Nest and Wyze camera issues

[Mao]

My Nest and Wyze camears have been down for quite sometime, but I didn't have a chance to look into them.

Looks like Wyze has firmware updates and there will be a fix coming, so I will wait for it, thanks!

But for Nest cameras, the issues has happened twice before in the last year or two. It's just showing "Incorrect user name or password". Is there any recent change? How can I fix it?

Thanks!

[Christopher Bradski]

Hello Mao,

Unfortunately Nest made some changes such that we can't get the video from Nest cameras any more... We posted about this recently in the forum: 

       https://groups.google.com/a/camect.com/g/forum/c/FS5v47Wm0U4/m/6ViCxgwyAAAJ

Best regards,

- Chris

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[Mao]

Thank you! That's a sad news :(
Any word on fixing Wyze cameras?

[Arup Mukherjee]

Wyze also recently made an update that affects only cameras that are not connected to the same network as your hub. Most people have their hub on the same local network as their Wyze cams, so they're unaffected. 

If you had your cameras on a different network from your hub, you won't be able to use them with your hub unless you arrange a way for the hub to be able to directly connect to the IP addresses of the cameras. 

If your cameras are on the same network as your hub and yet are not working, then have you already gone through the steps of updating your Wyze connection to use an API? We posted about that late last year (here). 

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[Mao]

Gotcha, my camera and hub are on different sub network, but I may be able to move it to the same, let me try it out.

[Will Stillwell]

On the Wyze issue, there are a lot of users where they can't connect to wyze cams via cell network using the wyze app.  They say they found an issue and a fix is coming.   I wonder if this will make the different network than the hub start working again.  Some users were able to make it work after they cleared app cache but not all users. Still reading the forums to see what I can find on it.  

~Will

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[Steven Spaulding]

is there any plans to get google nest camera feeds working again? 

[Steven Spaulding]

The google cloud console has the ability to setup API integrations, there is a small fee when setting it up ($5usd one time) but it does allow me to integrate my google nest doorbell camera feeds directly into homeassistant. Could this not be utilized in some shape or form to allow integrating with camect? 

[CamectChao]

I assume home-assistant ask individual users to register for device access, pay the $5 and create the project?

It's technically possible. However, it's disallowed by Google's TOS. Citing from https://developers.google.com/nest/device-access/tos

3.1 For Personal Use Only.
The Device Access Developer Materials and your Client are for your personal use only. You will not and will not authorize any third party to use the Device Access Developer Materials or your Client for any commercial purpose.

[Steven Spaulding]

ya, you basically are paying to get the clientID and secret for the oauth2 connection, and requiring a redirect URI. Which then allows you to be able to view the streams and pass it along to wherever you need to. 

the TOS definitely is going to be the hindrance here though. I could see this being a grey area though, as even though camect would have the code to generate the streams, it the api keys used would be for personal use. So I think clarification on what exactly they are referring to with the developer materials before a definitive no could be given ya? 

[Steven Spaulding]

Also, looks like you may have linked to the sandbox TOS, this one looks to be the non-sandbox version, which doesn't specify for personal use only. 
https://developers.google.com/nest/device-access/project/tos

[CamectChao]

For personal usage, "sandbox" environment is the way to go. The other one is for commercial development. Please check the bottom of https://developers.google.com/nest/device-access/project/create

[Steven Spaulding]

ya, I see that now. I'm just trying to go over possible options. I liked having the direct connection of my doorbell camera's into my Camect...now I have to build out an intermediary with one of my servers to grab the stream, convert it to RTSP using FFMPEG and then add it into Camect. 

Not ideal having too many points just to display a feed ya know. 

[CamectChao]

Yeah. I had to ditch my nest cameras. I installed a reolink doorbell to replace the nest one. 

The up side is that the video quality is better and no need to upload my video to the cloud.

In the past several years, Google have been keeping making it more difficult to do such integration, while made no real improvement to the product.

We spent so much time maintaining the integration, until now Google completely shut it down...

[Steven Spaulding]

ya, if I can't get this stream to convert to rtsp, I'll likely be looking at converting to different doorbell camera's.