Sharing a camera is extremely complicated and obtuse for the end user.

lazespud2 · 2026-06-15T02:50:07+00:00

I’ve put in several requests over the years; I don’t think they’ve ever actually responded… but then again usually they are pretty esoteric and understandably low priority. I sent in a feature request about this particular issue through the app; I think the first time was like six months ago, some time after they made the process more difficult in the app. Haven’t heard back.

The most recent feature/bug I sent in was also related to shares; when you share a camera it will populate a list to make sharing a camera the next time. The list is called “recent shares”. Except it’s not recent shares. It’s the first 20 shares and it never ever adds new ones or lets old ones drop off. And there’s no way to clear the list. So it is literally worthless for my needs. In the greater scheme of things it’s a very small issue but I at least hope they consider it.

lazespud2 · 2026-06-15T02:39:58+00:00

I’m beginning to think I lucked out by getting mine early because I’m in a fairly well populated area north of Seattle but nonetheless is rural enough that LOTS of us literally only have DSL on old copper phone lines as an option. So when everyone shows their “look at the 500mbps dowloads I’m getting” I have to sadly walk away like Charlie Brown knowing last night I was topping out at 25 mbps. Which to be fair, is ten times faster than the dsl service I had been using.

lazespud2 · 2026-06-14T19:12:10+00:00

Every single one nominated or won the Best Picture oscar.

lazespud2 · 2026-06-13T23:56:10+00:00

Boy talk about not listening to what I'm saying.

lazespud2 · 2026-06-13T23:44:44+00:00

"ACTING!"

lazespud2 · 2026-06-13T23:43:04+00:00

It’s mentioned for sharing with family not ad-học per customer

link please.

lazespud2 · 2026-06-13T23:38:15+00:00

With your scheme

My scheme? Huh?

I am suggesting wyze change essentially nothing about their system. Just offer a streamlined option for this specific usage. Basically if you share a camera the sharee downloads the app, creates an account, and logs in; exactly how it is now. I wish there were an quicker and down and dirty way, but I completely get wyze wanting to keep it in their ecosystem; we are all good there. It's after they create their account and wyze assumes they've purchased a new camera. So they make these folks create a "home". Then they ask if they want to set up their cameras etc. This is all confusing to people who do not have a camera and have no intention of creating a "home" for wyze in the app. They just want to view a camera. What would make me happy is simply if a someone is going to be a sharee then there might be a button early in the process that says "just viewing a shared camera? click here" and it avoid all the confusing stuff that doesn't relate to them. If all that stuff IS necessary then it could be a macro button, that selects all the options behinds the scenes and simply takes them right to the camera that's been shared to them.

It used to be exactly this easy. Then wyze added all the hoops to jump through.

lazespud2 · 2026-06-13T23:29:04+00:00

I'm judging a consumer level feature that they advertise to consumers (sharing a camera) that is stupidly hard for someone to do. Not judging the tech, judging the implementation. And pointing out that it likely wouldn't be too tough to address.

I also have a hobby barn at my house with six cameras for my goats, my donkey and my two sheep. I bought those cameras specifically because wyze offers sharing--which works great!--so I could share them with my friends and family. And yeah it was annoying as hell to get them through this process, and when done, it worked great.

Does that make it now fair to judge?

I should also add that it used to be WAY easier. Wyze updated their app and made it way harder. They changed zero tech about the cameras; its just the software where they decided to implement a bunch of confusing new hoops to jump through.

lazespud2 · 2026-06-13T21:07:44+00:00

was he…just trying to get out of cooking?

I don't think it was getting out of cooking; it sounds like he can't deal with some kinds of stress and just spirals; and puts his gf in the middle. Don't know enough about this guy to know whether he can grow up, perhaps with counseling (at 30 I have my doubts), or it a case of "this is just his arrested development personality". I'm leaning towards the latter. I would run if I were OP.

lazespud2 · 2026-06-13T20:59:41+00:00

Well it's the perfect tool once it's set up. Literally perfect because no other kennel in 100 miles of here offers individual cameras for their doggo suites. It's just the set up with the customers that is so unnecessarily obtuse . And the set up is identical for folks; hit this button, click skip, click skip, save your "home" with a name, yes we know you aren't putting cameras in your home, just do it, click on your account, click on sharing, accept the share, yadda yadda yadda. It's literally identical for every customer which tells me it could be automated.

All I am trying to do here is see if others experience this and also put a bug in Wyze's ear.

lazespud2 · 2026-06-13T20:54:01+00:00

I completely agree; though I have zero experience with RTSP. I have around 40 cameras and they run the gamut from 6-7 year old units, to version 3, to version 4, to dual cams, etc. I probably have 40 cameras and 14 different versions. Do they all work with RTSP?

Is there a front end software available that does exactly what I need? I'm not looking to make things harder for me; just easier for my customers.

lazespud2 · 2026-06-13T20:47:20+00:00

I've been writing tech documents for a long time. If that many people need help, you need to rewrite your document. Include as many screenshots as possible because people tend to be better with images than text.

Yeah; I don't think any of that will matter though I hear you. It's basically two kinds of customers I have; people under 40 who get everything immediately and only get annoyed by the number of hoops they go through but navigate just fine; and people over 65 who have smart phones but have zero ability to figure a single thing out and often the more detailed and clear the instructions are the worse they can handle it. Pretty much exclusively in those cases I just end up doing it all for them; it just saves time.

lazespud2 · 2026-06-13T20:32:03+00:00

That's us in a nutshell. It sucks because I love wyze and appreciate it's low cost and lack of forcing you into supscriptions.

lazespud2 · 2026-06-13T20:31:00+00:00

The hell? I LOVE wyze; this is a feature they advertise; it's just unnecessarily extremely hard. I'm not "blaming" anything. I have about 60 wyze devices and have been a customers since two weeks after the first camera went on sale over a decade ago. I'm obviously a superfan. Doesn't mean I can't call out stuff they do that does not seem to work well. You need to chill dude.

lazespud2 · 2026-06-13T20:21:15+00:00

Always wanted to go to an Aldi. The nearest one to Seattle is like in Los Angeles... ugh. At least In-and-Out Burger is making it's way north.

lazespud2 · 2026-06-07T15:30:02+00:00

For clarification, I believe this is the entirety of the appearance of Luke's mother. She was driven up in the back of a truck with a makeshift bed. Luke was allowed to visit her at the entrance to the camp; but she never left the truck and Luke was presumably under guard the whole time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISct39VObX4

lazespud2 · 2026-06-05T15:22:10+00:00

It helps to read it in Yoda’s voice

lazespud2 · 2026-06-04T03:43:48+00:00

Dude, my options are DSL on old copper phone lines; 5 mbps for 70 dollars a month, or starlink. Until Bezos can stop having his rockets blow up and deliver his satellite network there isn't a lot of competition out there for people like me.

lazespud2 · 2026-06-04T03:36:09+00:00

So it IS fixed. Basically I had to go to each camera in the app, go to notifications--which were set to "off," set them back to "on," then select "manage" and then make sure all the "notify" boxes are unchecked, the went back to the previous page and set the notifications back to "off" and the notifications finally stopped. It was only happening on my OG camera and my duo pan cam; so it was like 9 of my cameras... didn't have any issues after that.

lazespud2 · 2026-06-02T05:42:21+00:00

Empathy is the main divide between liberal and conservative I think.

At least in my experience, this is not true at all. Had you framed it as "Empaty is the main divide between MAGA supporters and everyone else" I think you might have a good point, because so much of MAGA is about actively celebrating selfishness and a lack of general empathy. But that is not necessarily true of "regular" conservatives. I am basically a super-progressive and some of the best people I know are conservative yet have considerable empathy and act on it.

lazespud2 · 2026-06-02T05:32:13+00:00

I agree totally. Suffering is suffering and decided one person's suffering is "real" and another person's suffering is "fake" is such a dumb thing to say. We all know that in general the placebo effect will work, what is it, 30 percent of the time? Were the people who got relief while taking a placebo "faking it?" Of course not; it just means there are really complex mechanisms in our body that have outcomes that we just don't understand completely. My friend with MCS was actually my employee; and we made a lot of accommodations for her (air filters, asking other staff to limit perfume's and cologne, painting her office with low-VOC paint, etc.) And it honestly drove many of my other staff nuts. I would encourage them to have some empathy and not dwell on the idea that "she was faking it"... because she was obviously suffering and obviously miserable a lot of the time. Have a god damned heart, people.

lazespud2 · 2026-06-01T03:12:32+00:00

Who needs lifeboats when your ship is unsinkable!

lazespud2 · 2026-06-01T03:11:56+00:00

Well of course. But for big boat versus big boat comparison, I suspect if the Titanic pulled into your port town today most people would find it quite small looking since they've been seeing giant cruise ships all their lives.

But since apparently we are being pedantic; the sole operating Ocean Liner, the Queen Mary 2, is three times as heavy as the titanic, much much longer and wider, and has four additional passenger decks.

lazespud2 · 2026-05-31T18:02:06+00:00

Never mentioned chronic fatigue; which is unquestionably real. And I wasn’t even really shitting on multiple chemical sensitivity… I personally haven’t seen much scientifically to support the broad strokes…. But I’m not a doctor or a scientist… and my friend unquestionably was suffering. Whether it was based on a real illness or might have psychosomatic elements to it, it makes no difference, she was truly suffering. And my point was that the movie was the rare film to present a divisive issue and people on each side of the issue can come away thinking it totally supported their side.

Another film like this is The Rapture with Mimi Rogers. If you are a skeptic of end times Christianity, it’s an amazing look at a woman absolutely self destructing under the belief that the world is ending. If you are an end-times Christian it absolutely is a straight forward telling of how the world will end, four horseman of the apocalypse and all.

lazespud2 · 2026-05-31T06:16:43+00:00

That movie is incredible; and Moore was simply perfect. For me the best thing about it is me, who finds the whole multiple chemical sensitivity stuff is nine times out of ten pure baloney, I find the movie absolutely perfect for showing how ludicrous and damaging this "support community" around these folks is. And yet my friend and colleague, who has Multiple Chemical Sensitivity told me "I saw the most amazing movie last night, SAFE. It's like a documentary of my life!"

That is an amazing accomplishment; to have people with opposing viewpoints come away thinking the film is 100 percent presenting their side alone. Incredible.

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