View Your Telescope In NINA with the RTSP Plugin! Wyze Camera RTSP is Back!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ส.ค. 2024
- WYZE cameras are incredible in low-light settings and are quite useful when it comes to monitoring your Telescope (or anything else) during an overnight imaging session. Watch your Meridian Flips in real-time directly from NINA's imaging page. Today, I'll explain why I am so excited that I finally found a way to get the RTSP capability back onto my Wyze cameras. And, how RTSP allows you to view your WYZE cameras directly within NINA's imaging page by using the RTSP plugin. You can watch your telescope and imaging session on the same screen! I'll take this a step further and also show you how you can even livestream your camera to services like TH-cam! Not to mention, talking to you about a whole bunch of other features that may be important to you such as hardwiring your Wyze Camera directly to ethernet or even tethering the camera to your Android phone.
BTW - Special Thanks to Stefan Berg for coding the RTSP Client Plugin (and, of course... for creating NINA!!!)
Also, Special Thanks to everyone involved in the WZ_MINI_HACKS project! Amazing work! Thank you!
My original video that prompted this update:
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-------CHAPTERS-------
0:00 - Introduction
2:28 - WZ Mini Hacks
3:15 - Supported Cameras
3:49 - Features
6:20 - RTSP Preparation
7:46 - FAT32 Requirement
8:47 - Flashing Wyze Firmware
11:20 - Register the Camera
12:15 - Download WZ Mini Hacks
13:00 - Editing the Conf File
14:20 - Prepping for SSH
16:10 - Installing on the Camera
16:56 - First Boot
17:25 - Camera IP Info
18:19 - NINA RTSP Client
19:25 - Webserver Versus SSH
21:17 - Livestreaming with RTMP
23:29 - Closure
It’s so good to have you back on TH-cam. Your content is just second to none! I hope only the best for you and your family. Best wishes from Europe
Thank you so much!
I do astrophotography and follow your amazing videos for Nina, but bought this camera on your recommendation for monitoring our new puppy while he’s in his crate. The quality of the night time video is amazing and I can’t wait to set it up for monitoring my astro rig when puppy is more settled.
Fantastic video. I worked through these steps one by one and now I have my Wyze Cam v3 in a NINA window, and a bunch of other features and tweaks that I can try out.
Thanks for this!
I wish the firmware part wasn't so repetitively painful... the rest is so easy!
This is an amazing service you are providing to the astro community! I ordered the camera, received it yesterday and followed your directions to the 't'. It works the first time! Thank you!
Great! As far as code on GitHub goes, I am very impressed with this project!
just installed and its working great..cant thank you enough chad!! this..the mini pc..the sequences..youve really contributed like no other to my enjoyment of this hobby. god bless you and the fam
Thanks!
Hope all is well and great to see you back! This video is just amazing. I feel like my old Wyze camera just received a $6 million dollar upgrade! 🙂The new abilities are just awesome! Thanks again!
That is awesome!
Did this today - fabulous!! Thanks once again for the effort you put into these things! Hope you and the family are doing well.
Fantastic!
What a great timing!!! Just ordered my wyze cam 3 a few days ago to set it up as a ride along camera with RTSP, would surely be super useful when I start with this.
Thanks!
Hope you enjoy it!
Great Video!! I got this working with one of my Wyze V3 Cams while my imaging session was running. THANKS! Works great! Keep up the great work!
I love finding 'relatively' easy ways for people to get more out of what they may already have!!!
That's awesome. I bought two from your prior video recommendation and never looked back.
Great! Good to hear from you again!
Perfect! It works like a charm. Thank you for doing this.
You're welcome!
Thanks! Your cloudy nights are our gain! It gives you time to make great videos like this.
Ha Ha! I can imagine a day where I can see the stars again. :-) Even traveling lately I am seeing cloudy skies for the most part.
Oh, and thanks!!!
I’m not sure how I missed the other part. :-) Truly, thank you!
@@PatriotAstroI’m in central Florida so feel the pain of cloudy nights
Well, I got a regular V3 cam and finally got it setup and working today, following along with your video! Just in time for my Celestron AVX to not want to connect via USB. I was able to view my gear through the RTSP tab, but sadly, no imaging. I was basically troubleshooting from 7pm - 1:30am, and still never got it to work. Gotta love this hobby! This AVX has been an on & off hassle...I may be seeing an AM5 or something else in my very near future! lol
Thanks for another very detailed explanation.
My pleasure!
That's great. Adding this to my to-do list.
Please do!
Amazing instructions. Got it all working once the plugin appeared in N.I.N.A. !
Wonderful!
I love my WYZE! Night time picture looks like daytime
Low light in this camera is truly stunning. I have one on my 3D printer and have gone back to turn off the light more than once only to find out it was already off. :) Fooled by the camera again!
@@PatriotAstro haha, I have done the same. Go outside because I think the Ring light was on. I think I'll order a couple more
Not sure if I need all of this, or I understood everything you were doing with one viewing; however, it is nice to know that all of that obsolete Hackintosh command level editing I used to use could be beneficial. Keep it up!
:)
How in the world did you learn all of this??? WOW. Very detailed tutorial.
I guess I’m just a real go-getter. :-) LOL! Just some crossover with my daily life I suppose.
Just tried this on my security camera(s) and it worked. Wow, I never knew about that feature so thanks for that. I'm guessing there would be plenty of webcams out there that don't require all the mucking about to make RTSP work - you'd just have to make sure it had the feature from the start.
Yeah, there are others out there that support native features right out of the box, but I found that the Wyze cameras have such a good low light level imaging capabilities, that I prefer to stick with them. But you’re right, it is a lot of work that seems unnecessary for something they could’ve built in. I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that WYZE wants to sell their service of retaining longer-term bigger video files for you and don’t want people using RTSP to stream and save videos off to local disk storage. But that’s just my guess. :)
@@PatriotAstro Dammit, you've got me looking at them now for remote imaging. There's another rabbit hole I've gone down. I've noticed a huge difference in low light capability between my POE webcams I bought in 2016 versus one I bought this year - to the extent I don't even turn the IR on during the night.
@@PatriotAstroOK, I've bought a tp-link tapo c100 and it does RTSP out of the box. Let's see how good it is...
Howdy from Alpine, Texas. It's been mostly cloudy at night here too.
Unfortunately, here it has been either rainy, cloudy, or too breezy. I think I should take up meteorology instead!
I was pretty excited watching the initial part of the video where you mentioned features and rewards. I would LOVE to be able to see my scope in the driveway! I'm in a low crime neighborhood, but the scope is not behind a fence! It can be seen from the street. So yeah, security cam needed. And see the clouds? Cool! Sometimes I can see them on NINA, but the resolution is poor there. And how about being able to watch the meridian flip? Very great feature and I always worry about a cable snag despite precautions.
And the camera is affordable! Wow.
But then the video continued in a different language, American IT. For those of us who lack even the most basic programming knowledge, much less skills, this looks like daunting error messages waiting to happen. I couldn't keep up with and didn't know any of those acronyms. I can try to follow step by step, seems possible, as long as nothing goes wrong, because if it did I wouldn't have a clue.
Astrophotography is certainly glitch plagued as it is, I have many sessions end tragically with a failed cable or some unknown driver issue, a million different things. And that's before the clouds arrive. Hey, a camera would be great to see those clouds! Ha.
Honestly, the camera without any additional modification is well worth it. You can still use the app on a mobile device to monitor your telescope no problem. The only thing you won’t be able to do is get the image into Nina. But that may not be necessary. The vast majority of us just use the application with the camera. No IT experience required. :)
@@PatriotAstro i purchased and will attempt to follow your instructions step by step!
I have to thank you so very much. I have been wanting to get this working for a long time and your step-by-step step instructions were awesome and I got my v3 cams broadcasting a good rtsp much better frame rate than the Wyze rtsp.
Now a request can you do the same for the v2 cams?
Glad it helped. I'd have to think about the v2 one, not sure I have one around. Hmmm.
Thanks!
Wow!!! Thanks!!!
@@PatriotAstro Every time I watch one of your videos I learn something, in fact I hit the like button before they even start. If it wasn't for you I would never have created my home horizon for Stellarium and NINA which I couldn't live without now, I was a bit leery about updating to the nightly NINA but you made it easy. The list goes on, so in reality I got off cheap. Thanks for all you do!
@@williamhouse5081 LOL! Glad I can help. If you have any ideas for anything else you may think is a good topic, shoot it over. I have lots of ideas but a fresh perspective is always nice!
Thanks, I'll be pulling the camera off my shelf of Death and give it a try since the last time it was a major failure with wyze killing the RTSP support
Great- Breathing it back to life!
Another great video Chad.
On a somewhat related note: my biggest concern with leaving my gear outside all night is a freak rainstorm. I could imagine you have MacGyvered some solution for this that could send a warning to a phone for example. Is this something you've ever looked into?
True! I look at 3 forecasts for the night. 2 of the 3 are paid subscription, but they are all hit and miss. It's always a concern.
Fantastic video. I really get a lot out of your information. Just recevied my camera (via your link) and got it up and running on my laptop. Now I need to set it to work on the mini PC with the telescope. Can you add more than one key in the ssh authorization key file? I have several PCs that may want to see the video stream. Thanks again for the great content.
Definitely. You can have as many as you want, no problem. This is standard SSH stuff so nothing limiting.
Great video as usual Chad, do you know it works with the Wyze cam v3 pro….? The 2k version….?
I don't see the pro supported (yet anyway). I'm guessing it doesn't us the T20/T31 Ingenic chip required currently by the project. sorry!
It appears that the legacy wyze camera updates have been removed from Wyze's website, including the two versions that are needed in this video. Is there another source / link that we use to still get these versions of firmware?
Great video!!! Do you know if a dewshield is available for this camera?? That would be immensely useful!
Lol… I was actually considering 3-D printing one for it half as a joke and half as a more of a light shield. Great minds think alike.
@@PatriotAstro I am surprised it did not dew up on you while it is sitting on the ground for entire nights at a time. Unless you are located in the desert 🏜
@@tempusfugit6820 No problem so far, although I am often on a concrete pad so maybe that helps. Plus is it pointing up and maybe putting out some of its own heat in the upward direction. :)
HI Chad. Great video and tutorial, as always from you. I have a couple of questions. You have a link to non POE USB to Ethernet adapter. Do you know if these will power the camera as well? Will it also function as a wired ethernet connection? Other may also offer answers if they are using this option. Thanks
I think at one point I recommended two different versions, at least in the description of the video. One of them provides an ethernet connection, but has a second cable that provides power. The other one provides ethernet connectivity and power via POE. It actually works really well after connecting it and modifying that one entry in the config file. Truly simple.
@@PatriotAstro Thanks Chad.
Thank you ever so much for your very detailed video instructions.
One thing with the camera mod is that even after setting the wz_mini_hacks config file to Disable FW Upgrades (set to True as you described), the Wyze software on my mobile phone still is asking to upgrade FW periodically. Any idea why?
It will definitely still ask. That setting will attempt to prevent one from actually occurring if it is started either manually or automatically in the background.
@@PatriotAstro that makes sense, thank you!
Hello Chad - Thanks for the awesome step-by-step video. Any idea if the RTSP plug-in works on a WyzeCam Outdoor V2? It's not clear to from the wiki if this model is supported. Thanks!
Decided not to try it: firmware versions different from standard V2 Wyzecams.
I finally had time to dig in and I think you are right. It looks unsupported. Sorry. :(
@PatriotAstro I'm at the point where I re-booted with the WZ Mini Hacks on the SD drive. Got the "WZ Mini Initializing First Boot" and "Extracting Swap Please Wait"... so how long do I wait? Now the camera is sitting there with the red light blinking. How do I know when the WZ Mini Hacks is installed? Shouldn't the camera light go to solid? I'm not sure about the steps at this point. Could you clarify ?
Nevermind :-) Operator error
:) no problem. Glad it’s sorted.
Version 4.36.9.139 is no longer available for download on the Wyze site. Where can I get it now?
Great video, but I see that Wyze no longer support RTSP for Version 3 cameras, and don’t provide the firmware update anymore…..☹ any ideas….?
Does using RTSP offer any possibilty of saving video clips with higher bitrates than what the camera can muster on its own?
I suppose it depends, but I am getting a consistent 1.2 Mbps feed to NINA from the camera and it looks really good. It is waaaay better than the old Wyze firmware was capable of doing. Of course, some of this depends on your local WiFi network connection/signal.
looks cool! but sadly in europe the wyzecam 3 costs over 100 dollars... here we use Tapo c200. I hope tapo also works..
I know. I had to ship a couple overseas a few years back because of the local pricing. :(
The camera website has made links to the firmware discussed in your video inactive, I'm late
v3 Camera Firmware 4.36.9.139 is no longer available for download. Any suggestions?
Hey, I was wondering if someone could let me know if this is compatible with the Wyze Pan v3 Wired Indoor/Outdoor camera? I appreciate your help!
Doesn’t look like it (at least yet).
can you share the zip frimware ?
Do these cams need to be powered by an 110V adapter?
They come with a USB cable and 110v adapter but only require 5v/2A so a USB port will do.
will this work for wyze cam v4
Wyze wised up and took down the 4.36.9.131 firmware. Does anyone have a backup?
What version of firmware do I need for Wyze v2 for RTSP?
It looks like that camera with support video only RTSP (no audio) on the latest releases. For audio+video RTSP you need 4.9.8.1002. If you Google it, you can find WYZE support articles that still link directly to the zip file published on their site, even though they don’t show it on the download page. If you struggle, send me an email. My email address is in a couple of the videos as well as on the About page of this TH-cam channel.
I had a SCARE - when using the Raspberry Pi Imager to format the microSD card - it CRASHED Windows, and then when it tried to come back up it wouldn't... after a full re-boot all was fine, but it made my stomach fall through the floor at first!!
Wow! Sorry to hear that. I assume all is well now? I’ve never had that happen when running the app on any of my windows machines or macs. I wonder what it conflicted with?
Can this camera be setup, monitored and controlled in the field in the absence of the internet? I have not been successful in doing so.
It can with the WZ Mini Hacks software installed. I’ll show it in my next video. There are some limitations since the App requires internet access. You can keep the camera running without internet though, monitor via RTSP, and still take snapshots/timelapse via command-line/script.
@@PatriotAstro I am looking forward to your next video then! It will be useful to all those who travel to dark sites and for EAA sessions with the public at remote locations so they can see the scope move from target to target. Thanks!!!
Why installing V131 before V139? 10:56 Wouldn't it be easier to install V139 and be done with that part?
I had tried that on multiple cameras when going from a more recent release backwards, it did not work. I think it has to do with the security measures in the recent firmware. I had to go back to 131 first, which was acceptable and then move forward to 139. I would have liked to do it the other way, but it never worked right.
Pity they're asking £80 in UK, but a fantastic project anyway.
I know, too bad it is higher than we would like overseas. Sorry! Maybe you can convince Flo to buy a big batch and discount them. :)
Do you know if anyone has gotten this working with the Pan v3 model? I have one, but have not tried the setup yet.
On the supported devices page it says that the Pan v3 ISN'T supported - unfortunately. The reason given is: [3] Device has secure boot enabled on the CPU/SOC. Currently, this can not be disabled without replacing the chip.
@@dalehooper7962 thanks! I browsed around github a bit, but it is not a site I use much, so I didn't see that. That's a bummer, as the Pan is currently cheaper than the regular v3, lol. But I guess I'll be ordering one anyway!
Firmwares are no longer available?
Is it safe to format the card in the wyze app to clear space? Or does it remove the config files?
Formatting, the card is going to remove everything on the card whether it’s done in the camera or on your computer. Once you are running WZ mini hacks, you don’t want to format it again, because you’ll need to reinstall.
@@PatriotAstro Okey thanks! I have a problem though.. When I installed the hack I got the rtsp function to work as in the video (also the youtube livestream) but now after a day or two being turn off it doesn't stream anymore.. I can see it as usual in the wyze app but rtsp doesn't work
@@Calzune strange. Can you verify the current IP address is what you expect it to be when you look at the camera in the app under device info?
@@PatriotAstro okey strange... NOW it works with rtsp...
@91Renner Maybe just a reboot thing, or the IP was different (unexpected). Weird for sure.
hey doesn't work for me not sure why done it 3 times now :(
think it could be SSH
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LOL! You are certainly welcome.
14:44 Does this mean it has to be only done with the imaging mini PC? Are those values unique for each PC?
Based on the timestamp, I assume you’re talking about SSH access. Using ssh-keygen and moving the ssh public key to the Wyze camera is only required for any machine that would like to access the Wyze camera via SSH for configuration. As far as receiving RTSP streams, no ssh keys are needed on any machine. The SSH stuff is only for configuration. As a matter of fact, you don’t even have to do this SSH step if you don’t want to. You could just use the web interface or pull the SD card out of the camera and put it into your computer to make edits.
@@PatriotAstro Thanks Chad. Would I get the livestream in NINA without the SSH step?
@@hael8680 yes. You only need SSH if you would like to reconfigure the cameras configuration without using the web interface.
18:39 You typed in "astro" and "astro" in those 2 NINA fields. Is this related to SSH access file you modified? If I don't do the SSH file step, how do I connect to NINA?
@@hael8680 in the wz_mini.conf file, in the RTSP section, you enter a name and password for these connections. This is the name and password NINA uses (or any other RTSP client). So whatever you define in the RTSP section of that configuration file.
Hello Chad. I do not find the RTSP client on my plugins page. I use the nightly version 3.0, would it be the cause ? Thanks
Sorry Chad, I updated Nina and now I got it ! Thanks for all your good work !
Maybe it is time to move all your work stack to Linux...
I do use a Mac as my primary every day machine, but need to use windows for the videos to keep the masses happy. :)
NINA's RTSP plugin is a bit of a joke. It constantly either lags behind, freezes, or drops. RTSP with wyze and nina is not new. Been doing this for ages.
This is exactly why I mentioned it "is back". :) This is not using the RTSP implementation in the Wyze Firmware but another method instead. I am seeing really good results so far. You'd have to watch but the original video I did on this topic is how we got the RTSP Plugin way back when. :)
I guess I'm not really following the point of using this wz hacks thing. All you had to do was downgrade the firmware and you could enable RTSP in wyze app. Everything else was just loading the RTSP link into Nina.
@@WhooptieDo the Wyze firmware that added RTSP is no longer supported, and they are no longer developing that feature. This application allows me to uninvasively maintain a much newer firmware that is supported by Wyze, and still get the RTSP feature, along with a whole bunch of other stuff that I may potentially want. (In more camera models) It definitely doesn’t have to be for everyone, I just prefer to run newer firmware when possible.
@@PatriotAstro I guess potato potahtoe, everything works like normal for me utilizing the older firmware. Not that I actually use it, but it is still supported in the wyze app. The only issue was ever finding a host for the older firmware. Wyze no longer hosted it on their site.
@@WhooptieDo I always say if it’s not broken don’t fix it. If it’s running for you, just keep plugging along. No problem. Sounds good!
It appears all legacy firmware versions have been removed. You should probably take this video off youtube now?????
You can get it off the internet archive. They archived rhe older webpage with all older firmware versions.