My cam had been offline for 12ish hours. And this happens a couple times a week. The cam is outside and the wifi modem is indoors on the main level less than 10 feet away from Wyze. The camera frequently loses connection and does not reconnect. And this is not due to an internet outage. I have 2 Blink cameras less than 5 feet of the Wyze and Blink has zero connection issues. The difference is, on the rare occasion the wifi goes down and Blink loses connection, Blink let’s me know it’s offline and when wifi comes back on, Blink automatically reconnects. Wyze does not. To solve this, I now have Wyze plugged into a smart plug so I can use the app to power the cam off and on and then it reconnects. I started with a Wyze outdoor plug but that would lose connection as well. So I tried a Kasa outdoor plug. The Kasa never loses connection. So now I don’t have to go outside and unplug it to reconnect all the time. 1, Wyze has a wifi connection issue that my other devices do not. 2, Wyze app does not, but should send me a push notification telling me it’s offline. It seems like a basic request especially since it goes out a lot.

[image] habib: Just so we are clear, even though my Eeros are WiFi 6 mesh devices I only have single node at both locations. Fair enough. Anything is better than ISP stuff typically, but if you’re trying to reach something outside and far away without clear line of sight, it’s going to be hard to beat a good router/AP with external antennas. Obviously everyone’s situation is different (how close the neighbors are and what your walls are made of particularly).

[image] habib: Thanks to @Crease I just created an instance that if the light is on for 15 minutes to turn itself off. :grin: Right on, man! :+1: [image] habib: My daughter always forgets to turn it off This is exactly why my brother-in-law wanted the switch on the exhaust fan.

[image] JenniferLynn: XFI ADVANCED GATEWAY (XB8) CGM4981COM I have the 6ghz turned off 6 GHz on newer mesh routers is for explicit connections between the two+ node. Most of us can’t connect to it with any device, any IoT device or even our cell phones. (I’ve not heard of any cell phones that has the 6 GHz radio, so no connection to GHz is possible.) In as few a words as I can, here’s generally what you want to do to max your net and manage it. The IoT manufacturers pretty much design to only allow IoT to connect to 2.4 Your cameras, sensors, lights, switches, (this stuff) only connects to 2.4 Your TV, printer, game console, on 5 GHz, because its faster, though it has a more limited range. However the range doesn’t cause a problem because this stuff is usually in side/closer to your router. 6 GHz is like a Superhighway to connect your mesh nodes. It lessens the 5 GHz and 2.4 GHz traffic from the connections between the nodes. Sometimes we put a node on 2nd floor and a node in the basement. Then connect TV to a node in basement and TV/game console to 2nd floor node. One could be the main router. But allowing the 6 GHz to maintain connections between nodes allows max speed for your 5 GHz and 2.4 device node to node/router. I hope that helps a little. Could-a said, not wisest notion to turn off 6 GHz 98% of the time.

[image] Crease: I put the third switch on the circuit for a bathroom exhaust fan and then set up an automation in the Kasa app so that when that switch is turned on it turns off after 10 minutes. I have 40+ Wifi plugs, Wifi smart wall switches. I have a couple of them with local automations to simply turn them off regardless of their status, and some after midnight. Costs me a few minutes to set up. I also have at least one Echo of some model in every room, hallway, two attics, the garage and even hidden in a portch light. I have wifi plugs on all of them. And all of them cycle off and on between 3 and 4 am every day. Why the echos? Most have “person detection” and “no person detection” active. Yet, a flaw in these causes them to “go numb” and not respond. So, a reset of power fixes it or limits it to less than 24 hours. Just my thing, I guess.

[image] Sam_Bam: Echo…wifi plugs on all of them Yup. My Echo Dot (I primarily use Google Home but have dabbled in Amazon Alexa) sometimes just goes plumb deef! I’ve been thinking I just throw a smart plug behind that but haven’t quite gotten there yet.

[image] JenniferLynn: The camera frequently loses connection and does not reconnect. Hopefully this is a sign of progress: [image]Fix-It Friday - July 2024 Update Forum - Wyze Cam Pan v3 will not reconnect after it loses the connection We have firmware in QA testing currently that we hope to get out soon. :crossed_fingers:

The problem is, allegedly my Galaxy s23+ is able to connect to it. However it doesn’t. It tries to but I end up with no Wi-Fi. So I had to turn it off so it would stop trying.

[image] Antonius: I have not power cycled any of my cameras yet but I have the plugs just in case I need to . I have used the one Kasa plug for my WCO base station that goes offline about once every 5 months or so. I have Kasa plugs on all my cameras except one, the outdoor box is too small to accommodate the plug and the power supply. Funny enough, all the cameras that are on a plug have been power cycled at least once out of necessity. The one not on a plug, never needed a power cycle. Murphy’s law I guess :slight_smile:

This is a Wyze device only issue. Look on any online forum about wyze as well as reviews and you’ll see this everywhere. Its cheap for a reason, they are garbage.

If it helps. I have 6 V3 & 1 V2 Cams. And all are connected to Kasa plugs & are scheduled to cut power for 1 minute & back on every night for all Cams. That fixed the many times the Smart Detection stopped working properly.

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Hopefully this is a sign of progress:

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