I have 19 cameras ranging from V3,V3, OG, outdoor, pan scan, etc and all were working fine until about 2 days ago. Every one of my cameras that are plugged into an outlet can no longer connect. I have full internet, all the outlets have power, they’re all blinking as if they are trying to connect but cant. my exterior cameras (battery powered) all seem to be working fine. My house never lost power or anything, ive rebooted the router, unplugged cams and tried to reconnect, tried the setup again but none of them will work.
Rebooted the router? But did you also first, (first is important) reboot the cable modem? Go from fartherest point outside to end, (always). Turn off router, turn off cable modem. Turn on Cable modem, wait 1-2 minutes, turn on router. (These days routers and cable modems seldom have on/off switches. Easier to put it on a plugged in manual on/off switch). Then try unplugging power going to one-two cameras and see if the completely fresh connection to the outside helps. Works for me, and cost nothing but 5 minutes to try. Good luck.
Well, its taken troubleshooting everything related to this camera location to find the fault, but did. This outdoor square opening canister like lamp has a standard single E26 bulb socket inside, facing upward. I have been using a E26 adapter that extends the bulb taller in its socket, but not for that reason. Its one of those adapters that adds two 2-prong female outlet so we can plug in a two prong 120 volt male end or a 5V 2amp adapter for USB.
The problem: Its both those two female outlets on the extension adapter that worked intermittently, that was this camera’s problem source. Adapters fit tight into the outlets. And didn’t wiggle even a little, but sometimes when an USB adapter was plugged in, the adapter worked. Sometimes it didn’t. When I added a bulb to the top, the bulb worked flawlessly. But both the 2-prong outlets worked sometimes and not always.
After I found the cause, I ordered a socket with USB 5volt pigtail connected (female end) so I could just plug the camera in with a short USB A cable. And it works. The one I got was advertised on Amazon as used with Wyze camera, but its not a Wyze product. Though, I don’t need it, this socket has a 3 prong female outlet on its top where ordinarily the E26 bulb would screw in.
When I replaced (swapped) cameras an used the same USB cable with a small bridge to test power, the socket adapter worked. Bad luck because when it worked, I gave it a pass as not the problem. Took pulling everything apart and trying things individually again and again, until I got a failure. And I learned again, I’ve got to test everything more than once to find a failure.
And now, someone that can, can mark this with its solution.
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