I have 5 cams and 5 android tablets on my network. I want each of the tablets to be able to view one of the cameras, but I can only seem to get 3 apps/cams working at the same time. When I start up the 4th app watching the 4th cam, the other apps start to lose the video stream from their cam. All apps will cycle from viewing the stream to the stream rate going to 0, then up again, and down again.
Any ideas on this?
Sorry I don’t know anything about android let’s call in the mavens
Hi, @frankD. Welcome to the community! I grabbed 4 of my devices started up 4 different cameras at the same time. All of mine worked and I didn’t have any issues viewing my fourth camera. You can try lowering the resolution on a few cams and see if this helps.
Check to see if you have it set as HD/SD or 360p . You will see it on the top left. You can change the resolution by tapping it and a box will pop up.
Try to change to 360p as this consumes less bandwidth and allows a stable connection.
Hi and thanks for the info. I’m at SD and I don’t see how this could consume too much bandwidth on a wifi router. The router has Mbps of bandwidth but the cams are in the mid 10s of Kbps. Even with 5 I guess I’d need only 500Kbps total.
What resolution are you using in your experiment? I’m going to try TinyCam as the viewer to see if this helps.
Also, did you watch for a while to see if the frame rate on the apps go to 0 now and then on any of the apps? Mine seem like they work, but the frame rate seems to drop on the various apps and then comes up again.
I’m wondering if one of my cams is misbehaving and interfering with the others…
I will also try the lower resolution…
I had all mine set on SD. Once the connection becomes stable you can always bump it back up to a higher resolution. If this doesn’t help it could be other issues causing the problem.
I have ran into this problem occasionally but not very often. Lowering the resolution on mine does help when this occurs. I do have over 30 devices running on my router so it can push the limit to a max that I have experienced.
Check Each Camera’s Connection
Edit: If you have multiple cameras with slow Live Steam you can check the connection for each one to see if one is causing a problem.
To do this, try unplugging all but one Wyze Cam. Now go to that camera’s Live Steam . If you see an improvement, try plugging in the other Wyze Cam’s one at a time. Check each unit’s Live Stream after adding one to see when the slow down begins to happen.
I’ll run some experiments tomorrow with the resolution, tinycam app, and also try swapping out one of the cams that I suspect may have an issue.
thanks again for the information and the experiment!
You’re welcome! Hope you find the problem. 
each one of the app/cam’s on it’s own seem to run fine. I also took them all (app and cams) to the same room as the wifi router so there would be no signal issues.
thanks! I hope I do, because the image quality of the cams (when they work) is great for my application.
Are you using any older devices tablets/phones by chance? This also can cause slow connection problems.
These are all V2s. All updated to the latest firmware.
I might also try the RTSP firmware if all else fails.
by the way, another thing I recall is when I had all 5 app/cam pairs going, some of the apps couldn’t even connect to the cams. Bad.
Another thing to at least be aware of it what additional’ unrelated ‘load you have on your WiFi. It sounds like what you have is bandwidth related in some fashion and it could be something else eating it like kids on games, TV’s, etc.
Also, even the Wi-Fi of neighbors could be a factor if they are nearby and your Wi-Fi is using the same channel or overlapping channels as theirs. For any given frequency band, only one device can send a packet at the same time. If packets collide, the devices need to back off for some random amount of time and retry the transmission. This is one reason I connect as many of my stationary devices as possible to my network via cables rather than Wi-Fi. I want to leave the radio frequencies as available as possible for truly mobile devices.
I run hard wire too. I get grief from people because they say that they are WiFi devices so why hard wire? I’m with you. Leave the WiFi for those devices that truly need it.
I think they may not sufficiently understand the technology. I also mention that RF spectrum is more susceptible to change over time by the introduction of RF generating equipment on site or with range of the site. This can result in a perfectly operating Wi-Fi system to start behaving very badly. Wires and switches are a much more controlled environment.
I use a lot of Lutron. It uses its own proprietary signal. Even when WiFi is out I can use switches and remotes just not app.
Very good info. Thanks for adding! Neighboring wifi can be a real issue. Running wire where I live is doable but a real chore- 110 year old house. with lots of plaster, thick walls etc. But, your right. It fires reduce load on wifi. Thank goodness for mesh systems.