WYZE Cam v3 with Color Night Vision, Wired 1080p HD Indoor/Outdoor Video Camera
[{'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2021', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "Update:\nI use 5 at my house. I like them so much, I installed 2 at my grandmother’s house to keep an eye on her declining health and talk to her. Glad I did! 2 days later she fell and we were able to call 911 for her. I was 90 miles away and able to communicate with the Paramedics and have my parents meet them at the hospital.\n\nOriginal review:\nExcellent camera and easy to use.\n\nI see some reviews complaining about they couldn't get the camera to connect. I had the same issue, but I figured out. These cameras need a 2.4GHz WiFi network with a WPA/WPA2 protocol. Wyze Devices cannot be connected to a 5GHz network. So go into your router settings and change it. Many have the option to run both at the same time, which is what I did.\n\nAlso, if you're having an issue at the QR code screen, where is says scan with cam. It means the Wyze cam, not your phone camera. Just point your phone at the camera and it will sync."}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on March 11, 2021', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'This camera is a huge improvement over the V2. Aside from the wider angle of view (more camera coverage), the night vision is insanely great in color. The fact that this can be used outdoors and can endure the elements makes it perfect.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on March 11, 2021', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'The image quality is superb. The motion can be separated to detect normal motion or persons which is extremely helpful to minimize false positives. It is tiny, lightweight, easy to install and cheap.\nThe only con so far is a somewhat diminished WiFi range compared to my previous v2 cam; not a whole bunch. However, the fact that this one is weather resistant compensates in my book.\nPleased with my camera. Thumbs up for sure.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on March 11, 2021', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "My wyze cam came in today. Within 3 minutes this tiny camera was up and running. I did already have a wyze account. It had to complete 3 firmware updates. I had to log out of my app and log back in. Once that was done it was set to go. I'm looking forward to seeing the night vision this evening.\n\nRemember it will only operate on 2.4"}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on March 6, 2021', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'Best camera! Ever ir has 2 way audio for 20 dollars 🤯'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2022', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-4 review-rating', 'review_body': 'I have many of these all over two houses, and also have them in several windows facing outside (I am not actually using them outdoors in the weather).\n\nWhat I really like:\nThey are very easy to set up and connect to WiFi.\nI love that there is no monitoring fee.\nIf they’re not mounted to the wall (or a window) you can easily move them around the house. For example when my granddaughter comes to visit, I move one into her room to use as a baby monitor.\nThe night vision is impressive! (But see what I don’t like below).\nThe clarity of the image is really good.\nThe app is very easy to use; it’s easy to group the cameras however you want. I like that I can see all the cameras in a single app, and group them by each house that they are in.\n\nWhat I don’t like:\nIf the WiFi goes out, you lose your connection and your ability to monitor. It can be impossible to reboot your router and modem remotely (if you are using these in a house where you’re not physically there). If you can’t get your internet going again by rebooting your router remotely, then there is also no way to “restart” these cameras. For that reason, everyone in that situation should consider also buying a router rebooter at the same time they buy these cameras.\n\nYou can face these out the window and they have excellent night vision—but ONLY if they are mounted directly (straight on) to the window. (There are window stick-on mounting accessories for that.) But if you have them facing out a window at any angle at all, and not flush up against the window, there is no way to see anything at night due to the glare off the window—even with the night vision turned off. They just don’t work that way.\nDepending upon where you need to mount these, it is sometimes difficult to get just the right angle with the provided mounting gear.\n\nI also have the older V2 cameras as well, several of which have “gone bad” with a very grainy image after a couple of years—I hope the same thing doesn’t happen with these V3 cameras.\n\nAnd ALSO, WYZE has gotten annoying with marketing their “cam Plus” service. You cannot connect a new camera without accepting that free trial, and once you accept the free trial, they send far too many reminders that your free trial is expiring. I get the importance of the whole marketing thing—it’s just a bit overboard—especially since you go through it every time you add a new camera.\n\nOverall, I am really happy with these V3 WYZE cameras and I do recommend them. By a long shot, the positives outweigh the things I don’t like about them.\n\nI write honest reviews to help others make informed purchases because I read reviews myself and appreciate how helpful they can be. I hope that my review helped you!'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2021', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-1 review-rating', 'review_body': 'Just got off the phone with a Suoervisor regarding Rules function that won’t work. After waiting 5 days for the promised fix. - I AM NOW TOLD IT IS A NEW FEATURE AND THEY DON’T KNOW WHEN IT WILL BE AVAILABLE??!! This is a function that is enabled in their CURRENT software. You can activate it - no error messages - it just doesn’t work!\nIS THIS FRAUD?'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on March 12, 2021', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-1 review-rating', 'review_body': "30 days with 2 units, Glitchy, unreliable, no customer service. Amazon, Microsoft severely restricts you from seeing images. All android emulators- worthless, not workable, freeze, crash. Bought with 1 yr of Plus. recieved only 20 days. Forced to repurchase another 1 yr for each. Now all offline, Error Codes.\nSemi worthless now. Hold off buying until Microsoft stops Android emulators from Blue Screen of Death on your PC and Amazon allows fire tablets to view images but both phones and Fire tablets too small to really see what happened. If both reverse course, glitches fixed, customer svs added, could be great, but not now. Dozens of videos of frail, unreliable Chromecast, other ways to see images on pcs but none really functional, reliable. Just buy a functional Nest or a POI multicamera with DVI central recorder unit. Wyze promises to make it functional but never will.\nRunning Wyze V3, Nest and Ring side by side. All have their strengths.\nWyze V3\nThe V3 Starlight sensor is breakthrough. Realize that incredible Night is Day color vision comes with 6 ft fireballs around 900 lumen outdoor lights. There are less light sensitive settings that darken the light level to Ring and Nest levels. Lots of settings with V3 but you can fine tune. Adding the monthly PLUS AI analysis and incident reports doubles the value . It's a must, buy it.\nNest Doorbell\n-with its 4K sensor allows double the zooming than any 1080 sensor, hands down best hardware but cost 10 x as much to purchase and 3 times per month more. It does catch things the Wyze misses and vice versa. IF you add the $10 SD card to Wyze Z3, (and you should), both record full time 24/ 7. .\nRing Doorbell Pro\n-Ring Doorbell Pro is a part time recording device that, I hate to say it, misses 75% of everything, no matter how you set it. It's a long on the tooth, past it's day, replace it with a Wyze Z3 now device. Ring is still OK IF it turns on and captures what happened. Ok if all you want to do is record people who come close to your door. The downside of Ring is that all the porch pirates know Ring sends a low quality image and then locks the users out for 3-8 minutes, which give the Porch Pirates 3 to 8 minutes safe escape. Porch pirate know Wyze and Nest respond fast and offer no escape window. Police Dept has warned against Ring. I'm leaving the Ring in just as real time only camera backup because little resale value, not worth removing."}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2021', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-1 review-rating', 'review_body': 'Just got it and the instructions are very straight forward but CANNOT get it to connect. Even my boyfriend who is very tech saavy and has 2 of the older versions can’t get this camera to connect to my wifi. I’m super disappointed.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2022', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "Night time view great( turn off night vision), works great w /color\nA.I is 100% clear.it took my 128gig sd no problem, I also pay 14.99 for year of cloud/ 100 use of app ,Look some people hate paying extra for cloud But it's your home your protecting same price,nit to have to worry did u get that 1 VIDEO OF THE CRIME\nor just don't even get cameras at all if u looking for short cuts .\nGood price out of box.\nFast an easy set up .\nI run both s/d an cloud??\nWell look at it this way [1]day no power no net !!! Still on S/D card.\nTo see u just never know .\nTECH OVER 30 YEARS, not the most $$$ ,but works like it is\n(Your home your stuff )\nGOOD LUCK. I TRYED 8 DIFFERENT ONE BEFORE USEING THIS ONE ..👍👍👍"}]