Help a senior Connecting WYZE V3 cameras to Ethernet cables

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Hello. I am a disabled senior with a long driveway here in southern California. Out here we have a lot of thieves breaking in to cars and/or stealing the catalytic converters. I can’t move too wee anymore so it would be nice to able to watch some camera views of our long driveway. We are are on very tight/fixed income and can’t afford to replace a catalytic converter.

I do have a couple of WYZE V3 cameras outside but they always seem to turn off (out of range). I have a coupe of spots (along a fence and a wall) that I could have my son mount some more cameras but they would definitely be too far out for our router signal. We even upgraded to 1 gig with several nodes but it didn’t make a difference. I am guessing the only real solution would be to get the cameras on some Ethernet cables. I’ve can’t find any info on how to do it - easily. Does anyone know how? Can you let me know what I need and how to connect it? Let me say thanks in advance to all who offer help and advice!!

Also, my WebView constantly drops cameras and I’m always having to reconnect.?? Any ideas?

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Unfortunately these are wireless-only cams, you can’t wire them to ethernet. Perhaps getting an outdoor rated wireless access point and wiring that to an ethernet cable? Or try repositioning some of those nodes near windows that overlook where the cams are? Worth noting those ISP provided mesh systems often aren’t very good and a single aftermarket router will often outperform their entire system. But if someone is able to run ethernet for you, 1 or 2 outdoor APs may be your best solution. TP Link makes some good inexpensive ones, and so does Ubiquiti, but the Ubiquiti ones are a bit more involved to set up and manage.

Your internet speed isn’t the issue, it is just hard getting a wireless signal outdoors.

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I use the wz_mini_hacks mod to enable ethernet for one of my wyze cam v3 which is out of wifi range. Works great but I disabled firmware updates in case that broke the firmware hacks which allow wired connection over a USB to ethernet adapter.