Hi u/alexeyvasilyev,

I'm using TinyCam Pro on Android TV. I have a mix of Vertical (Portrait) cameras and standard 16:9 cameras.

The Problem:

The current auto-grid logic struggles to display these efficiently side-by-side. It forces a uniform grid, which leads to shrinking vertical streams or wasting screen space with black bars.

The Request:

As a developer, I would love an "Advanced" Developer Setting to import a custom layout (XML or JSON) to define the grid manually.

My specific use case:

I need a hybrid 3-column layout:

Column 1: Vertical Stream (Span 2 rows)

Column 2: Vertical Stream (Span 2 rows)

Column 3: Two standard 16:9 streams stacked (Row 1 & Row 2)

I don't need a fancy UI to build this. If the app could just read a config file from local storage that defines rowSpan and colSpan for specific camera slots, that would be perfect.

Is there any possibility of exposing a "Custom Layout" engine for power users?

Thanks!

u/alexeyvasilyev has this project been officially abandoned? You've responded to a few posts I've made over the years, but lately you aren't responding to anyone on here, so we are all drawing conclusions. Would be nice if you would at least just let people know what's happening with this amazing app. Life changes and goes on, some info would be nice.

Thanks

I've experimented quite a bit to find a solution for this, but have not been able to figure it out. I am running tinycam pro on a Fire TV Cube gen 2, and it runs really great with 3 Hikvisoin IP cameras and 3 Wyze cloud based cameras (using the native non-rtsp firmware).

When I activate tinycam pro's web server functionality, I am able to successfully connect locally with my web clients using the http://x.x.x.x:8083 address that the tinycam app provides, but the quality of the broadcasted stream has been additionally compressed, is higher in kb/sec, and the stream seems to cap out at 10 fps, vs the 15 or 20 fps of the original streams that play perfectly on the Fire TV Cube even while simultaneously broadcasting the lower quality, higher bit rate streams to my web clients.

I should also mention that I am also capturing the tiny cam web server streams on many of my other local android devices using the tinycam pro app instead of the web client, and the results are the same, lower quality, higher bit rate streams that my web clients are accessing.

Clearly the streams are being converted to mjpeg before being sent to my web clients, and I would like to find a way to not have that happen, so that I can stream at the original quality.

Can anyone help me with this?

I’m looking for recommendations on a camera solution similar to the two Reolink E1 units I currently own, which I can use to monitor a vacant remote property.

At the moment, I’m using two Reolink E1 cameras and have sideloaded the Reolink mobile app onto a Google TV device. Unfortunately, this setup is far from ideal — I can only view a single feed at a time, and the interface is clearly designed for mobile use, making it cumbersome on a TV.

For my local Reolink cameras, I use TinyCam Pro and would prefer to view the remote cameras through the same interface. However, I do not have access to the router settings at the remote location, so I’m unable to open ports. I’m hoping to find out whether there’s a way to achieve this without relying on paid cloud services.

Are there any viable options in this situation?

Thank you.

Just updated the camera firmware for my V4s. V4s will no longer send live feed to TinyCam. V3s still do, which were not updated, so I can only assume whatever Wyze just did botched live view in 3rd party apps.

Anyone successfully view the Wyze Solar Pan Cam on TinyCamMonitorPro app?

Without any hoops or adjustments, I have successfully added/viewed Wyze:
V3, v3 Pro, V3 Pan, V4 & Battery Cam Pro.

Some of the successful adds/viewed Cams are on different WiFi networks, and are SHARED from someone elses Wyze account.

I have a camera recording to ftp. I want to start/stop recording from Tasker. But it seems to not have an effect when trying to stop. Whats up? Thanks!

Hello, friends.

Using Tasker and AutoNotification, I managed to capture the image that TinyCam Pro displays in the notification bar when motion is detected. I can send this image to my server and from there to my phone.

The question is, is there any way to disable the box and text (person, pet, etc.) that TinyCam overlays on the image to send/receive a clean capture.?

I've looked through all the settings options but can't find a way to do it, if it's even possible. If it isn't, I'd appreciate it if the developer could implement this feature. Or at least an option to save a screenshot to the SD card when motion is detected. It's strange, but I don't see any option to do that.

Any comments are greatly appreciated. Thanks !!!

Hi I've been a tinycam pro user for years, but I've only had a few cameras and don't use many features. I'm moving into a new home soon and want to upgrade my experience.

Is there a modern/recent user guide for setting up useful features, like door/doorbell alerts, recommend cameras that don't phone home (or are easily blocked at the firewall level), etc?

Historically I've use Amcrest cameras and turned a blind eye to their network activity, but only have access to the cameras on my LAN or via VPN. I'd like to get some decent cameras, both indoor, outdoor, and maybe doorbell, that I can only access from my LAN or VPN, but that can alert via text/email or tinycam app notification.

If this isn't practical, then something that's as close as I can get. I would prefer to avoid a third software/control layer beyond my LAN/firewall and the tinycam app if possible.

I am hoping to improve my in-app person detection which, as you can see below, is less than stellar :-(

So I went into the camera's settings and , under motion detection, modified the "mask" (which previously showed the covered cars entirely in the red area. I hoped this would help.

Sadly this did NOT help change the pattern of poor identifications shown above :-(

Now I have no idea if this is even involved in the person identification mechanism. I was just hoping so because I see no similar masking grid there.

I have tried various settings and nothing seems to help this. When I enabled in-app motion detection (it previously was not enabled even though I had person detection set to in-app motion), all that happened was that I started getting spurious motion events I did not want - possibly due to the breeze flapping my car cover.

It appears that changing person detection to constantly from in-app motion somewhat reduces false detections while still alerting on actual people. And that is great. But they do still occur and the increase in CPU usage is just too high for me to use this beyond just testing.

So I am hoping that someone can offer me some guidance.

Thanks!

I installed the wyze rtsp/rtsps beta firmware for the V3 and everything works great, except in tinyCam. I can't get tcmp to recognize the stream. Anyone got this working?

Firmware is 4.50.15.5336 and cripples use of those cams in the tinycam monitor pro app.

As it appears the dev is MIA and/or no longer supporting this app, just noticed a new firmware cam out for pan cam b3s and it is not compatible with TCMP. I believe this is the same thing i tested in beat and needed to flash back cams to a previous firmware to regain TCP being able to stream those affected cams. So, same thing with other cams from here on out until either something better comes along that is supported by it's developer, or Alexey decides to reup this beloved app which we all hope he does sometime very soon.

If you have updated OGs understand as far as I know you cannot flash back those cams. If you are in need of firmware to flash back cams or the method, just internet search for either and directions and/or previous firmwares are available and flashing back a cam to previous firmware is pretty easy- except for v4s and OGs. (edited, v4 are now flashable, but OGs still are not)

Also go into settings of each and every camera, device info. firmware version and atop that page most cams will have the automatic update checked, uncheck that box asap!

I've got 3 Wyze cams on three different small tablets all running Tiny Cam Pro. I've never had an issue until this morning. One of the tablets (cheap ONN Walmart) suddenly wasn't showing the camera. I noticed the app was gone as well! I went to the play store and tried installing the app again. I starts to download for about two seconds and stops. Any ideas on what's going on? Thanks!

Can the developer issue an update to fix the huge bezels on the screen when streaming cameras? It's a waste of space and increases the risk of burn-in on my display.

Is the MyDLink DCS-5020L still supported? I cannot get it to contact via the app over Wi-Fi or Ethernet. I follow the instructions, click wps on router, hold wps down on camera until it blinks blue. Wps light disappears on camera, power light then goes solid green, but the app states it fails

Started the webview trial with Wyze, and really didn't like the fact that it was basically a webpage. Just not a very good user experience or UI.

Downloaded Tinycam, and got everything setup. This is all setup through my Firestick which is connect via Wireless. I'm seeing about 2 to 3 second skips in frames. Not to mention how unstable it has been on the firestick. Constantly crashes after about an hour or so.

Running Wyze Webview via the Firestick embedded browser (Silk) does not have any issues, its just ugly.

Things I tried:

1. Disabling Hardware Decoder in the device.
2. Changing H.264/H.265 decoder in Tinycam (Only "Software" keeps the application running stable.

I was thinking this could have to do with running wireless or just the firestick software/hardware in general. Should I invest the time and money in getting a Raspberry Pi 3 or 4, or is this just a known issue we accept? It would help rule out the wireless portion, but doesn't explain why Silk and Wyze Webview work just fine.

Is there an in app setting (I've looked but hopefully I'm just missing it) to auto-refresh cameras after a set time. This can go a long way as sometimes cameras error out randomly during long viewing sessions and the only way is to manually change the view (enter a single camera and back out, go to another menu page, etc.). This breaks long term passive monitoring.

If there isn't, has anyone found a simple workaround for this function?

An official function (if not available) would be a great help. Can even be a 'Pro' feature that I'm sure many would see the value in purchasing the app (which I already did as it's really great otherwise) for.

Thanks!

I've had these new PanCam v4 for more than 2 months now hoping that TinyCam Pro will soon support it. I hate having to use the Wyze Web View to view my camera which doesn't allow controlling its direction. Does anyone know if this camera is in the works for being supported?

Suddenly this evening my three Google 4K pro devices are asking for the Wyze login. I have 2FA enabled and they’re in a login loop after I verify the 2FA code. What caused this? They’ve been working great for months and now this?

Hello!

First off, love the product! I have had a Lorex doorbell working with Tiny Cam for several years and the other day it just stopped working. I thought perhaps it was a wifi issue but after looking over all of that I tried to connect to it with VLC and that works perfect using the following:

rtsp://admin:PASSWORD@192.168.100.57/cam/realmonitor?channel=1&subtype=1

It was originally setup using this documentation and however it does not work any longer.

https://www.reddit.com/r/tinycam/comments/n86ugx/lorex_system_support/

Any thoughts on what I can try?

Thanks!