Wyze started on this day in 2017 and got incredible support from our very first users, which we know includes many of you. In honor of today we wanted to finally make progress on a major feature request.
Today we are releasing the first beta app for RTSP and RTSPS for Wyze Cam v3 and Wyze Cam Pan v3.
This is much earlier than we’d typically release a beta app. There’s gonna be lots of things to work out, so stick with us. We just wanted to get a working version to you as soon as possible knowing how badly many of you wanted this!
Thank you so much we love you all and appreciate how patiently you’ve waited for this. It only gets better from here making it an actual feature on the rest of our cameras.
I guess it partially depends on what the bugs are. Can you elaborate it all?
Also, I realize this is currently in beta, but is the goal to eventually merge this with the production app and production firmware, or are they mutually exclusive and separate development lines forever like the old way you did rtsp?
This is HUGE!!! Thank you so so much Wyze/Engineers for putting in the work for this. The community request for this is so extremely high, and I’m SO EXCITED to say “Wyze DOES support RTSP and that they can bring their cams into other places! @WyzeDave thanks so much for listening to us customers and providing us the opportunity to test!
I’m really excited that the V3s are in the first release! I was considering giving away a lot of my old V3 models since I’ve mostly upgraded all of my stuff to the newer 2K cameras. When you mentioned the v3s would likely be getting RTSP, I immediately decided to hang on to them because I do have a lot of uses for then if they have RTSP. I have to just tell my family and friends to go buy their own cameras instead of get my old shelved models I don’t use anymore. because now I’m actually going to use them again.
I still look forward to the newer 2K cameras getting RTSP as well, but I really appreciate that you are at least releasing something to beta for now.
Strong thanks to the devs who spent a lot of time working on this, and to leadership for authorizing and supporting it finally. A lot of us are very excited about it and really appreciate it!
I think you need the app to initially set up the camera. After that you can pull the video stream elsewhere all you want. This is actually fairly normal for Wi-Fi cameras that do RTSP.
Also, lot of people have stated that they would like the cameras to still continue to work with their Wyze services as well as offer RTSP separately. So you need the app in order to use all the other Wyze services. For example, I have cam unlimited and still would like to use my camera with that, but be able to put the stream into home assistant and do special things with that as well.
I hope you’re right, and it’s not that the app is transforming the native camera video format to rtsp in real time. I don’t think the puny phone cpu can do that, but you never know.
Edit:
Thinking about this more:
If the Android app is blowing up when it does this, basically, a housekeeping chore, I’m thinking the bulk of action is being done in the app. Which means, that to make rtsp available (to HA, for example), the app must do the video transcoding. If so, this implementation isn’t any good.
Does this mean that person, animal and vehicle will not ever be exposed to Home Assistant?
Without detection sensors, I’m not too excited for just RTSP stream only, which I’ve mentioned several times in past posts, in the survey and it wasn’t never answered that I’m aware of.
Can someone at @WyzeDave or anyone clarify now that we’re here the plans? Are detection sensors also being exposed to HAOS?
Heh, I don’t have a lot. I used two of them as baby monitors, because they are the only camera that allows for invisible near IR instead of the creepy red glowing far IR that they’re obsessed with and give my toddlers nightmares. I’m actually not even sure how many v3s I have after that. I have one as a window camera, for my garage door opener, and I think I only have a couple others to test with.
Most of my other 60+ cameras are other Wyze models, especially 2K now. My favorite is the Floodlight Pro though. I have 7 of those beasts watching everything outside my house! Hopefully they will eventually get on the list next year.
I would also love to have some other entities exposed to home assistant such as through MQTT or some other method. I’m fine with that being a future step up upgrade though. I would definitely rather have them release things in stages as they are ready rather than make us wait for everything to be all complete at once and have to wait months or a year or more before they release anything. So I’m happy they are starting with the audio and video Rtsp first, and hope that they add more things in the future.
because now I’m actually going to use them again.
THANK YOU and Happy Wyze Day! 
