Once this hack is flashed, do i still need the wyze app?

[balajeek]

All i wanted is the RTSP stream, for now i have 2 wyze v2 cams and using with the wyze rtsp firmware. Just got the wyze cam v3 floodlight cam and flashed with this wz-mini-hack yesterday. Do i still need the wyze app ? I am trying to keep everything in LAN and I use frigate to handle my camera recording.

Thanks.

[gtxaspec]

you need the app to set everything up initially, but beyond that, not really

[virmaior]

All i wanted is the RTSP stream, for now i have 2 wyze v2 cams and using with the wyze rtsp firmware.

doesn't the wyze rtsp firmware need to connect through the app somehow to work?

[gtxaspec]

you need to initially setup the rtsp username and password using the app if i recall correctly.

[Bob-AOL]

So the Wyze RTSP beta firmware is a pre-requisite for the mini-hacks RTSP implementation to work? That makes no sense. If that's the case, why not just use the Wyze firmware instead?

That being said, the hack RTSP implementation indeed does not work in the flashed V3 I just fired up which still has the current production firmware installed -- 4.36.9.139, fwiw.

I can't see two RTSP implementations being required just to make one function...., especially since the hacks are purported to work with any version of factory firmware on any of the listed devices.

Seems like this caveat would be fairly well documented if it is an actual requirement for the mini-hack RTSP function to work..

[Bob-AOL]

I'm trying to bring it up in Blue Iris via their vanilla config template using the basic parameters there -- ip address, RTSP on port 554 and the login credentials. Everything is there except the stream. There's also a WyzeCam v3 RTSP template that applies their default url which doesn't work either. I'll try your url suggestion in Blue Iris and VLC and see where it goes.

[Bob-AOL]

Bingo! Came right up with VLC, albeit with quite a bit of lag. Should be a whole different story with the Blue Iris rig. Now where did I put that ethernet to mini-usb adapter.....? LOL

Thanks so much for all your dedicated work and support. Very much appreciated!

[dcCMPY]

Hi @Bob-AOL
Similar situation albeit im using synology surveillance .... I can get my RTSP stream to work via VLC, but not within the Synology app
did you get Blue Iris to work ?

[Bob-AOL]

Yes. See post above from gtxaspec for starters. Since there's essentially no sub-stream even available, it should be disabled in the .conf to achieve a default unicast path -- which I found unnecessary to actually specify for whatever reason(s) in my particular cases.

The setup in Blue Iris is camera type Wyze - model *V3 RTSP - RTSP port 554 - Onvif port 8999 - main stream path /live
rtsp;//user:userpass@x.x.x.x:554/live

Default 1080 resolution at 22fps with Intel hardware acceleration. Nothing exotic or out of the ordinary.

Works flawlessly without lag for both wireless and wired ethernet adapted V3's with Blue Iris, VLC, and TinyCam. There's a degree of lag with TinyCam due to the lack of available hardware horsepower on an AndroidTV box, but is still watchable.

[Bob-AOL]

edit to the above for clarification: The BI camera configuration is actually an http:// URL, not RTSP:// as would otherwise be the case for a VLC stream.

[pjuhl2313]

For those using Ethernet for their Wyze cams, what Ethernet to micro-usb adapters are working for you?