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May 4, 2020, 4:39am
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Hi Jon,
The simplest way I have found to provide view-only cam access is to do what @angus.black recommended and use a $3.99 Android app called “tinyCam Pro”. Many thanks Angus!!
No, Wyze has not commented on the issue for some time.
The only way, that I know of, to allow people to view but not manipulate the cameras is to run tinyCam server on an Android device. I use an Android TV box.
It’s a bit more work for you but it can work well. People can view your cameras using any browser.
tinyCam server is just an Android app.
Google tinyCam
You can run it on a cheap Android TV box, <$50 with a keyboard.
Amazon Android TV Box
Once the box is set up you don’t need to keep it connected to a TV, just the Internet.
I doubt we will see a fix from Wyze that will address most sharing concerns.
They are planning to bring a PC/Mac/browser app out sometime. It may do what you want. It could be a year or more, no one knows, including Wyze.
You can test the concept using almost any Android device you have handy before buying the Android TV box for long term running. You can set up all cams in all locations from your one location. The Wyze cam stock firmware and 2 Factor Authentication work fine.
Android TV boxes can run quite hot, so I strapped ours to the top of a cheap USB router cooling fan:
https://amazon.com/gp/product/B07R3B3H28
Naturally, any cloud solution carries some security risks, which are discussed by the tinyCam developer, @alexey.vasilyev in this thread:
tinyCam dev here.
Do not trust any cloud cameras, e.g. Wyze, Nest, Arlo, etc. Period. All credentials are stored on server and service admins have access to them. So they can view video from your camera and watch recorded video stored on AWS if they want to. And you will not be able to notice that.
Wyze uses P2P developed by TUTK for live view and HTTPS for getting credentials and uploading video to AWS.
TUTK P2P protocol is quite strange. I do not see valid description of P2P protocol and op…
My conclusion has been to use the cloud for outdoor cameras only.
Setup is straightforward and we have had no problems - but we don’t have 31 cams…
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