hello I am Wanderer001 and this is a revisit of the Wyze cam app
there are two things that I learned from my first review of the Wyze cam version
two one I would not say the name of that product right at all throughout the
entire video and people would call me out on it so Wyze is the actual name of
this app and camera not ways and to that aside from the price being ridiculously
low for what you get with it that camera or any of the cameras that they sell you
Wyze is thinking into the future and is going to be a very innovative and
up-to-date company in point changes that were made to the Wyze app now this won't
be as thorough of a look at the wise app as it was with the version 2 review that
I did which can be found over there if you're interested but I'm going to be
discussing a lot of the changes that were made and for the most part in my
opinion most of them have been really good and there is one thing that I
wanted from my previous d-link camera and that I wish that the Wyze camp at
the time could do that guess what it can do it now so good on you guys for
keeping up to date and innovating with all the pleasantries out of the way
let's take a look at the Wyze cam app there have been several changes this is
the main screen you can see that I still do have two cameras but I have moved
them one actually both into the living room just putzing around with them so
major changes up at the top you have this bell icon which will allow you to
quickly mute notifications from your Wyze products and I say products because
you're gonna see they're looking into the future and offering a complete
system three dots over here in the corner will allow you to add a product
sort your products edit shortcuts and cancel so sorting products means my two
cameras I can move them up and down I can remove them if I wanted to and we
just select done we didn't do anything and it shortcuts well we don't have any
shortcuts yet but we're going to talk about that so speaking of shortcuts
what is a shortcut well that's something that will live at the top of the screen
there selecting add a shortcut since we don't have any shortcuts yet we're just
going to go through the creation process we do have to give this shortcut a name
so we're just gonna call it test and next is actions what do we want this
shortcut to do well here we go new screen actions we can turn on all of our
notifications we can turn off all devices notifications we can select
actions based on a specific item so in this case we're just going to say turn
off all notifications there we go we can come up there and edit if we wanted to
we're gonna save it because we don't really do anything
you'll notice that we wanted to edit that there's a bar here which will allow
us to move different actions around so we're just gonna save and go back so
here we have test one action we can automate this meaning if we turn this on
automation select we can set a time of day that this automatically happens
which is awesome because this is one of the things that I wanted to do is be
able to have my cameras start monitoring and turn themselves on during the day
when I'm not around but didn't necessarily want to have to turn them
off while in the case of previously unplugged them when I got home when I
didn't want them recording when my wife and I were around with automations you
can set a day and time and it will do it for you which includes turning on and
off recording you can also set it for an event now again I'm going to select
livingroom if it detects a smoke alarm or motion or sound or the co2 are now
granted for what we're doing we don't want it to do one of those but you have
the option to do that now and that is just so cool that you can automate that
and you can add a shortcut button for it if you wanted to now in the case if you
automate everything you don't necessarily need a shortcut button but
we're gonna say done because we want that shortcut button and there we go
there is our shortcut button we're going to select done and right there you can
have a listing of cuts all the way across the top of that
and Bravo Wyze for doing that automating some of these things that the camera
could do is spectacular now another place that has changed greatly and it's
a little hard to see apparently is this bottom navigation right here so home
will show you your products currently just the cameras events now there are no
events triggered for this again see the full review in the corner there for what
this would look like discovery allows you to look at people's clips that they
have decided to share with the Wyze community now in this case you can kind
of see most of these are outdoor pictures here if we click on one it will
automatically start playing and here I'm going to assume yeah that's gonna be a
bird that's gonna come into frame who apparently was messing with the camera
alright so this is a Wyze cam pan and it's looking for the bird but you can
look at other people's stuff that they have chosen again chosen to share up
here in the corner these dots will allow you to see the newest first see the
oldest first most viewed most liked or cancelled so you can sort these based on
what you like coming across here shopping currently Wyze is going to
start selling a since well I'm gonna call a sensor kit currently you can see
there are 10 days until the pre-sale ends and 75% have sold so there is a
shop now where you can purchase things directly through the app kind of wish I
could get on this but not sure what my mailing address will be when these
officially launched in May probably pick some up then but again you can see
you can pick up the wise cam version 2 or the wise cam pan as well as they sell
other accessories there last is the account I won't be showing you the
account because again sensitive information we're going to come back to
the home now living room up top here this is my Wyze cam version 2 and
we're just going to click into that to open it up and again it's going to show
you behind the scenes yes hello that is me
filming this review this area hasn't changed all too much you still have the
ability to turn on and off the sound you can record you can use your voice to
talk the camera you can take a picture also
have more so albums time-lapse things of that nature so again there's that
turnoff button so you can cut the feed but we're not going to do that and I
highly suggest being able to automate that and you can also use IFTT to do
functions there the big thing and the reason I thought it would be well worth
revisiting the application and again this works with version 2 not with
version 1 so unless they're gonna do a firmware update for that but if we come
up here to the settings so here we have name event recording all of this is
pretty much the same detection here we go
alarm advanced this is what we want look night vision mode off auto on what with
this this is new night vision IR lights you can turn off the IR lights when the
camera goes into night vision mode so you will not get a glare from your
window anymore if you have your Wyze cam point it outside this is what I wanted
with my d-link this is what I wanted Wyze cam to do
originally they have updated the app they upgraded the firmware to their
device you can do that now this is why I think Wyze cam is going to be a company
to contend with the fact that they listen to customer feedback and just
with a simple firmware update and upgrade to the app you can now turn on
your I turn off and on your IR lights good job Wyze now I will say keep in
mind without the IR lights if you are using this inside your home unless you
have external lights coming from somewhere else the visibility that
you're gonna get from the night vision will be a little more limited but if you
have your camera pointed outside and it's using light in my case condo
complex is like everywhere but I wanted the night mode to kind of get sharper
picture without the IR lights you'll be ok so good on you for adding that and
again I still say the rotate image 180 degrees is something else that I greatly
appreciate being able to have the camera upside down and flip the
this video look back at the Wyze app so again sharing we can come in here can
put your information in there and that will allow you to share it will also
allow you to put it to that community share that we showed you last time or
that I showed you before and then device info will show you if there's any
firmware or things of that nature we can restart - we can restart the device we
can delete the device in there you go that is the the big change that Wyze cam
has made and then of course right before I was going to publish my video Wyze cam
came out with something else and what is that up here group products now this
isn't something that I necessarily had asked for but I know a lot of people
wanted them to do this so we will say test for the purposes of this and select
our two cameras now you can have several cameras and just group them together and
we're gonna select done notice on the main screen now those go away the little
previews but we have our grouping so I can go into test and look what happens
in real time both cameras are going to be playing now I realize that real time
can be difficult to discern here but you could see me waving I move the one
camera into my kitchen hoping that it would be visible so I'm gonna try and
throw this hacky sack into the kitchen and see if it shows up on camera so you
can see on top that's me getting ready to throw the thing and we'll see if it
comes into frame in the kitchen
hopefully that worked if not you can kind of I assure you
these are both live feeds so you can group your feeds now you can watch
multiple cameras at once it wasn't something that I was looking for
currently because the size of my residence but other people wanted to be
able to do this and now you can everything else very similar there are
other products that Wyze is going to be coming out with and
quite frankly I look forward to that I really think that for the price point
they're gonna be offering a lot of these it looks like they're sticking to the
$20 range so they are definitely looking to be the good budget solution for a lot
of people and quite frankly in my opinion you don't need a more expensive
setup with all that you get from Wyze cam here now again right now I only have
the version 2 and the version 1 of Wyze cam I don't have a pan they do look like
they're gonna have light bulbs in the future so I will be testing those out
but again this was a quick revisit of the Wyze cam app to showcase a lot of
the changes that they made a lot of quality of life things to me big reason
to look at Wyze cam over something else is the fact that they listen to their
customers and they're innovating so I have been Wanderer001 if you
have any questions or comments please leave them in the area below and as
always thanks for watching