I will say from personal experience, the new updated version takes all the pain out of this. I have two of the NEOS Cams and when I flashed the first one, I picked the wrong firmware! I then had to purchase a USB-A to USB-A cable and re-flash it using Cloner. The guys on the Discord server are an amazingly supportive and more importantly, patient bunch of people! With their help, I successfully resurrected my wrongly flashed Cam! I cannot recommend that you join their server highly enough!!! Thanks again guys!!!
@wltechblog hi! second one seems u/s. first one still working fine thanks. I've got another one of these neos badged ones "somewhere" too so will try and get that one up and reflashed first, using the new method. will drop a note back on here once I've found some time to try it. thanks again for the help (and the new/updated method too).
Great video - thanks. I tried a couple of other older methods before finding this video and the combination of those and that setup button being very difficult to hold down whilst inserting the power cable, I think I have bricked my two cameras. I have the USB A - A cable coming later this week, but I cant find how to engage with you on Discord. Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks
Hi! just join the discord using the link in the video description, as a new user you will enter the welcome room, give us a quick introduction and you get full access! We can always get these cams going again if you're not afraid to use a screwdriver!
They have basic motion detection and can send a snapshot via email, telegram, or a few other ways. For more robust features you will want to use an NVR such as Frigate
I have done all the as card stuff waited 6.5 minutes and now can see the cam on my WiFi networks, but it says (no internet connection) so can’t access anything
Hi, great video and thanks for creating it.?I have two Neos smart cams and I would really like to continue to use them once the Neos application is shut down. I have been a subscriber to the Neos cloud based system for a few years. I have tried to use your instructions to make the cameras work on the thingino platform ( if that’s the correct term?). I started by creating a GitHub account but that’s were I realised that I am way out of my knowledge base. I’m a retired builder and my IT understanding is very limited. I’m not even sure that I’ve created an account fully, as it’s started requesting me to create a “repository “ “public or private elements etc… I’m hoping that I could just download the necessary files onto an sd card and install them in the cameras but maybe it needs more knowledge of computers, as I said I’m pretty illiterate about computers. Any guidance would be appreciated. Thanks Martin
Hi! You don't need to create a github account in order to get the required files. Go to this link for the Wyze V2: github.com/wltechblog/thingino-installers/blob/main/wyze-cam-2/wyze-cam-2.zip then look on the right there will be a download icon. Once you have that saved, you can unzip the file and put the contents on the SD card.
Hey there! Github can be a bit overwhelming for people without experience working with it, so don't worry about it! You don't actually need a github account in order to download the files. Just go to the address provided and you will see a green button which says ' code'. If you click on it you will get an option that says 'download ZIP' and that will give you the file which you can then open and find inside of it all the files you see in this video. Hope this helps, good luck!
Apologies for duplicate post, but I unintentionally posted this on another of your videos. Tried this on one of my four NEOS NS-CAM-02 but it gets stuck during the process with the amber and blue light alternately flashing which is suggestimg it is trying to connect. There is no additional new Wifi showing up on my phone (Android). I've tried all three binaries together and separately with the same results. I've attempted to logon to Discord but end up going round and round in circles proving I am human and then entering my phone number for verification and then I have to prove I'm human again and, after that, I'm back to my phone number again which, apparently is invalid - tried with and without the leading zero after the +44 UK code! Any suggestions welcomed before I give up and start trying alternative cameras. I appreciate your efforts.
Almost certainly 128gb is larger than the cam can handle in its factory bootloader. Try to find a card 32GB or smaller, make sure it uses MBR partition scheme, and of course fat32 filesystem!
followed steps above when the reset button is pressed and held and neos cam plugged back in it stays orange and just says ready to connect like it used to do . Any Ideas ?
Great video I followed all the instruction's every thing tallied with your vid however my camera is a Neso, I put the micro card in the camera hold down the reset button plug in the power, light goes to amber for a few seconds then turns blue when I release the button I hear click but then it start to flash amber none stop! I've tried this a few time now am I missing something?
Jump on our Discord channel, we'll get you sorted out! One of the great features of the Ingenic platform is they are virtually impossible to actually break.
I got to this point, 7:22, but then failure! Filling the information on the thingino page seemed to go OK with green ticks everywhere. But I cant see the camera listed on my server and a quick press of the reset button on the camera makes the doorbell noise but then stays silent rather than giving the IP address. I tried to redo the process from the start, but I'm guessing the changes made prevent that? Any advice? (Apologies, I'm not on discord.)
You can do a factory reset on the cam by holding the button for 15 seconds. it will wipe all its config and reboot, and the config portal will appear again. Make sure that you put in the wifi info for a 2.4ghz network, and both ssid and password are case sensitive.
@@wltechblog Thanks for the speedy response. I thought I had picked the 2.4ghz option and been careful with case selection and typos, but clearly not. I wasn't sure how to get back to the thingino portal, but the reset advice sorted me and it now works. Thanks again.
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Any software that supports rtsp or ONVIF will work. For the PC you can fid somethign like Frigate, Scrypted, or integrate with HomeAssitant. On Android you can try Tinycam Monitor.
Anybody know how to re flash. I've now got 3 useless cameras :-( I've got one that pops up in the wireless list but no way to connect it. Has anybody got a fools guide to edit the config files
Hi There, just a quick one. Thank for the vid. I managed to install new firmware, all is working but only if I'm connected to the same wifi. I can't connect from cellular or home wifi. Is there any trick how to connect remotely? Cheers
Hello, generally the advice is to use a VPN to get access to your home network from external networks. We do have Wireguard built into the camera, and I'm hoping we will be able to fit ZeroTier on them soon for allowing direct VPN connections to the cameras themselves. Some NVR software provides mechanisms for external access as well.
if you need to be able to revert you'll need to take a backup with a flash programmer or using the Cloner software. Jump in our Discord for help with those if you need it!
Also I’ve formatted a 128gb micro sd to Fat32 and all files loaded when sticking into the camera and holding the button it dosent go blue.. well it flashes blue for a micro second but if I continue to hold it says ready to connect
I wouldn't expect a 128gb card to work. These cams are using old tech, 32gb is probably the limit and I know some 32gb cards won't work. As far as your previous question about fitting on a 32gb card, not sure whats happening there but the installer and image fits in under 128 megabytes.
Provided nothing goes wrong, a chromebook would be just fine. The process is pretty reliable but we do have a few people every day where something didn't work for one reason or another, at that point you would need a PC or Linux system.
The username for webui is root, the password is whatever you entered. If you need to do a factory reset, hold down the button for 15 seconds and it will wipe and go back to the config portal!
These cams don't hard brick, we can always bring it back over USB! There are several methods of doing the install so its quite possible to get varying advice, but the Discord channel is the place to go!
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I will say from personal experience, the new updated version takes all the pain out of this. I have two of the NEOS Cams and when I flashed the first one, I picked the wrong firmware! I then had to purchase a USB-A to USB-A cable and re-flash it using Cloner. The guys on the Discord server are an amazingly supportive and more importantly, patient bunch of people! With their help, I successfully resurrected my wrongly flashed Cam! I cannot recommend that you join their server highly enough!!! Thanks again guys!!!
just got my V2 flashed and it went smoothly! I'll do one of my V3s next!
Brilliant update, thank you! Got one out of two Neos' working on the original method, so will now try this updated guide for the other.
looks like the second cam is borked to start with. no led, no clicks, nada
Did you get this sorted out? If not jump on our Discord
@wltechblog hi! second one seems u/s. first one still working fine thanks. I've got another one of these neos badged ones "somewhere" too so will try and get that one up and reflashed first, using the new method. will drop a note back on here once I've found some time to try it. thanks again for the help (and the new/updated method too).
Nice update man!
Great Demo. Many thanks.
Great video - thanks. I tried a couple of other older methods before finding this video and the combination of those and that setup button being very difficult to hold down whilst inserting the power cable, I think I have bricked my two cameras. I have the USB A - A cable coming later this week, but I cant find how to engage with you on Discord. Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks
Hi! just join the discord using the link in the video description, as a new user you will enter the welcome room, give us a quick introduction and you get full access! We can always get these cams going again if you're not afraid to use a screwdriver!
Hi. Thanks for this. Once the Thingino is installed, is it possible to get an app to give notifications on alerts?
They have basic motion detection and can send a snapshot via email, telegram, or a few other ways. For more robust features you will want to use an NVR such as Frigate
Great video! Will this work with the tinycam monitor app ?
Yes it does, that's a good starting point for android users!
Iv downloaded the files for neos smart cam2 a few clicks and after 10 minutes the LED on the camera is
Flashing blue and yellow but no WiFi produced.
Very nice! Does this allow for Blue Iris integration?
Should work fine although I haven't used blue iris myself. Most folks use frigate
I have done all the as card stuff waited 6.5 minutes and now can see the cam on my WiFi networks, but it says (no internet connection) so can’t access anything
try to open thingino.local in your browser when its connected to the thingino network
Hi, great video and thanks for creating it.?I have two Neos smart cams and I would really like to continue to use them once the Neos application is shut down. I have been a subscriber to the Neos cloud based system for a few years. I have tried to use your instructions to make the cameras work on the thingino platform ( if that’s the correct term?). I started by creating a GitHub account but that’s were I realised that I am way out of my knowledge base. I’m a retired builder and my IT understanding is very limited. I’m not even sure that I’ve created an account fully, as it’s started requesting me to create a “repository “ “public or private elements etc… I’m hoping that I could just download the necessary files onto an sd card and install them in the cameras but maybe it needs more knowledge of computers, as I said I’m pretty illiterate about computers. Any guidance would be appreciated. Thanks Martin
Hi! You don't need to create a github account in order to get the required files. Go to this link for the Wyze V2: github.com/wltechblog/thingino-installers/blob/main/wyze-cam-2/wyze-cam-2.zip then look on the right there will be a download icon. Once you have that saved, you can unzip the file and put the contents on the SD card.
Hey there! Github can be a bit overwhelming for people without experience working with it, so don't worry about it! You don't actually need a github account in order to download the files. Just go to the address provided and you will see a green button which says ' code'. If you click on it you will get an option that says 'download ZIP' and that will give you the file which you can then open and find inside of it all the files you see in this video. Hope this helps, good luck!
@ thanks very much!!
Apologies for duplicate post, but I unintentionally posted this on another of your videos.
Tried this on one of my four NEOS NS-CAM-02 but it gets stuck during the process with the amber and blue light alternately flashing which is suggestimg it is trying to connect. There is no additional new Wifi showing up on my phone (Android). I've tried all three binaries together and separately with the same results.
I've attempted to logon to Discord but end up going round and round in circles proving I am human and then entering my phone number for verification and then I have to prove I'm human again and, after that, I'm back to my phone number again which, apparently is invalid - tried with and without the leading zero after the +44 UK code!
Any suggestions welcomed before I give up and start trying alternative cameras.
I appreciate your efforts.
My Neos SmartCam 2 doesn't go blue. Followed all instructions. Used a MicroSD card SanDisk extreme 128gb formated to fat32
Almost certainly 128gb is larger than the cam can handle in its factory bootloader. Try to find a card 32GB or smaller, make sure it uses MBR partition scheme, and of course fat32 filesystem!
Looks like I screwed up my v2 camera.
i let go of reset button before it turn blue.
camera did speak
yellow led , then click led goes out and nothing.
all good.
redid SD because bin name was changed.
bin.old
would load
So you're all good to go? If not jump on Discord and we'll help you out!
followed steps above when the reset button is pressed and held and neos cam plugged back in it stays orange and just says ready to connect like it used to do . Any Ideas ?
That prompt is from the factory Wyze firmware so it doesn't like something about the SD card.
Great video I followed all the instruction's every thing tallied with your vid however my camera is a Neso, I put the micro card in the camera hold down the reset button plug in the power, light goes to amber for a few seconds then turns blue when I release the button I hear click but then it start to flash amber none stop! I've tried this a few time now am I missing something?
Jump on discord if you need support, we'll figure out whatever your issue might be!
Tried this today on my Neos camera, I now have a white plastic brick.
Jump on our Discord channel, we'll get you sorted out! One of the great features of the Ingenic platform is they are virtually impossible to actually break.
I got to this point, 7:22, but then failure! Filling the information on the thingino page seemed to go OK with green ticks everywhere. But I cant see the camera listed on my server and a quick press of the reset button on the camera makes the doorbell noise but then stays silent rather than giving the IP address. I tried to redo the process from the start, but I'm guessing the changes made prevent that? Any advice? (Apologies, I'm not on discord.)
You can do a factory reset on the cam by holding the button for 15 seconds. it will wipe all its config and reboot, and the config portal will appear again. Make sure that you put in the wifi info for a 2.4ghz network, and both ssid and password are case sensitive.
@@wltechblog Thanks for the speedy response. I thought I had picked the 2.4ghz option and been careful with case selection and typos, but clearly not. I wasn't sure how to get back to the thingino portal, but the reset advice sorted me and it now works. Thanks again.
I am trying this, but I didn't get it speaking to me saying initialising first boot.
If you didn't hear it, it doesn't like something about your sd card. Make sure it is fat32!
I started flashing the cam over20 mins ago and it's still not showing on the wifi list....any ideas???
your best bet for support is to jump on our discord channel and get live help from the team!
Hello, which NVR recorder can I buy supports Thingino Modified cams
Any that supports OVNIF or rtsp. You can use Tinycam on Android if you want a quick and easy setup.
I bought this, JOOAN 3MP Security Camera System Outdoor Wireless [H.265+ System & Color Night & 2 Way Audio] 10-Channel NVR&4Pcs FHD 3MP Waterproof IP67&SuperNight Vision,Motion Dectect& Alert,No Hard Disk@@Scr00ples
I wanted NVR recorder to use with my Wyze Cams
Wyze app is pissing me off.
The LED never goes blue, I have reformatted and re-installed the files on the Micro SD card a couple of times?
We're you in discord earlier? A user with the same problem was, he is getting a different SD card to test with.
Does it have to be done with a SD card or can it be done using the USB A input eg a flash drive?
You cannot use a flash drive unfortunately.
@@wltechblog Thanks, yeah I figured that out already, still to do with a card, I know I have one but where lol
cant download thingino firmware images...it shows page not found....what can we do
Probably you were trying while new images were being built, reload the page and try again and it should work!
Can you use any apps with this setup? I have the device in my kids room.
Any software that supports rtsp or ONVIF will work. For the PC you can fid somethign like Frigate, Scrypted, or integrate with HomeAssitant. On Android you can try Tinycam Monitor.
Anybody know how to re flash. I've now got 3 useless cameras :-( I've got one that pops up in the wireless list but no way to connect it. Has anybody got a fools guide to edit the config files
Your best shot for support is to jump on our Discord, the link is in the video description. The whole team is in there, we'll get you sorted out!
Wyse cam OG and V4, can this do onvif?
Those devices are not supported, Wyze has crippled their ability to run third party firmware.
Hi There, just a quick one. Thank for the vid. I managed to install new firmware, all is working but only if I'm connected to the same wifi. I can't connect from cellular or home wifi. Is there any trick how to connect remotely? Cheers
Hello, generally the advice is to use a VPN to get access to your home network from external networks. We do have Wireguard built into the camera, and I'm hoping we will be able to fit ZeroTier on them soon for allowing direct VPN connections to the cameras themselves. Some NVR software provides mechanisms for external access as well.
@@wltechblog Thank you.
How do we backup Wyse cam or reinstall original file?
Revert cam back>
if you need to be able to revert you'll need to take a backup with a flash programmer or using the Cloner software. Jump in our Discord for help with those if you need it!
@@wltechblog i found recovery file on Wyze web site. Thank You
Why would my 32gb micro SD card say it needs an extra 81.3mb to fit the files onto the card ??
Also I’ve formatted a 128gb micro sd to Fat32 and all files loaded when sticking into the camera and holding the button it dosent go blue.. well it flashes blue for a micro second but if I continue to hold it says ready to connect
I wouldn't expect a 128gb card to work. These cams are using old tech, 32gb is probably the limit and I know some 32gb cards won't work. As far as your previous question about fitting on a 32gb card, not sure whats happening there but the installer and image fits in under 128 megabytes.
Do you need a Windows PC to do this? A Chromebook won't work?
how far did you get? I downloaded all files and firmware but I got an extra file uboot bin.
Provided nothing goes wrong, a chromebook would be just fine. The process is pretty reliable but we do have a few people every day where something didn't work for one reason or another, at that point you would need a PC or Linux system.
The uboot file is new but required!
what will be the username.saying username and password wrong when I tried to login to ip address
The username for webui is root, the password is whatever you entered. If you need to do a factory reset, hold down the button for 15 seconds and it will wipe and go back to the config portal!
I shouldn't have listened to the people on discord and just watched this first. My cam is bricked now.
These cams don't hard brick, we can always bring it back over USB! There are several methods of doing the install so its quite possible to get varying advice, but the Discord channel is the place to go!