Cameras not working on tiny camera app on firestick

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PSA: It looks like all Fire TV sticks are no longer compatible because they were running off of 32-bit Android instead of 64-bit.

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Tiny Cam update launched today (It’s in a staged roll out so if you don’t see it today, it should be available to everybody by tomorrow)

tinyCam Monitor 18.0.3 released:

Changes:

• Added 1-w audio for Wyze OG, OG Tele, Window Cam, Duo Cam Pan, Duo Cam Battery Doorbell.
• Added ability to change resolution when Main/Sub stream selected for Wyze OG, OG Tele, Window Cam, Duo Cam Pan, Duo Cam Battery Doorbell.
• Fixed broken Wyze Video Doorbell Pro.
• Minimum Android version set to 9 (Amazon Fire TV OS 7 minimum)

Known bugs:

• Cameras Wyze OG, OG Tele, Window Cam, Duo Cam Pan, Duo Cam Battery Doorbell will produce “Failed to initialize” on some old TV devices (all Amazon Fire TV devices and Google TV). Issue is that those devices are 32-bit or compiled against 32-bit Android, and there is no 32-bit libraries for that cameras. No problem with 64-bit Android devices. No way to fix that right now.

If it’s still not working for you after the update, the problem is probably that you are using a 32-bit OS, and those are apparently no longer compatible with Wyze cams

To clarify, the hardware is 64-bit compatible, but for some reason Amazon decided to continue to use the 32-bit Android operating system. Their newer devices are expected to all be using 64-bit os’s, though possibly using their new “Vega OS” based on Linux instead of Android. Though their intent is to make things less compatible in a locked ecosystem where you can’t easily side load APKs (which will no longer work), and will require all apps to rebuilt specifically for them so they can maintain control and monetization in a closed system… Though the performance will be better. Tiny cam Dev implies he’ll probably support it though.