Home Assistant Integration

[justind_johnson]

My biggest wish is home assistant and/or smart things integration. I have so much I want to do but just can’t. I rely on Google home working but even that is extremely buggy especially if your not on the same wifi.

[KyleSparky]

I’m just saying, I like Wyze for the price point and functionality. All things considered I’m not sure Wyze can be beat. As for me, if the integrations improve, such as with HomeAssistant then I will probably expand my arsenal of products by triple or more.

[SteveMann]

RTSP
Put RTSP on all of your cameras and Wyze will be off the blacklist at the Home Assistant forums.

[CLT_TechGeek]

Matt - can you expand on this? I’ve been a Wyze proponent since the cameras originally released. I’d love tot see more of what made Wyze great back then - the commitment to doing what’s right for the customer, including making alternate ways of using the Wyze products possible (RTSP, IFTTT, etc).

Can you give a notional idea of when we will see HA integration moving? Or RTSP?

Thanks.

[G2740]

In case you didn’t notice, Seckatie added Wyze Lock bolt to the integration today. I don’t have any locks to say what it does.

[carverofchoice]

I saw that!

I haven’t looked into it yet.

If anybody tries it out, let me know the details. Is it using the video doorbell Pro link for unlocking, or does it allow home assistant to connect to it through Bluetooth to control it?

[G2740]

Docs just say the following; Lock, unlock, and view status of lock and door for the Wyze Lock

[GuyFromMars]

I sure hope so. If revenue is the main concern, I would absolutely pay extra for local-only subscription.

Will just leave this here:

Reolink joins Works with Home Assistant

[joelvazquezpr]

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!!
Video and notification integration for the OGs!!!
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!!

[G2740]

Make sure to give opinions on RTSP in News, or Facebook Wyze community etc.

Easiest without signing in is clicking link, top right 3 dots, open in external browser.

[carverofchoice]

Agreed. Please, everyone go check out out this post and fill out the survey here:

Need your feedback before we start work on RTSP!

RTSP Enthusiasts! Wyze cofounder here looking to gather data on how we might finally check RTSP off the wishlist and into the features column for you. Please give us your feedback if this is something you’re passionate about:

Here’s a direct link to the RTSP survey:

RTSP Feedback for Wyze

Here was my feedback:

@carverofchoice

Anyone looking for ideas, here is what I told them for my thoughts:

Why do you want RTSP on Wyze Cams and what will you do with it that you can’t already do with the Wyze app?

• Local functionality for when AWS goes down (not a single point of failure).
• Local Storage to NAS with unlimited and encrypted storage.
• Integration with smart home systems (you are lacking TONS of smart home options so we are forced to look elsewhere for some solutions and still need things to work together for automation).
• Better privacy.
• More flexibility:
• • There are docker integrations for specialized things like tracking kind of traffic at certain times, custom detections and automations not possible through Wyze app or rules.
  • I use RTSP to automatically make sure there are no cats in the utility room before my cat litter robot is allowed to cycle the litter to clean it (otherwise it will scare my cats and they’ll stop using that litter box). I can’t do this with Wyze rules to connect to that Litter Robot 4, so I need Wyze cams to connect to Home Assistant so I can use them to detect a cat and only cycle the litter when they are not in the room.
  • There are a billion things I WANT to use Wyze cams for, but I can’t because you have no RTSP or Home Assistant integration and I need that to do half the stuff I want to do because you don’t offer things like smart buttons, or neutral wiring switches, or zigbee stuff, or litter robot cleaners, or smart speakers, or local connections, or water valve shut off, or a billion other things. All you really do anymore is cameras and your cameras won’t work together with anything else so people have to go elsewhere if they want a smart home.

What 3rd party software would you be most excited to use with your Wyze Cams if it had RTSP that you would want Wyze to support?

Home Assistant 100% no contest . I could do unlimited things with my cameras. I could make them into Motion sensors, I could use them to automate lighting and only have lights on when a person is there and turn off when there is no person for x minutes. I can do custom detections that aren’t possible with Cam Unlimited or CUPro, especially since you abandoned your Smart Vision feature. I can even do audio triggers with words. If you let Wyze work with Home Assistant, Wyze cams would actually be insanely powerful.

What functionality or camera features should Wyze RTSP support beyond just basic video + audio.

• Multi-Stream Support for different quality streams.
• PTZ control.
• Metadata streaming.
• Username/password authentication option.
• adaptive bitrate streaming.
• Multicast support.

While mostly outside RTSP, it would be great to have the following (to use in Home Assistant integrations)

• power on/off,
• notification/alerts,
• motion detection on/off,
• storage and playback controls,
• AI-based features (would be awesome if you integrated your AI detections or notifications into Home Assistant. I’d still pay for it if you did that),
• Cloud integration and remote access.

If you could only add RTSP to one Wyze Cam, which would you choose? & Please leave any final thoughts you wanna share with Wyze cofounders and dev teams before we begin work on RTSP:

I don’t like how “which camera” question was limited to 1 answer. You are implying we could allow this to a SINGLE Wyze device and no others ever, or instead pick to get it for EVERY SINGLE New Wyze device from now on (which is a no brainer to me). The question isn’t fair. I think every device from now on should be a given. Then the only remaining question should be which existing models should get priority first. That is how I am choosing to answer, but don’t think it means that I don’t want it on EVERY future camera, because I do.

[G2740]

That’s a good list.

[SteveMann]

I showed them the analytics and the Works With Home Assistant sites and showed them the market they were losing to Reolink. My closing line was “Introduce a $40 RTSP camera with the Works With Home Assistant badge and Wyse would own the market.”

I also added a little dig- “Do you want to sell cameras or cloud services?”

[ronsum]

Just tell them to look at the TP-Link Tapo C120… you all should too.

[carverofchoice]

Yeah, if they sold a reasonably priced Wyze camera with RTSP and works with Home Assistant built into the main firmware (guarantees ongoing support) that could run completely locally (like Reolink does), and still have the remote access as an option when away from home, it would dominate. I will keep driving that same point to them.

[carverofchoice]

Yeah, I do have one of those C120’s. I like a lot of things about it, though not everything. I think they should make something similar though.

One thing I really hate about RTSP implementation from Eufy and TP-Link though, is when you switch to use RTSP, they cap your resolution at 1080p even though the camera supports higher resolution. They also take away a ton of other functionality. Drives me nuts. I wish companies would just leave everything enabled as normal but simply allow streaming in RTSP as well.

But yeah, overall the C120 is an awesome option. It is superior in some aspects and inferior in others, but a great option for those who want RTSP right now. I like using it as a great backup camera for redundancy in case there is an AWS outage.

[nikrib]

If we could address these items in Apple shortcuts also cause then we can just add them into our routines. Also, there is an app for the iPhone and for the iPad, how about an app for the Apple TV? That would allow us to view the cameras on a big screen without having to project it from one of the other devices.

[G2740]

Well, @WyzeMatt it’s June 2025 in a couple days. Give us something besides over promising and under delivering.

You or Wyze won’t care and neither will I, but my deadline is action before December 31, 2025.

If no Home Assistant integration or Wyze efforts,

I’m buying Reolink or Aqara G5 Pros and ceasing to buy Wyze. Until action happens, there won’t be any more Wyze purchases.

As or if Wyze cameras fail, I’ll start replacing them with one or both of those brands.

POE this time.

Reolink, highly HAOS compatible, attained Works with Home Assistant logo. Announced on X, but well known. Affordable.

Aqara G5 Pro also Home Assistant RTSP compatible, new product and a work in progress. Very promising though. Expensive.

Don’t misunderstand, I like all of the 15± Wyze wifi cameras I have. I could find places for them even with POE and other brands.

But, not without some motion, person, RTSP etc etc in home assistant. Tired of waiting.

Announce something.

[carverofchoice]

FYI, while this isn’t specifically about Home Assistant, one of the cofounders has been interacting a lot lately about how determined they are to bring us RTSP. I’d recommend reading all the comments from him in this thread:

Need your feedback before we start work on RTSP!

RTSP Enthusiasts! Wyze cofounder here looking to gather data on how we might finally check RTSP off the wishlist and into the features column for you. Please give us your feedback if this is something you’re passionate about:

You may even consider posting a comment or 2 over there since he’s been interacting with people.

Here’s a relevant statement based on what you were asking in your comment:

@WyzeDave

I’ve done the full analysis of the results, built a PRD and send it to our dev team to review. Next step would be to get our dev resources aligned to work on this.
…
…totally understand you power users drive a lot of the word of mouth to our brand and we risk losing you if we don’t get it done! We don’t want that to happen ever, We are on it.

The survey did have a question asking if we’d like to help beta test their RTSP efforts.

He’s also posted about it in a few other threads. You can read all his other recent activity/posts here:

https://forums.wyze.com/u/wyzedave/activity

[G2740]

I appreciate it as usual. I took the poll. And said I was willing to pay extra. I’d even replace cameras if necessary and if required. V4’s all around, OGs would be for sale cheap. .

More Action, less talk.

All that needs done is hire or sub contract seckatie. Or buy the integration and expand on it.

Add it into the existing integration.

At least, add all detections which some used to work I believe until Wyze killed it.

Follow up with RTSP. Supervise/proof the hacs integration for security purposes.

I’m too old to wait longer than this year and @WyzeMatt said 2025.

You should see the effort I put in for an HAOS automation for person detected, then turn on bulb with wyze app, and also use as 20% nightlight and 100% daytime on upon Aqara motion sensor detection in HAOS. But I got it done.

Sirens are wake up everybody, person detection isn’t infallible, bulb wake me up is just for me, grab appropriate defensive weapon, investigate.