Almost bricking a v3 Wyze Cam (and back again...)

May 17, 2025 · One min read

Someone at 5L Labs

Wyze integrates and resells IoT cameras and devices for low capital cost, and has been under investor pressure to generate more monthly recurring revenue (missing source)
In addition, your data goes to the Wyze Cloud Infra on AWS where mistakes have happened.
- I'm not judging, but I am if you are walking around naked (or worse) in from of a wyze product.
I'm not opposed to regularly paying Wyze for continuing to identify and bring promising solutions to the US from Shenzhen, BUT
- I'm already paying Apple and Google - do I really need to pay wyze?
Scrypted and Frigate started as open source Private IoT Camera management software - streaming on the local lan via ovnif
They both work with the Wyze API, but Wyze recently change their firmware to force

NAT AT THE ROUTER FOOL (didn't work... why?)