I have a floodlight camera, V2 and also a doorbell camera V2 and two other cameras in the back that work fine but the floodlight one and the doorbell camera have constantly been losing connection where I got a reset reboot and they’ll work for about an hour and lose connection just these two cameras I’m about to get rid of these wise cameras cause these aren’t working anymore My older ones were fantastic.
And yes, I am on the 2.4 gig as the doorbell cam says
Anybody have any idea what can possibly be happening? Thank you in advance.
Often the doorbell cam is in a terrible spot for wifi as it is mounted right to the house wall and that may have aluminum siding or a foil vapor barrier in the walls (or chicken wire if you have plaster or stucco). Any metal like that is awful for wifi. So your wifi has to go out through windows, and that only works when the device is at least a few feet away from the house walls. Even if the signal strength meter shows a good signal, often it is a reflected signal bouncing off something and that is not a very usable signal and is even more prone to interference and fluctuation than a direct signal.
The floodlight I’m guessing might be the same (mounted to a house wall) or is on a garage or something further away and just on the edge of usable wifi range?
If you’re using an ISP provided router (notoriously bad wifi) using an after market one, or adding one or two APs/mesh nodes on can help immensely. So can re-positioning the router to be up higher, or closer to the problem areas. Sometimes trying different wifi channels can help too but that’s best done along with a wifi analyzer app, and in reality most routers pick the best one when they do their scan on startup.
Sometimes it is as simple as new neighbors, or neighbors that got a higher powered router, added a mesh system, etc, can add just enough interference to take something that was borderline and make it not work.
If that’s the issue, then it won’t really matter what brand you put in those spots.
Other thought is if those two are older (not sure how long you’ve had them but they’re older models) that have been exposed to a lot of weather (even just sun and heat), the wifi chipsets could be wearing out, as they tend to do over time. Did they work fine before and just start doing it (without any other changes to your wifi)?
My old ones still work fine, it’s the two (V2.) cameras
Just walked the wife out and the floodlight motion came on🤷🏻♂️
Not sure if the camera has live view.
Yep it’s in live view, I took the SD card out yesterday just to try and see if that resolved the issue.
Just weird how it goes on and off
Thanks for your reply
The light turning on and off shouldn’t rely at all on connectivity, SD card, or live view.
If it isn’t turning on and off as it should be it sounds like more of an electrical problem or the light itself is having issues.
As I mentioned the v2 cams probably aren’t mounted tight on a wall near a door, it is the less than ideal location of most doorbells that can be an issue. Floodlights are also typically far away and/or mounted directly on an exterior wall which is a similar issue.
Keep in mind wifi signals fluctuate, if it works now it might not work later when more people are using wifi, so intermittent problems often come down to wifi signal.