I have been an avid Wyze consumer and supporter since Wyze first entered the scene. There are other cameras on the market that are now following (what used to be) the Wyze business model. To sum it up, this video says it all in the conclusion section. Fast forward to the end when this Youtube reviewer compares other cameras and listen to what he has to say about what Wyze used to be like. He hits it on the head.
I bought plenty of Wyze cams. And each time they came with a new one. But I got fed up with the subscription, and moved to Tapo and Eufy where I store video locally. And have given away most of my Wyze cams.
I watched it. In that case, you’ll be pleased to hear that Wyze has been implementing free local access to the cameras lately through RTSP. They started this with the V3 camera and Pan V3 which are currently in beta testing. Should be publicly launched imminently. It was expected earlier this month.
Dave said next up is the V4 camera. Original expectation was by end of the year if all goes well, otherwise it’ll still be early in 2026. He also indicated that they will likely add it to other camera models after that, many of which were mentioned in earlier plans.
Additionally, the CSA has this month released matter 1.5 which includes camera support finally! Wyze has been saying they were waiting for this to finally happen so they could decide how to move forward with Matter Support. My guess is that they will probably make a legacy bridge for most of the existing cameras to be able to use matter and connect locally, and they will start doing native matter support for some future cameras if not some of the current flagship models. But assuming they go through with that, I expect we will get local use of some of the cameras through that.
I do think that the Creator could have used a little bit better wording or description in his explanation about Wyze. Technically speaking, most of our access to the camera is already local other than the initial authentication, handshake. But the video stream itself stays local on my router and doesn’t go through the internet. Events also can be recorded locally to an SD card and I can view that recording locally. So they do already support a lot of local use of the camera. However, I think what he mostly meant was rtsp and API access. But, to be fair, a lot of those other cameras he listed didn’t have rtsp or API access either. One of the main disagreements I have with Wyze recently though is them paywalling the local edge AI detections. I brought this up in a recent AMA event and Wyze indicated that they are currently considering other options and implied they may end up releasing more free edge AI detection access. But we’ll have to see.
At least if they do add rtsp or matter to most of the cameras, then we will be able to run our own streams through something like frigate to do our own Detections.