This would be very helpful
Iâve asked for the same thing. Weâre going to try and hard wire it so it canât be unplugged. But it would be very helpful to get some sort of notice when it gets unplugged.
I think it would be a good idea to have a notification sent when sensors go offline, my sensors go offline often and I donât know about it till I open the app. I think this would be very helpful
Send push notifications when:
- The Wyze device becomes disconnected and is no longer communicating with the app
- The Wyze device becomes reconnected and has resumed communication with the app
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Seems this topic is 2 years old, with almost 500 votes to it, and listed as a âmaybe laterâ.
How much later?
This is a great idea. I donât know how good a security system is if it wonât tell you when itâs offline. Seems simple enough. Just a phone home ping every few minutesâŚdoesnât have to be instant, and a notification when the device drops off and comes back. Shouldnât be that difficult, especially under the new model of selling the âplusâ addon for an additional fee. Youâre already phoning home constantly anyway for person detection.
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Would like a plug that will notify you (app or text notification) if power to the plug is lost. This would be useful, for example, to those of us that have had a GFCI breaker trip and have lost power to a freezer for an extended period of time.
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Great idea and great use case.
Freezers draw about 5 amps when running, and can peak around 8 amps when the compressor kicks in. So a smart plug for a freezer would have to meet those specifications.
Hopefully you would plug the plug into a different receptacle on the same outlet as the high power device. That said, I think this would be a heavy lift for smart plugs as they arenât typically monitored. A better idea would be to plug a powered sensor into circuits you want to monitor. Sadly, there arenât any wyze devices that report when they go offline.
The problem with including the offline notification in a smart plug so you know when your freezer on a GFCI goes off is that itâs a smart plug. In other words, youâve added yet another point of failure. When would you ever want to turn a smart plug off if your freezer is plugged into it?
This was actually the reason I revived this thread though. I have a camera in my garage monitoring the garage door, and that camera, along with the refrigerator in the garage, are on a gfci and it tripped.
It was at that point that I remembered that Manything (my previous vacation monitor) had this featureâŚso why doesnât a dedicated security camera?
Monitoring a gfci circuit isnât a bad idea, I just donât think a smart plug is the way to do it. Mostly because if youâre monitoring it so your freezer doesnât turn offâŚitâs probably a bad idea to have an internet connected device that makes it able to turn your freezer off by mistake.
I would like a notification if my Wyzecam is not recording video? I assume I lost Wi-Fi and I could not go back in time with playback to something I wanted to see.
My request is somewhat related and was merged with this one.
I recently had my first SD card go bad. It was about a year old and it stopped recording, so I could not go back and review an event I was interested in. I am now switching to High Endurance cards, but the fact that all cards eventually die and there is no notification from Wyze makes the camera more of a toy than a part of my security system. I have 5 cameras and now I must check playback on each one periodically in order to make sure that I can see history!
I would like a notification if my Wyzecam is not recording video to the SD card.
Really hoping the renewed interest in this thread can get some movement in it. Sitting on the wishlist for 2 years seems like a nice way to say ânoâŚstop bothering usâ 
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I would think this could be as simple as periodic write read verification the could run in the background
Doing some renovation to my property and forgot to turn the power back on in that area of the house when I was done for the day, until I was looking at my camâs and was like âwhy is 1 cam showing offline⌠OH, I need to turn the power back on!â.
Then I got to thinking about how great it would be to get a notification when a cam goes offline/losses power. Mostly in case we happen to be away from our home and it loses power, we would at least get a quick notification that the power is out. Seems like a feature like this would be LOW hanging fruit from a software standpoint and would be one more selling point.
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Iâd like to get notifications alert for any tampering with the camera also SD card and wifi issues.
I have had my camera loose itâs wifi connection and since I wasnât there I couldnât access my cameras or get motion alerts for a few days until I got back to fix it. thankfully it still recorded.
I also had my SD card stop working and I didnât find out until a bunch of hours later.
Anyone with these wishlist or for similar notifications?
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Hello Wyze please
Hey this is a major problem and should be addressed.
#1 - recently my cameras (v2âs) have stopped recording to their SD cards as they get close to full (~1.9 GB remaining). Okay, thatâs fine, but warn me! Instead they just switch off the record locally and I never knew it.
I see there is already an issue where if the power goes out they donât start recording again. Is that all that happened with mine? I donât know, but THATâs A MAJOR ISSUE, because as we all âset it and forget itâ who is going constantly check three pages into the settings if the camera is working correctly. It is just expected they restart.
#2 - THERE NEEDS TO BE A NOTIFICATION if the camera has stopped recording locally for whatever reason. Itâs completely useless to rely on these for âsecurityâ only to discover the camera stopped recording months ago. Maybe add a red dot in the viewfinder for when local recording is active. Also, when the card is getting full some kind of notification. Mine are set to continuous, but I discovered they stopped re-writing and just ended. Or email me if they detect a power failure so I know to reset something.
Thanks
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@UserCustomerGwen This post by @KHNV explains why Wyze cameras are currently hobby devices, vice security cameras. The lack of notifications/reporting limitations is arguably their most significant limitation, and a fix for which Wyze customers have been demanding for long time.
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its so funny they dont have this feature, still. on v2.
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The Eufy 2K, a $35 to $40 camera, reportedly has power outage notification, unlike Wyze Cam.
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