Cheapest WiFi camera with Blue Iris - WYZE Cam v3

[@learnblueiris]

I want to thank @MrMcMuffinJr1999 for suggesting this video! Great idea and the camera is working great with Blue Iris. Please leave your comments and questions below!

[@PogoInTheWoods]

Blue Iris already has a selection in the vendor list for the Wyze Cam v3 running the RTSP firmware. It simply requires the IP address and login credentials to add the camera.

[@bnt614]

Great video. One thing I learned in updating the firmware, SD card has to be 32GB or smaller.

[@tommynguyen02]

Actually it does not. You need good partitioning/formatting program and you can convert any large SD card to FAT32 (default is exFAT). I just did after a quick google search to confirm and it works.

[@srobak]

does it have to be fat32? I just did fat on one after failing on exfat - and got the purple light, but now it just blinks red endlessly. Never gets to white. @@tommynguyen02

[@GoferZeroSix]

Great tutorial! For me, enabling audio during this process crashed my Blue Iris. Got on Reddit and found that disabling audio in Wyze and BI, solved the problem.

[@miscemail2901]

Exactly what I needed now. I moved my office upstairs and I wanted something like this to see what's going on downstairs but only on my internal network with BI. Thanks!

[@learnblueiris]

Glad I could help! Thanks for watching.

[@darthkielbasa]

I have a few v3 Wyze cams and have been debating on doing the firmware thing. I think this video pushed me closer to turning up an NVR. If it doesn’t work, at least I’ll have someone new to blame stuff on. 😂 Thanks for the thorough rundown.

[@learnblueiris]

lol I can take the blame. Do the free trial of Blue Iris first and see if you like it. Thanks for watching.

[@dc857]

Good walk through. I had a lot of issues though, as I couldn't update the firmware. The purple light never came on. I found that you have to use a 32GB micro sd card or less for it to work. I had a 128GB card and that kept failing to enter the firmware update mode.

[@quaternion-pi]

Nicely explained. I tried the Wyze RTSP firmware when it came out and it did not play well with my BI5 - frequent dropped connections. I hope someone converts it to ethernet with POE instead of wifi. That would be fun project. Love your content - just added Zerotier "VPN" network with BI5 as you described in another video. Thanks!

[@learnblueiris]

Thank you for the comment! I will have to see how it works long term. Since the camera is WiFi, that also can be a factor. @MrMcMuffinJr1999 has 3 running with Blue Iris I believe with no issues. Glad the Zerotier is working for you! Thanks for watching!!

[@KhaiMahase]

@@learnblueiris hey, i dont see any new updates for the v3 in the update page. How would i update it?

[@learnblueiris]

@@KhaiMahase Wyze is no longer supporting the firmware so there won't be any updates. It's kind of use at your own risk.

[@alanrock24]

I copied the .bin file onto the SD card and put the card back into the cam, but when I plug the cam back in while holding the button down,I get right back to "ready to connect". Not sure what I'm missing.

[@adamanddog]

Me too, fixed it by using a smaller size micro SD. 64g too big, 8gig worked first time

[@FoneBone27]

Same problem here Wyze v3 Pan,. Did not help swapping 128GB to 32GB

[@njphil1279]

same @@FoneBone27

[@miscemail2901]

I have an isolated IP network for all my PoE cams. They are all Static IP. The only other (poss better) option is putting a DHCP server on that network with reserved IPs. But the reservation method simply wasn't worth the effort for an internal isolated network.

[@learnblueiris]

Makes sense.

[@snoringbearbungalows]

Great Video for beginners like me. Could you answer a question? I have two WYZE cameras and another SV3C IP camera. Do I need a switcher for live streaming all of them? I was hoping I could just click on the one I want to stream from my desktop but I can only get one to stream at a time. thanks for your vids and help!

[@wjones1972]

Thanks for your videos. I have been trying to use WYZE cams. The issue is they work fine for a bit when you reboot them but then they start disconnecting. I have tried v2 and v3 but they are very unreliable in my experience I am trying to find more reliable Cams without breaking the bank for 3 cams.

[@bdonald19]

Thanks for the great video. My only issue I have found is that there is no audio when viewing the camera through Blue Iris (I have audio enabled in the blue iris setup). When I open the Wyze app, the sound is working however. .

[@dustinhornbeck9713]

Did you ever figure out a way to make this work local only? I'm more interested in that.

[@tommynguyen02]

@learnblueiris How has the Wyze v3 been working for you with BI5? I'm getting ready to purchase BI5 and setting up 4 v3 cams on it and would like some long term feedback. it will be recording continuously and audio is not necessary.

[@trinhk]

Any idea if the Wyze Cam 3 pro also compatible with blue iris? Does it have different RTSP or could we use the same firmware?

[@craigw4644]

Pretty cool.

[@mr.boniato6402]

These Wyze cams are pretty good, however.. if you disable the internet access to them, they start disconnecting and connecting every few minutes. There are others complaining about this issues and we were told that it's because these camaras keep trying to "phone" home from time to time.

[@macster1457]

YES.. omg.. I've had this issue for the longest time. It's my only complain about these cameras and the audio sucks too.

[@learnblueiris]

I will have to give this a try. Might need to do a wireshark packet capture and see what it is trying to do. Thanks for watching.

[@mr.boniato6402]

@@learnblueiris That would be awesome. Some speculate that they are trying to connect to servers in China!

[@learnblueiris]

Some cameras do. These I would imagine go to AWS servers though... aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/wyze/

[@mr.boniato6402]

@@learnblueiris oh ok.. Would be great to see why the disconnects every now and then. The disconnects it's only for a few seconds and they reconnect again every time. Weird that they don't do that if I enable the internet.

[@paulajones4037]

Thanks 😊

[@gordongekko9469]

Which card reader are you using? I tried buying one that would work on an iPhone or iPad and neither of my devices would recognize the reader

[@almcken2]

Hmmm, For some reason my WYZE Cam v3 will not flash. I have tried different SD cards, and everything. It seems like they might have disabled to USB flashing, because no matter what I try it will not work.

[@almcken2]

Solved my own issues. The sd card needs to be formated in fat32. No exfat.

[@brycek1998]

Finally getting into properly configuring my blue Iris security setup, and I appreciate the knowledge you've shared in your videos! Do you happen to know of any wireless (battery) doorbell cameras that would work in Blue Iris?

[@AbqDrew]

I have an Amcrest wifi doorbell, it works great with BI

[@dc857]

I have a Reolink doorbell cam, it works well with Blue Iris. But the intercom facility is useless. The volume is so low no one can hear it. This is a phone specific problem apparently, the latest android phones work ok with it.

[@manuelcardona1723]

Nice video but have a questions 1: if I have it on blue iris can still view on the ph? 2: if i have on blue iris can I monitoring on other pc for example if I am out of town?... thanks

[@dc857]

Look up blue iris UI3. It's the browser based interface for blue iris and it's great to use on a remote PC or smartphone. And it's free as a bonus. For security I'd recommend zero tier to control access. LearnBlueIris has a video on how to set up Zero Tier as well.

[@gordongekko9469]

Would I be able to format the sd card using the camera?

[@burnjack291]

Can you setup a sub-stream with wyze in Blue Iris?

[@srobak]

This is excellent. I am just foraging ahead into the world of IP cams - and am looking for a cheap entry just to test things out. Blue Iris seems to be the way to go (I will do the trial), and this cam. If that test goes well, i will be subscribing and expanding my security cam system. That being said - does anyone know if the firmware & BI will work on the Wyze Cam V3 Pro 2k?

[@frankieb3652]

Hi, I just purchased the Wyze Cam Pan V3. Can I put the RTSP firmware on that one for Blue Iris?

[@edplotka5028]

Thank you for the video. However, since Wyze pulled the firmware for RTSP, I have been trying to view the Wyze cameras from Docker. I can successfully see the cameras in a browser window so the bridge is working. However, I cannot seem to be able to add them to the Blue Iris software. Have you had any experience with that method and would you consider making a video on it?

[@SyberPrepper]

Great video. You mentioned putting the cameras on a separate VLAN. I've done this, however, for Wifi IOT devices like my Eufy doorbell, I have to have my cell phone on the same VLAN IOT VLAN which I don't like. I've set PFsense to not allow the cameras on the internet with separate rules. All of that to say, do you have a good way of keeping your cellphone away from the IOT devices? Thanks.

[@learnblueiris]

That is a tough one! One suggestion (outside the box here) would be to get an old iPhone or Android phone and have that be your "IoT control device" that doesn't leave the house. Only keep the IoT apps on it but no personal data or apps. iPhone 8's are still supported by the latest Apple OS (iOS 16) and they are very affordable on the used market. Other than that, it's difficult to control the devices on the same network without the device being on the network. Each device will use ports/protocols that would have to be opened up to your trusted network and that would be difficult to manage. As usual, thank you for watching and supporting the channel.

[@SyberPrepper]

@@learnblueiris Thank you. At least I'm not crazy. The only thing I could come up with is setting a bunch of inbound and outbound rules on the home firewall for my phone, on top of the rules to restrict the IOT devices. Thanks for the ideas and reply.

[@momansil]

Can Blue Iris run on a Rasberry PI?

[@quismanco]

Hello!! This camera works with h.264 or h.265? Thanks!!

[@DRIFTIN.]

Great job, thanks

[@learnblueiris]

Thanks for watching!

[@mr.boniato6402]

I have always read that Blue Iris recommends intel chips to run the cameras and that's what I bought.. an i7-6700 dell with 16gb of ram and m.2 drive. It's running all my 8 cameras with Deepstack and the cpu hovers around 22% (*not using substream)...but, recently I ran my blue iris setup on an AMD ryzen PC and with the same exact cameras and everything the same (I exported the config file).. the max CPU utilization I get is 3%... I guess I am switching over to AMD!

[@learnblueiris]

Interesting! Question: Did you have hardware encoding turned on in the settings?

[@mr.boniato6402]

@@learnblueiris No, it's direct to disc. I think I know why the Ryzen is performing so much better. It has 16 threads! The intel i7-6700 has only 8. AMD is much cheaper too!

[@FoneBone27]

Any one getting this to work Wyze Pan v3 cam ??

[@czi2011]

your video was too tempting, so I ordered a Wyze Cam V3. But it seems that I have bricked it. I used a Samsung Evo pro with 32 GB, formatted it new with MacOS disk utility (GUID, FAT32) and followed your procedure. Now original firmware deleted (App does not find it in my network anymore), but red LED starts flashing, never turns to purple, then a jingle and „ready to connect“ repeatedly. Anyone who could help me out of my misery is very welcome.

[@Snooooozel]

This camera is now around 90€ in Germany. 🤔🤔

[@macster1457]

What's the difference between getting the rtsp file from github vs wyze website? Is the github file better?

[@learnblueiris]

Apparently it has been taken down off their website.

[@rohankolekar5716]

Wyze V3 Pro RTSP possible ?

[@learnblueiris]

I don't think it is supported unfortunately. Wyze has stopped supporting this for the newer models.

[@jpmag69]

@@learnblueirisMany say that Wyze could remove the Rtsp via a firmware update to older models. If so, what would be a good choice for wireless indoor camera that already has RTSP? I need them to monitor my dogs when I’m at work. Thank you

[@MrMcMuffinJr1999]

The suspense is finally over lol

[@nelsoncaliz6297]

I got 3 v2 I got brick upon update, kindly do a tutorial for v2 please please.

[@learnblueiris]

There is V2 firmware on the github page. Would it not work?

[@nelsoncaliz6297]

@@learnblueiris I guess so. Mines are brick waiting for a way to fix emm via a firmware or something, got 3 in total that update failed and got bricked, wyze won't help although they are new, but because they are out of warranty.

[@SPXLabs]

I'll hold down your setup button until you turn purple!

[@learnblueiris]

Lmfao thanks for watching

[@SPXLabs]

@@learnblueiris I've been trying to watch youtube videos again. This was a nice video to start getting back into watching.

[@MrMcMuffinJr1999]

I’ve done this to three cameras and it literally doesn’t function until you reboot after enabling RTSP

[@learnblueiris]

I thanked you in the pinned comment. I appreciate the idea! It actually worked without rebooting but I read it could have not that is why I mentioned in the video.

[@MrMcMuffinJr1999]

@@learnblueiris the credit is appreciated

[@Masteririsheagle]

i'm really curious as to whats the purpose for doing this? i've been using Wyze for several years and haven't had too many issues. So im wondering Why would you switch the Firmware instead of using the Wyze firmware? Can you Enlighten me as to the Purpose for doing this. Seems you have to pay for Blue Iris as well.

[@learnblueiris]

It probably wouldn't make sense to do this unless you were already using Blue Iris or another camera NVR software that only could use RTSP. Basically if you didn't want to use cloud recording, only local recording. Either way, thanks for watching and commenting!

[@ramjet4025]

Overal a great personalized video that few KZbinrs can beat. Great Tutorial but misses the key WiFi description. I'm assuming its 2.4 only, does it do 5.8? What is the Antenna like inside the camera? Can an external antenna connector be added? What is the range like? I did not see how the WiFi signal is assigned an IP address. How is the remote WiFi camera powered? I'm assuming its mini usb?

[@dc857]

It connects to my mixed network on 2.4GHz. It's powered by mini usb. There are no provisions for an external antenna, and the unit looks like it's glued shut, no screws.

[@TheUnofficialMaker]

is Blue Iris a one time payment?

[@learnblueiris]

Yes it is. Though if you want to continue to have support after the first year (updates and support via email) it's $30 per year.

[@pucheco69]

What’s blue iris???

[@learnblueiris]

A security camera management software and network video recorder that runs on windows. Thanks for watching.

[@angelisone]

This is a scam company. Buying newer models NO longer get that claimed life-time Free 12 seconds recording. After 30 days they want you to pay for each camera or force to use mirco SD card.

[@learnblueiris]

I saw that the new models require subscription... not a fan of that. Guess I better buy a few more of the V3s while I can still use them for RTSP!

[@angelisone]

@@learnblueiris Wyze is hurting after ATG & I stated that no one will be getting 12 seconds recording for free. So if you added 4 for more cameras it would be cheaper to buy at Costco with 4 or more camera kit. I too am not a fan of paying subscription for each camera.

[@learnblueiris]

Thanks for the tip about Costco

[@jifchosehismother]

Video is outdated. Should be deleted.

[@JasonsLabVideos]

OH NO !

[@learnblueiris]

Don't worry, it won't be able to get to the internet soon. :)

[@JasonsLabVideos]

@@learnblueiris he he !

[@dustinhornbeck9713]

@@learnblueiris ok but how, I'm not new to this stuff but I'm wet behind the ears on VLAN. This is super tempting but ill be damned if I have my system on the internet. Please make a vide on how to set it up offline.