How To Record With Wyze Camera

Wyze replaces gratuitous deject recording with limited "Cam Plus Lite" plan, future cameras might require paid subscription

The Wyze Cam was a success when it was kickoff released in 2017, thank you to its low price tag and power to record both locally and to the cloud. Wyze has introduced several more than security cameras since and so, and the paid subscription options have also been shuffled a few times. Now the visitor is irresolute its cloud recording plans again, with a new 'Cam Plus Low-cal' option set to replace the electric current costless deject recordings.

Wyze announced in a forum post, "Meet Cam Plus Lite, a service that brings yous 12-second Outcome recordings and Wyze Person Detection at whatever toll you cull, including $0. Cam Plus Lite gives you Wyze Person Detection and 12-second Effect videos as oftentimes equally every 5 minutes, saved in the cloud for fourteen days. Information technology will allow you to receive and filter motion Event videos with people in them to make sure the notifications you lot get are meaningful. This volition apply to our current lineup of Wyze Cam models, no matter how many of these devices you have on your account – at present or in the future."

Cam Plus Lite provides 15-second cloud recordings instead of the 12-second recordings on the existing free recording plan, merely information technology also restricts deject recordings to person detection only. Anything that isn't detected equally a person will be saved to the cloud equally a thumbnail image merely. Update: Wyze told XDA Developers that Person detection is not required to trigger result video recordings with Cam Plus Lite, or any Cam Plus plan. Motion events and sound events will still record videos.

	Cam Plus Light	Cam Plus	Cam Plus Pro
Price	Proper noun your price	$1.99/mo/cam $15/twelvemonth/cam	$3.99/mo/cam $39.99/yr/cam
24 x 7 Professional Monitoring			✔️
Friendly Faces Facial Recognition			✔️
Visual Alert Notification			✔️
Person Detection	✔️	✔️	✔️
Parcel 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 between Event Recording	v Minutes	Back-to-Dorsum Recordings	Back-to-Back 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 because Wyze itself is still experimenting with its plans — the company says information technology nearly went bankrupt in 2020, and is attempting to find a residue betwixt profitability and keeping buyers happy. Wyze besides hasn't decided if future cameras will take Cam Plus Light as an option at all.

On the bright side, local recording is also improving. Wyze said, "We just acquired a license to an exFAT patent and volition officially support microSDXC cards bigger than 32GB! This is already included on the latest Wyze Cam v3 firmware and will be coming to the rest of our cameras in their side by side firmware updates." The app will also be updated with 30-2nd rewind and skip forward buttons when viewing local recordings "by mid-Feb."

Wyze as well says it will shut down cloud recordings for everyone who doesn't move to Cam Plus Lite (or ane of the paid subscriptions) starting February fifteen. Wyze device owners tin can switch to Cam Plus Low-cal at any engagement, but after that Feb deadline, you won't take new deject recordings. That seemingly means free cloud recordings are going away entirely for the original Wyze Cam, since the Cam v1 isn't listed every bit a supported device for the new Cam Plus Lite.