When Wyze.com announced that they had a security camera for $19.99, I had to buy one just to check it out. I currently have cameras that range in cost up to $350, so $20 seemed unrealistic. I also had invested in Blink cameras, and thought they had some cool features. As an Amazon tester, imagine my surprise when Alexa could access my Wyze cameras and not my Blink cameras. Since my initial purchase, I have purchased 6 cameras, 2 sets of security points, and 4 smart light bulbs.

Some of my Wyze cameras have been outside for more than a year, and have kept on working. I really like the attitude of the Wyze development team, especially with the new firmware release which included AI and the ability to only trigger on people coming into their field of view. For essentially only $10 more, you can get a Pan/Tilt camera, and they work great as well.

For years I have warned clients not to store their data only in the cloud. Why? Because a number of companies have gone out of business, without making their clients data available. Well, this week it happened to me. I was notified that Cubby was stopping their cloud storage at the end of September. I went to the site, and to my surprise, I had stored some files that were not on any of my local storage devices. I started doing a download, and after 4 hours, received an error message saying that the transfer was terminated. Now I need to spend more time.

As I have said before – At least keep one copy of ALL your folders and files on local storage. Cloud is great for sharing and collaboration, but don’t expect your files to be there forever.