My network name ends with “5g” - it was a 5g network, and I acknowledge that the Cam v3 cannot connect to such a network. However, this network is 2.4g, it is only the name that contains the “5g” part.
Simply renaming the network works. But that breaks my whole smart system, all my smart devices now have to be reset and reconfigured. That is not a viable option.
And the funny thing is this has been the name forever, I have 3 cams that have always worked. Now adding a 4th this is an issue all of the sudden.
Now I have disconnected the other 3, now they also cannot connect.
What does the network name have to do with being compatible or not? Especially if it did work.
I did this twice just to prove it to myself.But I see this seems a common problem, there is a post before this a while ago, 29 days back if I am not mistaken.
Really silly to identify a network by the name of the SSID.
You can also look at it that all the other devices get kicked off when you rename the ssid so that too can be the reason why it works.
I’d suggest testing by trying another ssid with 5g such as “test 5g” as the ssid and see if it works. Testing by trying the same ssid as the other devices isn’t fruitful here.
Technically, there’s no programmatic reason why they would see 5g in a name and go out of their way to determine its not part of the name or even break based on that. That’s not what should be happening here. A name is a name is a name. However, silly bugs can get exist and they could potentially have some silly combo thing going on that they couldn’t foresee. This is the only valid thing that could explain it.
Edit - you may also want to factory reset the router and other things as you even seem to state that other cams previously worked and adding a 4th is when things went wrong. I seriously do not expect the Wyze side to be at fault here. Your mind simply jumped to a conclusion based on a simple thing you see that affects it. Computers are far more complicated than that.
They were discussing same situation. One comment was " I noticed the Wyze is configured to show networks with the 5G somewhere within the SSID NAME as incompatible, whether its actually tranmitting on 5G or not."
Unfortunately, time for me is short so trying to test is out of the question, I did add an access point yesterday exclusively to the now disconnected cameras, connected ted perfectly with the new name which does not have the 5G in the name.
I feel sorry for the folks who called their 2.4g network “Not the 5g network” because that will not work when you connect new cameras.
It still bothers me that it did work. Why some Wyze developer decided to implement this and report it as “an unsupported network” goes beyond logic. How it was signed off is even crazier.
The Wyze app used to balk when creating schedules that crossed midnight; the end time being earlier than the start or something like that. The bug took so long to fix, users worked around it by creating 2 schedules. Sometimes I think Wyze hires programmers direct from high school.