Xiaomi Xiaofang 1080p Smart Wifi IP "Small Square" Camera : $19.69 USD

jasonchewy wrote: ↑ For the benefits of the Wyze, it's worth the extra $13-14.
Wyze you get warranty, huge community and official wyze support, fast shipping.
In use, the Wyze performs better as well.
The Wyze app is solely aimed for the use of the cameras, where as the Mi Home is for everything Smart Home under Xiaomi, so it's pretty messy.
The performance is much better since the cloud is near, not half way around the world. For example, when I view an alert clip, it downloads at like 3mb/s for Wyze. The Xiaomi one went at like 300kb/s.
The official firmware/app for the Xiaofang is on and off working outside of China, they could pull the plug anytime.

That said, IF you're solely looking for RTSP use (which assumes you're savvy enough to dab into the hack), Xiaofang is still the cheapest for the hardware.
RTSP support is confirmed to be coming "soon" for the Wyze and they are working on it.

Speedbeaver wrote: ↑ "soon"? are we talking about weeks or months?

jasonchewy wrote: ↑ That said, IF you're solely looking for RTSP use (which assumes you're savvy enough to dab into the hack), Xiaofang is still the cheapest for the hardware.
RTSP support is confirmed to be coming "soon" for the Wyze and they are working on it.

snczcmlo wrote: ↑ Yes... I'm looking for RTSP only but seen other features could be developed... Any ways look like the Wyze is the way to go... easy to flash...
I have a question... Besides recorder... The SD card has to be always inside the camera..?? or it is only for flash purposes...
Thanks

jasonchewy wrote: ↑ If you're hacking it the sd card is only for the purpose of hacking it, and it needs to stay in the camera, because it needs the stuff in the sd card to boot up properly hacked. The camera becomes a dumb rtsp camera.
If you're using the camera normally, the sd card's for storing the recordings on top of the 15 second limit on the cloud recording.

Speedbeaver wrote: ↑ Interesting... so if you boot the cam with the hacked firmware on the sd card, then rtsp is enabled. Then you reboot the cam without the sd card and it is back to stock? that would be a sweet tradeoff.