Wyze Cam V3 Cannot Manually Update RTSP Firmware

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It was my understanding that only the Roku version of the V3 cams received the Secure Boot “Upgrade”…Wyze V3’s should still be able to be flashed to RTSP firmware as far as I am aware.

Now it is true that the forced V3 update did prevent the minihacks project and some similar ones to stop supporting RTSP. I assume that is what dave27 is remembering. He’s totally right that the SD card add-on hacks lost some of their utility after the forced update, including RTSP. But the RTSP firmware itself should still be functional and work okay as far as I recall.

The forced Wyze update and some firmware update versions also would not allow people to roll back to earlier main firmware line versions prior to that update, but I don’t recall some my home assistant peers mentioning their Wyze RTSP stop working or they’d be pretty outraged.

My first thought is that you might be accidentally following the wrong instructions because the Instructions on the Wyze webpage actually have a Mistype in them right now. Step 4 and 5 are incorrect. Currently they say:

  • 4 Ensure the unzipped folder is named “demo_wcv3.bin”.
    • If not, rename it.
  • 5 Drag the folder to the root directory of the microSD card and then remove the card from the computer.

That is wrong. You do NOT change the folder name or drag the whole folder onto the SD card. You pull out the .bin file out of the folder and put that on the root of the card. But then I saw you said that is what you did.

This is something else that is sometimes important for some reason:

Note: We recommend using a 32 GB microSD card in format FAT32 for firmware flashing.

I don’t know why, but sometimes if you use different size SD cards or exFAT, it won’t work. Some cameras will work fine with other cards, but some won’t. So if you’re using a different card, that may be why.

If you can’t get it to work by flashing to the official Wyze RTSP, then consider looking at Thingino project to get RTSP on your cams. I’ve heard great things about this.

Here are the instructions for the 5 different variations (there are different combinations of SOC & WiFi modules in some V3’s) of the Wyze Cam V3 models:

https://thingino.com/wyze-c3

Also, where did you get the RTSP firmware from? a trusted source? I’ll copy for you my list of options I have been collecting that people use to RTSP for Wyze cams just in case any of it is useful, including the links directly from Wyze:

RTSP Options

Common 3rd Party Solutions to get RTSP on Wyze Cameras:

For those who want all of the original and now deprecated Wyze RTSP firmware directly from Wyze, you can still get them here:

[Insecure] RTSP FIRMWARE [missing critical updates] Directly from Wyze:

If needed, here they are forever saved on the internet through the wayback machine: