Chuck Miller

3 de julio de 2026

An improved "Original Gangster" camera. Good quality, good price, WiFi accessable from anywhere.

The Original Gangster. Good (improved) vision/resolution. I bought one for inside the garage, and one for inside the grand kids bird house (didnt want a camera that moved and scared the birds - this just sits still up on the ceiling and watches. And bonus, turns out birds dont see infrared light, so having that on to see better in the dark does not bother or harm them.Wyze cameras are generally inexpensive WiFi cameras and good quality. I have one that is NOT an outdoor camera, but I mounted it up high, close to the soffit on outside the house, covered it with a Tonic plastic bottle, and, believe it or not, its been going strong for 3 years, and even survived hurricane Ian in Florida!Back to this OG: Solid camera, no bells or whistles (does not rotate or track), just good, solid picture. There are other minor issues like false alarms on detecting motion, but you can adjust how sensitive it is.I like being able to use phone to see whats happening at the camera.Ver más

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Kathleen Rincon

14 de julio de 2026

I love it and recommend it. I am buying more for the price and the quality you can't beat it.

Wow, what a great picture this little camera has, and very easy to set up. I purchased this for my new brick-and-mortar store, and I love it. You do need to buy a longer cable if you plan to hang it high, but I love it. I bought more for my home, and the monthly price, if you like is not that expensiveVer más

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Ericka Overton

22 de julio de 2026

Good camera.. fully read description!

Works great, has a clear view and recording. The night mode is great and you can still see everything. I originally bought for outdoor but it was unclear that I would need to order a special outdoor adapter. As of right now I have it indoors to use it until the adapter arrives. It also has to stay plugged up to use it. I was thinking I was getting the wireless but it is not. My fault for not looking at the description fully.Ver más

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SirKane

29 de noviembre de 2023

The camera is just fine... but the Cam Plus service will frustrate you!

This review isn't really about the camera, but the "optional" service provided by Wyze, Cam Plus. Honestly, there isn't much difference between this cam and similar cams on the market. The one I had before this might have arguably been better, but it was somewhat big for my needs so I got this one. Also, I wasn't happy with motion tracking for my pet. They Wyze OG camera construction and quality of the camera is good, however you need to use Cam Plus and/or a SD card to get any real benefit out of this cam. This is where my aggravation comes in.When I first got the camera, I setup motion tracking. Now, its important to note that I use this to monitor my bearded dragon. The AI for these cameras typically expect you to be monitoring a cat or dog, so I turned off the "pet" and other "smart" events because it wasn't working as expected and just set up all motion for event tracking. The last camera didn't catch any of the lizards movement, but the Wyze cam actually tracks movement and occasionally even labels him as "pet". I was happy with this , but lately the service is only catching the beginning and ending of movement. For example, it catches my lizard approaching and leaving the food bowl, but does not show me if he ate or not. I assume this is because of a "cool down" period in the motion tracking.This wouldn't be a major issue for just pet tracking, but I can see how this has security implications. You could see someone approach and leave your house, but miss them actually stealing your packages! For my needs, this is an issue. I am writing a book on pet nutrition and I need to be able to observe my pet eat the food I make so I can take notes. Simply knowing he went over to the food bowl does not help. In other words, I need this for research and Wyze is failing me.To alleviate this problem, I bought an SD card. Now all activity is captured but my problem is not resolved because it is very slow to review the footage from the SD card and if there is a way to speed up playback, I do not see that option. I have tried scrolling and going to the exact time that I know activity happened and still I see nothing in the footage. The timeline will tell you there are events, but not play them. You have to click on the number of events icon to open up a separate even slower timeline that will eventually display what I'm looking for. I haven't done so yet, but I suspect my only way to resolve this is to record the section of footage I know the activity happened at from the SD card, download it to another application, and then view it at the speed I want. That's too much work when I'm already paying for Cam Plus. A simple "jump to" command where I can enter a time and view what happened then, would go a long way.My last issue with Cam Plus is the application and web view. The web view sucks due to a lack of features and its the one I use most often to monitor my pet. Unlike my previous camara and accompanying service, I cannot record, take pictures, etc. from the web view. This can only be done in the app. I wfh and am at my desk all day with web view open. If my lizard does something that I want to capture I have to open my phone quickly and hope I can catch it in time or just record it later using the process described above. Another issue is having to log in to web view every single time WITH multi-factor authentication even though I only access it from the same computer on the same network every time. Recently, a "Remember me" option was added but stopped working after a week.Generally, I am happy with the camera but extremely frustrated with the Cam Plus service. I'm going to stick it out because I have already invested this much, but if there isn't improvement soon I will be looking for a new camera and service. For those of you who haven't made the investment yet, I recommend spending more time researching the Cam Plus service instead of the camera. Again, its a camera, it will do the job it was made to do. But like any camera, how you use it and the tools it uses (Cam Plus) make a huge difference.

Nikki

28 de julio de 2026

Great Quality for $$

This is my very first camera. I believe it’s suppose to be used outdoors but I have mine inside. Picture quality is great. You can talk, turn on a spot light, take a photo. You will need a micro SD card I believe. I use it to monitor my dog when I’m not at home. I think if you want it to record & you can go back & watch it, you have to pay a monthly fee of like $2.99.Ver más

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Alice

Great Upgrade from the Wyze Cam v2

A great upgrade to my old Wyze Cam v2. The image quality is clear and sharp, and I can't wait to test the color night vision to see if I can catch the fat raccoon that keeps raiding my hummingbird feeders.I'm glad this company is still around because they continue to make great products. One feature I especially appreciate is the ability to add a microSD card for local recording without requiring a subscription.What really impressed me was how easy the upgrade process was. I simply removed the microSD card from my old camera and inserted it into the new one. There was no need to reformat the card, and all of my previous recordings were still there and accessible. The card is a seven-year-old SanDisk, and it worked perfectly.I see some people reporting problems with microSD cards. My recommendation is to use a reputable brand, as lower-quality cards can cause issues with any camera system.The sound quality is clear, and the two-way audio makes it easy to communicate with people through the camera. I also appreciate the thoughtful design improvements, such as the waterproof cover over the microSD card slot and the enhanced weather-resistant power connection.Many of the complaints I see seem to come from people expecting these cameras to perform like professionally installed wired security systems that cost thousands of dollars. For the price, my expectations are realistic, and this camera has exceeded them. I've been using Wyze products for about five years, which says a lot about my experience with the company.Overall, this camera is a significant upgrade over the older version and offers excellent value for the money. It also works great as a pet camera. If it helps me finally catch that hummingbird feeder-raiding raccoon on video, that'll be an added bonus!Ver más

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Dan martin

31 de marzo de 2026

Died in 3 days

Many years back I purchased a half dozen of the v1 Wyze cameras when they had a deal where each one came with a 32gb micro SD card for storage. I never actually used those cameras until now , almost 6 years later. Over the course of less than 1 year, 4 out of the original 6 V1s have died on me, all randomly with no damage, not during rain or anything else obvious that could have killed them. And ALL 6 of the SD cards that came with them were bad, not a single card worked in these cameras or any other devices. Formatting didn’t even work on half of them, they just wouldn’t accept a format at all.Now, I assumed this was all just bad luck or maybe they had a rough start with their early version cameras, seeing how much everyone loves them still today I decided maybe it was a good idea to forget about the V1s and get one of their modern cams instead of constantly replacing the V1s.. So fast forward to today time, I picked up this OG cam when they were on sale for $20 something dollars in the summer of 2025. Of course once again, I didn’t even open the box until last weekend , the end of March 2026. This camera set up nice and easy compared to the original versions. It still wouldn’t accept the Wyze branded SD card…no surprise, but everything else worked well and I could notice the upgrades in speed and image quality.It was all smooth sailing for 3 whole days. And than around noon on the 3rd day it was installed, it stopped giving me event updates. Come to realize it wasn’t connected anymore, and it wouldn’t connect no matter what I did on the app. Finally had time that evening to check the physical camera itself and found out that it’s dead. Like dead dead, no lights, no noise , absolutely no response at all after plugging it into the factory charger & wire; and nothing happens when holding the button to factory reset it either.Now I’m not exaggerating, not even 3 full days this thing lasted before doing the same exact thing the old V1s would do, just randomly die without warning or symptoms prior. This one’s still clean as a whistle too! No dust, no smudges, it looks (and is) still brand new! There hasn’t been any rain in 3 days, this things mounted under a covered porch anyways, it can’t even get a splash of a raindrop let alone fully rained on, and it’s not even in direct sunlight either.The ambient temps have been between 65-78 degrees the last 3 days it was running. It’s been plugged into the OEM wire and power brick that came in the box and nothing else was used to power it. I live in a normal city in the US, we don’t have unreliable main’s voltage or frequent power surge events.There is no feasible explanation for why this current camera could or would have died in such a short amount of time given the fact that all instructions were followed to a T and you couldn’t ask for a more forgiving ambient environmental situation here, it’s far from being too cold or too hot to operate efficiently, it’s the perfect range of ambient temperature and humidity currently in FL for any consumer electronics to be operating in.It should also be noted that when I was looking thru the last few recorded events on the cam before its demise, I realized that it missed some very obvious events that should have been recorded but weren’t. To illustrate without dragging on forever…. This cam was being used for my front door, primarily as the watchdog for my mailbox and package pickup/dropoff area. I have dozens of packages getting picked up and dropped off by all carriers thru out the day, and I’ve come to learn their schedules. I noticed on the day the cam died and around the time it died, it was missing whole events that would have shown the mailman walking up and picking up boxes and putting mail in the mailbox, the camera is focused right in that area and a person standing at the mailbox would take up 25% of the entire viewing frame, aka, impossible to accidentally miss. It caught me putting boxes outside for pickup around 9am and raising the mailbox flag. It caught a random pedestrian on the street around 9:30. Than the next event isn’t until 11:30 am when Amazon came to deliver some packages…but I noticed when they came the mailbox flag was down and the boxes I put out were gone, yet no event recorded for usps doing so. I checked the tracking numbers and they indeed were there and they did pick my stuff up at 10:00am, AND the postal worker most likely had to make two trips to my porch so everything could be carried. And the cam missed ALL of that event. But than caught a different drop off an hour later. Than I believe missed one or two other drops offs by FedEx and another Amazon but recorded more pedestrians in between. Than everything went dark with no more events and zero power going to the cam.Of course I’m almost a year past my return window because I let it sit around in the box for too long. Luckily they’re cheap but I’ve really had enough with this company, I’ve never had so many products die so quickly without any good reasoning. The whole point of getting these goofy little cameras was so that I could transition away from my commercial grade Bosch/Axis setups that I was using at home for years but has just become too bulky and it’s always been way more than I really needed for home but I had the hardware already and it’s obviously leagues above these disposable IP cameras by all metrics, besides form factor and convenience of course. But realistically, I have Bosch flexidomes that have been running for over 10 years without a hiccup and now I have a dead Wyze that couldn’t make it past 3 days and 4/6 of my Wyze V1s dead in less than 1 year….i guess I’m sticking with the commercial grade stuff because I really can’t bring myself to buy another disposable Wyze cam at this point, the amount of times I’ve started and stopped the monthly service subscription is ridiculous enough is it isNow I’m not gonna sit here and say absolutely don’t buy one, but what I will say you need to 100% do if you are buying one, is start using it the day it gets delivered because that return window will come and go before you know it. And had I not egg mine in their boxes so long, most of them could have been returned because they died in less than 30 days after setup….

Miguel

24 de junio de 2026

Great cameras at a great price -Easy to use/setup.

Took advantage of a special sale on these. Purchased four to add to my previously owned Wyze cams I use inside and outside my home. This new model is great, small size, super clarity on video and voice, and easy connection to wi-fi/Internet. Recommended.

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Walter Kneip

9 de febrero de 2025

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Affordable and High-Quality Security Camera!

I recently purchased the WYZE Cam OG 1080p HD Wi-Fi Security Camera, and it has been a fantastic addition to my home security setup! The camera delivers sharp 1080p video quality, both during the day and at night with color night vision. The built-in spotlight is a great feature, providing extra illumination when needed.The setup was straightforward, and the Wyze app is user-friendly, allowing me to customize settings such as motion detection zones and notifications. The two-way audio is clear, and I love being able to communicate through the camera. The camera also supports local and cloud storage, giving me flexibility in how I save my recordings.Overall, the WYZE Cam OG has exceeded my expectations in terms of performance and value. It's an affordable option that doesn't compromise on quality. Highly recommend it to anyone looking for a reliable and budget-friendly security camera!Ver más

Diana

22 de septiembre de 2023

cool cam

Excellent product!

gr8myth

31 de enero de 2026

Defective item received. Within return window no replacement support provided

I received a camera that doesn't work. Is still within return n replace window. The chat window that opens on selecting replace doesn't provide any resolution other than technical trouble shooting. Amazon and vendor no one is reachable. finally call gets connected on the last day of eligible returns, and they refuse to acknowledge 6 days of chat history. And Amazon declined to replace, even though within return /replace window.Not worth buying, based on the terrible customer service interfaceVer más

terry h.

24 de noviembre de 2025