It’s actually probably not that difficult, but it also wouldn’t be that cheap. They’d have to provide a way to stream all of your video back to their mothership, and process it so that it can be turned around and broadcast back to a website that only you can get access to. That they have to host. And keep secured. And pay all the engineering, infrastructure, and hosting costs for.
So yeah, it surely can be done, but you probably won’t be paying $20 for their cameras anymore.
How is this any different than the app? From what I understand most apps are just web pages running inside a primitive browser.
Good point
You can always flash it with non wyzecam firmware. I’m considering doing this, but then it’s no longer a wyzecam anymore.
Like most things tech, it is not quite so simple as most people (end users) think.
Software development, even the mostly simplistic Java-based Android apps, take time and talent to put together.
To do this right, the company also has to have the resources to host a site that will contain HUGE amounts of video data.
They already do so to a pretty fair degree, but this idea is, potentially, an order of magnitude greater.
I am VP of Tech Services for a Software Developer and it is quite the undertaking to do what we are asking, believe me.
And setting up the servers and the storage arrangement is a pretty large outlay of capital too.
I believe they will get there, but it will not be as fast as most of you would like.
I wouldn’t dream of them running a web client via their domain - that would take beaucoup work. I would just be happy if it was local on my network, and then I could port forward myself.
YES, what KWLA said
In the meantime it can be done with a little work.
I use TinyCam on an old Android phone. It acts as a server for my Wyze Cams. Its only a few bucks and easy to setup and us. I setup the webserver in the app to serve the Wyze cam feeds. I can view my feeds in any browser (home, away, TV, PC, Mobile……)
Peter
I had this same issue when I first installed TinyCam. I messed around for a few weeks and gave up. Then after a few WyzeCam firmware updates I decided to try again… They automagically started working… Your instructions are what I did exactly. Sooooo, I am guessing that somethingf in a firmware released fixed the issue.
Im running 3.9.2.30
If AppleTV has a browser point it to the IP address of your Android device running TinyCam with web server on. I have FireTV and use FireFox and it works perfect on the TV.
Please vote for this feature here!
https://www.wyzecam.com/forums/topic/wyzecam-website-for-viewing-videos/
Just purchased a Wyze Cam Pan - happy to have Google integration, but disappointed and quite a bit surprised that there is no web interface. That’s quite an oversight at this point of the game.
Ditto except I knew goign in that there was no web interface.
Would be good to know if it was coming, or at least why they have chosen to not develop it.
I would like web interface for the Wyze Cam.
a web interface is a must for me.
Thanks for posting this information!
Yes PLEASE!
All for the web interface for viewing, this is a must if to buy anymore cams.
Yep much wanted!