Just use the old name and password and no need to climb anywhere. It is almost impossible to change the name and password of the WiFi network from the camera.
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It’s actually tougher than most people think. Especially if you make a SSID or password change on an unplanned basis - as was the case for the original post. If you change the SSID or password, you no longer have any connectivity to the camera, so how can you communicate a change? Answer is that you can’t. Hence the need to do the setup again - no choice.
On the other hand, if you are making a planned change (for example a routine password change), it would be possible to either set a second SSID and password. In other words have the camera able to connect to either old SSID/password or new SSID/password. AFTER that, you could change change the SSID/password on the access point.. The other option would be to tell the camera to use a new SSID/password - at which time the camera would lose connectivity UNTIL such time as you change the SSID/password on the access point. Then the camera SHOULD reconnect. These last two REQUIRE that you make the changes to the camera BEFORE changing the config on the access point. Unfortunately Wyze has not added the capability to perform either of these two options. It would be very nice.
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How is the camera to get the new settings if it has no connection? Magic?
Bluetooth? 
Still gotta climb that ladder to get close enough (assuming it is a BT enabled cam), and do it for every individual cam, not a blanket change like people keep asking for.
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Just a joke, maybe.
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Maybe wyze should create a Wyze hub To where we only have to reconnect the hub to the new Internet rather than every single individual camera it’s not that difficult. That wyze hub could also provide cloud storage. And yet It’s another Product they could sell.
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I realize they make their money on their subscriptions rather than their products, but the cameras could even be used for off-line recording With a Wyze hub
Interesting idea but I don’t want to buy any hub. I very rarely change my SSID or password. I have no government secrets to protect or missiles to launch.
If you change both SSID and passwords often, buy another router and move off cameras to the changed router one at a time. Do not shutdown your entire operation. Cams work fine across different routers with different SSIDs.
Adjust to current techology.
No thanks. The hub model is awful.
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They used to officially be able to be used for offline recording without a hub, and even still can with the right tricks.
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I recently bought a couple Tuya WiFi cams. Just spent about 5 minutes drilling through all the menus to change the SSID. Nothing. Their help section has nothing about ‘change’ or ‘SSID’ or ‘new router’
So, if I get a new router, I will either have to make the old SSID the new SSID or access the cameras for a reset.
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Ditto!
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When changing the network access password on a WiFi network (for security, or whatever reason), ALL Wyze devices need to be re-set-up individually to access the network. For those of us with dozens of Wyze devices this is impractical and may even be a reason NOT to change WiFi passwords, when security dictates we should from time to time. The app should have a global credential location for WiFi networks, where updated SSID and Passwords can be stored/changed and passed to the devices rather than deleting and re-adding each device.
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So if Wyze is such a great Internet company, how comes it’s so hard to change Wi-Fi? Can’t some smart guy there come up with an answer?
Wyze isn’t an internet company? That would be your ISP.
The question about why changing wifi on IOT devices (or really any device) can’t be done through an app has already been answered, this isn’t limited to Wyze. Workarounds have also been posted here to make it easy to reconnect all of your devices when you change routers or ISPs.
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That would be really great!!
Your screenshot is from a beta version?
Nope, latest production version available on the App Store.
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Ah you are right!!!
I have it too but only for V3 cams at the moment.
My V4s and v2s don’t have the same option..
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