I have two hardware revisions of the Wyze Cam OG. One that’s about a year old WYZECGS (physically different in that it’s white and has the “pigtail” usb) and several newer units WYZECGSD that I bought based on successful use of the first one for a remote recording application that I’ve come up with that uses battery banks for power. The older one works properly and as expected…records continuously to SD correctly and reliably, while the newer units stop recording prematurely at various times. They all (older and new ones) show the same firmware 1.0.98 and plugin 3.13.3.
I swapped SD cards, batteries, and cables between the cameras, and the problem follows the newer camera, not the cards/power/cables. The older camera always produces the normal directory structure (record/date/hour/1-minute files), while the newer cameras, for the amount of time that they record (up to 12 hours or so), dumping all files directly into the date folder instead of creating the hourly subfolders, and the directory structure is different…the date directory is kind of buried in a directory that doesn’t exist on the working one, it’s iotVideo/record/“long number”/“long number”/date.
Has anyone else seen this kind of failure and/or SD recording/directory structure differences with newer hardware revisions of the Wyze Cam OG despite identical firmware versions?
The two revisions should have two different firmware versions, are you sure they’re the same? The older should be 1.0.98 and the newer should be 1.1.0.97.
I don’t have one of the newer ones so I’m not sure how it should lay out the folder structure, but have you tried running one of the cards through the formatter from sdcard.org then putting it in the cam with no further formatting? Maybe the format on the cards was not correct from the factory or something?
Thanks. Very odd as I sat here and wrote down the firmware versions…maybe I accidentally view the same cam twice, but you’re correct, the new ones have 1.1.0.97.
I think the fact that the same card is ok in the old camera but not in the new camera rules out the formatting being the issue.
So, if I was able to understand if the directory structure is actually supposed to be that way with the 1.1.0.97 firmware, that would at least solve one part of this. It would be far less that ideal for handling the files but I can find a way to manage.
The bigger showstopping issue is that the older camera records until I stop it. The newer camera all stopped recording long before I stopped them. I was looking for 48 hours and got between 5 and 12 before all of the others stopped themselves.
I’ve been using a usb-c port on the batteries. Now wondering if the new version isn’t tolerating something about the “smart” port and I should try one of the usb-a ports. If the directory structure is as it’s supposed to be, then the premature recording stoppage is really the only issue and I’ve been falsely combining them.
Not necessarily, if something is lingering from the old camera’s formatting it could be confusing the new one, best to wipe the card to factory spec (which the SD formatter utility will do) to rule out anything like that.
My suggestion would be to run the cam off an AC outlet and standard adapter for a day and see if it has the same problem, that will narrow down if it is something to do with the battery bank or not.
But I’d do the two above things separately so you know which one was the cause.
I downloaded the formatter. I’ll get various scenario tests running and come back on Sunday and see what I got. app formatted card/AC - app formatted card/usb-a port on PD battery - cam formatted card/usb-a port on PD battery - cam formatted card/usb-a port on dumb batteries
Wyze Cam OG (2025 Version) SD card recording fails
I have pre-2025 Cam OGs running firmware 1.0.98 that work correctly and reliably for continuous SD card recording. The 2025 version is a nightmare.
The 2025 version units don’t create the expected SD card recording directory structure. On the pre-2025 units, recordings are stored in the expected record/date/hour hierarchy with one-minute files inside the hourly folders. On the 2025-version units, recordings are instead written directly into the record/date folder (some levels down inside an “iotVideo” directory) without the hourly subfolders. I cannot find any information that says this is supposed to be the case. And I haven’t found any circumstance where the directory structure is created correctly, including short manually started/stopped recordings.
In addition and just as importantly and bewilderingly, continuous recording always stops (none more than 12 hours or so) and does not restart. These are not intermittent recording gaps; recording simply stops.
I’ve tested multiple cameras, SD cards, formatting methods, cables, and power sources (including stable AC power in multiple locations), and the behavior is consistent with the 2025-version units.
I also noticed that firmware 1.1.0.97 from June 2025 is still the only listed firmware version for the 2025-version OG cameras.
Anyone seeing the same behavior? And has anyone heard whether Wyze is planning a firmware update addressing SD recording reliability on the 2025-version OG units? The pre-2025 version had 8 firmware revisions from Feb 2023 to May 2025. The 2025 version has just the one and it’s coming up on a year next month.
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