Tell HN: Wyze cam forcing upgrade to keep storing recordings locally
This post and the comments are really subpar for HN.<p>1. Local storage is not going away. Local playback via SD card is still fully supported. Only the event clips which are stored in the cloud are &quot;going away&quot;.<p>2. You can sign up for Cam Lite for free and end up with MORE functionality than before (person detection, longer clips, etc). You don&#x27;t even need to provide a payment method, you just have to get past their pop-up guilting you into paying to cover the storage costs.<p>3. You can&#x27;t find the playback option for viewing from your SD card? It&#x27;s the giant colorful button on your app that says &quot;view playback&quot; when watching your live stream... how can you miss it?<p>I am not affiliated with Wyze in any way but I do own about a dozen of their cams (v1, v2 pan, and v3). They are fantastic for the price and have been more reliable than other more expensive ones I&#x27;m bought. They are also one of the few that provide an SD card slot. Their software is regularly updated and the app is solid. They don&#x27;t use hostile user flows that push you to pay for their cloud services aside from the events being stored in the cloud.<p>You can also find OSS firmware that you can easy flash onto them that removes all the cloud features and keeps everything local.