I would like the ability to reboot devices especially cameras at a defined time. I have intermittent problems connecting to camera’s at times and a reboot seems to improve that. So if it would reboot at preset times I select would reconnect to router improving functionality.
Set an automation. I reboot all of my cameras every night. Granted, that is a software reboot. If you really need a power cycle, plug the USB wall wort into either a timer or remotely controllable switch.
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I have all my plug in cams connected to smart plugs. I don’t reboot them often but using my phone is easier than going around and pulling the plugs and putting them back in. All my smart plugs have the ability to add schedules for on and off.
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I thought about that… Does that work well? I have one camera plugged into the celling of the garage and is hard to get to without moving the car outside and setting up a ladder.
Are you able to trip the breaker in your circuit breaker box to power cycle your camera?
If so, that should be more convenient than moving your car and getting a ladder.
Odd. I never found a reason to reboot.
Certainly some devices need it to free up memory.
I don’t use plugs. Luckily cams have worked fine since 2019, except for one firmware update that required physical intervention.
I think a hard boot option would be nice to have.
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Ability is already there. Mine reboot every Sunday at 3AM.
Not for any particular reason, I’ve just found many electronics benefit from a fresh start every so often.
The only time I’ve had to do a hard/power cycle was when troubleshooting a Panv3 that got water in it (and the power cycle didn’t help). I suppose if the camera totally locked up (and thus wasn’t able to communicate with the internet and run its automation) the hard boot would be needed, but then a smart plug also probably wouldn’t be able to communicate. Some smart plugs store the automations in the plug’s memory, but it is hard to figure out which ones do and don’t without trying yourself or finding someone that has figured it out.
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Welcome to the Forum, @bucky53! 
I had this issue with a (non-Wyze) smart garage door controller’s Wi-Fi hub going offline occasionally, and I also got tired of dragging out a ladder, so it now gets its power delivery via a smart plug. The plug will run an automation (set in its app) to turn it back on if it’s been off for 15 seconds, and the account is linked to Google Home, so all I have to do is turn the plug off with my phone or voice (talking to a smart speaker) and the plug (and Wi-Fi hub) will reset 15 seconds later. I do something similar with an appliance where the outlet isn’t convenient.
Things like this can work very well and make your life much easier.
That’s not bad advice in general, but in my specific situation I don’t want to cut power to everything else on the circuit just to cycle a single device, and I don’t want to have to go to a different part of the house (i.e., basement) when I can talk to a nearby Google Assistant and have the device back online inside a minute.
Like others have said, though, setting up Automations in the Wyze app to restart your cameras at specified times is the easiest and least costly place to start, assuming the issue isn’t spotty Wi-Fi connections to the cameras themselves. Since Automations are executed from Wyze servers, they require an Internet connection back to the cameras in question in order to reliably restart them.
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My house is over 100 years old, probably swapped to breakers sometime in the 70s. Turning off a breaker shuts down about 17 random things throughout the house and probably a few things at the neighbor’s also 
I tried to label them and each would have needed a sheet of paper. Luckily I put in new service and panel and as I move stuff over it is nice and organized and sensible.
Smart plugs are a great tool for stuff like this, but of course if the plug loses its connection you’re stuck. I remember specifically searching for plugs that stored their rules/schedules in the plug itself. I don’t recall which ones but I did find a couple that worked that way, but obviously if they lost connection still couldn’t trigger anything remotely and would have to wait for the scheduled item to run.
There are some out there that have set up scripts that monitor their internet or whatever else they’re trying to make more reliable, and when the monitor fails it sends a signal to the plug to reboot. Pretty elaborate and crafty solution but in my case my power and internet are very reliable, haven’t had a need for anything like that.
Maybe each smart plug needs to be plugged into a different brand smart plug
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This is actually the case with Wyze Plug Outdoor and newer Wyze Plugs (kind of like 2nd and 3rd generation). First-generation Wyze Plugs (which are what I have) don’t have the Local Schedule feature.
And, yeah, at that point it’s a waiting game, as has been discussed in other Forum topics. Essentially it’s just a dumb timer if it gets to that.
Yeah, @habib specifically mentioned a device that does this several months ago.
I get the laughter, but there are also Forum members who absolutely swear by using a non-Wyze smart plug as a remote reboot option for their Wyze cameras. I guess as some additional layer of redundancy the thinking is that if the Wyze camera has lost its server connection then other Wyze devices might also be affected, so perhaps there’s a greater chance of successful reboot/reconnection by using a different service entirely. Seems like a reasonable idea to me, and I’m certainly not married to a single brand of smart devices.
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You are correct, that device has been the best thing I’ve ever bought. Not only does it monitor the internet connection and reboots if the connection is lost but also allows you to remotely reboot it. There is a $20 a year subscription though to activate the remote reboot but everything else works without subscription. Also the subscription supports unlimited devices.
I also use Kasa smart plugs on all my cameras, just in case. Kasa plugs keep the schedule locally. I don’t hard reboot my cameras unless its necessary. However I soft reboot them using Wyze automations nightly.
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Well, I think it’s mostly for the cameras that are on the fringe of the WiFi. I do have one of those repeaters but still is lacking a little. Sometimes I can’t even connect to the camera to do a remote reboot. I think that switch someone mentioned might do the trick.
I’ve been using TP-Link Powerline Ethernet adapters (a couple of TL-PA4010KIT, so 4 total at this point) for several years and a couple of months ago added one of their range extenders (TP-Link RE315) to my network, but instead of using it in “Range Extender Mode”, I have it configured in “Access Point Mode” and connected to one of the Powerline Ethernet adapters so that I essentially get wired backhaul to my ISP-provided gateway. That’s been an easy, reliable (for me), and relatively inexpensive way to extend my coverage without running cable or depending on a radio connection between my router and the extender.
Don’t get me wrong, just trying to wrap my head around. So, you are using a poweline adapter as a wired backhaul to an access point? Doesn’t that introduce a bottleneck to your setup? Powerline adapters have limited speed, I assume slower than your ISP provided gateway. How do you compensate for that?
I thought we already discussed that 
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I’m not doing a lot of high-bandwidth stuff, so these have worked out really well for my needs. I brought them into this discussion only because it seems like a potentially easy way for @bucky53 to get a little range boost (depending on the physical environment, like electrical power availability, whether or not the range extender in question has an Ethernet port and AP capability, etc.).
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Reading your post caused me to jump on amazon and look up TL-PA4010KIT.
Wow - $29 for 600mbps over powerline. I’m already eyeballing the $100 solution for gigabit speeds. Even if it’s half the lab speed (?) that is still a good solution. Like you I’ve been using a RE315. It connects about 30 2.4 devices using the 5 channel as a backhaul. It works OK but I am continuously looking for more speed and reliability.
Thanks for the suggestions.
Hooray for "discretionary income"
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Note that I’m not seeing the advertised speed. I think that’s under ideal conditions (all nodes on the same physical circuit without going through a breaker box, etc.). I went into a little more detail in the post I linked when responding to @habib.
I noticed that in the other topic. 
When I log into mine right now, I’m seeing 26 devices connected, some at 2.4 GHz and some at 5 GHz. I never intended to use it as a wireless extender: I bought it specifically because I planned to use it with wired backhaul, and it’s met expectations.
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I usually cut lab speed in half and hope for the best.
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Well that’s sort of annoying that they can’t make the cams store automations locally then…
Must be why I bought and never used 4 of them and they’re still sitting in the boxes. They do have “energy monitoring” which I guess is neat but I have “kill-a-watt” plugs for when I want to see how much something draws.
Was an impulse buy obviously, I think amazon did them for like $3.50 each one black friday so I got one on each of a few accounts.