I found a simple way to use the VLC media player to cycle through my Wyze Cams. I just created an m3u playlist as follows:
With the repeat checkbox checked it cycles to the beginning and starts over after it plays. It’s working great so far. If anyone can think of a better way or an enhancement feelf free to join in.
To use my Wyze cams as rtp streams I followed the following process:
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Load RTSP software from Wyze website on your Wyzecams.
See Wyze website. Save each rtp url into a text file: -
Open VLC. Select playlist. Drag the text file you created into VLC. Double click the playlist and it will open VLC to the first camera in the list. Then hit the >> button to cycle to the next camera. Save the playlist as an m3u file.
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Using VLC you can render the streams on a TV using a Chromecast. Here is the VLC generated playlist file saved as wyzeplaylist.m3u
#EXTM3U
rtsp://camname:password@192.168.7.79/live
rtsp://camname:password@192.168.7.93/live
rtsp://camname:password@192.168.7.92/live
rtsp://camname:password@192.168.7.94/live
rtsp://camname:password@192.168.7.99/live
With the file as it is above, you have to cycle through each camera manually with the next button in the player.
- By adding some modifiers in the m3u file with a text editor, I am able to have VLC play each camera for 60 seconds and then cycle to the next one. If you check the “repeat all” box on, it will cycle over after it gets to the end. I have a Chromecast on my big TV and I use it to render the VLC output. That way, my cameras cycle over and over on the big TV when I am not watching regular programming. Here’s the final m3u playlist file.
#EXTM3U
#EXTVLCOPT:start-time=1
#EXTVLCOPT:stop-time=60
rtsp://login:password@192.168.7.79/live
#EXTVLCOPT:start-time=1
#EXTVLCOPT:stop-time=60
rtsp://login:password@192.168.7.93/live
#EXTVLCOPT:start-time=1
#EXTVLCOPT:stop-time=60
rtsp://login:password@192.168.7.92/live
#EXTVLCOPT:start-time=1
#EXTVLCOPT:stop-time=60
rtsp://login:password@192.168.7.94/live
#EXTVLCOPT:start-time=1
#EXTVLCOPT:stop-time=60
rtsp://login:password@192.168.7.99/live
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