Monitor for all cameras?

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New user here. I’m wondering if I can set up something like a 20 inch monitor that would continuously show all my cameras. Maybe something like this. Anybody done that?

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Welcome to the forum.

Search around the forum. I believe many people have but I am happy to page through 4 at a time on my phone. I have 10 cams.

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Thanks!

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Yes there is webview and other options, but the only problem with Wyze cams is keeping the viewing running. It will randomly stop streaming some or all cams, rarely ever not needing a restart.

Better luck with my Non-Wyze brand Reolink cameras doing multi-view that doesn’t have any issues continuously streaming All cams

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Thanks, but I just installed 7 Wyze cameras today, so I need to make them work…

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Best of luck, you will need it with Wyze cams….

Hopefully they meet your needs, or at the very least serve as a start to security camera selection :grin:

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If you have a Cam Plus subscription, web view is an option.

But look at Tiny Cam - it is not an official wyze app but the developer is a wyze employee. Others use this for the very purpose you’re talking about.

There is also the option of using a cheap tablet with the Wyze app plugged into a TV via HDMI. But I believe you can only fit 4 cams on the screen that way, so tiny cam may be better.

7 cams on a 20 inch screen will probably be pretty small. Given how relatively cheap monitors and TVs are, a larger one may make sense. Heck you can often find free TVs all over facebook or craigslist. Certain Amazon Fire Sticks support tiny cam I believe, there are probably other devices like Roku that might also.

@carverofchoice is probably the best to suggest a good setup for this.

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I have the opposite experience, both with webview and rtsp, most of my cams will stream for for days in a row until I close down the browser. I do remember there was at least one model cam that would sometimes stop streaming for me on webview though, But most of them will stream for several days straight if I leave the browser open, even when I’m streaming 16-20+ at a time.

Yep. I’ve done it lots of ways!
Using the web view is the most convenient if you have the cam unlimited subscription. But there are free options as well. They all require you to convert the camera stream into rtsp in some way.

Firstly, I should mention that Wyze is in the process of integrating native RTSP onto a lot of their camera models. Currently, they are publicly testing rtsp for the V3 camera and the Pam V3 camera. It should be launched publicly in early December. Then they will expand rtsp to other models including the V4.

Until it is natively on their cameras, you will have to use some kind of other option to get rtsp on the cameras. I have a list of common workarounds from the past that many people have used, including myself:

Common Workarounds to get RTSP]

Common 3rd Party Solutions to get RTSP on Wyze Cameras:

For those who want all of the original and now deprecated Wyze RTSP firmware directly from Wyze, you can still get them here:

[Insecure] RTSP FIRMWARE [missing critical updates] Directly from Wyze:

If needed, here they are forever saved on the internet through the wayback machine:

Once you are able to get the rtsp URL for that camera, you can put that link into any other number of program options that will allow you to stream multiple of the cameras all at once. :+1:

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Excellent answer, thank you. Looking into Tiny Cam now…

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Excellent! Thank you!

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What is rtsp?

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I started looking around some of those links you posted, and honestly, I don’t have a clue how to make any of those things work. One of them was almost entirely in Chinese. So that stuff is way over my very simple head. But thanks anyway, I’ll keep working on it.

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Tiny cam pro is probably the easiest way to go then.

An easy way to do this would be to to load an Android emulator on your computer that the monitor is connected to, and then load either tiny cam or the wyze app onto that Android emulator on the computer. Then you can access the cameras through that and see them on the monitor. Tiny cam will allow you to show at least 20 at a time on the screen. That would definitely be the most easy route for you.

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There are also a plethora of cheap android tablets out there with HDMI output support (requires an adapter) that might work well too.

I think it will even run on certain Amazon fire TV sticks or various Android TV boxes.

Guess it depends on whether there is a PC that can be dedicated to this, location of the TV/monitor etc.

@carverofchoice do you know if there are any cams currently not supported by Tiny Cam? I know it changes from time to time depending when Wyze makes a change and the developer has time to update.

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I am not aware of any not supported by Tiny Cam. Usually if one of the new cams aren’t supported, we quickly get someone posting about it on here and then I refer them to the Developer’s subreddit, but I haven’t seen anyone ask about anything recently, so I think even the news ones probably work with it. The only ones I might quest would be the latest Battery Video Doorbell & Solar Pan Cam because those both came from a new supplier and it’s possible they use a new a SDK or something that is different from the other cameras. But I am guessing they likely use either TUTK or the lotVid SDK like the other cams all use. I am just saying that I haven’t verified those 2 cameras for sure, so they are really the only ones I might question.

I guess I could test them out myself on Tiny cam, just been lazy. :sweat_smile: If there is anyone who really needs to know, I’ll make time for it and double check, but I feel reasonably confident all models are currently working or we would’ve had people complaining like always happens when one isn’t supported yet.

Alexey is usually pretty good about having new devices ready on his system though. It helps that he works for Wyze, so he probably gets advanced and internal access to things to make sure they are working.

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Good program. Up until a couple of months ago, you could view your Cam Plus cloud clips within it, too.

Alex hasn’t responded to repeated questions about it on the subreddit so there may be something thorny that can’t/won’t be overcome. :man_shrugging:

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Ah, that was probably restricted when they implemented the “Verified View” feature which is supposed to give added security verification. Sounds like it restricts 3rd party access even if you have the username and passcode. It must include some other authentication limitations too.

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