Beta Testing for Wyze Cam v3 RTSP Firmware Now Available!

Not sure why you had trouble with teh uSD card slot - it’s just a standard uSD card slot - unless you were trying to put the card in backwards (and yes, it is backwards compared to the V2).
If it said “ready to connect” the uSD either could not be read (must be no larger than 32GB for flashing), or the file was not readable (or the right name). One of the more common issues is that Windows by default hides the filename extension so when you name the file demo_wcv3.bin because the extension is hidden you actually named is demo_wcv3.bin.bin - which will not work.

There is only one direction you can put that card in, so not sure what kind of issue you have with the slot, unless something is blocking it.

To upgrade, it was pretty easy. Hold down the Setup button while power on the cam. Once I see a purple light, I let go of the setup button. After a few minutes, I check the app and go under Advanced to turn on the RTSP.

Make sure the sdcard is formatted FAT32. I had mine formatted exfat and it was working fine for camera storage, just doesn’t work for firmware upgrades.

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I never saw the light turn purple… I tried “setup” several times, I finally tried the App, the RTSP option was available and it all works.

I’ve got 2 more cameras to setup. I’ll look for “purple” but it’s not a prerequisite as far as I can tell.

I had a very similar thought…hard to open, backwards, finicky…anyway, thanks for the laugh!

Yeah, my first V3 came with a defective USB cable right out of the box. Had to spend an hour of my life to get it replaced at no charge to me, which was stupid, because my hour should be worth more than the cost of cable!

On the rest, as @Wahapainan and @K6CCC said, the card has to be formatted FAT32, That caused my first attempt to fail. And as @user1010111 pointed out, one has to find a way to hold the setup button while connecting power and then hold it down for a rather long time, which isn’t quite as easy as it sounds. Oh, and I’ll second what @YetAnotherDave said - I never saw the light turn purple either.

Lots of “gotchas” in making RTSP work on the V3. And I realize that it’s beta, but then on the other hand, I can’t see that Wyze is interacting with their beta testers (us), so I’m wondering how it’s ever going to get out of beta.

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I haven’t seen any official statement (or much of anything else) from Wyze, but what you are saying certainly does reflect my own experience up to this point.

So…how/where does one buy Synology Surveillance Station? Can it makes sense for people who are buying $30 cameras?

You can get it if you have a synology device or run their OS on your own hardware from xpenology.org

Thanks, I understand. But for the purposes of the typical V3 buyer, I think it would come down to people who happen to have a Synology NAS. And since those are expensive relative to the V3, I’m guessing that not all that many V3 buyers have one. Or a NAS of any kind. That would make for a fun survey, though.

I just got this message from the forum software:

You’ve posted more than 20% of the replies here, is there anyone else you would like to hear from?

'Kind of sounds like “they” think I’ve already said enough. :grimacing:

Yeah, that was my situation - I already had their NAS, and the Surveillance Station software was free for me to install and use. One other major consideration about Synology however, is that it works on a license per camera model. The software came with 2 free camera licenses, but any number of cams beyond that requires the purchase of a license for each. I have need for 3 cams, so I had to purchase one license at $55 ($65 MSRP) to add the third $30 cam…that stung, but in my case was still worth it.

Hopefully this post will drop you below 20% again ;).

And “they” probably haven’t even counted all the private chats we’ve had concerning BI and the V3. :rofl:

Doing some reading it appears that maybe my best bet with my V3 and BI is to use an old router in bridged mode to extend my router’s coverage to the V3 and still remain on the same IP scheme.

I guess they’re going to have to decide whether “they” want conversation or not. IMHO, kind of silly to discourage posts in a forum. When I ran a forum, I certainly wanted all the conversation I could get, as long as it was cordial and/or helpful. A few months ago, I had never heard of this forum, so if I get locked out, I’ll survive. And I’ll be “done” with Wyze too.

FWIW, at my business, I have four buildings all on the same LAN. The main building has a Wi-Fi access point on the roof and all of the buildings have their own access points inside. Two buildings are connected to the main building via Wi-Fi bridges and the third is connected to the main building via breezeway, so the access point in that one is hardwired.

If you can get an Ethernet cable to your garage, you could just add an access point out there, and then there would be no funny business about changing IP addresses. And of course it would be faster and more reliable than an extender.

One other thing that you might think about - most dedicated access points have a built-in DHCP server, so they can form a subnet and hand out IP addresses, but DHCP can also be turned off. Maye your extender has A DHCP server, and if so, maybe you can turn it off. I have used multiple extenders that didn’t hand out unique IP addresses.

*** BLUE IRIS RTSP AUDIO SOLVED *** No more crashing when the audio is enabled.

I found the problem and a solution. For an unknown reason, the problem is that BI sets the registry Audio_Channels to 128, but it must be set to 1.
You need to change this option in Windows registry. This is a permanent solution. You only have to do this once, unless you add a new camera later. Here are the steps:
WARNING: BE CAREFUL WHEN MODIFYING REGISTRY, IF YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING, DON’T TRY THIS.
1- Close Blue Iris if it’s not already done.
2- Run Windows Regitry Editor as admin and browse to the folder CAMERAS located at:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Perspective Software\Blue Iris\Cameras
3- Just under, select the folder corresponding to your V3 cam name
4- In the right section, locate the option audio_channels (it should be set to 128 by default) , d ouble click on it and change the value from 80 to 1.
5- If you have more than one V3 cam, repeat steps 3 and 4 for each cam name.
6- Done! Start Blue Iris, enable the audio channel for each cameras and voilà, Félicitation!

Good luck and let me know if it worked for you too.

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This looked to be a great fix. However when I went to make the change in my registry, my setting was already at “1”. Any further suggestions? :smile:

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I’m sorry it didn’t work for you.
This could sound silly but just make sure that the folder you selected (Garage Cam in your case) is a V3 cam, because all V2 cams are already set at “1”.
My BI version is 5.5.1.2, which one do you have? If your BI still crashes then I have no idea.

Not sure if you got this figured out or not, but I already found out what the issue was because I had the same issue when flashing firmware… The v3 DOES recognize 64GB for the purposes of recording… but for updates, it will not recognize them. Try flashing the firmware with a 32GB or less, and it should work instantly. Hope this helps.

@Skycam I only have the one V3 which is working fine in BI, just not with Audio like many others here. I do not have Audio enabled due to the constant BI crashes. When I disable Audio there are no crashes.

I have completely deleted the V3 from BI and added the V3 camera back again. Going into Regedit I see the same results as before. For what it’s worth… I noticed that I an on a newer release of BI than you it appears. Still should make no difference.

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@CTU.CNY Are you saying that you have audio working in Blue Iris? My issue is only with audio not working in BI. Within the Wyze app, or VLC, I have no problem with audio/video.

I actually do have Blue Iris, which is why I was checking out this thread, for potential tips… But my response was to another user who was having an issue flashing firmware with 64GB SD cards. Original comment: Beta Testing for Wyze Cam v3 RTSP Firmware Now Available! - #7 by teredactle

Sorry my bad! :upside_down_face:

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