I’ve decided to leave the Wyze ecosystem. I’ve ended my Cam Plus sub. I will continue to use my Sense Hub until/unless something changes with it when the sub goes. That being said, I have a LOT of Wyze cams! 3xCam Pan v3, 1 Cam V3 Pro, 3xV3s, 3xCam Pan v2s and several V2s. I was reading that RTSP firmware had been removed or something.
Is there any way to repurpose these cams for anything useful or are they essentially landfill unless I sell? I’m so lazy to sell them but I really, really don’t want to dump usable cameras.
Turn off the IR on your Eufy cams, use the Cam v3 cams as outboard IR blasters. The v3s don’t need the app or WiFi to blast IR and they’ll auto-switch to IR on if you set NV mode to auto before yanking them. All of your Wyze cams will do the same, but some blast better than others.
I don’t use IR on my Eufycams, they all have color night vision and there’s enough light outside that they never need IR. My inside Eufycams are the same, they somehow suffice with the nightlights we have pop on and never use the IR. But this is a really good idea…
Believe it or not, I’ve never written anything off for taxes…lol, again…lazy. I don’t think a non-profit will pay a sub for cameras requiring an app, but this is food for thought, thank you.
Local High school is an idea as well. Do you know how I would go about asking places like this? Thanks again.
Personally, I like the donate to a school or NPO idea. Researchers love Wyze cams for Time lapses of projects, etc too.
Having said that, you can absolutely use RTSP on lots of your cameras. It sounds like you would be most interested in using the Thingino project:https://thingino.com/ since it replaces the firmware and allows you to keep using your Wyze cameras without using Wyze at all, not even the Wyze app. But I will list all the other RTSP options as well.
Common 3rd Party Solutions to get RTSP on Wyze Cameras:
This App has historically supported ALL Wyze cams, but can only be used on Android. Many people use either an old Android phone or an Android Emulator on a computer to run it constantly. The creator/Founder became a Wyze Employee in 2020.
Scrypted now natively supports Wyze to get RTSP, though most people in their Discord server recommend just using Docker Wyze Bridge instead to get the cameras into Scrypted, it is included here for convenience.
Note that this project may lose some functionality with some of the newer firmware, and while you may be able to revert back to older firmware, you may put your security at risk by doing so.
Note that this project may lose some functionality with some of the newer firmware, and while you may be able to revert back to older firmware, you may put your security at risk by doing so.
Open-source Firmware for Ingenic SoC IP Cameras, which includes Wyze Cam Pan 1, Wyze Cam 2, Wyze Cam Pan 2, Wyze Cam 3, Wyze Video Doorbell 1, Wyze Cam Pan 3 (conditionally supported and has Secure Boot which could render your camera unusable). Make sure you download the firmware that matches the camera model, SoC, image sensor, Wi-Fi module, and flash chip size.
You can follow this video and script to identify which firmware you’re supposed to get for your particular camera (which hardware revision your camera is): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SX637mrp0R0
Look for a local high school’s web site. See if you can find a name of a Computer Science teacher or Robotics teacher listed. Sometimes a contact email will be listed if not you could leave a message by calling the main office phone number of that school.