for some reason BI to me look like a software from 1990, i mean for the cost i believe they could do better
Well take a look at the many of the IP forums. BI is one of the best low cost but truly professional solutions out there and it’s used in many many professional installations. Sometimes a flashy user interface isn’t everything.
Either way, it’s just a suggestion for compatability. Everyone can choose their own solution.
Wow is this thread long, but great info flow!
Just to report in as a Mac user: VLC works great. We tried QuickTime and Sighthound with no luck.
Delay seems to be 6 or 7 seconds in HD, about 2 in SD, and maybe less in 360p.
iPad Pro with iOS 12.2, VLC app great there to, for quick access (use Network Stream, with Private Playback OFF). Delay seems about 2 sec even in HD on the iPad (?).
Arthur, are you still planning to release an updated version today, May 8th? Thanks!
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Thank you for RSTP. I have had dropped a connection with BlueIris while normal app streaming function worked. A restart of the camera from the app, reestablished the BI connection.
Hi Arthur, you quoted my image about blue iris settings in the"feedback so far" post…
I never stated that those settings resolved my dropped connection. One of my two cameras still drops several times a day…
I was only telling someone how to connect.
n6ac, TBH, if the output works with VLC only, this makes me nervous as to the encoding method being correct.
VLC is designed to play virtually anything, which is good. However, the flip side is if something will only play in VLC, then it suggests there’s something wrong with output format. MP4 is pretty universal and should play in most players ie Win Media Player, Real Player, etc. MOV should play in most apple compatible players, especially QT.
What is the status of the May 8th update addressing the motioneye issues for RTSP?
In Blue Iris, try turning on RTP/UDP on each camera and give each cam a unique RTP/UDP port number like 7100, 7200, 7300, etc. That seemed to fix my issues with loosing the cam feed.
@ArthurH @UserCustomerGwen since you requested feedback, here is my setup and issues.
4 v2 cams using RTSP firmware 4.19.4.48. I installed the firmware on each cam, set up the cam options via the Wyze app, then turned them off, removed the SD card, rebooted. Tested via VLC and stream was working fine
Next, setup RTSP feeds to be fed to Zoneminder NVR on a linux server. Cams added with no problems at 1080p.
It’s important to me that everything is internal on my LAN and nothing is exposed to the WAN except for the server as it sends email alerts via SMTP with a short video clip attached when motion is detected so a high number port is forwarded for SMTP. All the cams themselves are blacklisted for all external ports within my router via network services filter and are unreachable as to defeat the Throughtek NAT punching.
The #1 issue is the cams work fine for several hours, but then need to be rebooted as the RTSP stream stops working, after which they work fine again for several hours, and then the process needs to be repeated.
I previously was using the Dafang Hacks firmware to enable RTSP and never had problems with RTSP stopping. The reason I’d rather use the Wyze firmware is the video compression is much better using about a fourth of the bandwidth without any noticeable drop in image quality making it much less of a strain on my network as well as my server.
There is some jerkiness that I can live with but the constant loss of RTSP stream is a problem. Each cam has a static IP and remains connected to my router, an ASUS RT-AX88U, even after the RTSP stream has stopped, so it doesn’t look like connection issues.
Without access to the camera logs all that I can surmise is it’s either the cam’s RTSP server itself crashing after running for a certain amount of time (memory leak maybe?) or the camera needs to have access to the internet for some reason, which seems unreasonable. I am unable to access the camera via SSH though so cannot look at what’s happening. Is there a way to access the internal log?
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I am seeing similar behavior and have not shut down any external/internet connectivity. I am using Blue Iris to manage the streams and have two Wyze cameras, along with a few others. One of the cameras seems solid without issue, while the other likes to drop off the network and needs to be powered off and back on. Consistently inconsistent… My network is robust and connectivity would not be a culprit. Hopefully this get’s ironed out as it is really the only thing holding me back from replacing the rest of my setup with these rather nice/affordable cameras.
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I’ve got 4 V2 cams all on the RTSP firmware connected to motion/MotionEye.
– First off, these things are amazing, thanks for the awesome product.
I’m also suffering from the RTSP stream losses but only on select cameras. Something that seems to be correlated is how much motion a camera sees. My cameras with frequent motion seem to drop out far more than the others with less motion. For instance, the camera mounted outside of my garage and the one in my living room both suffer pretty frequent RTSP server outages. However, I have a camera on the inside of my garage that maybe sees motion 3-4 times a day that has not had a single outage.
If a fix isn’t readily available, the only request I could make is that the “Off”/“On” command also trigger RTSP “Off”/“On” (If enabled) so that if a stream goes out, I could IFTTT trigger a reset rather than going to advanced settings each time.
Thank you for sharing this. I will post a updated version of the Beta firmware later today, and it should cover all the mentioned issues.
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I just recieved my WYZE-PAN in the mail everything is setup fine, just RTSP is slow in my zonminder setup. I hope the new FW will correct this. I am also stuck at 10fps 
Thanks!
emuhack
Where be this magical file, Arthur? =D
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This has something to do with how ZM is interpreting the RTSP stream not with the Wyze cam. When you view the actual stream from the cam in a viewer like VLC, you’ll see that it really is 15 fps. There’s a ton of variables, from MySQL setup to how the data is writing to the HDD, etc. But the main thing is that the core code of ZM wasn’t written as a media player/viewer, but as a security application, which means 5-10 FPS is more than enough for surveillance.
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An updated version of RTSP firmware is available. But it is still a Beta version, not the formal release.
We introduced several fixes to solve the known issues: delay, frame skip, disconnect, and causing other devices to drop offline.
Please install the following firmware only If you are experiencing the issues mentioned above and would like to help with testing:
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Wyze Cam v2: https://wyze.com/firmware/demo_V2_beta2.zip
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Wyze Cam Pan: https://wyze.com/firmware/demo_pan_beta2.zip
Once again, I want to emphasize that this is still in Beta. We will release the formal version later after more thorough testings.
Thank you,
Arthur.
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Based on the link name, it looks like you have flipped the files. Pan is referring to V2 and vice versa.
Edit; Thank you though. Hopefully will get chance to update my 4 x V2’s today.
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I fixed it! 
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Can anyone that tries these please test to see if they also can do time lapse downloads?
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