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This might be a stretch, but its worth asking. i have 6 wyze cams with the RTSP firmware installed. They are connected to blue iris, but the connection is crazy unstable and they drop from blue iris dozens of times an hour most of the time (its not my wifi, they are connected and reachable in the wyze app all the time). so what i want is a MJPEG stream so i can pull them into action tiles and since blue iris has been unreliable im looking for an alternative. option number 1 is tiny cam pro. that seems to work well, but with just one camera, my nexus 9 is already using around 80% CPU, so if i add 4 more itll probably crap itself and lock up. I have a couple of other tablets and i could add a couple of cams to each, but that seems really inefficient and would be tough to troubleshoot issues as they arise. option 2 is iSpy. Its easy to add the wyzecams to iSpy and they seem to be working great. It also has a web server, so i can pull the stream from iSpy into action tiles and it seems to work well. the problem here is that i have to add the IP address of each and every device i want to allow access in the iSpy settings. I cant add a subnet or a range, it has to be each and every IP address. so that means i need to find the IP of a couple of dozen devices, give them a DHCP reservation, add that IP to the allowed list and manage it so any time i add or replace a device i remember to do the same for that device. does anyone have a better option? Short of buying more hardware, anyway. Can i add a subnet or range in iSpy somehow? better software that works with wyze RTSP firmware that still puts out an mjpeg stream? im open to suggestions!  
This might be a stretch, but its worth asking.

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Sorry Blue Iris isn’t the issue - Inexpensive Wayze cameras are the problem. BI is one of the most affordable and powerful VMS software platforms out there for the money.  
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@avitzur I know it's not blue iris. I've had great success with it before I just dont have time to pull ethernet for PoE cameras. Its blue iris + wyze rtsp thats the problem. Wyze rtsp works fine with ispy, but I'd rather use BI if I can get them working well together but that doesnt seem to be in the cards.  
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If you want to feed RTSP, into a central "brain" like blue iris, get something hardwired, preferably on a seperate network. You really don't want 6 cams spamming your WiFi 24/7
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Thats the plan, eventually. im not worried about wifi performance, though. i have 2 unifi APs with a nanoHD on the way, the APs are hardwired and coverage and capacity are more than enough. one day, when i have time, ill pull ethernet and replace the wyze cams with PoE cameras, but thats really low on the priority list (we moved in less than a month ago).  
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Something that may work for a couple cams. Take advantage of the new webcam fw for wyze. Blue Iris can use a hardwired webcam. If your house is wired, you can use USB to cat adapters. Probably a stretch but thought I'd suggest it
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Interesting. so install the webcam firmware and then blue iris can pull that stream in, but not over wifi? i dont have any way to get ethernet or USB to it, though, which is why i went with wyze. its not meant to be a long term solution, its just until i can get ethernet pulled and PoE cameras installed (which will probably be at least a couple of months)
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@imperturbation91375 ah ok. Yeah it needs hardwired. I thought you just had the wyze cams and we're trying to use them.  
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Damn. no they are installed. the wyze app works fine, but i want better recordings. the CMC is an option, too, but i bought an 8TB drive, just for CCTV video because at the time, i thought i would be able to pull cable pretty soon, so now i have all this storage not doing anything haha.  
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I thought id at least try the CMC for a while, to see how that works compared to local storage, but it turns out that cant be enabled on a camera with the RTSP firmware. guess its back to the drawing board.  
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