These are the same cams that the “gradual rollout” of the production fw on the 15th had…
And all of these have network connectivity improvements…
Did the production version not go so well?
I still don’t have it available on mine 14 days later…
And here is a Beta for the same ones again again…
And there was mention of choppy live video with the update… @jasonjones1983?
I found a workaround for the RTSP bug in the latest Wyze firmware.
Affected firmware:
Wyze Cam v3: 4.36.17.10
Wyze Cam Pan v3: 4.50.17.10
If you’re having RTSP issues, try the following:
Go into RTSP Settings.
If RTSP is already enabled, remove/disable it completely.
Restart the camera.
Go back into RTSP Settings and enable RTSP again.
Do NOT let the app auto-fill or reuse your previous RTSP settings. Set it up as a new RTSP connection.
Reboot the camera one more time.
If you’ve never enabled RTSP before, you may still need to:
Enable RTSP once.
Remove it.
Reboot the camera.
Then follow the steps above from the beginning.
For Blue Iris users: Do not enable Secure RTSP (RTSPS). Use standard RTSP instead.
This workaround fixed the issue for me. I’m curious if anyone else can test it and report back to see if it resolves the problem on their cameras as well.
I moved it and the replies, so I’ll accept thanks for the organization and trying to get better visibility to Wyze, but I don’t have any responsibility for the firmware. Hopefully the people who actually do write the firmware will see this, identify the problems, and remediate it before pushing it to the production channel.
Thank you for taking the time to investigate and report what works for you.
Wyze Cam Latest Beta update for V3 and V4 wiped out the rtsp setting so I had to go in and re-enter the information. Fortunately the ip address didn’t change as I use BlueIris and nothing on that end had to change.
thx, i had removed my v4 cams from the app, didnt know because title of blog never added v4 to its title, added the v4 to wyze beta android app, once added the option to update to beta fw was listed in the v4 settings, so i updated it, and yes there was now a rtsp option in the fw, once enbled and onfigured was able to use blue iris v5 with v4 cam
I would like to ask this question to the wyze team, or someone from the team working on rtsp. (I’m using this rtsp on the pan v3)
You guys made rtsp work for the camera. It actually works and streams rtsp correctly. So please tell me why it is that this STILL requires me to be online, connected to wyze servers, to work.
When I disable Internet from the wyze cam pan v3 specifically, the rtsp steam goes down. Restart the camera without Internet and it never starts rtsp anymore. Why keep this online limitation? The whole point of rtsp is that it functions offline. I truly do not understand. All other rtsp cameras continue working offline.
Yeah good question… and the honest answer is that it’s a firmware architecture issue not a policy choice. Today the camera’s boot sequence requires a successful connection to Wyze servers before it can access any camera features, RTSP included. The RTSP stream itself doesn’t need the internet, it’s just stuck behind that startup check and the check is pretty deeply woven into the current firmware, so it’s not a quick patch. We do have this on our roadmap to fix, but I don’t know when right now.
A local-only mode would be awesome! Especially in locations without internet access.
I think that with this, Wyze cameras could be easily added to Home Assistant autodiscovery and certification.
You set up your camera, enable RTSP, and bam, the device is auto-discovered by your Home Assistant.
When is this expected to land? Also is this for all cameras that will now have an offline mode that works and the ability to not need to connect to wyze servers and use rtsp?