Whenever there is a power outage to the house, even for a few seconds, I’ve noted that all my Wyze cameras (V2 and Pan Cam) that were turned OFF, are turned ON when the power is restored. I’ve checked this a couple of times after a real power outage alerted me to the problem and verified that this …

I’m surprised support hasn’t replicated this since I think it’s standard behavior. I just tested one and confirmed. It does take a while after it is re-powered for it to come online. Perhaps support wasn’t waiting long enough. In any case, I think there are pros and cons to both behaviors. If you r…

Even when ‘off’, the Wyzecam is still consuming power. In ‘off’ mode, current consumption is the same as when it’s ‘on’ (about 310 mA, as measured on my V2). That’s with the IR illuminators turned off. In Night Mode with IR on, current draw increases to about 430 mA. Those who are truly concerned…

I posted this issue a couple of months ago. There is plenty written about this. Wyze does not maintain camera on/off setting as a user defined setting. With power cycling the camera will turn on. Yep, it only takes a bump in the power and the camera will turn on. One would think that a user defi…

I am actually having the opposite issue. It seems that after a power outage sometimes my cameras return and sometimes they remain Offline with no consistency. I had a power outage the other night and one camera came back online and the other remained offline until I power cycled it again. Then …

Hi, folks! I checked with the engineers on this one. It looks like power outages turning Wyze Cams back on. In the event of a power outage, the status stored in the cloud goes from “off” to “offline.” When the power is returned, the status goes from “offline” to “on.” The cloud is only able to pres…

Hi Gwendolyn, I contacted support on several occasions about this issue but they informed me they couldn’t replicate the issue. In fact they said that no-one else had reported this issue so evidently they didn’t log what sjgschwend had to say! Perhaps support doesn’t log any of these issues or al…

The support team doesn’t generally participate in the forum. This is mostly a user-to-user area so they won’t see the posts here. I’ll make sure that they know about this, though. :slight_smile:

I have the same problem. What I do is go into my router settings and turn off access to the Cameras ip address. This keeps it from being able to connect. After my guests leave, I switch it back, so it can connect. Most routers have this option.

I have the same exact issue, especially with the fact that the cameras are on a very remote location, where I cant just go and power-cycle them, I want when the power is back or the internet is back to get connected automatically.

Power Outages turn on cameras when the power is restored

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@ulyssesroder… I hear you. There’s now a Wishlist topic (link below) that you can vote for to ask this to be implemented. Make sure you click the VOTE button at the top:

Topic		Replies	Views
Offline after power outage Cameras not-platform-specific	7	6438	November 29, 2019
Power Fail Restart? Cameras	19	7799	July 4, 2020
Give us the ability to TURN OFF any camera from the Wyze app Cameras cam-v3	20	9782	July 17, 2022
Reset camera after it goes offline. Power & Lighting support	33	29248	March 11, 2020
Power failure camera off line Power & Lighting iphone-ipad	16	1340	August 15, 2019

Power Outages turn on cameras when the power is restored

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