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I wrote this for Wyze v2 cameras: https://github.com/openmiko/openmiko https://github.com/openmiko/openmiko

solardev 4y ago
This is awesome, thank you! I have a few Wyze cameras and their hardware and pricing are great, but their app is pretty bad. Would be lovely to be able to use them outside the app.
blackfawn 4y ago
This looks quite nice, I will give it a try. I mostly have v3 cameras and unfortunately it looks like these are not supported?
- jsjohnst 4y ago
  Wyze has an official RTSP firmware you can download from their support section for the v3. It’s beta, but has mostly worked for my needs.
  - insamniac 4y ago
    The official rtsp firmware is garbage and outdated and of course still phones home. For v3 I have been playing with https://github.com/gtxaspec/wz_mini_hacks https://github.com/gtxaspec/wz_mini_hacks which seems very promising since it allows ssh root access.
    - jsjohnst 4y ago
      > outdated If it works, it works?
      - function_seven 4y ago
        It’s also garbage and also phones home still. The “outdated” knock on it is relevant because it points to Wyze once giving a nod to tinkerers, and apparently deciding it’s not in worth it to maintain that branch vs working on the firmware that drives monthly revenue.
        jsjohnst 4y ago
        > The “outdated” knock on it is relevant because it points to Wyze once giving a nod to tinkerers The RTSP firmware for the v3 isn’t even a year old (was released after June 2021), so “once was a nod to tinkerers” combined the rest of your vitriol makes me wonder if you have an axe to grind. Did Wyze kick your dog or something?
        function_seven 4y ago
        My experience is with the V2 firmware. Read the notice at the top of this page: https://support.wyze.com/hc/en-us/articles/360026245231-Wyze-Cam-RTSP https://support.wyze.com/hc/en-us/articles/360026245231-Wyze... I might have a small axe to grind. My Wyze cams were much more capable when I bought them 3 years ago than they are today. Now the app takes much longer to load, and has the uncanny ability to insert an advertisement under my finger just before I touch the camera feed I want to view. Scrubbing through saved footage is slower now than it used to be. It all smells like feature bloat that I can’t opt out of. RTSP was how I tried to escape that, but as their own site says, they no longer offer it for my cams.
        jsjohnst 4y ago
        > Now the app takes much longer to load, and has the uncanny ability to insert an advertisement under my finger just before I touch the camera feed I want to view. Which platform? I’ve never once seen an ad in the official iOS app. The app was always slow to load for me in all the years I’ve used it, so that doesn’t have me riled up. My beef with them is the AI detection has taken a significant step backwards the last six months (why I flipped a bunch of my cams to the RTSP firmware).
        function_seven 4y ago
        Sorry, I should be clearer. The ads I’m referring to are for Wyze’s add-on features. “Try Cam Plus”, “Get Cam Protect”, “Home Monitoring”, etc. Not any third party ones. And somehow I always seem to either click on the ad rather than my first camera, or click on a camera listed above my targeted one as the ad appears just as my finger lands on the screen. And also to be clear, the axe I grind is small. I generally like these Wyze cams. For $20 each they’ve done a decent job. But knowing there is third party firmware out there is promising.

This is awesome, thank you! I have a few Wyze cameras and their hardware and pricing are great, but their app is pretty bad. Would be lovely to be able to use them outside the app.

blackfawn 4y ago

This looks quite nice, I will give it a try. I mostly have v3 cameras and unfortunately it looks like these are not supported?

jsjohnst 4y ago
Wyze has an official RTSP firmware you can download from their support section for the v3. It’s beta, but has mostly worked for my needs.
- insamniac 4y ago
  The official rtsp firmware is garbage and outdated and of course still phones home. For v3 I have been playing with https://github.com/gtxaspec/wz_mini_hacks https://github.com/gtxaspec/wz_mini_hacks which seems very promising since it allows ssh root access.
  - jsjohnst 4y ago
    > outdated If it works, it works?
    - function_seven 4y ago
      It’s also garbage and also phones home still. The “outdated” knock on it is relevant because it points to Wyze once giving a nod to tinkerers, and apparently deciding it’s not in worth it to maintain that branch vs working on the firmware that drives monthly revenue.
      - jsjohnst 4y ago
        > The “outdated” knock on it is relevant because it points to Wyze once giving a nod to tinkerers The RTSP firmware for the v3 isn’t even a year old (was released after June 2021), so “once was a nod to tinkerers” combined the rest of your vitriol makes me wonder if you have an axe to grind. Did Wyze kick your dog or something?
        function_seven 4y ago
        My experience is with the V2 firmware. Read the notice at the top of this page: https://support.wyze.com/hc/en-us/articles/360026245231-Wyze-Cam-RTSP https://support.wyze.com/hc/en-us/articles/360026245231-Wyze... I might have a small axe to grind. My Wyze cams were much more capable when I bought them 3 years ago than they are today. Now the app takes much longer to load, and has the uncanny ability to insert an advertisement under my finger just before I touch the camera feed I want to view. Scrubbing through saved footage is slower now than it used to be. It all smells like feature bloat that I can’t opt out of. RTSP was how I tried to escape that, but as their own site says, they no longer offer it for my cams.
        jsjohnst 4y ago
        > Now the app takes much longer to load, and has the uncanny ability to insert an advertisement under my finger just before I touch the camera feed I want to view. Which platform? I’ve never once seen an ad in the official iOS app. The app was always slow to load for me in all the years I’ve used it, so that doesn’t have me riled up. My beef with them is the AI detection has taken a significant step backwards the last six months (why I flipped a bunch of my cams to the RTSP firmware).
        function_seven 4y ago
        Sorry, I should be clearer. The ads I’m referring to are for Wyze’s add-on features. “Try Cam Plus”, “Get Cam Protect”, “Home Monitoring”, etc. Not any third party ones. And somehow I always seem to either click on the ad rather than my first camera, or click on a camera listed above my targeted one as the ad appears just as my finger lands on the screen. And also to be clear, the axe I grind is small. I generally like these Wyze cams. For $20 each they’ve done a decent job. But knowing there is third party firmware out there is promising.