I’m an old dog, recently retired from 40 years of Software engineering and firmware\electronics design and want to redo my present system which runs Blue Iris and 8 PTZ cameras connected via RTSP.
Bought 4 V3 Pans and although the camera itself is fantastic, I want to have a BlueIris similar view of simultaneously viewing 8 cameras in real time and being able to see any prior events on the same screen without swiping up, down, sideways, clicking on this to see that and then clicking on that to see this.
So I’m thinking about a Google Pixel tablet running Google Home and linked to the Wyze “Make your home smarter” app . This should allow the tablet to show all 8 cameras live feed via Google Home. I can either run split screens on the tablet or swipe to view the Wyze app to check for events, or adjust the PTZ or any other camera settings as well as scroll through the camera’s local SD card recordings. (No subscriptions or cloud storage).
Does this make any sense, or is their a better way to do it?
Also wondering about what type of network I will need and thinking about setting up a VLAN dedicated for video.
Also wondering how the V3 Pan will hold up in the cold here in the Northeast. Cams are outside monitoring the property and barn, chicken coup, stables.
Keep in mind Im an old dog trying to learn new tricks. Any advice is appreciated.
8 cameras? The Wyze app shows at most 4 cameras on the screen; you’ll need 2 Pixel tablets, ha ha. The tinycam app can show more but it is more unstable on my devices than the Wyze app.
Return those pan cams while you can, they will only bring disappointment when it comes to using them as you wish. RTSP is not available as it would affect Wyze’s business model of selling subscriptions to CamPlus.
I’ve heard the same about tinycam. Actually I plan to run the wyze app from Google Home and not directly so not sure if the 4 cam limit applies.
Even so, the pixel has split screens so I could spin up 2 apps and view 4 cams on each side
I’m a die hard RTSP fan myself but you really can’t beat the engineering on the V3 Pan. BlueIris is getting slower and slower and less stable with every release. The V3 Pan motion tracking is great and it can follow a cat coming out of the woods, going across the yard and trying to get in the barn 300 ft.away. My $600 PTZ cam struggles to do that and The V3 Pan does it fr $30 and no subscription. Sure there are compromises like manually have to scroll through the SDcard to look at the recording for an event, no ONVIF or RTSP, 2.4g, no POE, 1080 but it’s freakin’ $30 and should be fine for what I need…
It’s the same Wyze codebase and will have the same restrictions. My Samsung tablet also has split screens but I didn’t attempt this, because Android apps usually only have one active instance so I expect it wouldn’t work on my tablet.
Yep I would be very surprised if one could get 2 instances of the Wyze App running also, tried that in Windows 11 running the Wyze App and can only get one instance of the App to run…
Decided to get the Tinycam Pro app to see how that works but can’t even connect a single V3 PAN to it. Possibly because I don’t use any Wyze subscriptions.
Does TinyCam access the camera directly thru my LAN or does it access video streamed to the Wyze servers. The last thing I want is my cam streaming video to the Wyze servers and then Tinycam accessing that data and streaming it back to me,
If you have the pro version of the app, you can message the author directly. But as far as I know, tinycam uses the same API that the Wyze app uses. The author is a Wyze employee and I believe he has the permission to do so. Tinycam is compatible with more camera brands though.
So it seems TinyCan is just another useless camera app and only supports the V3 PAN when it’s running RTSP or connected to their server but there is no RTSP on V3 Pan and would I pay them $3.99 per month for cloud storage when the reason for using them was to eliminate any subscription and see 8 cams.If I was to pay a subscription, I’d go with the camera manufacturer and not a 3rd party who is always in catchup mode trying to chase compatibility on new cameras.
Seems everyone is a video app developer so I have to check if my mailman has written one too.
Looking into an RTSP bridge on Linux that will convert the camera to RTSP but pretty sure that’s going to bomb and might just throw these cameras in the garbage and spend $90 on a real POE PTZ RTSP 4K cam but still want to try and clone the WYZE app to run concurrently and see all 8 cameras. The Wyze app is actually pretty nice
The only thing that impressed me with Tinycam is it automatically detected my 8 older PTZ RTSP cams connected to Blue Iris and was actually more responsive than BU.
Not sure where I’m going for an app, but started to build out my 2.4g network for the cams. After a few firmware upgrades, the Wavlink AX1800 finally works and puts out a lot of signal and also supports 9 simultaneous channels. Quad antennas give an extra 16dbm gain and help dramatically. Screenshot from analyzer is from about 100ft away, direct line of site, and far more powerful than my Nighthawk RAX42v2 shown on the other networks scan
The 4 cams on the front of the property have no problem streaming HD from 100-200ft away but the back cams struggle a bit with packet loss and latency since 2 of them are over 300ft away and the other 2 are close to 1000ft so I might pick up another AX1800 for the back of the house and setup for mesh.
