Help make my NAS work for me... wireless cameras

I bought a Synology NAS with an 8tb Barracuda.  Works great, and has a dizzying array of apps and stuff that really make it an awesome home automator.... if I knew how to use any of it.  I'm one of those guys when I buy a printer I follow the directions while a "wizard" installs the drivers.

I have a few Wyze cameras around the house.  The NAS has a DVR app to connect to cameras, and Wyze is supposedly supported, but it won't find them on the network.  If I try to manually enter the specs, it requires an IP and I can't find that anywhere.  Wyze cameras connect via scanning a QR code on your phone and choosing the network.  Not even sure they have an IP.

The help functions are greek to me.  They make it sound so simple.  Download any UPnP app and configure it to your thingamabob on a branch of your network's bloopymathing.... yadda yadda.  You lost me at MAC address.

Short of getting a degree in IT, do any of you have ideas?  Know anything about these magic boxes?

In reply to Curtis73 (Forum Supporter) :

you can find the IP address for the camera Under Wyzecam--> settings --> device info

Beyond that I got nothing.
 

i have a QNAP NAS that I really don't use except as a photo storage box and most of the time it isn't even plugged into power. Honestly I would have been better off just buying a couple external HDs. 
  

You can also get the IP address from your router.
Most of them have a network status or network overview that lists devices names with their IP addresses and stats.  It's handy to find everything connecting to your network.

Couple things, but let me caveat with that I have never used the cameras from Wyze and it's been a very long time since I've done anything with a Synology box.   Some basic things, though:

- On your router, as mentioned above, you can typically see the various connected devices, their MAC addresses and their IP addresses.  That can get you the IP of your NAS

- Also on your router, you should be able to create a static IP entry.  More than likely the router will simply just renew the lease on the addresses ad infinitum, but just in case, I would set the NAS to a static IP.   The technical term is DHCP.

- And again on the router, sometimes for added security there will be a setting called something along the lines of Client Isolation.  Turn that off.  It will prevent wireless devices from talking to other wireless devices.

I'd be happy to do a screenshare webex or whatever with you to try to figure it out.  No promises, but I was able to fix Netgear's authenticate-to-guest-wifi-via-facebook for netgear (my discovery was that the business page can't be age-restricted) so I might be able to help figure this one out, too.

EDIT:  - Coming back to the router (again), sometimes devices get confused if you've got 2.4gHz and 5gHz radios turned on.

I looked into doing this with wyze cameras a few months ago but never got beyond the research stage. Wyze cameras need a beta firmware installed in order to stream to a NAS properly, and Wyze has said that they're never going to support it so you're stuck with an old beta firmware. Here's a link to the Wyze site talking about RTSP

In reply to Schmidlap :

Thank you... I just found that as well.  So far it's not going well at all.  I followed all the instructions and I have RTSP unzipped to a card, but when I fire it up while holding the button, it just factory resets, and now I can't get it to connect to my wifi at all.  I'll keep trying, but it's not looking hopeful.

wae... Thanks for that stuff.  For the sake of this connection debacle I just disabled the 5ghz radio so there couldn't be any confusion.  I'm planning on connecting everything on the 2.4 since I need range more than speed.  In the future I might set up the 5ghz dedicated to my backyard repeater.  That way, never the twain shall meet.

Not that this is really helpful, but I like pictures.  Here is the "network" so to speak.

I have now tried the RTSP loading at least 20 times and it doesn't work.  I'm tempted to throw it in the trash and buy something different.  So infuriating.

I used a cheap amazon sourced wifi camera and it only supports RTSP.  I think it was $60 CDN for a 1080p camera with IR night vision and LEDs.

I installed and setup zoneminder on my server for security and recording.  Works like a champ.