Do the Plug Outdoors give you any kind of feedback at all? By that I mean does a long-press of the switch make the status light flash rapidly, like it’s in pairing mode? If you’re getting to that point and seeing it fail during the in-app setup/pairing, then I wonder if you’d have better results taking the Plugs closer to your main Wi-Fi gateway and also forcing your phone onto the gateway’s 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi band. I had problems with an original Plug (indoor) months ago and had to do that:
For good measure, I’d turn off the phone’s cellular data and every Wi-Fi radio except for the 2.4 GHz SSID on the main wireless access point, giving your phone and plug no other options for establishing a wireless connection. Once you get the Plug Outdoors back online (if this works), then you can re-enable whatever you had turned on before. It’s really annoying to have to do this, but it’s what I’ve had to do in the past with other stubborn IoT devices, not just Wyze products.
If that doesn’t work, then my guess would be that Wyze is experiencing a partial outage and/or made some back-end change, which has happened at times in the past affecting some Plugs, and the usual remedy is to unplug them and plug them back in so they get a power cycle. I don’t think that’s happening here, but it might be a wait and see game for you if the steps above don’t get your Plug Outdoors back online.
For whatever it’s worth, I pulled a Plug Outdoor out of a drawer and plugged it in just now, and it got a Wi-Fi connection within a few seconds and then let me control it via the app.
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