I’m new to the Wyze cameras and noticed there is a couple second delay when viewing live view. I tried lowering resolution and disabling motion detecting with no luck. Is there a fix to minimize this delay?
One thing you can try is temporarily move your camera next to your WiFi router and check Live View delay. This should confirm or rule-out distance as an issue.
You also want to make sure your device with the Wyze App has good WiFi or mobile data bandwidth.
I have 3 cameras fairly near the Wi-Fi. 1, 3, 10 ft respectively. And all are viewing locally within the home not remotely. I went as far a upgrading to Wi-Fi 6 then 7 but no luck.
Next thing I would try is power cycling your cameras, router/modem and your device with Wyze App.
Yup, did that
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That is normal behaviour of all WiFi cameras, learn to live with it. Only wired cameras will have no noticeable delay.
As frustrating as it is (especially with wanting to access the doorbell’s view in a timely fashion), this has been my experience, as well.
All good suggestions above.
I have a robust, non-mesh 6e network. I have characterized all my cameras as to how long it takes to start streaming. The following are my timings (one thousand one, one thousand two, etc).
Note: non-grouped cameras from Favorites or Devices.
OG, OG-T. 1-2 seconds
Doorbell v2. 3-4 seconds
Pan Scan V3. 3-4 seconds
V4. 2-3 seconds
V3 pro. 3-4 seconds
WBCP. 10-12 seconds (as expected)
If you are timing from a group things change and can get much longer depending on the number of cams in the group.
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It’s actually not on all Wi-Fi camera. Ring branded is only about a second delay.
Thank you!
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I should’ve been more specific earlier: What @habib described has been my experience with Wyze cameras. Some other Wi-Fi cameras I have do reliably load noticeably faster.
I also should’ve written this before: Welcome to the Forum, @kshimizu47! 
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But there is still delay. No WiFi camera will give you instant replay. Even hard wired cameras have delay, but it is very negligible.
I only have Wyze cameras so I can’t vouch if they are better or worse. Sometime ago, I asked the same question, why there is delay on live stream when everything streams locally. Can’t remember who, but I got a very detailed and satisfactory answer.
Playing video over the net/WiFi requires buffering or else the playback is going to be choppy. Buffering itself introduces delay.
The bigger the buffer, the smoother it is and the longer the delay is.
@habib, in addition to what @p2788deal wrote, I’ve also seen many mentions of how the cameras require an Internet connection for authentication even though they’re streaming locally, so there’s gonna be some back-and-forth network stuff that has to take place, and that’s another piece that adds load time lag, at least as I understand it.
@p2788deal summarized it better than I did. You are correct the cameras need to authenticate with mothership but once that connection is established the live streaming is local only, that is why v3 and v4 continue to write to SD card even after the internet is lost. The delay happens because the video needs to be compressed and encoded by the camera and decoded by viewing device (phone, tablet. PC). That is what introduces the delay. More compression and encoding longer the delay.
I see a lot of responses about delay between tapping a camera and when the video starts playing, but the original post seems to me like while watching, the video is a couple seconds behind real time. Which is it?
On my OGs and Panv3, it is near real time, I’d say less than 1 second delayed from real time, and that is streaming through Wyze’s servers. If I was on the same LAN as them I suspect it would be even better.
The Panv3s do take a couple seconds longer to authenticate than the OGs do (which was mostly due to a firmware improvement a while back on the OGs) but the actual stream is about the same.
Yes you are correct. My question was viewing live view on the same lan. Thanks for you response
It takes 2 seconds to load the video, or the video is 2 seconds behind real time?
If the latter, it is usually wifi signal issues (strength or quality, or lack of bandwidth) that causes that. Can be the wifi signal to the cam, or to the phone.
Only time I’ve noticed a lag like that is when I’m in the garage and my phone has a very poor signal.
Delay in video can also be affected by phone/model
On my Pixel smartphone the video is nearly synced, but on a cheap-o Android a single view live cam has 7 second delay.
Both my Pixel and cheap phone are next to each other in this test.
So the phones processing power also plays into the delay