I have just fallen into the “delete the base station and outdoor camera while offline” trap.
After messing around for an hour I discovered this forum and assumed I would be throwing away the outdoor cam. I read here that someone had left the base plugged in over night and then was able to connect.
I left my camera and base off and unplugged for about 15 minutes. I removed the SD card. I then plugged in the base station and left it. After a few minutes it connected to my WiFi network and light went solid blue. I waited another 15 or so minutes. I tried connecting the camera to the base station. It failed once and then I moved the camera to within 6" of the base. It connected almost immediately. It had an extremely low battery but seemed to work fine.
I have a outdoor camera deleted and it shows solid blue. I can’t seem to add it back to my base station. My base station and another outdoor cam is fine. I need to get this one added back to my app. I can’t get that in pairing mode. Any pointers or it goes to trash?
My difficulty reconnecting seemed to possibly be related to a low battery. I would try shutting it off for a day and charge it fully before trying again. I assume the signal was weaker with a low battery as I had to get the camera within 6 inches of the base to pair it. Good luck. Mine is still working fine to this day.
I changed my internet provider and needed to update the wifi on my wyze devices. I ended up also deleting the base thinking that would be easiest way to do it but tried about 10 times and it would never connect to my new internet when plugged right into the Router. Would just flash blue forever. I ended up taking someones suggestion here and using a paperclip to put in the tiny reset hole (for 30 seconds) of the base while the power was still plugged in and ethernet cord unplugged and then plugged back in the ethernet and restarted the add device process and it worked! I was able to connect my old version doorbell to it also. Hopefully that works for others also.
Im so pissed off…why didnt wyze have a WARNING DO NOT DELETE WHEN OFFLINE POP UP. We were just hit with hurricane milton and lost power and internet for a week…we got power and cameras didnt work so i deleted to reset them up.
Now my base station is flashing blue and is bricked.
Ive tried paperclip reset
Soft sync reset
Modem/router reset
Sdcard update
NOTHING WORKS AND I CANT BUT A [Mod Edit] BASE STATION since they dont sell them anymore and not even 1 for sale on ebay.
Im.so aggravated.
Im a beta tester for wyze and their lack of customer service for the base station issue (deleteing when offline) is total [Mod Edit].
Now i have to buy a whole new systen.
Thanks for nothing WYZE
Sorry but our [Mod Edit] farm was floating in hurricane milton… wyzz should have a pop up do not delete cam there is an alternative way tot get this back online…we had powee loss for a week got it back assume dinternet was all goof deleted and BRICKED…dont assume!
You know what they say about people eho make assumptions.
Qrite to wyze and they offered me a measily $20 gift card for 180 in 2 base station sets ups.
I need to base stationd asap
.and even bought 1 from ebay and it was bricked.
Wyze is utter [Mod Edit].
I have zmodo…super cheap and it has worked flawlessly…dont w Wyze…they could have had me mail in my bases and fixed them…he i would have paid too.
Thank you! My outdoor cam V2 base station was ‘offline’ and flashing blue and I couldn’t get it to connect at all. It had been hours and I was so tired of it all.
I didn’t know about the tiny pinhole being a reset! I thought the little button on the other side of the base station, next to the card slot, was the reset. Well, I had nothing to lose, so got a paper clip and held it in the tiny hole for 30 seconds and wow, I’m connected again.
I did not delete the base station from my devices, having read the warnings about that. But I was trying to re-add it since I read somewhere here that was the way. But the re-add process didn’t work, and it didn’t need to. The blue light stopped flashing and the base was back online.
So grateful for your clear description of what you did.
When mine flashes blue I just turn the power off then back on via smart plug and it come back on line. I haven’t had to do it in about 8 months but it always worked before.
Yes, powering off the base was one of the first things I tried, but it didn’t work. This whole thing started on a really windy day when the power was going off a couple of times, and the base just didn’t recover.
So the base came back and is working great. But my cam has a new problem: the timestamp no longer is accurate. I’m going to post this in a different thread because I’ve tried just about everything – twice – to fix that, and it’s no good.
Forgot to add: Sticking that paper clip in the base station pinhole worked to fix a problem from over a year ago, the problem of the base station not recognizing an SD card. After the base came back online, suddenly it would recognize an SD card!
I was happy, even though this was not a big deal problem for me. So resetting the base station (paper clip in the pinhole) worked for me.
