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HclX / WyzeHacks

Hacks I discovered allowing Wyze camera owners to do customizations
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cpu usage for iCamera process in top #128

Closed nijhawank closed 2 years ago

nijhawank commented 3 years ago

Not reporting an issue but I am seeing some slowness in the telnet session and the iCamera seems to be using around 27-28% of cpu sometime even jumping to 40%. All this is while the camera is powered off (soft power off from the Wyze app). I just wanted to check with others if this is normal cpu usage of iCamera or this is a problem with my cam.

endertable commented 3 years ago

That’s pretty normal for V2 cam but a bit on the higher side for V3. I think the Wyze app version of “off” is not really off, that way you can turn it back “on”.
Are those the same numbers when cam is “on”?

nijhawank commented 3 years ago

Sorry forgot to mention that it’s a v3. So you do think it’s on the higher side. Yes, the cpu usage is the same when the camera is on or off (soft)

endertable commented 3 years ago

That iCamera binary is a beast as it pretty much has many internal functions for the cam. It’s Wyze’s Swiss Army knife. The V3 cam came with a bit more CPU power but it also came with Icamera needing to do some more functions, especially with its twilight VSP. You will also see a surge when it has to copy the video files over to SD card (or NFS drive, which can take longer). I get that slow down, too, every so often, even locking up the terminal for a few seconds. Wyze put just enough resources in this cam to get the necessary things done and not much more. Having a user environment was certainly not their intention, I would only really worry if you start seeing your videos not being saved. :)

HclX commented 2 years ago

The high cpu utilization is normal, there is not much i can do for this one. I'm closing this issue.