Thanks for responding. Yes, the time lapse feature works. It saves to the SD card just fine. The SD card also had a “log” file text that was garbled. Possibly encrypted. When I unplug the cam and insert the SD card, the YouTube videos say it should make a double-chime sound once I plug it in, verifying that it sees the SD card. I never get that chime, (but I do hear a click) the light goes from solid yellow, to blinking yellow, to blue. I’ve submitted a support issue to wyze.com so hopefully they either know about this bug and have a fix for it, or the cam may possibly be defective and needs to be replaced.
Also - one other thing I just noticed is that I haven’t EVER received a notification from this app. EVER. I did have it set to detect people and events at one point, but it has never notified me of anything. I’ve taken it down until a solution can be reached as I can’t consider it anything other than a live monitor which is really of little use without a desktop app running that can view this cam’s feed.
A couple of things you could try .
Try a different card to be sure.
Take the card out , unplug the camera , insert the card , power the camera back up
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HDRock - thanks. I’ve already tried that a number of times. Wize sent me a replacement cam that does work with my both of the SD cards that the first cam would not save to. The new cam saves events, saves to the SD card, etc. One odd thing I did notice is that the YouTube instruction videos say that they strongly recommend that you unplug the cam before inserting the SD card. Weeeellll… if I do that (with BOTH cams) there will NEVER be a double chime sound. If I do it (yes, with both cams) without unplugging from power, I DO get the double chime sound. Of course the 1st cam still won’t record anything to the SD card, and the 2nd cam does just fine. I may take the 1st one apart and see if it is missing the R65 chip or if something obvious is missing. I’m told these are manufactured in China, and things made in China are notorious for being of poor quality or even faked copies with components missing, etc., so I try never to buy things online that are shipped from China.
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Yeah , I have heard that said also , unplug the camera before , but I have never done that taking them out or putting them in.
Glad to see you got a replacement that works right
AMAZING! New development. A few days ago Wyze pushed out an update for the Android app and for the Cam v2. I did all the updates and now…whaddyaknow? Now suddenly everything works like it is supposed to work with the same old micro SD cards that everyone kept telling me that the SD card was the culprit. Now all of them are recording to the SD card with no problems.
Good update Wyze. Thanks for fixing the “won’t record to SD card” issue. I’m happy now.
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Out of curiosity, was there actually playback from the days it wasn’t working after FE update or was there simply no recording happening at all during that time?
Curious if the only fix is a replacement camera because I am having the same issues as described above, however no reboots have helped. Neither has taking out SD cards etc.
My camera is relatively new, received in Jan of this year I believe, the camera does not do any motion detection (no notifications at least) and will not do any continuous recording. I can see the SD card showing storage available but it does not record at all.
As Emperor3 said, it pretty much functions ONLY as a live feed camera which is sort of useless to me as I have it watching an entry door to my home.
Is there anything I can try to get this going? My other two Wyze cams have no issues whatsover. It also has a great connection (although that shouldn’t at all affect continuous recording). I’m perplexed as to why it’s not working.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Tony
I think I figured it out.
I tried recording my settings in HD, SD, 360p
the playback did not work on HD and SD but worked on 360p
I am using Sandisk 64gb, does anyone know if i should get a new sd card? should playback work on all settings?
Hmm…I tried, I just can’t mine to record anything. It’s incredibly frustrating!
When I go to view playback, I get a message “No More” on my screen and have no video to even watch.
Oh wow I’m going through the same thing to how frustrating this is. Hope they take care of your issue.
Sorry I just read this.
After a couple years of trouble free operation, two of my cameras are doing the same thing.
I used to have a few days of video saved on the SD. Now it’s spotty coverage.
I tried one new SD card and had difficulty with the camera recognizing that there was an SD installed.
I formatted the card fairly quickly, and it’s been recording OK for the last 7 hours.
The other camera is more difficult to access. I tried to reformat the SD in the camera, and it took a very long time. It seems to be recording OK… for now.
My 3rd camera has a “green bar” of recordings for the past 3.5 days.
The solution appears to be formatting the SD card: