I am about to give up on Wyze Home Monitoring and all the devices

Welcome to the community @pzuidema . Note that this is a user to user forum.

However, a number of us have experienced issues with HMS. Here is a link which may help, look at the second paragraph about resetting. They followed the steps I provided and it seemed to help them out as well.

Note: After doing this you may need to wait up to 24 hours for things to stabilize.