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Forest Cat doesn’t approve any Wyze purchases, Only cat snacks and an occasional Reolink purchase :grinning_cat_with_smiling_eyes:

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Great pic. :frog:

What’s your position on deflocking? Are you pro-flock or anti-flock?

For the kitties. :face_holding_back_tears:

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Up here in the rural mountains, those black flock things on poles are target practice :rofl:

If it were government owned and CONTROLLED, maybe it would be acceptable. But as it is a private company HELL NO….

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@deugen

I caught your post and my red flags triggered. Your comment that you have had 6 failures of the power supplies (wall warts) is way way way higher than an acceptable failure rate, especially if the sample size is 18 units.

I am not a power engineer but if I ever saw this level of failure I would be asking a lot of questions.

The Wyze supplies are definitely inexpensive, just enough to power the unit with very little, if none, holdover capability. They are UL listed. UL is for safety, not operational usefulness.

Regardless of the unit failures have you explained the 6 power supply failures to Wyze support? If so what was their response? Wyze should have pointed you to the possibility that you have bad/dirty/spikey AC power.

The unit failures your seeing are probably the result of the power supplies letting spikes come through or excessive brown outs.

Reading between the lines you comment that you have 18 units to monitor a property. To me that says you have a large property. Is this a rural setting? Are you on the power grid or off grid generation (solar, generator, etc)?

What are you replacing the 6 failed adapters with? Since replacement have any of them or attached units failed?

I’m speculating but if you fix the supply issue the unit failure rate will drop dramatically.

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Hi @ronl4625 Thanks for the response. In no particular order I’ll address your various points:

  1. The quantity of cameras is high because I monitor every room and area around a typical urban residential house (every room because it’s for the health and safety of a person that showed signs of cognitive decline).

  2. I have replaced the failed adapters with third-party adapters (2amp but with two USB ports). None of these have failed. I now keep a number of extra ones on-hand for any other such circumstances.

  3. I did inform Wyze, and they said they do not offer replacement adapters. It’s time consuming and nerve-wracking to deal with Wyze’s scripted support. It always boils down to “replace”, and it’s faster if I buy third-party.

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Keep in mind that most inexpensive dual port 2.4 AMP only supply 1.2 AMPS per port. Make sure to check the specs if available.

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