Hello everyone. Thanks for tuning in again. Well today I have a $20 USD smart
home camera. It's 1080p and has all the features you could ever want, and like I said it's
only $20. So let's get this Wyzecam 2 opened up and I'll show you what it's
all about. Let's go ahead and get the Wyze Cam 2 opened up, like I said this is
a $20 camera. The packaging itself is pretty plain and likely is meant to keep
the cost down and really keep the worth in the device itself. Now when you get it
open, there are just a few features to have a look at. Really just some ports on the
back, you can see you have a power port, and then a USB port. So the power port is
that bottom one, then every other side except the front where the camera
actually is, is completely plain. Now inside the box as well you do get some
mounting hardware and some cables, and of course your power connector. So here's
your power connector. It's just a standard USB connector, and you get some
3m tape basically this is mounting hardware that and the silver piece there.
And you get the cable which is quite long actually. Now opening up the camera,
you can actually see that it's a full swivel mount. You can go all the way
around and on the bottom there's a spot for a micro SD card. And then that's
actually the setup button. That's what you're going to press later in the process.
So let's get into the iPhone now. You could do this on an Android device. You
obviously need the Wyzecam application and you're going to create an account.
Verify the account through a pretty standard process, and then you come to
the add new device screen. Once you're there, you're going to go ahead and tap on
add new device. Then you tap on the picture of the Wyze camera and once you
do that you're going to want to go to your camera
and actually connect it through the power outlet. So here's me doing that.
Once you've done that, you're going to wait until there's a blinking light on the
back. It takes about 20 seconds, you'll hear the camera click a few times, and
then you hold that setup button. You then hear this sound. Once you've done
that, back into the application, you will have heard ready to connect from the Wyzecam 2, so you tap
on that button, you input your Wi-Fi information, and then it asks you to scan
this QR code. So you just hold this about five inches away from the Wyzecam lens
and then it switches over to this connection process. When it's done that
connection process, you're gonna hear the following "connection setup complete" and that's essentially it.
You can go ahead, name the camera whatever you want to call it. You can
always change that later, and then you can share the device or start using it
immediately. Now to share it that's kind of you wanting to send it to someone
else in your home who's gonna be accessing that camera. Now here's the
live stream. Like I had named it this is for my puppy (we just got a new puppy
here) and I'm gonna show you some of the features so here's me just zooming in
and you zoom in like you do everything else on an iPhone or an Android device.
You can see the motion detection firing and there's actually a bit rate up in the
top left of the interface. Here you can also turn on and off the night
vision and you can also change from HD to SD if you want to kind of lower your
impact. Now you can listen to the sound by hitting on the left interface button
there or you can speak and you just hold that speak button and you can see my dog
reacted immediately.
The other items you can use, you can record the video if you just want to
record something going on, now the recording will occur if it detects
motion, but I just turned on the recording just to show you you can do
that on your own. You can still speak into the camera while recording, you can
also take a photo, and then it gets saved to the album. Now both your videos and
your photos are being saved to the cloud and if you had an a micro SD
card on there it would be saved there as well. Now into the settings which is up
in the top right, and this is something you're gonna have to look at and play
with a little bit, but just off the top the motion detection was a little
sensitive initially. So I actually had to turn that down. It seemed to find a lot
of light changes in my home so if the cloud cover changed it could actually
trigger motion detection. You can also turn on different sound detection and
smoke alarm and Carbon Monoxide alarm sound detection. So those are nice. You can also set a
schedule for the alerts to let you know. So you don't have them going constantly.
So moving on from the alert settings, there's an Advanced Settings section.
You can see you can trigger on that local recording to the micro SD
card if you put one in. You could format from here. Night vision mode you can move
from automatic to not, and then you can also turn off the camera status light,
which I like so it won't actually show that in your home. So there are some
other settings here. Things to just play with over time if you'd like
to, and then there's the device information that you can also get.
Back to the device. Here's what happens when you actually flip the screen on
your iPhone. You can see the same interface is there. You can take pictures,
you can speak into it, you can record video, and of course you can change from
HD to SD. You can turn the sound up, on or off up on the top right, and you have
your time stamp, and you can zoom around. Now into the
album section of the application. You have videos and photos. You can review
your old videos, you can review your old photos, and you can also go ahead and
share those. From there you can go ahead and you can delete anything inside
your album. The time lapse function here, this requires an SD card, and this
requires you to be recording to that SD card. Just a couple last things: down at
the bottom you can see the notifications tab and this shows you day by day what
notifications you're being sent. You can filter it by day, or you can
filter it by camera as well. There are account settings if you want to adjust
any of those, but ultimately that's about all you want to know about the Wyzecam 2,
getting it set up and from there you can add multiple cameras to your home just
as easily. Now one thing you're probably wondering about. How do I go about
automating these? That's going to come in the next video in our series here about
Wyzecam 2, so stay tuned for that.