Camera snapshot

[Zodiase]

I'm wondering if I can pull a snapshot from a Wyze cam. I know video streaming needs the RTSP firmware but the "prevent the camera from supporting any future functions or features in the Wyze app" warning with a lack of reverting instructions scares me. I only need the latest shot from the cam not the whole stream.

[noelportugal]

Unfortunately, I don't think there is a way to directly get the snapshot from the wyze cam at the moment..There is a property that suggest it might be possible in the future. In the meantime what I use is a server (raspberry pi) on the same network and I take the snapshot from RTSP and serve it with express:

https://gist.github.com/noelportugal/e6943256549103ca28e143c03df7fef9

// Dependencies:
// npm install -S express fluent-ffmpeg
// brew install ffmpeg

// Run:
// RTSP_USERNAME=[username] RTSP_PASSWORD=[password] RTSP_IP=[ip] node index.js

const path = require('path');
const ffmpeg = require('fluent-ffmpeg');
const express = require("express")
const app = express()

const port = process.env.PORT || 8080
const rtsp_ip = process.env.RTSP_IP
const rtsp_username = process.env.RTSP_USERNAME
const rtsp_password = process.env.RTSP_PASSWORD

app.get('/screenshot',(_, res) => {
    const screenshot = './screenshot.png';
    ffmpeg(`rtsp://${rtsp_username}:${rtsp_password}@${rtsp_ip}/live`)
      .on('end', () => {
          res.sendFile(path.join(__dirname, '/', screenshot));
      })
      .on('error', (err) => {
          res.json({
              error : err.message
          });
      })
      .outputOptions(['-f image2', '-vframes 1', '-vcodec png', '-f rawvideo', '-ss 00:00:01'])
      .output(screenshot)
      .run();
})

let listener = app.listen(port, function() {
console.log("Express server listening on port " + listener.address().port);
})

[noelportugal]

I just did some digging, and found out the the api does have a thumbnails_url, but this only works with WyzeCams V2 not the V3s. Also the thumbnail is not in real-time..not sure how often it gets updated.

  let device = await wyze.getDeviceByName("Garage Cam");
  console.log(device.device_params.camera_thumbnails.thumbnails_url);

[MisterSquishy]

perhaps this should be a separate issue, but is there also no support for instructing the camera to take a snapshot? i would like to schedule a daily snapshot; i don't need to be able to retrieve that snapshot programmatically. is there a magic actionKey i'm missing or anything?

[Zodiase]

Also the thumbnail is not in real-time..not sure how often it gets updated.

Yeah I've seen the thumbnails in the app lag behind sometimes for days without updating. But it's better than nothing :D

Thanks for digging!