I live in Oregon…heavy rain has been here for sometime. Amcrest with built-in AI is bound to be better than Wyze. Not concerned about the lack of PIR at all.
Thank you again @carverofchoice
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I tend to be scenario driven, more than technology driven. In other terms, if Wyze solves my use cases, I don’t really care how they do it.
My main problem at this point is notification delay. Between event and notification there is a 30 second delay on average. In other terms, by the time I get notified that someone has entered my property they may be past the 150 ft driveway and inside the house already. Kind of defeats the purpose.
How does Wyze look at notification delay and what are the perspectives to reduce it?
Thanks for the pointing me in the direction of Wyze Docker Bridge.
As someone with next to know knowledge of Debian, networks, Home Assistant or Wyze, I finally succeeded, after quite a bit of effort, in getting the RTSP stream from my Wyze V3 Pro integrated into H.A without resorting to a firmware change.
Thanks again!
For anyone wanting to the same, this is a useful video
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You can in fact run your wise cameras without their service and you can still use all the functionality and more than they provide. I’m doing it and the service I have now and the quality that I have now is a thousand times better than I ever received from them. You must upgrade to the rtsp. Do not rely on the camera to process motion or any other event driven recordings or notifications. Your camera should stream directly to an NVR which will process those functions with a higher level of accuracy. You must acquire the correct firmware since they have removed it from the internet the best they could but it is still out there. Tor is your friend! When it comes down to it I think you are all asking the wrong question. The correct question is how are you going to continue to use your cameras when they go out of business because that’s exactly what’s about to happen. They’re selling their cameras right now for an all-time low and it’s only going to get better so buy them up and make for pretty good cameras when you flash out the firmware. Look for the original developer he has a GitHub account and you can find the original drivers and firmware that do support the rtsp. There are several high quality nvrs that are open source and absolutely free. Do the research! I recommend iSpyconnect.
The first thing you will notice is a significant Improvement in video quality and audio quality and motion detection. Far superior you will never even consider going back. And if you really want to get technical about it you can buy a raspberry Pi version of their camera that’s even better for less than 10 bucks.
And if you think for a second they’re not uploading your personal information start monitoring your network with Wireshark and your opinions will quickly change.
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Wyze is now in the habit of ignoring customers and giving us new products that we dont want. ie Meat Thermometers, Sweepers…
Thousands of requests have been made and RTSP is dead. Wyze is forcing us to buy someone else’s camera.
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Care to supply a link? Last time I looked, the pi camera is worse.
Wyze has been quite upfront that they have intentionally moved to the “freemium” model of selling cameras at or below cost with the hope that it will drive subscriptions. It is no secret that the removal of RTSP is part of this strategy (yes it also helps security a bit, but we know what the true reason is).
For me, I’m glad, I don’t want my video in the cloud and prefer SD cards, and got an entire camera setup dirt cheap. I don’t have a need for RTSP, it would chew up the very limited 2.4Ghz bandwidth and waste electricity.
There are options out there for people that want this type of functionality. Personally for a camera that is going to be streaming constantly to an NVR, I would prefer a hardwired solution, but plenty of wireless ones out there too. Higher up front cost, but more features. Lots here recommend (incessantly) Reolink, but I think the TP Link my have RTSP/streaming support, and there are plenty of other options too.
I have 9 cams now, 3 of them are the more expensive Panv3s, and I spent around $150 in total. The memory cards for them cost almost as much as the cams. I can’t argue with that. Neighbors spent that much on a couple Blink cams with the sync module (required if you don’t want a subscription) and they are worthless, they ask me for footage all the time even though my cams are much further away.
But I will agree that they are spreading themselves way too thin by offering a bunch of stupid other IOT devices like vacuums. Unfortunately that’s the way of the world now, everyone deviates from their core expertise to try and bump revenue, even though it is often brand damaging in the long run. Even huge, long standing, “stable” companies like Intel and Microsoft are not immune to this. A recent example is Intel trying their hand at building chipsets for cable modems and failing miserably.
Hah, the infamous Puma chipsets. Brings “fond” memories 
