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Affordable home camera with motion sense and ir light

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Wyze Cam v2, plus a micro SD card for the local recording. Some Home Depots stock them, otherwise Amazon. Without the micro SD card you get 7 or 14? days of cloud storage, but they are only 12 second clips and don't re-trigger until motion starts again. So if someone went in front of it and was there for say 4 hours but never stopped moving you would only have one 12 second clip... If you install a micro SD card it will record it all (but only the 12 second clips would go up to the cloud).

 

Its honestly an amazing camera for $25, you can even flash a different firmware now and get RTSP support to be able to add it to an actual NVR and it still works with the app and Alexa.

 

For $35 they have a version that can pan left and right, called the Wyze Cam Pan.

Looking for a affordable camera (sub 50 bucks) that records locally, can be accessed from the Web, records when it detects motion and has motion zones so I can select which ones it will track. If there isn't any sub 50 bucks you can still suggest it and I might still buy it. 

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Wyze Cam v2, plus a micro SD card for the local recording. Some Home Depots stock them, otherwise Amazon. Without the micro SD card you get 7 or 14? days of cloud storage, but they are only 12 second clips and don't re-trigger until motion starts again. So if someone went in front of it and was there for say 4 hours but never stopped moving you would only have one 12 second clip... If you install a micro SD card it will record it all (but only the 12 second clips would go up to the cloud).

 

Its honestly an amazing camera for $25, you can even flash a different firmware now and get RTSP support to be able to add it to an actual NVR and it still works with the app and Alexa.

 

For $35 they have a version that can pan left and right, called the Wyze Cam Pan.

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19 hours ago, Scheer said:

Wyze Cam v2, plus a micro SD card for the local recording. Some Home Depots stock them, otherwise Amazon. Without the micro SD card you get 7 or 14? days of cloud storage, but they are only 12 second clips and don't re-trigger until motion starts again. So if someone went in front of it and was there for say 4 hours but never stopped moving you would only have one 12 second clip... If you install a micro SD card it will record it all (but only the 12 second clips would go up to the cloud).

 

Its honestly an amazing camera for $25, you can even flash a different firmware now and get RTSP support to be able to add it to an actual NVR and it still works with the app and Alexa.

 

For $35 they have a version that can pan left and right, called the Wyze Cam Pan.

Wow, this is EXACTLY what I needed thank you so much!!!

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