[olug] WebCam scarcity (was: Re: RHCSA Bad New/Good News)

[Christopher Cashell]

 On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 9:29 PM Dave Thacker <dthacker9 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm setting an empty office at my wife's office for a test site.   Nothing
> on the walls, etc.   With the crunch of Covid related remote learning,
> external Web Cams have gotten expansion and scarce.    Hopefully I'll be
> done with this in the next few weeks.
>

Interesting timing, I was talking to some coworkers about that just the
other day, and one of the guys shared a video he'd taken with a cheap
little Wyze camera of some animals on his property.  That got me thinking
that it's too bad you can't use a Wyze camera as a webcam, and a little
Googling found mention that the Wyze folks have released an updated/hacked
firmware for exactly that purpose:

   -
   https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/31/21202022/wyze-firmware-update-webcam-security-camera-transform-solution-guide
   -
   https://support.wyzecam.com/hc/en-us/articles/360041605111-Webcam-Firmware-Instructions

I haven't tried it yet (planning to give it a shot tomorrow), but it'll be
useful if it works!  I'm guessing I'm not the only one with a cheap Wyze
camera or two floating around.

-- 
Christopher