I actually got a RMA label Wednesday and got it printed up today. Now to get it to USPS on Friday for return.
I still like Wyze but this is a stinker of a camera. How about a V3 with battery backup so it can continue recording to the SD (128GB + please) even when not connected to wifi. This would CRUSH Blink!!
Hey, folks, I have a plain ol’ inexpensive MECO WiFi extender, cost under $20 when I got it, maybe as little as $13, and it works like a charm. I put it in a window along with my Wyze outdoor camera and I am wireless (except power cords). My range has been pretty far, up to my entrance gate to our property. But I also modified and indoor camera, put it in a outdoor cover, installed a stub antenna on the outside of it and get the same or better range. I powered it for testing with a power pack for cell phones but I have also used it as a video trail camera with a 12V battery, 12V to 5V converter and solar panel with controller (electronics stored in an ammo box to keep them dry). Works great. Add a cell phone in the box for a hotspot and you have a video game camera with live feed.)
I got an ethernet/wireless bridge from Amazon (IOGear) that seems to work really well. Only been using it for a short while. But it allowed me to put the basestation on my deck, and the camera anywhere in my backyard. Initially I had put the basestation near my Wifi router (using a physical ethernet cable), but that location did not provide a good signal for my backyard locations.
Checkout Amazon, IOGEAR Ethernet-2-WiFi Universal Wireless Adapter, GWU637 - about $50.
No, not true at all! You’ll need to be hardwired in only for the initial setup but after that there is an option to connect your Wyze Base Station to your network via Wi-Fi only.
See the " Want to unplug your Base Station from your router?" section in this help doc:
You do not need to be hardwired in after setup. You can use the Wyze Base Station on a WiFi connection - no need for a router.
See the “Want to unplug your Base Station from your router?” section on this page:
Welcome to the Wyze community @cwclifford.
I may have not explained my plan as well in the post above.
The WiFi extender has an Ethernet port on it so you can use it for setup like a router or switch.
As you pointed out, a recent firmware update allows you to connect the base to WiFi after setup. I’ll edit my post above to clarify.
Awesome. It was trivial to disconnect the IOGEAR wifi/ethernet bridge, and connect to my local WiFi - all it took was disconnecting the Ethernet cable (to the IOGEAR bridge), and the base station then connected to the WiFi. Not sure how the base station got the necessary name/password information for WiFi (perhaps from setup?), but it “just worked”.
Sure cleaned up my prior base station setup!