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“Creative” ways to use a $30 Wyze camera

12 points by koinedad 4y ago

aintmeit 4y ago
They should have added other items to the list: fueling one's own descent into paranoid schizophrenia, giving a false sense of security, a waste of $30 bucks.
- eternityforest 4y ago
  It's not a false sense of security, it's a minor deterrent with the possibility to put them in jail if not deterred. I think you need at least 3 of them to properly start a descent into paranoid schizophrenia.
- fortyseven 4y ago
  So you can't just own a security camera now. Gotcha.
odysseus 4y ago
My Wyze camera has already paid for itself when it caught a delivery driver backing into (and partially wrecking) my mailbox. Their insurance paid up. Really my only complaints with the camera are: * It randomly decides to turn off my “lite” camera subscription in the app so I have to reset it up * Too much pestering to upgrade to a monthly plan in the app * Camera doesn’t come in black * Can’t read license plates (but higher end cameras have trouble with this too)
leobg 4y ago
I want an AI that watches my sourdough starter and notifies me the moment its rising has peaked.
- Doxin 4y ago
  Seems to me like something you could quite easily and cheaply build with an arduino and an ultrasonic sensor. Just have it measure how high the top of the starter is and sound a buzzer whenever it's no longer going up.
  - eternityforest 4y ago
    Making it rugged and able to notify in a non annoying way wirelessly could be harder than Wyze AI.
    - koinedad 4y ago
      I setup text notifications with the Telegram API for a rasp pi project pretty easily and it is free which is a bonus
  - brokenmachine 4y ago
    I would try with a TOF sensor and an esp8266/esp32.
- koinedad 4y ago
  I actually thought this same thing maybe building this it a raspberry pi and camera.
RobotToaster 4y ago
I notice that in the link to the RTSP "beta" firmware wyze have removed it completely, so there's no option to use an open protocol any more?
- koinedad 4y ago
  Ah that’s a bummer, I was looking to try it soon!
- mikefallen 4y ago
  I think the only option for that is flashing custom firmware, which i am not sure can be done on the most recent hardware revisions. https://github.com/openmiko/openmiko https://github.com/openmiko/openmiko https://github.com/EliasKotlyar/Xiaomi-Dafang-Hacks https://github.com/EliasKotlyar/Xiaomi-Dafang-Hacks

12 points by koinedad 4y ago

They should have added other items to the list: fueling one's own descent into paranoid schizophrenia, giving a false sense of security, a waste of $30 bucks.

eternityforest 4y ago
It's not a false sense of security, it's a minor deterrent with the possibility to put them in jail if not deterred. I think you need at least 3 of them to properly start a descent into paranoid schizophrenia.
fortyseven 4y ago
So you can't just own a security camera now. Gotcha.

odysseus 4y ago

My Wyze camera has already paid for itself when it caught a delivery driver backing into (and partially wrecking) my mailbox. Their insurance paid up. Really my only complaints with the camera are: * It randomly decides to turn off my “lite” camera subscription in the app so I have to reset it up * Too much pestering to upgrade to a monthly plan in the app * Camera doesn’t come in black * Can’t read license plates (but higher end cameras have trouble with this too)

leobg 4y ago

I want an AI that watches my sourdough starter and notifies me the moment its rising has peaked.

Doxin 4y ago
Seems to me like something you could quite easily and cheaply build with an arduino and an ultrasonic sensor. Just have it measure how high the top of the starter is and sound a buzzer whenever it's no longer going up.
- eternityforest 4y ago
  Making it rugged and able to notify in a non annoying way wirelessly could be harder than Wyze AI.
  - koinedad 4y ago
    I setup text notifications with the Telegram API for a rasp pi project pretty easily and it is free which is a bonus
- brokenmachine 4y ago
  I would try with a TOF sensor and an esp8266/esp32.
koinedad 4y ago
I actually thought this same thing maybe building this it a raspberry pi and camera.

RobotToaster 4y ago

I notice that in the link to the RTSP "beta" firmware wyze have removed it completely, so there's no option to use an open protocol any more?

koinedad 4y ago
Ah that’s a bummer, I was looking to try it soon!
mikefallen 4y ago
I think the only option for that is flashing custom firmware, which i am not sure can be done on the most recent hardware revisions. https://github.com/openmiko/openmiko https://github.com/openmiko/openmiko https://github.com/EliasKotlyar/Xiaomi-Dafang-Hacks https://github.com/EliasKotlyar/Xiaomi-Dafang-Hacks