I'm done with this BS

I had the exact same experience as you. I tried everything I could think of and used to blame Wyze. I detailed things that I found that helped make a difference in this thread:

But in the end, I got everything to work nearly flawlessly and concluded it wasn’t actually directly Wyze’s fault like I thought.

To OP: Having said that, different brands’ cameras may work better with different environments and protocol situations. Some people have found the following alternatives to be similar to Wyze:

  • Xiaomi (they have even historically used some of the same suppliers), but some people don’t like that they are totally a Chinese company.
  • Reolink
  • Yi
  • Tuya Smart Life (they’re more of a platform that is open to lots of brands)
  • Eufy
  • Blink
  • Arlo is known for high quality and reliability, but maybe not budget friendly
  • Personally I would recommend learning a bit about Home Assistant and look into some compatible with that.

But I do have to caution you that all of the above have their own problems and few of them are as transparent or listen to anything users say, etc. The grass isn’t always greener. I have some of the above, and I have tried or researched several of them. There is a reason Wyze remains my primary camera company. And all 40 of my Wyze cams have been extremely reliable after I made some adjustments to my network. But I’d recommend taking it slowly moving to anywhere else until you’re confident their own deficiencies are tolerable for your use-case. Or…look into what on your network/router/isp, etc could be contributing to the offline issues, and ask why there are some other people don’t have the same issues if it is for sure 100% Wyze that is the problem…it would stand to reason that everyone should experience that, and not everyone does, so what is the difference?

Either way, sorry to hear of your frustrations. It’s insanely annoying when this happens. I’ve been there. I hope you find a solution one way or another to meet your needs. :+1:

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