Change sprinkler controller wifi

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Do I seriously have to go through the whole setup process (including mounting) to change wifi networks?

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The good news is that Wyze is working on making it possible to switch networks for their devices without having to go through setup every time.

For now, I haven’t specifically tried to do it for my sprinkler controller, but for most Wyze devices, as long as you don’t delete them from the app first, they will usually save most of your schedules and settings when you complete basic setup again. So you shouldn’t have to do everything again, but it is still a big hassle and most people choose to avoid changing their network and if they buy a new router they will tell the new router to use the same SSID and password that the previous router was setup with, or else create a separate virtual network or guest network to keep broadcasting the old one in addition to any new one.

Sadly, if the change is needed for security reasons, we do have to go through setup to change the network for now. Hopefully Wyze will update this process soon. Vote on this wishlist item and join the conversation here:

The wishlist is already in progress, but it can’t hurt to continue to add support to it.

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Wow, so here we are 1 year later and it appears the sprinkler is still not capable of changing Wi-Fi settings w/o complete reset??? C’mon Wyze…

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Same here. At least let us export/import the settings. How hard could that be? Simple JSON format.

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Ok, I wish an employee would have posted this here previously, but I was freaking out about having to completely reprogram my sprinkler controller for something as simple as a password change to wifi.

However, it does work, you just have to have some hope and faith it will work.

  1. do NOT delete the old device first.
  2. add your sprinkler controller as if it were a new device (holding the reset button the back and then using the “+” icon in the app).
  3. I gave the new device a different name, hoping it wouldn’t clobber my old settings so I’d at least have a reference to use when reprogramming everything.
  4. you should probably complete the step asking about your wiring configuration (at least I did it) but it may not be necessary.
  5. once that is saved it’ll ask you about setting up your zones. at this point, Cancel or Exit, I can’t remember exactly what it said, but don’t try setting up the zones as I don’t know if that’ll screw up the old settings.
  6. go back to the wyze app, select the sprinkler controller and there is your device with the new name, but not the old one. Thankfully it did seem to detect that it was the same device and linked itself to the old settings profile.
  7. optionally rename it back to whatever you preferred from the little gear icon.
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I too stumbled through changing the WiFi SSID for my sprinkler controller. Here is what I learned:

  1. Indeed, in order to get your controller connected to a new WiFi SSID, you must reset your system and go through all the steps of setting up a new controller.
  2. Most of the previously entered data will still be present for the “new” system.
  3. It is OK to name your “new” system with the same name as it previously had.
  4. In the step where you specify which terminals are present, you must click on the numbers for each of the terminals (zones) you want to be remembered from the previous configuration. (I didn’t do that the first time around. All of the zone data (even the photos!) were still there after I went back and corrected my mistake.)
  5. Most of the schedule data was still present. The only thing that disappeared was the association between the schedules and the zones. (That might have been lost because I only specified that terminal 1 was present the first time through.)