3 posts tagged with "wyze"

With Scrypted / Thingino up and stable, the next goal is to replace my janky garage door sensor with a camera-based sensor. With some luck, I can extend this to every camera in the house cheaper and more accurately than Frigate, but let's not get ahead of ourselves.

1. What I have:

   • Wyze Cam v3
   • Scrypted
   • Thingino
   • HomeKit
   • RPI 4 that isn't melting

2. What I need:

   • A way to detect when the garage door is open or closed
   • A way to update MQTT with the state of the garage door
   • A way to update MQTT with the state of the car

So far: I've vibe coded up a script to use OVNIF Snapshot protocol to take a snapshot of the camera every 60 seconds.

• Wyze integrates and resells IoT cameras and devices for low capital cost, and has been under investor pressure to generate more monthly recurring revenue (missing source)
• In addition, your data goes to the Wyze Cloud Infra on AWS where mistakes have happened.
  • I'm not judging, but I am if you are walking around naked (or worse) in from of a wyze product.
• I'm not opposed to regularly paying Wyze for continuing to identify and bring promising solutions to the US from Shenzhen, BUT
  • I'm already paying Apple and Google - do I really need to pay wyze?
• Scrypted and Frigate started as open source Private IoT Camera management software - streaming on the local lan via ovnif
• They both work with the Wyze API, but Wyze recently change their firmware to force

NAT AT THE ROUTER FOOL (didn't work... why?)​

https://github.com/themactep/thingino-firmware/wiki/Ingenic-USB-Cloner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqStXVXOPWg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm4wze_HY78 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJgadXkdwzw - Flashing Wyze CAm v3

Getting more private from Wyze:

• Battery Cam Protocol
• Non-Recent Cameras

Outstanding Details​

• Outstanding documentation Items
• Add more details about the network architecture
• Include diagrams and screenshots of the setup