Neither that, nor the unofficial RTSP hacked firmware allows for NFS support.
5 of my 7 cams are using this firmware. NFS would just be a ton better.
I found what you are talking about.
It seems pretty interesting so Iāll probably give it a shot.
Why are you still looking for a MaxDrive alternative? While you could certainly sell an integrated product for those who want that, the ability to save to a network file share evidently already exists in the firmware running on the cams. Example: WyzeCam without SD card? | My Not-So-Boring Life
I strongly advocate that you unlock this ability and add the necessary options to activate it in the firmware and the app. Countless numbers of users are more than capable of setting up their own network storage locations and would utilize this feature to save video to a network share rather than a local card. This would also allow you to test the feature on a larger scale so that itās ready for your branded NAS option.
If itās a matter of monetizing this, then sell an in-app upgrade to activate it for personal NAS. Free upgrade for Wyze Branded NAS.
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@UserCustomerGwen @holocron
Now that this hack is out I can envision hundreds of us doing it. Unless of course Wyze does a mean spirited software change to block it, It seems Wyze could embrace this as they did RTSP and keep it within the fold.
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Think positive.
Wyze will embrace this and incorporate it into their next firmware update.
Say it over and over and it will happen.
thatās how it worksā¦ right? 
. @UserCustomerGwen
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I do believe in the power of positive thinking! 
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I found this a couple weeks ago and tried it on my test v2. It works, but itās squarely in the āhackā category. More interesting to me was the way the hack was achieved, which opens up the firmware to additional tinkering . I expect the loophole will be closed in a future firmware update, so trying to maintain a hacked old firmware version probably wonāt be worth it.
I was and still am looking forward to having NAS support or a MaxDrive-type product whenever that materializes.
Are you still using this or did you simply try it and revert back to local storage?
If youāve been using it for the last couple of weeks, how reliable has it been?
strongly advocate? Haha, Iām pretty sure Wyze is going allocate their resources on the features/software/hardware based on what they deem important, not a handful of people complaining.
I reverted the change last week because I didnāt have any way to know if I was missing videos or not. It doesnāt retry failed transfers so if something interrupts the copy operation the file just doesnāt exist any more. View Playback also seemed to take a lot longer or not work at all, which could have been due to other things, but overall I just decided it wasnāt worth the trouble.
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I agree - its something Iād like to have - I have an old Buffalo NAS RAID I use as backup and personal cloud - Iād be happy with ability to save to any network drive or FTP - I donāt necessarily need RTSP, just being able to save event video to a location other than the limited SD card would certainly elevate this product.
can you step me through how to set it up in the Qnap Surveillance Station?
@holocron Well said. Sort like the old days when Microsoft chose the open model while Apple chose the closed model. The result is MS owns the PC laptop mkt worldwide since anyone can build a system and mix and match parts as they desire. Apple is limited to only Apple and they will never match the MS market so they try to position their products as high end to justify the high prices but ultimately Apple end users have far less options.
For my $0.02 worth I would love the cameras to support sftp to download the files. Simple solution and users can use the NAS solution of their choice to save the files to.
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Considering I can run Windows on my Mac along with pretty much any flavor of Linux, and actually run Windows apps from my Mac desktop I actually have more choices not fewer. 
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Iād say work arounds made necessary by the lack of native Mac software. Btw, Iāve run a number of Linux distros on my PCs however Iāve never found any need for any OS X app. In a past stint as an IT mgr, I converted an old NT server to run as our email, ftp and web server and then took a Dell and converted that to a Samba server. Very fond of Linux. But I come from an engineering background which generally never had any OS X supported software. PC was only option.
I too worked in IT as a Development mgr. My group used Macs extensively. Twice a zero day virus shut down a client and the only way we could get them back up was connecting to their compromised network with a Mac. As a web app development shop we wrote a lot of software on our Macs. Windows frankly sucked as a web development environment until fairly recently. Even still itās just barely approaching parity. As for engineering apps I donāt honestly know. The guy that sits two doors down is an RPI grad in electrical engineering and he uses a Mac all day.
I find the platform is mostly a matter of choice. I have not ever been limited by my choices so far. And I have talked to folks who have used both platforms very happily and successfully so I figure if you like it and you can get your job done with whatever you chose then more power to you. 
I tried macs a few times in past and thought Iād like OS X similarity to Linux but I never could justify the prices for personal use and zero compatibility for work. I did chemical process control with PLCs and PC based HMIās. Back a ways, I also got frustrated that older macbooks were abandoned by OS X upgrades well before their useful life was over - at least at the time a while back, whereas my 10 yr old PCs are actually running better on Win 10. I know things have evolved a lot on the OS X side but in my areas of industry, it never even got out of the starting blocks.
Everyone has a different and unique experience. But for the sake of order we should probably move this conversation to PM or elsewhere as it does not pertain to the topic of this thread.
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NP - no biggie, thatās why they make chocolate and vanilla and the multitude in between! To paraphrase ole honest Abe - They are all good for some, and some good for all but not necessarily all good for all 
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