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I'm having great success with half a dozen v3's in tandem -- for $30 a camera, the quality is really unbeatable -- setup / notes below.
1. all cameras have 64gb+ micro SD cards and record to local storage -- many people seem to have issues with anything greater than 32gb in v3's but I've found that this Verbatim tool [0] formats FAT32 at high capacity with no problems
2. all cameras have wz_mini_hacks [1] on the SD card with RTSP enabled
3. all cameras are connected via ethernet instead of wifi using this adapter [2]
4. network blocks all outgoing internet connections for all cameras to keep them LAN-only -- this means I have to connect to VPN to review video when outside the house, but I'm cool with that
5. all RTSP streams are also recorded over the network via Agent DVR [3] to a NAS
6. the Wyze app (free tier, not paid) works normally with all of the above in place -- I find it much more intuitive to review recent videos in-app (streamed off the SD card), and then review the very occasional older video from a computer off the NAS (scrubbing through in VLC on a computer)
For what it's worth, I don't use them like a Ring camera where you're responding to realtime video events / talking through the camera to a delivery person -- this is mostly just for 24/7 recording. I have all object/motion detection events turned off, just a straight uninterrupted feed recording local and on the network.
Links:
0. https://www.verbatim.com/index/search.php?words=fat32+tool
1. https://github.com/gtxaspec/wz_mini_hacks
2. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07M5X9795
3. https://www.ispyconnect.com/docs/agent/about
This may be a good place to introduce my HomeKit based Wyze v3 camera reflashing side project. Still a work in progress.
https://github.com/radredgreen/wyrecam
Not my project but I have had great success with https://github.com/gtxaspec/wz_mini_hacks & V3 model.
The V3 models need to be downgraded to a specific firmware first and patching it exposes RSTP streams using https://github.com/AlexxIT/go2rtc. Everything doable without ever installing Wyze app on an environment air gapped environment with no internet.
lazyweb: https://github.com/koush/scrypted (regrettably the licensing is "it depends" https://github.com/koush/scrypted/blob/v0.93.0/LICENSE.md#li... )
and don't overlook that user's other repos, as seems like there are quite a few fun things in there: https://github.com/koush?tab=repositories
I finally gave up trying to use the mini hacks to make RTSP work reliably. I ended up using Wyze Bridge [0] instead, and it has been far more stable. Using Frigate for the web UI. It doesn't make for a local-only solution, but I don't use my cameras to record anything that would bother me if other people saw it.
[0] https://github.com/mrlt8/docker-wyze-bridge
I swear sometimes you people post this ignorance bait to get product suggestions.
Local-first cameras are super cheap and easy to find. Most just run their own local RSTP server, which you can connect to live with VLC, homeassistant, whatever. OpenIPC is like ddwrt for ip cameras, here is the supported devices page: https://github.com/OpenIPC/wiki/blob/master/en/guide-support...
But unless you're Richard Stallman, go with the closed source Reolink RTSP camera, which is about $100 and used by big corporate installs. It can integrate with the cloud, but the standard is to have each camera run a RTSP server.
But there isn't a really great open source platform for the kind of multi cam security that businesses might need. You have to do your own storage. But grab four reolinks, send the feeds to homeassistant, and most homeowners will be fine.
Personally I'm using Shinobi, but I d heard good things about frigate too if you're more into the ai detection and HA integration
https://gitlab.com/Shinobi-Systems/Shinobi