Found it. I changed the SSID and password to match my in-house wifi, both 2.4GHz and 5Ghz. I think I’m ready to hook everything back up and see what happens. Thanks again.
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If you get it all up and running you can check for firmware updates on the Ubiquiti too but may not be worth it, if it’s working, probably fine. Might get a bit better performance out of the link, or it may do nothing.
Should be able to update the shop one first via the wireless link, then update the house one second. Both should be reachable from any device in your house.
Depends if you subscribe to the “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” mindset or not.
Also, just curious, with the trendnet offline, were your outside cams still working? Would confirm they are operating off the house wifi (which is almost certain, but never know).
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Wow. Who knew that after making the SSID/password changes and hitting APPLY, you weren’t done? I sure didn’t. I kept changing the SSID/password and APPLYing, but when I took it to the shop, it didn’t work and the Trendnet SSID/password info was still there. I finally saw something that said to hit Reboot or Restart after the changes were done. There wasn’t a Reboot or Restart. I figured SAVE (with a picture of a disk) meant to save the settings to my hard drive. I tried it anyway and it worked. The Trendnet names are gone from my phone’s list. I unplugged it and plugged it back in. Still gone. I will take it back out the shop tomorrow and see what happens.
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Good question. In addition to the 2 cameras I have inside the shop, I have one mounted to the front of the shop facing the house. And I have one about 40 feet behind the back of the shop facing the shop. The one behind the shop has been rock solid the whole time, with or without any comm stuff plugged in inside the shop. The one on the front of the shop starting acting up about 2 weeks ago and has been offline for the last week. I do not believe the problem is related to what I’m working on. I unplugged it and plugged it back in and no change. Once I get the wifi inside the shop working, I will take a serious look at it and maybe swap out the cable, then the power supply, and then another camera to see if that fixes it.
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Yeah that’s not too uncommon on networking gear, apply means make it work “for now” so you can confirm it is all good, and if something breaks you just reboot it. Then save makes it permanent. Can be handy but also confusing.
Interesting that one that far away from the house is connecting ok, especially if the shop is in the path. But with a decent ISP router (they aren’t great but have gotten better) and not much neighboring wifi it probably gets enough for the minimal bandwidth needed.
I’d agree that the one on the shop itself most likely is not related to all this, if the one behind the shop is getting signal from the house, that one should be easily.
One problem at a time.
Success! Finally. Thank you dave27 and Crease. Without your help, I would have never gotten this done.
In case you’re wondering about the camera mounted above the Ubiquiti, I have 2 old cameras mounted at the top left and top right front of the shop. They are used just for extra IR lighting. With the Wyze camera (with IR) in the middle, I get really good invisible lighting covering a large area.
Again, thanks so much for all your help.
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Glad it is working. Bit concerned about the hole the ethernet is coming out of, may want to loop the cable a bit and seal the hole to keep water out.
Yeah I know a few here are using spare/old cameras for IR purposes only. If you find your Wyze cam attracts too many bugs or reflects off rain when the IR is on, you can even disable its own lights and see if the others give you enough by themselves.
Did you get that front cam working too? I’m assuming that was unrelated to the shop wifi.
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I will completely seal the hole today with quality silicone caulk. And probably make a drip loop inside the shop just in case. There’s not really anything below where it comes in. just a concrete floor and some old shop brooms.
As I suspected, the problem with the camera on the front of the shop is not related the the other issue. As I said earlier, new cable, then new power adaptor, then spare camera. These Wyze cameras are really pretty simple to troubleshoot.
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Thanks for taking the time to report success! I’m glad you got it working again. 
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Status of camera on the front of the shop? Good cable, good power supply, bad camera. I renamed my spare camera to Shop Front. I set the bad camera up as a new camera and now it works great as a new spare camera. Wyze cameras are really great. And life is good…
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Wow! What a great, long, topic with a happy ending this has been! 
Thank you all for the respectful discourse and help and thank you @PCHearn for persevering! 
What a great community!
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Just curious, did you previously delete the “bad” cam from the app and do factory reset, then re-add it? If it is working now as a new camera, seems like something was just “stuck”. Or perhaps it just needed to be closer to your home wifi to get set up the first time, as that’s a bit of a sensitive process.
Always good to have a spare though. When I travel I have a Panv3 and an OG that I can set up in the house (normally no cams in the house).
I’m guessing other wifi devices like your phone are working better in the shop now too? 100M ilnk should be plenty for anything you’re doing out there (if you moved the attic one outside and did some tweaking and aiming might be able to get 200+ but not really needed).
dave27
I don’t remember the history of that specific spare camera. I agree that something must have been stuck or maybe a glitch or something. Anyway, it’s setup and ready to perform when asked. I never noticed any other impacts of the Shop comm system failure other than the 2 inside cameras. I could move the U device in the attic, but like you said earlier in this thread, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” is a very good rule for me.
Yeah I’m assuming when you’re out there the doors are usually open so your phone gets signal and/or switches to mobile data. But it shouldn’t need to do that anymore.
If for whatever reason you ever need wired devices in the garage, you can get a cheap ($10 to $15 for 5 port or a bit more for 8 port) ethernet switch and put it between the black ubiquiti power brick and the trendnet AP, all the ports on the switch will have connectivity back to the house/internet.