Dave listed most of the workarounds I am aware of. I have used the Docker Wyze Bridge and Tiny Cam workarounds to get RTSP and save recordings to my Synology NAS or my UniFi DMSE harddrives and can share recordings with family members there. It has been a reasonable workaround. Wyze has recently been announcing publicly that they are working to bring RTSP back to their cameras natively. In addition to statements made in the forums, they spoke with some tech sites about it recently, so it seems to definitely be making progress that direction. TheVerge recently interviewed CMO Wyze Cofounder Dave Crosby, and listed some interesting things:
Crosby says they are exploring adding more local processing, something it has on its higher-end cameras. “We want to move more and more to the edge,” he says, adding that could mean new local devices, but didn’t clarify if that’s new cameras or some type of hub for local processing. Wyze is also working on bringing back Real-Time Streaming Protocol, Crosby says. This would let users stream video to a local recording device and/or platforms like Home Assistant.
Sadly, there used to be an actual workaround for people to be able to view the SD card, but they were forced to remove it and patch it. I personally wish they’d never fixed it. It only allowed someone on the same network to view the video files. It couldn’t be accessed remotely, only by someone who had your secure WiFi password and had permission to be on your network, and if you didn’t want everyone on the network having access, you could always turn on device isolation or keep them on the “Guest Network” to prevent anyone seeing the SD card recordings. As far as I was concerned, it is was perfectly what a lot of people had been requesting for years:
But a lot of people freaked out when the news went public, and the fallout probably means Wyze will avoid adding that option intentionally in the moderate future. I only lamented that they were forced to prevent something that was one of the all time most requested features to add INTENTIONALLY, and now they’ve listed that request as “Probably not” because of the public backlash surrounding the issue.
I haven’t totally ruled out the possibility of shared SD cards in the future though. I did talk directly to one of the founders and shared some reasonable workarounds to their security concerns, such as forcing the SD card to be reformatted when the camera is shared. This would remove all past history of recordings (their supposed concern) and thus allow sharing of the playback, though I recommend they make it part of their long term multiple permissions revamp they’re working on…make it a toggle option to share the SD card or not, and then potentially ask whether they want to keep and share past recordings, or format the SD card and only show future recordings. That would be the ideal solution. I have no idea if they will really consider those options, but I did suggest it as a solution to consider while they’re revamping permissions.
I think most of the realistic workarounds were listed though. I think the best option available at the moment is an RTSP converter that allows video to go through an IP video software system that allows those nuanced sharing options. It is just too tedious for most people to implement.