on to getting more Wyze devices pointed all over the place. I found buying many of these devices on the Wyze website might turn out to be less costly. However they do charge shipping so I need to do a bit more research for promo codes, etc...

I started out with the basic Wyze cam and was so impressed by what I received that we picked up several more. Then the cam version cam out and picked up that too. We currently have eight Wyze cams different versions throughout our household. Price, quality, customer support and ease of use is why we have stuck with Wyze products and will for the foreseeable future. The Good – Price, quality, features Customer support Free storage No fees Up to 32 GB local storage Frequent updates Recording quality The Not So Good - Limited to a maximum micro SD card size 32 GB At dawn and dusk the ‘auto’ setting for light can jump back and forth for a few minutes between IR and day camera modes The cam motor can be a bit on the noisy side if nearby The biggest difference between the original Wyze cam and the Pan version is of course movement. You don’t get a full 360 degrees but close enough. All the settings you would find on more expensive setups you get with this including time lapse. The motion sensing can be on or off. You can set sensitivity and detection areas. Notifications work all the time without fail. When triggered the clip is sent to your phone no matter where you are. The IR video is easy to see. You can set it to pan scan the full range or just a set area. The clarity of the images is good enough that you can make use of the zoom function and still be able to see things well. Unlike other systems there are never any fees after purchase for saving your recordings. I have SD cards in all of ours (not needed just an option). That way I record 24/7 as opposed to shorter video clips when activated. After about five days it will start to overwrite the oldest recordings (not saved). FYI cards should be formatted exfat not ntfs. The system worked great with google to start and now you can even use Alexa devices like the show to view live streamed. I have had great success with Wyze to date twice I encountered hiccups but it all was easily worked out. Thanks in large part to one of the best customer support teams I have ever had the pleasure to work with. Polite, friendly, U.S. based, they know their products and don't just read from a script and best of all they actually listen to what you have to say. Better still if you need to contact them after all is said and done you'll be sent an email asking how your support went? not typical as you then get to choose how to reward the support person w/gift cards, coffee, movie tix. A company that treats its employees well, what goes around comes around and it works! All said we got started with Wyze products to keep track of family. To keep an eye on both kids and our mom who is older and falls at times. These products enable us to check in and make sure everyone and everything is where it should be and okay. Yes it is great to keep tabs on garbage pickup or deliveries but there is so much more. I still worry when we have to leave our mother alone for short periods of time but being able to take a quick look around and know all is okay? The peace of mind, I cannot say enough good on that aspect. There are fun bits too. Like setting up slow motion for something like a big snow? Watching it pile up or melt down? Just one example. Or putting out food for the critters, squirrels, rabbits, and birds then watching them all eat together cafeteria style, something only the Wyze cam caught. While not fun it also came in handy last year. We got hit with a bad very localized hail storm. The cams had been running and caught it all. I was able to take the vid email to our agent as further proof. The Wyze Pan is just a more versatile version of their great original Wyze Cam version. There aren’t many products out there that give you so much value for the dollar IMHO. Plus getting it all backed with fantastic U.S. based customer support. I have recommended these to family and friends alike for all the reasons mentioned.

We have 3 outdoor and 4 indoor nest cams. We also pay for the annual subscription to all. As you can you can imagine a lot of expense has gone into the security. Greater than 1k and climbing every year. My daughter in New York who has fios purchased 1. $36 and that is it. She has shared the viewing with me. Works like a charm. I had to set up my own wyze account. The camera faces her chinchilla which is a nocturnal creature. The night vision is incredible. I can zoom in without it disrupting her view mode. I can pan and tilt remotely. I like it so much I bought us one. At $35 compared to what I have put into nest, it could be disposable. My first camera came in. Our router is dual 5/2.4. All items are connected to 5 and the router distributes accordingly. Nest can use 5. Wyze is 2.4. We had to connect to 2.4 manually. Inputting the network name had to be precise to include case sensitive. We were accustomed to using our phones to scan Q codes. A blonde moment - the cam scans the Q code. That took us an extra 5 minutes for set up. All in all it took at the most 10 minutes to set up. Our internet gets 100 down and if we're lucky 5 up. So far it was able to handle the load of all nest, 3 echo shows and one wyze. So I decided to push it to the limit and bought 2 more wyze. After going the first set up, the 2nd took less than 3 minutes. However it did put a strain on our upload speed. I decided not to hook up the 3rd until I test all of their functionality. I set up tinycam pro on my firesticks, show and fire 10 tablet. (Pro was free) I am in awe. the set up was very easy. Just remember you MUST assign different channels for each camera in the advanced area of the program to get them to work. Amazon sells a 24 inch insignia fireTV for $99. I purchased that for viewing in tile mode. You can put in a SD card which loops. No need to delete old video. No need for nest subscription. That is a $450 a year savings. RV camping - no need for internet for security. All can be recorded to the SD card for viewing later, but you do need electricity. Nest offers one feature that really outshines wyze and that is zoned for motion detection. Wyze is all or nothing, nest I can create zones for motion and notification. Nest also has color coding for these zones. Nest does not have pan/tilt, wyze does. Nest has outdoor cameras, wyze does not. There are 3rd party vendors who have protective covers. Nest viewing area is almost twice the size of wyze. Nest cameras $149 - $199, wyze $25 - $35. Nest 10 day subscription annual cost $100 for 1st camera $50 for each additional camera, wyze $0 with a 14 day a few seconds motion detection alerts. A memory card for continuous recording. Wyze & Alexa, Nest & Google. For me, I'm going to keep both nest and wyze. I'll take down 2 nest and put up 2 wyze.

The shipping was thru Prime and delivered on-time. This product says Made in China on the back, this is usually a sign of hit or miss quality. The packaging was done well enough. I believe an American Company is behind this product. Developed here and put together in China. Everything about this Camera is ALMOST very well thought out. The packaging, the camera itself but where this camera sorely lacks is in the INFO dept. There were way too many questions for me and I am very tech savvy. There is NO info on the type or size of the SD Card that can be used for this. There is no info for how to insert the SD Card. The Part during set-up where you aim the actual camera at your cell phone kinda threw me for a loop at first when I thought to myself where in the hell do I get another cell phone and then I realized that you aim the actual camera at your phone to enter the QR code. I was getting pissed that I could not tell whether or not it accepted the 32GB SD Card or whether it accepted the 64GB SD card I installed. Yes I installed both and still couldn't tell if they worked. I then found the settings part in the app and formatted the SD Card and that was the only way that I could tell if the camera recognized the SD Card. It is still incredibly unclear to me if I'm recording to their cloud or to my SD Card. Other issues on my iPhone X were that every time I pushed the record icon or the photo icon the app told me access denied? VERY VERY annoying so then I had to go online and read their "forum" to see other people bitching about issues and walking each other through the darkness of info just to discover that I needed to go to the settings on my phone and allow the app to read and write photos and recordings to my iPhone. There is absolutely NO info about their cloud although you supposedly get two weeks free or something like that? These issues are minor but nonetheless I was annoyed by them. I appreciate the price point of this camera, I also enjoy that I can watch it on my Echo Show. I appreciate the functionality, pan tilt, and zoom are generally luxuries only found in VERY high priced cameras. With all of that said I want to thank the developers and individuals for getting a awesome little low priced high functioning camera out there for the masses! Thank you! I think if you need help with this camera you could always call or email their support. I'm not a caller, I'm that guy who doesn't ask for directions and would rather find my own way. Just be prepared to call or email or maybe you can figure it out on your own.