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Wyze says camera breach let 13,000 customers briefly see into other people’s homes (www.theverge.com)

submitted 9 months ago by catculation@lemmy.zip to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] circuscritic@lemmy.ca 22 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Using Wyze is a choice that has trade-offs and it's up to the user to understand what those are.

For example, if you aren't able, or willing, to selfhost an NVR, then accept that these situations may arise and decide which video feeds are ones you're willing to take that risk with.

Video feeds of your backyard, are significantly different then those of your bedroom, or living areas.

[–] Suspiciousbrowsing@kbin.melroy.org 11 points 9 months ago

I disagree, you can't expect everyone to be technologically literate enough to understand the consequences of everything. And you can't palm it off by saying "well they need to/should". Much like expecting people to understand and read every single EULA that everyone always scrolls down and hits "accept" At some point legislation needs to be drafted yo make it very clear the consequences, or legislate to ensure privacy so companies can't do this.

[–] Snowyday@startrek.website 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I’ve got one on the sump pump and crawl space. China is welcome to monitor that and report anything interesting

[–] vanontom@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Exactly. Don't have cheap web cams pointed inside the home, and it'll be fine. Have them outside, watching doors and gates, providing ~~security~~ videos of shadows and wildlife, whatever. They can still be useful tools.

[–] AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Do you mean that Wyze has a self-hosted NVR option? If so, that'd be awesome for me...

[–] circuscritic@lemmy.ca 7 points 9 months ago

I was referring to those who use Wyze's default cloud storage.

SOME Wyze models are compatible with 3rd party software/firmware to switch to a selfhosting model, but again, it depends on the model and firmware version.

https://github.com/mrlt8/docker-wyze-bridge

[–] jaschen@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Yes, all my V2s and even a v3 was able to run Frigate on Home Assistant.

[–] bbuez@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Hey Im just setting up Frigate, are you using a Coral board? The claims about perfomance seem nuts and I just want to know how easy it is to integrate or how necessary it is, my HA setup is a little more obscure so if I could get away without needing one that would be great

[–] jaschen@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I have a coral Pcie card that replaced my wifi card on my tiny PC. I purchased an old HP i3 tiny computer off eBay for like 50 bucks.

Previously, I ran my HA and frigate on a pie4. After about 2x 1080 streams, it starts to bog down.

I wouldn't recommend buying anything without a proper processor as you want something to be able to process those streams.

[–] bbuez@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Think I'll be going with the Pcie card then, I have an older Xeon 1U server, running proxmox and HA as a VM so im pretty certain I'll have to install frigate as standalone in docker alongside proxmox, which feels weird but eh. Thanks for your response! Its been real fun delving into HA and homelab stuff

[–] jaschen@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

I too have a proxmox server(running PFsense, Mint, tailscale, and NVR backup) and I did run docker with HA, but I found that the coral was iffy when it was passing through the proxmox to docker to HA. There were so many times my coral would stop working and I would have to restart docker to get it working. It became so frequent that I had a script to reset my docker at a certain time of day. I eventually went with a HP tiny PC setup and ran hasOS on baremetal. Haven't had a problem since.

[–] AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Oh damn, guess I know what I'm doing this week...

[–] jaschen@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

Have fun man. The home assistant community is strong! Message me if you need help.

[–] ObsidianZed@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Do you know if the smart doorbell is the same? Received one from the in-laws for Christmas but haven't done anything yet.

[–] jaschen@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

I left wyzes platform before the doorbell was introduced. I switched to 4k streams and they didn't offer 4k at the time.

I remembered there was an integration for Wyze when I used them so I imagine it is still possible.