I haven’t yet tried to record a time lapse with the v3.7.8 hotfix, but a few things come to mind:
- Another user (I think a long-time beta tester) reported successful time lapse recording with the 3.8β app on a Cam v4 yesterday. I’m trying to determine whether or not the production hotfix was tested prior to that.
- Does the microSD card you’re using have sufficient free space for the time lapse you’re attempting? (I would expect the Cam to just overwrite older recordings—Continuous or Events Only if you’re doing that—if it needs to release space for a time lapse, but I’m not positive that this is what happens.)
- If your camera is physically accessible without significant effort, then what do you see on the microSD card if you pull it and try reading it with a PC? What I see on the card I just pulled from a Cam v4 is a
time_lapsesubdirectory in the root, and that holds severaltime_Task_{##########}subdirectories, where{#}is a single digit. Within each of those, I’m finding arecord.h264file, and I can open and play those recordings in VLC. Note that these recordings were scheduled/recorded using previous versions of the Android app as I described above (the same versions that you and others have been reporting errors with). - If you can see those files on the microSD card but the app isn’t showing them available and retrieving them for you, then I wonder if you have some cache or other data corruption on your mobile device and if deleting that and refreshing some of your data from Wyze’s servers would fix it. Have you tried just clearing the in-app cache recently? Sometimes I find that doing that ( Account ➜ App Settings ➜ Cache File Size ➜ Clear) and potentially clearing the Android cache for the app (long-press on the Wyze app’s launcher icon [on the phone’s home screen or wherever you tap to initially open the app] and then tap App info in the pop-up menu; tap Force stop on the App info screen [may need to tap OK to confirm] and then tap Storage & cache; tap Clear cache on the Storage screen; back up one screen [back to App info] and then tap Open) fixes some temporary glitches.
- As an Android user, it’s easy to enter and leave the beta channel for the app at will, so that might be another option for you if you want to give it a try with the v3.8β app.
Since I was able to successfully schedule, record, and retrieve time lapses on a Cam v4 using a previous production app version, I’m not sure how much useful information my testing with the v3.7.8 hotfix will yield, but I might try that at some point anyway.