Listen man I’m not offended at all but you legit said you didn’t believe me at all so that means I must have been lying but let’s move passed that.
So you know I’ve now done this to 2 flood lights / cameras. I have one on the back of my house and front and they both had this same problem and it fixed both so it definitely works going back to mays firmware.
- Put the sd card into your computer, download a program called SD Format you can find it on google or there is a sub forum on reddit for wyze that is helpful I’ll also link it.
https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter/
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If it’s an old sd do a full format, quick will work for a new one.
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Download mays firmware (you probably have it already) and open the zip file and move just the .bin file to the sd card do not rename it like the instructions say to do (this was my mistake when I was having issues the instructions are outdated).
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Power off your cam (I also have my light elevated and on a switch I just made my wife do the switching lol, I did my second one on a ladder, I found the cord leading into the flood light can be removed not the end in the camera but the other end) insert your sd card.
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Push down and hold the setup button while powering your cam back on, within 3-6 seconds the light should go purple, give it about 5 minutes, when it’s returned to flashing red you should be good. Mays firmware requires you remove the cam and re add it again so you will have to delete the cam from your app, then re add it like it was brand new out the box again.
If you follow those steps to a T I promise your cam will flash to the firmware.
In this link I have a picture up that shows what your file should look like on the sd card no need for anything but the .bin file (my icon may look different then yours as my zipped files are handled by winrar but nonetheless it should say demo_wcv3.bin) :
https://forums.wyze.com/t/cam-v3-cant-get-firmware-to-flash/267890/2