Exactly. Spot on. I’m currently swapping Wanscams and the like. And it’s less a matter of trust as it is accessibility to resources, active firmware development and commitments. The companies you describe put a model out, then abandon it completely because most of them buy a single production run and then rebrand it. Forget about updates or documentation; they’re nonexistent.
They were a cheap entry point for my home automation system and a way to get monitoring at a low enough price to feasibly cover my areas. Now that Wyze has come along, I’m steadily replacing them. Still stuck with the low end for my outdoor cams as I’m not convinced that I can trust them outside. If (when?) Wyze introduces an IP65 cam, I’m jumping on them.
Wyze, even with stock firmware, still fits into my HomeAssistant setup (thanks to TinyCam Pro support) and I still get Alexa show support as well. That’s better than my older Arlos that are always a crap shoot on whether they’ll actually connect to my Show or not. My Wyzecams consistently do and that’s why I just bought three more.
How do the cams with Home Assistant? I have looked into Home assistant a bunch of times, never wanted to make the jump, but also looked to see if they had Wyze Cam support and didn’t see it listed when I last looked about a month ago.
There is a thread in the #roadmap section to vote for Home Assistant support (not to be confused with Google Home Assistant). But there’s a thread for that too.
Purchased 1 cam to try it and i like it, but this will be the only one for now till RTSP is added. I hope motion tracking and 2 way audio will stay with it as are good features. If RTSP is added then will buy more and add to my Blue Iris system.
yes I’m super fancy. The house I live in is 1400sf, the one I rent is 1100sf and the one I have the cameras at sits on 2 acres and costs less to buy than a new F150.
Location is key. Price points are key, these cameras fit the bill for most of what I wanted in the forest.
I love the timelapse feature too, only disappointed that I can’t download the timelapse from a different network.
I’m doing mine via TinyCam Pro. I have it running on my ShieldTV which is always on. I setup my Wyzecams and then turned on the web server and I use the URLs generated by TCPro as the URLs for the Generic MJPEG camera in HASS.
Yeah I have seen those. I thought there was native support for Tiny Cam that I had missed. I don’t know how many integrations Wyze will try to implement because I believe their business model is to draw people into their app (and ecosystem). And there is nothing wrong that, though there are other integrations I would love.
TinyCam does have native support for WyzeCams, but HASS doesn’t have ‘native’ support for TinyCam. I mean unless you count the Generic MJPEG camera component. Sorry if I wasn’t clear enough in my description.
I did it this way so that I could use the cams in HASS without losing Alexa support by flashing third party firmware. It was simple, but I understand if you don’t want to run yet another server. It works for me because I have a ShieldTV running all the time anyway so it wasn’t a big deal.
Never thought about running it on my android TV though mine is a mibox and not nearly as robust as the Shield TV. It is too bad Android Things and TinyCam don’t run well on the Raspberry Pi.
I have tinycam pro running on my Mibox S. Just side-loaded the apk and imported the camera file off a usb drive that I connected to both my phone and Mibox. Their are other ways but this is the easiest and most direct. Works great. That said, I would also love to have RTSP for Action Tiles but not if I have to flash a new firmware. My firmware flashing days are over. A toggle switch in the software would be nice even if some functionality is lost but I want it ALL!!!
Frankly, I am extremely impressed with what you have achieved to date and can live with the TinyCam Pro workaround for single screen multiple views that RTPS delivers so easily. I don’t want to hijack this thread but my only request would be to allow for continued viewing of an event after the clip is complete without have to scroll back manually to the location on the timeline. Similar to how the YI camera software does it.
Another +1 for how useful this would be. The cloud features are actually an anti-feature for me, having random servers on the internet with access to my cameras is a no bueno. I bought these cameras after finding out how easy reflashing them with OpenIPC was for RTSP, but I’d love an official solution that I could standardize on.
Absolutely +1 for this. Would like to keep Auto Night Vision, PTZ, Video quality selection, and one-way audio recording (in that order) if possible. I would give up recording to microSD if that could be used to extend the firmware. I would be recording to a local NAS anyway.