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I've got the same thing going at home, tough to beat ~7 of these cameras flashed with OpenIPC for the cost of a single drop cam. Got the rtsp stream connected

I've got the same thing going at home, tough to beat ~7 of these cameras flashed with OpenIPC for the cost of a single drop cam. Got the rtsp stream connected up to smartthings and blue iris and have had zero trouble with them. They're only $20 if you order from wyze.com

StavrosK 9y ago
Does anyone know of a good Android viewer for RTSP? I'm probably going to proxy it with an HTTP webserver over TLS (if I can do that with RTSP? EDIT: Apparently I can't, I'll have to find a way to add authentication) to add basic auth, so the viewer will need to support that.
- freehunter 9y ago
  I use TinyCam on an Amazon Fire tablet to view my RTSP stream but only locally. Over the Internet I view the stream from MotionEye on my RPi using their authentication. In that case I can view it in the browser, no app needed.
  - StavrosK 9y ago
    Thank you, I didn't know of those apps, I'll try them now.
- dagrha 9y ago
  VLC is great-- it's what I use for viewing RTSP on my LAN.
- notyourday 9y ago
  VLC does the job but what you really want to do is run ffmpeg against it and generate HLS
kawsper 9y ago
They look the same as the camera being sold from https://openip.cam/ https://openip.cam/ , but the price there is even cheaper: $12.99.
- Y_Y 9y ago
  They're selling SD cards, not cameras
  - kawsper 9y ago
    Ah gotcha, I read too fast.
ericfrederich 9y ago
Do you lose the push notifications when you use the custom firmware?
- freehunter 9y ago
  Yes you lose complete access to the Wyze app. There is another recommended app you can use to replace it called Mi Home but the point of this for me was to replace any cloud stuff. That being said if you have a video server like MotionEye or maybe Smarthome has it (that was mentioned before), you can likely do some alerting based off that. I know MotionEye has email alerts and might have some other alerting that I don't use.
thinkling 9y ago
FWIW, I think you meant wyzecam.com. (Wyze.com redirects to Wyzestore.com which is down.) EDIT: currently 2-3 weeks backordered on wyzecam.com and out of stock on Amazon.

StavrosK 9y ago

Does anyone know of a good Android viewer for RTSP? I'm probably going to proxy it with an HTTP webserver over TLS (if I can do that with RTSP? EDIT: Apparently I can't, I'll have to find a way to add authentication) to add basic auth, so the viewer will need to support that.

freehunter 9y ago
I use TinyCam on an Amazon Fire tablet to view my RTSP stream but only locally. Over the Internet I view the stream from MotionEye on my RPi using their authentication. In that case I can view it in the browser, no app needed.
- StavrosK 9y ago
  Thank you, I didn't know of those apps, I'll try them now.
dagrha 9y ago
VLC is great-- it's what I use for viewing RTSP on my LAN.
notyourday 9y ago
VLC does the job but what you really want to do is run ffmpeg against it and generate HLS

kawsper 9y ago

They look the same as the camera being sold from https://openip.cam/ https://openip.cam/ , but the price there is even cheaper: $12.99.

Y_Y 9y ago
They're selling SD cards, not cameras
- kawsper 9y ago
  Ah gotcha, I read too fast.

ericfrederich 9y ago

Do you lose the push notifications when you use the custom firmware?

freehunter 9y ago
Yes you lose complete access to the Wyze app. There is another recommended app you can use to replace it called Mi Home but the point of this for me was to replace any cloud stuff. That being said if you have a video server like MotionEye or maybe Smarthome has it (that was mentioned before), you can likely do some alerting based off that. I know MotionEye has email alerts and might have some other alerting that I don't use.

thinkling 9y ago

FWIW, I think you meant wyzecam.com. (Wyze.com redirects to Wyzestore.com which is down.) EDIT: currently 2-3 weeks backordered on wyzecam.com and out of stock on Amazon.