Update showed up in app.
Clicked to update.
Update failed and now cam is offline.
Unplugged. Waited. Plugged back.
Cam is offline.
Dead.
Kaput.
I have absolutely no time to troubleshoot.
Been there, done that.
I’m sick of it all.
I now have a bunch of v2/v3/doorbells that I will happily hammer to death and trash.
Thank you for ruining what once was a good product.
You guys are bad beyond belief.
Sounds like fun. Or you could spend 5 minutes and load the firmware with an SD card.
Naaah. Did that on previous updates.
I’ve reached the point where I do not want to spend an hour to get the ladder out and climb to fix what should not be broken by a simple update.
Your suggestion is perfectly fine.
I guess I’m just tired of this game 
Wonder why I never see these problems on my v2, v3 and v4 cams?
Am I on a premium wyze server?
I wish my experience was still as good as it once was, just like yours.
These are not kickstarter products.
And the fact that Wyze cams are cheap is not an excuse.
Make it rock solid and charge more, ffs!
I’ve removed all my Wyze cams and started replacing them with Aqara E1. Not perfect (B&W night vision sucks), but support for Homekit, cheap and reliable.
Replaced Door Lock, also with Aqara. Apple key works really well.
Also removed Wyze plug and replaced with Matter smart plugs and Matter smart lights.
Can’t find an equivalent replacement for the doorbells in the same price range with Homekit support. This will be a tough one…
Were you running a 3rd party RTSP program on those cams when you attempted to update the firmware?
This is the reason I have a couple of ready to install, reserve cameras on hand. If a firmware update fails, I get a ladder and swap out the bad camera. I can take time time trouble shooting the bad one.
I wait until off-peak times to start the updates, so there’s a less chance that server load issues get in the way. Also I wonder if the firmware update process first downloads the file to the phone? If the server connection is cut, at least the file is already on the LAN and the actual update isn’t affected.
There’s a long thread here about firmware updates and how it can be improved. I remember a few workable suggestions for improvements.
Nope, regular Wyze firmware (4.36.11.xxxx)
No non-wyze files on the SD card? Are you sure you waited long enough for the update to complete before rebooting the cam?
I guess if you’re switching to another brand anyway, it doesn’t matter. But only takes 5-10 mins to run firmware recovery. It would appear trying to take too big of a step up in firmware sometimes causes issues, but the others seeing that were running firmware much older than yours.
I did wait long enough for it to fail:
But in the end, it doesn’t matter now.
I will be replacing every Wyze products I got.
Even the brand new cam that is still sealed in its box.
All this made me realized that Wyze way of doing things is just not for me.
I want something that works when I plug it in, and that’s it. I do not want new features and I do not want to tinker incessantly.
I want decent performance and reliability.
That’s it. Nothing more.
Thanks for the ride. It was fun while it lasted 
I think those days are gone for just about everything out there. Even MS is on the forced update bandwagon now. Blame Apple, it all started with them - we know what the user wants better than the user does…
As far as Wyze is concerned, new features bring new revenue and drive more users to subscribe, unfortunately that leads to things being released too quickly and with some bugs. But like I said, how many other examples of that are there these days?
If you just want a reliable, no frills camera system, there are plenty of self contained closed circuit systems out there that have a high up front cost but they do not push you to subscribe or constantly try to add new features, and they can focus on less products when they do need to update/fix something.
I would spend some time researching whatever brand you’re going to move to so you don’t waste a bunch of time and money to be in the same boat, or even worse off. Grass is always greener as they say…
Well, well, well…
I really liked the Closed Circuit suggestion.
A quick forum search pointed me to the thingino firmware, which i easily flashed on that damn v3 which was acting up like it was dead.
It’s now back to life, with absolutely no ties to any web server.
Yes, local only.
The project is young, but it’s already fantastic as it is.
Good thing you calmed me down before I got the hammer in hand, lol!
I’m guessing the quality of the image is still the same, compression is probably done in the camera hardware. Would be nice if they figured out how to tell the hardware to use less though, likely could be done via firmware, assuming you have the 2.4ghz bandwidth available.
