r/tinycam

✨ NEW FEATURES

- Export camera settings over LAN. Two Android devices needed with tinyCam installed on both. On one device go to Manage Cameras - options menu - Import cams via local network (QR code will be generated), on another just run native camera app and scan QR code. All settings transfer is encrypted.

- RTSP server. tinyCam can now re-stream cameras over RTSP, including H.264/H.265/AV1 video and audio pass-through (see API).

- New cameras support:
• Ring cameras (live view, cloud events, 1-w audio)
• Wyze Solar Cam Pan and Duo Cam Pan
• Arlo cameras (ptz)
• Tapo cameras via RTSP
• Nest cameras support via SDM
• Xiaomi cameras

- New video decoder: Surface video decoder to be used for Fire/Google TV.

- AV1 video decoder.

- Improved recording: Media3 muxer is now the default.

- Network scanner is now part of the first-run intro.

- Haptic feedback, including for pan/tilt.

- Home Assistant official integration https://github.com/alexeyvasilyev/ha-tinycam

- tinycam:// deep links (see API).

🎨 UI REDESIGN

- New Material 3 design: toolbar, dialogs, drawer, switches, FAB buttons and the sign-in window.

- New icons, updated colors and better dark theme

- Zoom: smoother pinch zoom, double-tap zoom and zoom in events playback.

🛠 IMPROVEMENTS AND FIXES

- Wyze: fixed cloud event playback, resolutions

- Arlo: fixed crashes, better error handling, improved login.

- Blink: better video stream and playback

- Eufy: protocol updated

- Ubiquiti: improved support over RTSP and RTSPS

- Synology Surveillance: DSM 7 support

- ONVIF: fixed "unauthorized" error when camera time is not synced.

- Web server: fixed restart, improved default resolution, Angular 16.

- Widget improvement.

- Nearby Devices permission is requested for Android 17+.

- Improved audio decoding.

🗑 REMOVED

- Social distancing detection.

- Legacy muxers (JCodec, MP4Parser).

In 12/25, I installed one of these cameras. I connect to it using TinyCam Pro and Slim Camera (on Windows) using a fairly typical rtsp URL to the LAN IP using user id and password. I have TinyCam running 24/7/365 on Android 8 monitoring this camera. It is setup to send email on human object detection. I only occasionally view the camera using Slim Camera on Windows or another instance of TinyCam Pro on my phone. I have its O-Kam app on a phone I never really use because it is required for initial setup. But I can open it and see the camera stream as well (no idea if it is rtsp or what).

For unknown reasons, over the last couple weeks I have experienced a condition when none of the TinyCam or Slim Camera instances find an active stream. TinyCam just shows black in the live view. The camera is ping-able at its reserved IP address. The O-Kam all shows it as alive and I can see a stream. No number of O-Kam triggered restarts does anything about this. Restarting the devices using TinyCam and Slim Camera does nothing.

About the only thing that "fixes" this is removing and re-applying power to the camera.

All this is strange/bad enough. But here is the kicker that I simply cannot understand at all...

Even though TinyCam shows nothing in its live view, I am still getting email on human object detections. I do NOT have motion or other detection enabled on the device in any way. This is done by TinyCam. So I figure that TinyCam is somehow still talking to/seeing the device even though the live view and settings say it is not!

How can this be? And is there a clue in here as to what is happening to the live rtsp stream?

Thanks!

tinyCam 19.0.0 released

Suddenly, RTSP Strangeness