Is it really true that I have to climb up on a ladder and basically re-install my outdoor camera just to change the router login,. That’s what the AI told me. I think robots are cool but they don’t have to climb on a ladder in the rain.
I changed my modem (router) and it has a different name and login. Isn’t there some way to change that without having to climb up on a ladder and pressing the setup button on the camera?
If you changed the network SSID and password you need to press the setup button.
Which outdoor camera? If it has a setup button don’t delete it from the app, just press the button set it up as new again. There are numerous request to change this but hasn’t happened yet.
When I changed my router I just used the same SSID and password to the old one, no ladders involved.
Yes, it is true. If you want to avoid that, set your new router to use the same network name and password as your old one, all your cameras will automatically reconnect if you do that.
There is no way around it, if the cameras are not online, you can’t remotely update their settings. Just a limitation of wifi technology. Well there could be some very roundabout way where you tell it the new info before you disconnect the old router, then it saves that and waits for you to turn on the new router, but most people wouldn’t remember to do that, and others would probably end up having neither old or new work because they had a typo, etc.
My suggestion to people is to always have a trusted wifi network with strong password and name that means something to you, and use that only for your own trusted devices. Have a separate guest (and even separate IOT) network for when you need to let someone else use it. That way, your main trusted one never has to change, even the IOT one probably never would. If you need to change the password on the guest one, you won’t have to change any of your other devices. The main and IOT can just stay the same virtually forever.
Wow. That was an easy question with a definitive answer.
Rare does that happen.
This is the simplest answer.
My fix is don’t install them higher than I can reach while standing on the ground. 
Well that means someone else can reach them too. I do have some that are reachable, like the one at my front door, not really any way around that. But several are mounted outside 2nd floor windows, easy to do from inside, but out of reach. The ones that are reachable are also covered by one of the pan cams that is on the 2nd floor so at least I’ll have some view of the person and what they did before ripping off the camera.
They would have to reach through my windows.
Well the Kool Aid Man would have no problem with that.
You’re right. I did not think about that.
I’m guessing if his glass is thick enough to break brick walls, it may also be bulletproof.
It’s this sort of thing that we do not prepare ourselves enough for. Those hidden dangers that lurk and we aren’t even aware of.
At least that’s what I keep trying to tell the guy at the gun shop when trying to order a grenade launcher attachment for my AR. Just wait, some day it will happen to him and he’ll apologize for doubting me.
Hurricane proof, but I will test for bulletproof tomorrow when people are at work.