How do you use the RTSP?
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Welcome to the Forum, @roolies13! 
What Cam(s) are you actually using, and what are you trying to accomplish? You tagged your topic for Cam Pan v4 (which does not yet have RTSP-enabled firmware released) and Web View (which shouldn’t figure into the use of RTSP at all), so more detail from you is necessary in order to provide specific guidance.
For general instructions with compatible Cams, Wyze has provided a page describing the current state of testing, and discussion can be found in these topics:
None of that is currently applicable to Cam Pan v4, though.
Pan v3 and just want to be able to see my cameras from a desk top. I remember when Wyze first lunched, there was an app and it worked then it stop working and disappeared from App Store
There is beta firmware and available for the Panv3 with RTSP support. As far as the viewing software, you have your choice of quite a few 3rd party apps.
In that case, you can consult the first link in my previous post about the off-site page Wyze created for RTSP testing. As of last week, the RTSP firmware for Cam v3 and Cam Pan v3 has been released to the production channel (the fourth link in my reply above is to this announcement), but that’s a phased roll-out, so it may take a while before a given user sees the latest RTSP production firmware available for his or her Cams. If you’re interested in trying RTSP sooner, then your primary option is probably to get the older firmware from the off-site page and flash it to your Cam Pan v3. Note that you will need to be using Wyze app v3.8.5+ in order to take advantage of the features offered by these newer firmware versions.
I was wondering if you ended up getting it working. I have tried setting up rtsp using all the instructions available and none seem to work. I know it worked when i use the old no longer supported rtsp firmware but with the most recent firmware i can not get it to stream or be viewed no matter what i try. I tried setting it up on multiple v3 cameras and nothing. Everything is up to date as far as software and firmware goes. Kind of lost why it is so complicated whem it all worked just fine with the old firmware
If you want to provide detail about exactly what you’re experiencing (which viewing software you’re attempting to use, error messages you’re seeing, etc.), then some community members might be able to suggest things. Without detail about what you’ve attempted that isn’t working, we’re kind of lost with trying to provide help.
VLC and a few other apps. Even tried from my main dvr and nothing. It will not connect. I know the old unsupported firmware works just fine to connect to vlc or even the dvr system but this new update does nothing no matter what i change. This is the error that shows up when trying to connect from my laptop with vlc. I dont think so.e of the other apps actually say anything other than it cant connect
Did you disable RTSPS in the camera? That’s the default and it makes you accept a waiver to turn it off.
What does the log say?
Yes i have that disabled. There is no log file that i can find for it
I was able to set that up but nothing show up in the document that it created. On top of that it really wouldnt help me set it up for my main camera dvr. I have done everything i can think of and the dvr wont connect but connected just fine to them with the old firmware. I personally dont care if it works or not on vlc as long as i can get it working with the main dvr
That’s fair if your ultimate goal is not to use VLC. I think a lot of the suggestions for using VLC are because that application is felt to be fairly reliable and easy to use, plus Wyze has provided instructions specifically for that platform, so if you can get your camera stream working with VLC then you’re at least confirming that RTSP is operating as expected, and at that point you know that you can focus on getting the configuration correct for your DVR or whatever your chosen endpoint is.
That’s my perspective, anyway, and that’s why I’ve continued to go back to getting the stream working in VLC whenever other users report having problems with the new RTSP firmware and OBS or Blue Iris or whatever. You could also try using FFplay, but I think VLC is probably easier for most people.
If you correctly configured VLC for logging, then something should be in the log, even if VLC executes successfully and streams as expected.
I believe I see the issue. I just ran into it myself today setting it up on my camera. For me I changed the “!” in the password because I believe when it was being processed by VLC, it was interpreting it as an escape character. Once I changed it from an exclamation point to a plus sign, both streams on VLC and FFplay started to work. I would recommend Wyze to add the exclamation point as an invalid special character for the password when creating it.
Welcome to the Forum, @HexNull!
I don’t believe the “bang” is the issue, but that may be platform dependent, so it’s a good thing to consider. I just tested two different scenarios with VLC on Windows: one with the bang in the middle of a password and one with the bang at the end of the password (right before the @ in the URL). In both cases, I was able to view the RTSP stream in VLC without any hiccups.
I don’t think I’ve tried a password with I have tried passwords with other special characters (including ! in VLC or FFplay on Linux, so that’s probably something else I should test.@ and *), and those have worked for me. Even using + seems goofy to me, but it has been working when I’ve tried it.
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I tested VLC and FFplay on Linux (Ubuntu/GNOME) with my Cam Pan v3’s RTSP password having ! in the middle of the password and also at the end. VLC processed the stream without complaint. My first attempt at using FFplay failed because bash interpreted ! as a special character. To prevent that, I just surrounded the URL I was using for the Cam’s RTSP stream in the ffplay command with single quotes ('), which essentially escapes the entire URL as a string of literal characters not to be interpreted as special by the command line. That solved the problem and allowed me to use ! in the password and URL as expected.
My conclusion from this is that Wyze’s current guidance is acceptable and that ! is a valid character for use in the RTSP password.
For Pan v3, once you enable RTSP and get the RTSP URL from the Wyze app/firmware, you can use it in any standard RTSP client.
Typical flow:
- Enable RTSP on the supported Wyze firmware.
- Copy the generated RTSP URL.
- Test it in VLC or ffmpeg first.
- Then use a viewer/recorder depending on your needs.
I’m building SmartRTSP for this exact lightweight use case on iPhone/iPad/Mac: paste the RTSP URL, view the live stream, and record locally. It’s not a replacement for a full NVR like Blue Iris, but it works well if you just want direct local viewing and recording from standard RTSP/ONVIF cameras.