Ability to reboot Outdoor plug

[K6CCC]

Cameras can be rebooted either from the app, or via a scheduled rule. I wish you could do the same for Outdoor plugs.
My use case is that I have a mesh based WiFi and once in a while a device will insist on using a mesh node that is not best for the location of that device - resulting in poor performance. I have all of my cameras scheduled to reboot, and that usually will get a camera to move to a better mesh WiFi node. Can’t do that with the Outdoor plugs - and they damn near insist on sticking with a weak WiFi rather than roaming to a better one until power cycled.

[carverofchoice]

I was going to link to all the similar the wishlists for this same thing, and saw you already made one:

Remote reboot of outdoor plug

It would be nice to be able to remotely reboot an Outdoor Plug - same as you can currently do with cameras. My use case is that at times my various Wyze devices will associate with one of my Meraki access points that is a long ways away rather than the one that is close by (and has a FAR better signal). This results in poor performance. On cameras I can usually get the camera to move to the nearby access point with a remote reboot. No such capability exists with the plugs.

Though there are similar ones:

Timed auto ON plug setting

Lowes Iris (now defunked) plugs had a setting which you could set to TURN ON after a certain time after being turned off. On their updates, they removed this feature, so it might have been a security issue? But I loved using it for certain things such as restarting my router remotely. If I turned off my plug the router was plugged into, well, I would lose the wifi connection needed to turn it back on. Auto-on after off for ______ min/sec was the resolve.

Cycle Timer for Wyze Plug

Can a cycle timer feature be added to the Wyze Plug? Something that would allow you to have a plugged in device go on and off repeatedly according to a desired on and off cycle for a desired number of times?

Wyze Plug: power cycle on loss of internet connection

Detect internet signal and if it doesn’t connect power cycle the device. This way a modem could be plugged into the device to reset a modem until the network is reset

I’ve even voted for some of them because I too want this. But so far Wyze’s response has been “Maybe later” so this isn’t something they’re planning to do anytime soon.

I will say that I have a mesh router myself, and many of them have thresholds we can set to tell the router how to manage this better on it’s own. Basically if a connection to a certain device is too weak of a signal, it will try to force the device to roam onto another, better node if the signal is better for the device. I am not familiar with Meraki, but it might be worth exploring the settings options.

I am curious, if the device is functioning on that weaker signal, at least it is still functioning. There are good reasons to want a camera on a stronger signal (make sure video events are uploaded and not jittery), but all that matters for the plug is whether it turns on or off, so a weak or strong signal should not make much difference as long as there is a signal…and if the signal is so weak that it goes out, then the device should automatically connect to the strong signal after the weak signal disappears.

Anyway, like you I have voted for the plugs to be given rebooting capabilities. Wyze knows this has been requested. Now we just have to wait and hope such a feature is eventually added. The more people that vote for those wishlist items, the more likely Wyze will consider it.