RTSP Tips and tricks. Desktop Viewing, Password Protect, Recording, and more

I was looking for someone to explain how to do this. Thanks will give it a try this weekend.

Can someone tell me step by step how to setup second wyzecam for rtsp? Thanks in advance.

I posted a few videos on my YouTube channel

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Thanks for responding! The problem I have is not knowing how to set up a second camera stream. The 1st camera shows fine on vlc. The second camera doesn’t show at all, just gives errors. Unable to open the MRL. Maybe I need router setup help for 2nd camera ? It appears not to find it.

I installed BlueStacks for free, launched it and went to Google Play Store and downloaded/installed Wyze. Itt took about 5 minutes total and it worked like a charm and no need to change firmware.

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Installed RTSP on my Wize Cam v2 and got RTSP to work with VLC media player to Live Stream on Windows 10.
In VLC, Media - Stream - Network - enter URL from Wyze app - then stream - Display Locally
Finally Profile Video - H.264 + MP3 (TS)
Stream Away!!

I have vlc watching a single rtsp stream, but cannot get any help in seeing more rtsp streams, more cameras. Seems no one can answer how I can watch more than one camera with rtsp. Responses seem to offer only non-responses to my specific question. That is all I want to know. RTSP. How to watch multiple cams with rtsp. I have only one working. Cant get a second rtsp camera working (like on vlc), but no one has given me a direct answer. Is it even possible? Has anyone done it? I’m only talking about rtsp, not wyze app. That is what I need help with. Is there anyone there that can show me how? Or do you know of anyone not there, that can help? I dont mean to sound ungrateful, I would just like some help. It is just that I am very frustrated with this. Thanks in advance!

Hi BBradford,
Have you looked at https://wiki.videolan.org/VLC_HowTo/Make_a_mosaic/ You will need to learn the command line switches, but you could probably script that.

Thanks for the info! Unfortunately, vlc mosaic is dealing with combining videos for a single output stream, not router settings for multiple cameras. My problem seems to be that vlc is unable to locate the second camera.

Nice to know though, should I ever need to make a mosaic! That part seems really cool! Thank you for that information!

Mosaic does multiple camera RTSP streams like here; https://alex.mamchenkov.net/2014/11/27/vlc-mosaic-multiple-rstp-streams/

Was going to use Blue Iris to show several streams at once. Just cant get the url to find the camera. But thanks for the advice! I’ll look more into that once I get the stream recognized. Thanks!

You can download an NVR such as Netcam Studio or Blue Iris. They will allow you to import sources. I’ve detailed how I did this with Netcam Studio.

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Has anyone had any luck with the fancy setups (such as Luxriot) and there not being a way to tack the “/live” on anywhere…? Is there some way I can kill that on the camera or do I need to start working on some ridiculous mapping on the network side?

Thanks.

Use Contacam software. Easy t o configure to see all Cams in one screen. https://www.contaware.com/

Does anyone know if RTSP works only on WyzeCam v2? Everything I read says “how to make Wyze Cams view-able” but it never specifies which version works? The bullet list from says " * How to upgrade your Wyze Cam camera to enable RTSP" but no where does it seem to say "Only works on v2 of the original Wyzecam as well as the Pan version.

I just want to know if I need to give Wyze more money and if the 10 original Wyze Cams I have are now no longer useful or out of date. Thanks.

Do they still work like they did when you bought them?
Do you read much?
From https://support.wyzecam.com/hc/en-us/articles/360026245231-Wyze-Cam-RTSP
Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) is a standard network protocol designed to establish and control media sessions between end points. Due to hardware limitation, RTSP could only be achieved as a separate firmware version for both Wyze Cam v2 and Wyze Cam Pan.

Installed RTSP on Cam v2 today – I watched the live stream in both VLC & IP Camera Viewer 2 (Mac App). IN both cases the quality is quite bad, especially the background, with numerous artifacts & blockiness. Quality is much worse than the live stream in the Wyze Cam IOSF app.

VLC reports H264 - MPEG-4 AVC(part 10) (h264, 1920x1080 pixels, 15 FPS.

I didn’t find any parameters you could tune, like compression rate, codec, resolution, etc.

Is this expected (a bit disappointing after all this waiting for the RTSP support ;-(?

Thanks,

Filip

Orrrr…WYZE could just create a desktop app.

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You can run multiple VLC instances, one for each cam… But I wouldn’t use it as my permanent program to view cams…

https://wiki.videolan.org/VLC_HowTo/Play_multiple_instances/

Use ContaCam software, it works…