Fix-It-Friday 6/3/2022

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LARGE SD CARDS NOT WORKING RIGHT

I know Wyze is already aware of this bug and working on it (thanks WyzeJasonJ for passing the information on to the appropriate team), but it seems we should report it here anyway for all those struggling with this issue still.

Cards up to 128GB work fine with exFAT format, but larger cards (256GB, 512GB, etc) in exFAT will only record video for a small amount of GB before it stops using the card (I have seen reports for limits of 20GB, 30GB, 84GB, 100GB). --Some users report that formating larger cards to FAT32 makes them work as normal, but even if this is the case, the issue should still be addressed/resolved.

There is a recent report that firmware in beta-testing may have fixed this bug for V2 cameras, but we still have no report about what’s going on with the rest of the cams, including the V3.

Lots of reports about this in the following threads:

V3 camera - allow continuous recording more than 9 days

Remove the 9 day (or 100GB) limitation on continuous recording for the V3 cams. Large SD cards up to 256GB are common now that the cameras support exFAT, and even if unofficially supported, are being used in these cameras. 9 days is not enough history for many common camera applications, and motion detection is not reliable or consistent enough to remove the need for continuous recording. Seems like these cameras were updated to support a larger file system, but never removed this 9 or 10 day l…

Formatting large SD cards

Does the Cam3 properly format large (greater than 32 gb) cards, or do I need to do that before inserting it into the cam. Background - it looked like it worked on my 256gb card, The camera “saw” 256 gb, but then the camera quit continuous recording at around 30 gb a few days later.

V3 Cam SD card size?

256 didnt work, it was stopping at about 100gb for some reason, probably a software bug… but 128gb is plenty.