Wyze Cam v3

Thread: "Our owlet monitor was just hacked."

Yep! When I opened it and it loaded, the guy was right up to it looking almost right into the camera as he was setting it up. I think that added to the creepiness, it felt like he was looking at me and I suddenly felt watched again.

Thread: "Our owlet monitor was just hacked."

Oh my god you win in creepy monitor hack stories. That is so scary. I would have shat myself if I saw the guy.

Thread: "did anyone not use a baby monitor?"

We use a Wyze camera, which we got off Amazon for our home security. We love them and have considered using them as a baby monitor as well. They are cheap and can connect to you phone, even when you’re not at home! (I have one set up to check on my dogs while I’m at work 🤣)

Thread: "Our owlet monitor was just hacked."

That, the pan scan, or even just a simple reboot. Mine has auto update turned on so occasionally I'll hear it whirring around after it updates. I know no one else had access unless they've completely bypassed the wyze app, bc I'm the owner and in order for other people to see the cam, I have to invite them, and I get login notifications via email when I log in from a new device. I love my wyze cameras. I got a 3 pack years ago and I only needed two (one for front door and one for back) until I had my baby. Now we use one as a monitor. I can pop her in the swing or bassinet and go out to my car and clean out the trash or move the car seat over and I'll know she's fine.

Thread: "In Your Opinion, what's the best baby monitor right now that you swear by and recommend?"

We went the cheap route and got an inexpensive good old fashion audio only one way monitor and paired it up with a Wyze camera. The monitor let us hear if anything was going on and the camera let us check in whenever we wanted or just keep a steady monitor on her. So it does everything those stupidly expensive camera/monitors do, but i think it was less than $50 all in

Thread: "What baby monitors are you using? "

Wyze cameras - can view video stream from any phone or tablet w the app, great night time vision, subtle/blend into decor, CHEAP. We have 2 in the room, one on the crib and the other high up for multiple POVs. Downside is they are not wireless, but I can’t imagine using them outside a home or indoor environment. I was skeptical but got to hand it to my brilliant husband - so much better and more economical than anything w the name “baby” attached!

Thread: "Man Talking To My Daughter Through Owlet Camera"

Is the Ring camera somehow more secured even though it's also on wifi? This is one of my worst nightmare and why I have a non wifi monitor. However I do have wyze cameras that I only turn on when we're away for an extended period.

Thread: "Baby Monitor/Cam Suggestions"

We did a combo of an offline cam and a Wyze Pan v3. The offline one is the Babysense 5.5" 1080p cam and so far so good, cannot complain whatsoever with it. The Wyze Pan V3 is honestly fantastic but if you're worried about footage being stored on servers, you're honestly gonna have to strictly go with offline cams that do not connect with the internet.

Thread: "Recommendations for baby monitors?"

Baby monitors are insanely overpriced. We switched to a Wyze Cam. 40$, tilts, pans, motion tracking, and the picture quality is 1000x better than our top rated 200$ baby monitor. We actually just used the super expensive one as a sound monitor at night when our son moved to his own room. He’s 2 now so it goes completely unused.

Thread: "Is Nanit baby monitor really worth the hype as a gift for new parents?"

I use a Wyze camera for $25. You’re not paying for the camera quality, they’re the same. You’re paying them to give them more analytical data about your baby.

Thread: "did anyone not use a baby monitor?"

We have a Wyze camera/app on our phones 🤷🏻‍♀️

Thread: "Wyze Cam Used as Baby Monitor Just Hacked"

And this is why I’ve never put a Wyze cam inside my house. Have 4 around the perimeter though.

Thread: "Which Baby Monitor??!!"

Wyze v3 - uses wifi and you can see things from multiple devices. You can set motion detection area and sensitivity. In colour and night vision. Sound is good but for overnight we have an ipad showing the wyze feed and use some basic vtech audio only monitors for sounds. For travel purposes we use Leapfrog LF915hd non wifi version. Pretty decent actually. Battery lasts. Good sound and visual.

Thread: "I've been tasked to find the best baby monitor. What are you all thinking?"

This right here is almost exactly what we did. Have been really happy.

Thread: "What baby monitoring/ cam system do you all use? "

Wyze camera + old school v tech radio baby monitor. No sock sensor, no special all in one video monitor, just a spare wyze cam for the nursery and the low tech monitor.

Thread: "did anyone not use a baby monitor?"

That's what we use! I love the time lapse option. But it is funny to see my toddler with glowing eyes stare at the camera when we check in on her using the night vision.

Thread: "In Your Opinion, what's the best baby monitor right now that you swear by and recommend?"

With the huge security breach wyze had I wouldn't trust s cheap IP camera

Thread: "Recommended Baby Monitor (Non-Wifi)? ((Also Owlet is AWFUL))"

We have the WYZE cam as a gift from a family member and we love it. We have the Owlet sock and used it when he was newborn (not anymore) it was awful. Kept falling off and reading low oxygen, freaking out my husband and me - when we were already nervewracked new parents.

Thread: "What baby monitors are you using? "

Yes that’s what we use too! So stinkin cheap and the video quality is way better than any baby monitor I’ve seen

Thread: "Recommended Baby Monitor (Non-Wifi)? ((Also Owlet is AWFUL))"

Camera quality is terrible. I mean bad bad. We have a $20 Wyze camera that we take when we travel and that is seriously 10x better quality. The app crashes all. the. time. There are times when I wake up in the morning to see that it crashed and haven’t had the monitor working all night. No telling if he cried for hours that night while I slept soundly because it just decided to crash. We have lived in 3 different places with different internet providers and it always has issues with connection. It was so bad we contacted Nanit and they finally sent us a new one. Twas also garbage. Temp gauge is always way off, so much that we got a stand alone temp gauge for in there so we can actually know if it’s too hot/cold in there. If you have to reset the Nanit to try to get it to work while the baby is sleeping, the “night light” blinks SUPER bright like 10 times while it’s connecting which can wake your baby. Have I mentioned the app sucks and always crashes? And I’m pretty sure i have PTSD from the alarm that sounds when your baby stops breathing. Which, my baby did not, but Nanit said he did. I mean, all of our souls left our body when the alarm went off for sure. The table mount is super top heavy so you can’t tilt it all the way down or it will fall. Only way to restart the Nanit is to press a button on the camera itself, so if your Nanit is mounted behind the crib, you have to figure out a way to climb over your sleeping baby to reach it. I will give it some credit, the sleep tracking IS nice. and when the breathing mechanism is working, it’s nice. If you’re a suuuuper anxious parent, this is something that would be a big peace of mind, but when the app always malfunctions…it completely looses that relief and replaces it with more fear. And finally rounding out my rant, i SWEAR the people who say it’s great are just embarrassed that they spent a LOT of money and try to pretend like it’s as amazing as it’s advertised to be. Won’t lie, I was embarrassed, but I’m more mad than anything.

Thread: "Video vs Audio-Only Baby Monitor"

I second the vtech audio. It's a classic for a reason. We have a wyze cam to check video as needed but we primarily use the vtech audio.

Thread: "Baby Monitor - Video vs Audio Only"

This is what we did as well, except with a Wyze cam instead of Google. It has worked out perfectly for us. And like you, we’ll use the camera elsewhere when it’s no longer needed for LO. I definitely recommend this setup OP!

Thread: "Best baby monitors?"

I use a wyze cam v3. That thing has surprisingly really good nighttime vision. The room could be very dimly lit and on the feed it looks like you have a bright lamp on with a clear picture. It also has infrared. There's extra subscription based stuff like 24/7 cloud recording and motion detection but I found that completely unnecessary for my needs. You can also record directly onto a SD card. We just use it as a live feed monitor. They don't have an app for PC to view the feed so I downloaded BlueStacks (Android phone emulator) and installed the Wyze app there with a desktop shortcut. So whenever I'm in the office I just open the app up on my second monitor and enable sound. This way if I'm playing games or watching something, I can glance over and check on him or hear when he's getting fussy.

Thread: "Do we really need a nice baby monitor like the Nanit or Owlet if we're room sharing for the first 6 months anyway?"

I would avoid the owlet. My baby was in the NICU for 5 days and his oxygen monitor would go off all the time because he was moving his foot or his PJs moved. At home, we have a VTech audio monitor and a wyze camera to watch his room. That combo works great.

Thread: "Baby Monitor Analysis Paralysis"

I love the Vtech devices. Radio operated. Receiver light up colors (green/ red) depending on how loud it is by the transceiver . . Clips to my belt. Very sensitive to sound so we hear it. We pair this with a video devie (Wyze cam v3) and only check video every so often to make sure he’s faced somewhere safely

Thread: "Wyze Cam Used as Baby Monitor Just Hacked"

I am still waiting to hear back from them. Their engineering's are looking into it and will get back to me is that last thing they have said.

Thread: "Don’t buy the Owlet cam."

Are you past the return timeframe? We also bought an owlet cam from target and set up it, hated it. We returned it and got another baby monitor.. but honestly the one we like the best is a Wyze cam that’s set up in our bedroom (the baby monitor is in his room, he still sleeps in our room). It is through WiFi but they are like $25-35 and way better than our baby monitor. We just have one of our phones or tablets open to the app once we put him to bed. Edited to add: Sorry, I didn’t see the issue of the phone being turned off to update during the night :/ this definitely doesn’t solve that problem.

Thread: "did anyone not use a baby monitor?"

Second this. We use the wyze cam 3. It was about $30. If you want to use it with a PC, just download an Android emulator. We keep a laptop with a live AV feed when LO is upstairs.

Thread: "Recommended Baby Monitor (Non-Wifi)? ((Also Owlet is AWFUL))"

Interesting. Thanks for sharing. Never experienced any of these issues over the two years we’ve had it. My wife and I leave it running with sound on every night and it’s never crashed once. Camera quality is great unless we switch to low bandwidth mode when we travel and trying to conserve data. Temp gauge isn’t surprising. We have gauges from nest, nanit and Awair all in the same room and they are never the same (though different parts of the room are colder than others). Never had connectivity problems. Had the not breathing alarm go off once and all was fine. Definitely scary but hard to make perfect without electronics on the baby. Never even had to restart the nanit once. Sounds like we have had totally different experiences. I wonder why. Have three friends with Nanit and they all love it. Also interesting that you think that because you had a bad experience everyone that likes it must be a liar and embarrassed though.

Thread: "Thoughts on the Owlet sock?"

The Owlet Sock has been our single favorite device for our 9 month old’s entire life. Throughout the very brief cosleeping period, every single nap, and everything in between. This, with a Wyze cam has been such an overwhelming sense of security for our little man’s health. My wife stays at home, and I work on an ambulance. If it goes off, I can immediately see it on my watch/phone and check in when I’m not at home. I know if it goes off, she’s already checking on him. God forbid it was an actual emergency, I’ve got either app open within seconds for that immediate peace of mind without stressing her out further with a phone call in that moment. The Owlet Sock, and the Boogie butt spray are the 2 things I would bring to any new parent I am close with. They will change your life.

Thread: "did anyone not use a baby monitor?"

Same—we use a Wyze Cam. It’s nice because when my husband is home with our kid and I’m at work or something I can see when he’s napping. It’s also nice to not have a physical device I have to keep track of or charged. It’s just connected to my phone. We use an audio monitor at night because we wouldn’t be able to hear him from our room in the middle of the night.

Thread: "did anyone not use a baby monitor?"

I got a wyze camera that I use in addition to a cheap monitor. When he's older, I can use the camera for outdoor security or really whatever.

Thread: "did anyone not use a baby monitor?"

This is what I use too! I have the Wyze app on the iPad and the iPad is kept on my nightstand in one of those holders to keep it propped up. I made the iPad settings so that the screen won’t go to sleep/turn off.

Thread: "Baby monitor choice frustrations"

Thank you for writing this!! I was thinking of doing this exact same thing, but wasn't sure if it would work.

Thread: "Nanit vs. Owlet vs. Wyze V3"

Wyze has good parts and bad parts. I use it and it's saved us a lot of time peaking in to check. The Wyze cameras connection errors is a big pain though. Luckily I'm around so I can just reset power. If I wasn't able to reset it, and nobody else could do it within a couple of minutes, it'd probably drive me crazy.

Thread: "Nanit vs. Owlet vs. Wyze V3"

Nanit user here. The ability to keep the audio from the camera streaming all night long while your phone screen is off, is absolutely vital as a baby cam. Wyze can’t do this. Also, Nanit has breath monitoring with an alarm that will DEFINITELY wake you up if it can’t detect breathing. The smart sheets are a gimmick, but their sleeping swaddle thing (which has a pattern for the camera to detect breathing) worked amazing for us. Kid slept warm and happy (as much as could be). This was our third kid, and I noticed the difference. My 2cents. I definitely wouldn’t use Wyze for an infant. But I do use Wyze to keep the toddler in line at night time. If I remember correctly, owlet has a sensor on the kids foot. I know for a fact my kid would kick that off every night. I thinks it’s a flawed concept. When the kid grows older, he/she would feel unbalanced when the foot sensor was no longer used. Just my opinion.

Thread: "Nanit vs. Owlet vs. Wyze V3"

When my son was a newborn, I swore by the Nanit as I was petrified of SIDS after I watched the videos required to leave the hospital. Fast forward to 2 years old and the V3 works just fine as I’m more comfortable. For reference I still use the Nanit at my house and the V3 at my in laws. One tip if you do go with the nanit: Solid color crib sheets. We had two false alarms due to patterned crib sheets

Thread: "did anyone not use a baby monitor?"

We use Wyze cameras. Way better quality and when we don't need them to monitor her in the bedroom/living room anymore, we're just going to use them as regular cameras. It's a twofer.

Thread: "WiFi vs. Traditional Baby Monitors"

We had Wyze cams (wifi) as the security cams in our house before baby, so just bought a new v3 version for baby's room (amazing night vision), got a little Amazon Fire tablet, and downloaded the tinycam pro app so it can keep the camera app and sound open and playing all night. Added bonus that it's an app on our phones if we are somewhere in the house without the monitor or monitor is dead. People have mentioned concerns about hacking, but since my whole house already has these (we have 9 total), I clearly haven't been concerned about that aspect being likely enough to occur.