Yeah, the Tapo C120 is currently $28 on Amazon and it has native RTSP. Got it configured and running in Scrypted in no time…
Time to step up @WyzeTeam
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Tapo seems like a good option. Got a Kasa, Tapo sister company I believe, outdoor WiFi plug for Xmas lights. At time it was $5 less than Wyze and works just fine. The C120 looks like the best option if I needed a good outdoor cam option. Got amblink battery cam from beta testing that’s minimally useful due to limited 3rd party support but satisfy our minimal needs, so far.
To clarify, technically neither of them are companies, they are both different product lines of the same company: TP-Link. 
I have some Kasa products myself, mostly because they often integrate with Homekit, and while I don’t use Apple, anything with Homekit will work with Home Assistant, so I love when something is Homekit compatible for that reason…though it’s not quite as good as direct Home Assistant integration, it is still awesome.
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Duh, ya, forgot about tp-link, big corp, Chinese originally but think they got a US div now, seems like they got more going on in US mkt over past several yrs. I added one of their 8 port hubs to my router many yrs ago. Was $20 and still working just fine.
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I think you can officially close this discussion.
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Don’t you need to purchase some pricey piece of hardware in order to implement that Homebridge stuff?
Whatever the cost, it would be worth it to Wyze to make this happen!
As I am sure others have attempted as well, it is extremely challenging to find an affordable set of cameras that can be integrated into our Apple HomeKit. There are very very few to choose from, and most are outrageously expensive.
Imagine if Wyze became the most affordable camera system to integrate into Apple HomeKit!
Sales would skyrocket, I promise!
Just one small example of the ease and simplicity to scroll through 24 hours of video on a camera and be able to spot any nefarious activities.
We all know how many hours we spend trying to look through the capture of a B. flying by, the wind blowing a tree, the wind shaking a camera, and trying to find an action that is actually worth our tension.
Imagine the ability to scroll through our camera videos this simply. Also to have all of your cameras appear right on your television screen to easily view and review everything you’ve captured.
We make the excuse that Apple charges for there integrations, but with so few camera systems available, and millions and millions of Apple customers frustrated by not having the availability of affordable cameras to integrate to their HomeKit, what a difference this would make!
Understanding that full integration with Apple HomeKit is likely never going to happen, but some partial integrations could be possible and would be very helpful to those of us who have absolutely no integration at all at this time.
How much of an effort would it take recognize NOTIFICATIONS in Apple HomeKit since they do come to the phone/iPad and have them addressable to trigger action actions?
One great action would be to open the Wyse app to a live feed of the camera sending the notification.
You’ve been better, directly to the clip which generated the notification.
Also on the topic of partial integration, there is a very functional iPhone and iPad wise app, what would it take to create one just to view only on (TVOS) Apple TV?
UPDATE:
Reliable Rumors say big changes related to a New AppleTV with many advancements in SmartHome automations and controls, also news to be announced related to progress with “Matter”!
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Old topic, but just want to say that running 3rd party apps has been at times challenging to learn, but ultimately is working better than expected. Glitches with docker Wyze bridge earlier this year were solved by running it on my ancient 2010 hp laptop converted to lubuntu - has been very stable. About as simple to run as the win version, with the benefit of getting around windows limitation of blocking host mode so this implementation is still functional, at least for older Wyze cams. I’m down to just one active Wyze cam, my original db cam. Decided to halt investing into Wyze cams after the v2 cam and the subscription change over. The Bridge provides an rtsp stream to Scrypted that provides the hksv stream to HomeKit. Scrypted took a few trial and error tweaks to get setup, but it’s been running for several months without any issues, plus it’s on the same laptop. Homebridge is also on same machine for a handful of Wyze plugs and bulbs. Still boggles my mind the old cpu with 4gb ram handles all this, probably would suffer if I had more cams though. Scrypted is pushing its nvr services, but can still be run just for hksv. I added opencv for motion detection and get person detection via iCloud since I use it for backup and sharing photos. Anyway, with other matter or native homekit devices, it’s a vast improvement of convenience to use one app for many different devices. Desired automations and scheduling are much improved over disjointed individual apps.
I cannot believe with all the conversations that we’ve had about Apple HomeKit integration that we’ve all complained about the high price of alternatives, but no one has ever mentioned AQARA products!
Check out this comparison:
(IGNORE THE FIRST PART, which was unintentionally INCLUDED IN THE LINK by GROK)
https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQtMg_cbddcd3c-9688-4664-b142-93009307647a
After I did, I purchased one and it not only integrates seamlessly with Apple, but has a great app, unlike Logitech Circle View, which not only costs about $150, it has NO native app for additional control of the cameras.
I have a bunch of WYZE cameras for sale if anybody’s interested in a half price clearance! 