Recording WYZE Camera Footage on your PC or NVR / DVR using RTSP

Today we’ll look at how to set up your WYZE camera so you can record footage on your PC or Network Video Recorder using RTSP or Real Time Streaming Protocol.
As you have probably seen, the Wyze cameras have gained a lot of popularity doing to their easy of setup, tiny size and fantastic price point. Wyze is allowing us to take their connectivity a few steps further by opening up the camera’s configuration so we can record our footage on computers or Network Video Records or NVRs or DVRs.
For me, my computer and NVR stores footage for 10 days. I also like just going to one central location to see all my cameras at once and not have to open multiple apps.
I’ll show you how to enable this configuration on your Wyze cameras. It’s not something available on the camera when you buy it. I’ll then show how to setup recording footage on Blue Iris. You could use any software that supports RTSP (Real Time Streaming Protocol), like iSpy or Zoneminder. I’ll then connect my Wyze camera to record on my Hikvision NVR. Lastly, I’ll show how to revert the Wyze cam’s software on the camera to disable the RTSP feature.
1. In order to use the streaming feature from the Wyze cam, we’ll need to update or flash the camera’s firmware. Wyze cam has 2 versions of the firmware; the regular one that is installed on the camera when you buy it and the RTSP version. Maintaining both firmware versions is a lot of work, so they don’t release as many updates for the less popular RTSP version. To do this firmware switch, we’ll need to download the latest version of the RTSP software. I’ll add a link to this page in the description. (download the zip file, open the downloads folder, open the zip file and copy the firmware, paste it in a new folder on my computer) While I am at it, I’ll download the latest version of the non-RTSP firmware so I can revert back. (Go to that link, download the zip file, open the downloads folder, open the zip file, copy the bin and paste it in a special location)
2. To see which version of the Wyze app you are currently running, open the Wyze app, selecting the camera, click the gear icon in the upper right, and scroll down to Device Info. 4.9.5.36

Let’s jump over to Blue Iris and add the camera to a channel.
Here is a quick sound quality test. Here is the sound from the app. And the sound through BI. Hardly any difference.

Using this Hikvision NVR, let’s add the camera to a channel. The NVR is connected to my home network and has an IP address on the same subnet as the camera.
Here we add the camera to the NVR
The NVR does not pick up the audio and when I try to see if it’s included in the main video stream, I get a message saying the function isn’t supported. Hopefully this is something that can be fixed in a future NVR firmware update.

Switching the camera’s firmware back to the latest copy of the standard version is the same process. Rename the file, drop it onto a micro SD card and start up the camera. In the app, you cannot just check for updates to get the latest non-RTSP firmware, you have to switch the firmware, then check for updates.

[iambyrdman]

Thanks. You're thie first to get it right for me. I have watched many others before you. Subscribed now! Thanks for all your precious time!!!

[PatricksDIY]

Thank you for that easy explanation, this is so much easier than trying to scrub though videos in the wyze app.

[ReviewingLife]

Iv wanted to know how to do this for ages thanks for sharing

[nicholasreynolds]

This is awesome. I dislike the required cloud hosting and rather have my own local setup. More info about that Blue Iris program and motion detection and looped recording would be awesome! Also, a free software option would be appreciated.

[charlescerillo]

wow finally i found very helpful video..

[TulliWeiss]

It works!!! Thank you so much for this video, I am so excited.

[hashan_dilhara]

Still work with Alexa when update the with RTSP firmware

[elektrikman]

this information is great, however I am working on an iMac and I noticed since I went to apple not a lot of the same things are available that work with windows. My question is can I do all this with a Mac I have two wizen cams and two Foscam ip cameras advise im not real dumb on computers but need help from time to time

[TerryMundy]

This is a good video for a poor piece of equipment. The two Wyze Cam 2's and two Wyze Cam 3's can never stay connected to the wireless access point, even when it's positioned 10 feet away! Time to sell them on ebay and buy ethernet cams with POE. It has never became disconnected in 3 years. Nothing beats direct connect.
Oh, and according to several other users' posts I'm not alone to fighting the battle to keep them connected. 😬

[satmanshg]

Trying to Setup WYZE on Q-See QCK81 NVR. RTSP Working on VLC so I know the Firmware installed. Any suggestions?

[deanscott]

The driver no long seems to work from your download link. The camera just powers off. When I put the regular firmware bin back on it works fine. Does anyone have a copy of that bin file from before?

[techmap]

Can this be done on the new version V3 of the wyze cam?

[DiyintheGhetto]

Hello are they the indoor or outdoor cameras? also are they wireless or poe cameras? I'm trying to see if theses are the righ fit to me.

[MadMikeee]

Tried this whole thing a number of times and never could get it to work. Apparently there was a chipset change in the later model cameras that kills this. I flashed the firmware at least a dozen times and never got it working. Sent them back as they are worthless to me without the ability to connect them to a NAS.

[claudeloi]

Please recommend best affordable NVR for Wyze V2, V3 camera. Thanks

[TexCynRVLife]

Thanks. I will have to try this. I used to be able to save it to my phone or pull the SD card to put to my computer. Now, it won't let me do that anymore on video. Grrrr, upgrades, always mess things up!

[Mcstikman]

Perfect guide! Got mine working on my Hikvision DS-7616NI-K2 and it even records sound, The only thing I have noticed is that the feed will just disappear after a while, camera shows online on NVR but feed is dark. When I go on camera management and enter the RTSP password again it restores itself. Has anyone come across this issue?

[lpaltageek]

I did it my way; this will crack you up. This is what I THINK I did: I plugged my phone into computer, selected DCIM folder, selected Internal Storage folder where I searched for .mp4 files, clicked Properties to locate files on phone (DCIM/WYZE/Camera V3/Manual) and copied video files to my desktop to my newly created WYZE folder.

[Trains-With-Shane]

It sucks that they don't have a firmware for the V3 yet. I've been told that the dafang firmware works with the V3 but haven't found a video tutorial on that yet. Only the V2's.

Edit: Went ahead and ordered a V3 to test it out with that dafang firmware so we'll find out! :) If not i'll just order a few V2's and wait for the V3 RTSP firmware to become available from wyze

[droidrefun]

Does anyone know a way to get RTSP firmware? Wyze removed it.