For Wyze Cam viewing I’ve been using Bluestacks along with Tiny Cam Monitor on a Windows laptop with a 42 inch TV as the display, for a few years now. It has never worked well. Bluestacks would give me a bandaid that would make it ok for a couple days, then problems again. They’ve finally tired of me and told me Tiny Cam is not supported and Wyze is not supported. Basically the problem is the cameras will fail to display randomly, with the most common error being P2P failed to start session (AV_ER_TIMEOUT). Other times, Tiny Cam will just crash. Or another fun one is all cameras show up blank.
So all that to ask this - what is everyone else using? I know Wyze has the web UI but I want to view at minimum 4 cameras simultaneously, with 2 on the top row and 2 on the bottom. Windows software is preferred so I don’t have to wipe the laptop and load Linux, but if Linux has something that is bulletproof, I’m open to it.
The Wyze app is not available in the Play Store on Bluestacks due to compatibility issues with their Android images. This was a great solution though, I wasn’t even aware of the monitoring tab.
tinyCam still displays 4-6 cam v3s reliably for me on my ‘not-gee-whiz’ setup - though I’ve never tried to run it ‘perpetual’ so there’s that.
I expect OP is aware but for anyone else who stumbles upon this topic, tinyCam compromises for stability include reducing number of cams displayed simultaneously and setting ‘Sequence’ to cycle between them on an adjustable timer, changing Hardware Decoding toggle to ‘Software’, changing ‘Stream Profile’ from ‘Auto’ to ‘Main’ (or ‘Sub’.)
I have Hardware Decoding set to ‘Hardware 2’ and Stream Profile at ‘Auto’ at the moment but if LAN conditions (or whatever) causes it to start crashing I first reduce the number of cams displayed or Hardware decoder to ‘Software.’
Thank you. I don’t have pro so I don’t have the stream profile option. I did make the following changes and will see how it goes. Although so far I’m not a fan of the 4 cameras blinking out and back on every 30 seconds LOL.
Video timeout from 10 seconds to 5 seconds
Sequence mode from 15 seconds to 30 seconds
H.264/H.265 decoder from software to hardware 2
Turned on sequence mode
I’ll post back with an update either later today or tomorrow.
UPDATE
As has been the case with every change, this to worked great for several hours. When I woke up this morning there were 2 of the cameras sitting at P2P failed to start session (AV_ER_TIMEOUT).
So I ask again, what alternatives are out there that actually work? I’ve tried Nox, Memu, LDPlayer, MumuPlayer, and KOPlayer. The biggest issue with those, making them unusable, is they do not support Wyze Cam OG.
It’s quite intermittent. Sometimes it will go 24 hours or more with no problem. Other times, like today, TinyCam has crashed probably 10 times or more.
As long as this has been going on, I may have to as that may be the only solution. The one difference in my setup and yours is you have Tinycam Pro. I can’t imagine that makes that much difference, but who knows. What do you think?
I just found the stream profile setting and set it to auto as you mentioned. I guess the 8GB of ram is only in pro. I’ll see how this goes and then see if I need to spend $4 on pro.
