If anyone has any suggestions on better camera systems Im all ears

[jfarnold2017]

I would love to get my money back from these complete junk cameras, everytime the cameras lose wifi it takes hours to get them to resync, im done. Anything that takes this much effort is not worth it. If anyone has any suggestions on better camera systems Im all ears, but these POS are gone !!!

[ssummerlin]

@jfarnold2017

better camera systems

Welcome to the Forum.

You might want to sell them to someone in the forum. I encounter no issues but I have plenty of cams.

[habib]

@jfarnold2017

everytime the cameras lose wifi it takes hours to get them to resync

What makes you think that new cameras will perform any better when they loose WiFi? Once you fix your WiFI you’d be surprised how well these cameras work.

[cktechie]

Not biased, telling based on my experience,

Have never faced issues with Wyze cams for Wifi, been using since 2018. These run solid. Though have faced other issues v1 cams and replaced those with v2/v3.

[hughesjv]

I have to agree…long time Wyze customer and overall, very happy. A few bugs here and there but they usually get fixed in time.

[habib]

@cktechie

Have never faced issues with Wyze cams for Wifi, been using since 2018. These run solid.

I must admit, I was having all kinds of issues with the cams when I first got them. Once I fixed my network, they’ve been rock solid.

[ssummerlin]

Rock solid since day 1.

[carverofchoice]

It’s totally true that you might have a better experience with another company (and I’ll include some options), but it is not necessarily correct to assume that Wyze is the primary problem. I used to have problems like you’re describing, then I made some adjustments and haven’t had any issues in years (I’ll post a link of the things I found that made a difference).

Here’s an interesting statement from a Wyze VP about connectivity:

@carverofchoice

Plans for improving Stability/Connectivity

Thanks for the tough question! First, some data. We have metrics that show our overall connection rate, that is, how many activated cameras and other devices are currently able to connect to our cloud. We benchmark this against other similar companies and we’re objectively already ahead of the pack. However, we’re not satisfied with that and are consistently finding new root-cause issues that can drive this metric toward 100%.

As an example, we have a forthcoming product that, during testing, requires interaction with a ton of our existing products. This testing process has exposed many previously unknown edge-cases with existing products and has given us the telemetry we need to actually diagnose and solve the root cause. As this new product gets into the wild and our testing base increases, we’ll be able to cover even more scenarios that we previously didn’t know about, helping us improve even further.

Or another one from one of the Wyze Devs:

@carverofchoice

In a recent AMA, one of the Wyze devs had this to say about connectivity and routers:

Connectivity is a difficult topic, and I know that it’s a bit of a meme that “it’s your WiFi” whenever you’re having connectivity issues. But WiFi routers are not only incredibly diverse, but also built to all sorts of different price points. There are WiFi routers that we will be able to connect to without any issue using a certain combination of parameters and timeouts, but will then struggle to connect to another router using those same values. There are also many different types of “offline” that a device can encounter. It’s sometimes really difficult to determine which kind of offline state we are in! Is the device having trouble getting DNS? Is your ISP down? Or maybe the Wyze cloud? Perhaps the environment has a lot of RF noise? All of these conditions require a specific flow in the connection code with timeout parameters that may or may not work on a specific brand of router. It may not be your WiFi but sometimes your WiFi doesn’t help what would otherwise be a minor issue to overcome. We are actively working on improving connectivity though and watch our fleet metrics like a hawk. It is incredibly important to us. - u/WyzeMitche

For myself, I have over 50 Wyze cameras on my Wi-Fi without connectivity problems since I fixed my network.

So if someone is having a lot of connectivity issues but lots of others are not having connectivity issues with the exact same devices, you have to ask… What’s the difference? If the devices are the same, and they’re working fine for others, then that’s not the difference. So what else is?

I once made a list of a bunch of things I found that made a difference. You may consider looking into some of those.

Wyze would sell more V3 cameras if they didn't need to have power recycled periodically

I thought I’d write a more comprehensive answer I can refer to later since I see so many users believe their connectivity issues are solely Wyze’s fault. Some will cite their good/strong signal strength or Bandwidth as evidence it’s definitely Wyze’s fault, though the issue is way more complicated than just signal strength or even bandwidth alone. I used to experience a lot of these issues (devices losing connection and having to reboot often, etc) in the past myself. It was VERY frustrating ha…

Having said that, different things may work better with different network environments or brands. So some similar things other people try are:
Eufy, TP-Link, Reolink, Blink, Yolink, Xiaomi/Aqara, and many that are way more expensive. You can try some of those, but they all have people in their forums complaining about connectivity and bugs too. I have cameras from most of those companies too. I definitely wouldn’t say any of then are better than Wyze though. That’s why I only use them as backup redundancy (ie: AWS outages, local recording RTSP, etc) while Wyze remains my primary camera company. But one of them absolutely could work better for your router’s particular situation. On the other hand, they might have the same problem if your issues are related to anything in that post I linked to.