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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon misenhower

Cam Support

Open LeonCaesa opened this issue 4 years ago • 8 comments

LeonCaesa avatar Jun 16 '20 02:06 LeonCaesa

+1 i've seen other examples where this is already supported, but I do not know what it requires other than the custom firmware from wyze

seecoolguy avatar Jun 17 '20 15:06 seecoolguy

hi @LeonCaesa and @seecoolguy i have no idea how we could do video streaming in this plugin. have you tried the homebridge-camera-ffmpeg plugin? there are articles in medium and everything talking about how to integrate it with wyze cams and homebridge. it requires the RTSP firmware to work. give it a try and let us know.

let's say we can't do the video portion. is there any feature you see beneficial to justify it as an accessory?

pjotal avatar Jun 21 '20 16:06 pjotal

hi @pjotal yeah I just added the RTSP beta firmware and this does allow me to configure the camera and I am able to stream on VLC but I don't have the right configuration to stream to HomeKit :-/

seecoolguy avatar Jun 23 '20 20:06 seecoolguy

try this: https://medium.com/dirigible/wyze-cam-homekit-58c4878c4124

i did and it worked. on my hardware the performance was not great so i decided to revert to the production firmware.

implementing the video portion is not simple and it’s not in our plans. we would love to have someone contributing with this feature though. if you’re a developer, feel free to send a pull request and i am pretty sure @misenhower will like integrating it.

if you see there is something else other than the video portion that could be beneficial in an automation let us know. maybe if it’s something simple that could add value to the ecosystem, we could take a look.

pjotal avatar Jun 23 '20 21:06 pjotal

Thank you pjotal, my version of Raspberry pi was missing the ffmpeg lib, thanks for the guide, this is very cool

seecoolguy avatar Jun 23 '20 21:06 seecoolguy

I do like the concept that if the camera senses motion, have it turn on a light :). I don't know if the API allows you to get that information from the camera?

seecoolguy avatar Jun 23 '20 22:06 seecoolguy

i am not 100% sure if this is possible but it’s something that can be investigated. do you remember if the camera has a motion sensor on it? if it’s purely based on image i guess it’s not. if this is something they flag via api, it is.

pjotal avatar Jun 23 '20 23:06 pjotal

You cannot see the motion sensor in the wyze API, but you can see the option to turn the camera on and off along with setting other options.

jfarmer08 avatar Oct 06 '20 19:10 jfarmer08