Camera: Wyze v3

Hardware Identification

The Wyze v3 camera has multiple "flavors" of hardware; each with its own image.

The FCC ID on the label may be used to identify the correct image. Full detail list here: https://github.com/themactep/thingino-firmware/wiki/Camera:-Hualai-(Wyze,-Atom,-Neos,-Personal)#device-info )

General Tooling and Resources

• Sample camera breakdown
• Ingenic USB Cloner
  • Flashing with Cloner (video)
• Camera disassembly (video)

LED states throughout boot process

Immediately after power

1. 4 visible IR LEDs illuminate dimly (very short blink)
2. all LEDs off

Bootloader

Both the Wyze factory image and Thingino use uBoot as a bootloader; however, the Wyze factory version is locked-down. uBoot Cheetsheet

After initial power-on, the camera may be in one of these states:

Entered Bootloader

1. 4 visible IR LEDs illuminate brighter (very short blink)
2. After blink, LEDs are off and control passes to thingino

Failed to Enter bootloader

1. all LEDs off (in Cloner mode)

Bootloader Errors

• Solid blue led
  • 15 seconds - SD card inserted (with or without autoupdate-full.bin)
  • 22 seconds - No SD card inserted
• Off for ~0.5 second

Thingino Booting

1. All LEDs off (about 5-10 seconds)
2. Blue LED fast blinking: failsafe mode (about 5-10 seconds)
3. Blue LED slow blinking: loading init scripts (about 20-30 seconds)

Troubleshooting

Scenario: "Camera is Dead"

Unknown Case A: (TBD)

Symptoms:

• IR LEDs illuminate immediately at boot
• Blue LED remains illuminated solidly

Resolution: (TBD)

• Re-flash the camera with autoupdate-full.bin
  • Failed

Remediation: Cloner:

You generally should not need to use Cloner with the Wyze v3, since a bootloader failure should force the camera into Cloner mode.

Realtime video

1. Identify these pins for shorting

2. Launch Cloner a. Follow the instructions at https://github.com/themactep/thingino-firmware/wiki/Ingenic-USB-Cloner#writing-firmware b. Should look like: