Am I missing something or is there no way to change the wireless/SSID that my multiple Wyze Cams connect to from the Wyze app?
All of my IoT devices (washer, dryer, dishwasher, etc. etc. etc.) have this option from their individual apps. I must just be missing it in the Wyze app. Where in the app is the setting to change this?
To change the WiFi, you just initiate the Setup process again. You won’t have to setup everything from scratch though as long as you don’t delete the camera off the app.
You select to add a device, then you will press the reset button on the camera to make it say “Ready to Connect” then you will enter the new WiFi name and Password, and just enter the same camera name you had before (or enter a new name if you want). The rest of your settings should stay the same, including all your automations/rules, etc. I would check them anyway, but for me, they have usually stayed the same without me needing to set up all the settings.
Wyze said they are working on another way to do this, but truthfully it is hard for a lot of IoT devices to do this because usually when someone changes WiFi they have either already set up the new WiFi and thus gotten rid of the old WiFi, so now there is no way to connect to the IoT device to tell it to switch to the new WiFi because it’s no longer connected to the internet since the old WiFi is gone. Or, If they’re still connected to the old WiFi, then the new WiFi often doesn’t exist yet because it hasn’t been set up yet.
However, now most IoT devices are coming standard with Bluetooth Provisioning as an option, so when they go offline from the old WiFi going away, they can still connect and be told to switch to the new WiFi. Some of Wyze’s newer devices will be able to do this in the future, but the older devices still use a QR code, and those only look for the QR code when the reset button is pressed, which is why it’s necessary to go through the setup process to trigger the reset button to load the new network info.
I will be interested to see What solution Wyze comes up with. They said they are working on a new/better way to change WiFi with devices, but it hasn’t been launched yet. For now, you need to go through setup again, but won’t have to redo all the settings again, just WiFi and the Camera name.
Thanks so much for the details. I saw in the minutes after I posted that this has been asked previously and was very disappointed to see it not being an option. Some of my cameras are in hard-to reach places, so I basically gave up on the idea of doing this. Now that you clarified it saves all the previous settings, I may just give it a go.
Basically I’d like to add all my Wyze cams to a new distinct IoT network I’ve since added since it’s a feature of a newer router, even though the previous SSID still exists and they can still connect. I’d like them on my unique IoT SSID as my other IoT devices…
From a service design perspective, putting an update into the app allowing people to update the SSIDs from the app doesn’t need to be difficult or overly thought out. Of course in the examples you gave where someone replaces a router and has gotten rid of the old one, they’ll need to do the entire set up process again unless they create the same SSID and password with the new one. And even in that case, they shoudl still be able to create the old SSID on new router and it should automatically reconnect to the wyze devices without any interacting with the wyze hardware… But in other cases like mine where they can still connect to the existing SSID before swapping routers or simply just want to connect to a new network, this can be a simple option to just add to the app. (Simple from a service design perspective, of course 
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I agree with you! Your case would be one of the perfect situations that the feature you are asking for would work well with! I did this recently when I upgraded my Network to using Ubiquiti Unifi which allows lots of different SSID’s or VLANs, etc. If Wyze made this feature, it would work well for situations exactly like you are hoping for. It probably wouldn’t work as well for people who just switched ISP’s and use the ISP routers and wonder how to switch a device to the new router name even though their old one doesn’t exist. But for your case, and mine when I did it earlier this year, it would be great for us, especially if we could just tell the app in one location to just change ALL devices to the new WiFi without us having to do each one separately. That would be an amazing update.
Once again, a reason for Wyze to have a hub that all the cameras, locks, etc. connect to. Then you would only have to change the SSID and password on the hub.
Having a hub would also allow the cams to be viewed locally if the Internet was down or if the Wyze servers were down.
I just found out today that this isn’t true for V3 pro. I had to switch it to another ssid (but same router). It wouldn’t let me until I deleted it first from the app.
Must be a bug that crept in while Wyze was fixing other bugs.
That’s weird, I could’ve sworn I switched one of mine from the Guest SSID to the main SSID on the same router a while ago. Maybe they added a bug in the firmware. It doesn’t make sense that going through setup and entering the new network wouldn’t update it.
Can you elaborate on how it wouldn’t let you? Did the camera still say “ready to connect” or whatever?
I’m tempted to go try it. I have a couple unused V3Pros sitting on a shelf that are assigned to my Main SSID right now. I might check and see if I can switch them to secondary SSID later. Just curious what kind of error you got trying to do it. It might be worth reporting. I assume it’s a bug since it’s functioning differently than all the other camera models.
Yes, I’m familiar with the process, and it failed 3 times. The first time though, I wasn’t connected to the correct 2.4ghs band. I re-connected the phone to the 2.4ghz band and re-tried 2 more times and failed with wrong ssid name or something like that.
Only when I deleted the camera from the app did it succeed.
Interesting! Thanks for sharing. I will have to try it later this week to see if it is a new global issue on all V3’s or if there was a bug (maybe introduced in the newer app versions or newer firmware). I have V3Pros with older Firmware, and some phones with the older App, so maybe I can figure out when that changed.
If anyone else tests this before I get around to it, including any @Mavens please post that you’ve confirmed the issue that V3Pros will no longer go through setup (ie to change SSIDs) unless we delete the camera from tha app first. This might be something good to report to Wyze if we can get multiple confirmations as not an isolated incident, I am sure this is likely an accident/oversight that got introduced in later firmware or App version. Maybe after Wyze week ends we can get someone to look into it.
(I’m not checking tonight because I have some critical work deadlines that need to take priority…I’m just checking in on here in small breaks tonight)
Thanks for reporting it @p2788deal
Technically you can still view the cams locally without internet as long as they were able to authenticate with Wyze servers upon boot-up. So as long as your power didn’t go out, there’s a good chance you can still see all of them. I just found this out recently by accident. I might have had to be on the 5Ghz band on my phone for it to work, or maybe I had to be on the 2.4, but I seem to remember only one would work and I think it was unintuitive, hence why I think I had to be on 5Ghz.
I run into that issue occasionally with my Cam V3 as I tend to switch between my main network and guest network for testing purposes. It will hang a while trying to connect, but after for a while I just cancel it then a few minutes later it will say it has failed to connect.
Afterwards, I close the Wyze app and open it again and the camera reappears. I restart the camera to double check the device network info is correct. I check my router as well to confirm it is indeed connecting to the right network.
I didn’t have to delete my camera from the app
I enjoy tinkering with my WiFi. Its running pretty good these days, so its time to mess with it (break it). I routinely buy a router/mesh system and try it. I’ve been pretty pleased with TP-Link. So waited for Prime Days and caught the BE63 2 node WiFi 7 on sale. It will be a couple of weeks before its here. But not much benefit unless the clients too are WiFi 7 (or almost as good as). So started looking around an there are M.2 upgrades cards for WiFi 7 for desktops and laptops. So, ordered those too, (at least hopefully, the ones that will work.) I’ll let ya know. Cool part about the replacing the existing TP-Link with another, there’s a join the SSID and then promote the new one to the Main and then shutdown the old ones after its populated.
Please note that I specifically mentioned that this bug is for cam V3 pro. I have more time today so I did more tests.
First, I used a spare V3. It indeed succeeded in setting up again without deleting from the app beforehand.
Second, I re-setup an existing cam V3 pro using exactly the same ssid and without deleting from the app. I get the “couldn’t match a specific network name”. It fails.
Third, different ssid, without deleting from the app. This is weird. I get “Setup complete”, followed by, “couldn’t match a specific network name”. This fails, too.
Fourth, deleted from the app. I get “couldn’t match a specific network name” but setup completes.
Maybe, Likely this is not related to your problem. But it does sound exactly like what we have heard before and the fix was the problem. What they heck does that mean, eh? While swapping out a new router/set, he had left one of his old nodes still plugged in. Though the main was shutdown, and the different mesh unit was up and running, that remaining node that 1) was not connected to the new mesh and also was not connected to the Internet - since its main had been shutdown. It was still sitting there broadcasting its SSID but had no Internet, and was not going to let a Wyze connect, because the Wyze could not reach through the node to Wyze servers, since the node had no Internet. That’s what I mean by the fix, was shutting down that orphaned node, because it was the problem. Anyway, it was a worthwhile post, to remind others it can happen.
Not on this mesh; there’s a system-wide reboot initiated from the web admin. It reboots all the nodes.
I can understand that. I guessed I didn’t make myself clear for my post. Probably does not apply to your situation. Let me try a little again. He was replacing his routers. He was reusing same SSID and password. He stood up new ones, but though one last previous node had no connection, it was still turned on. It interfered with stuff he was putting on the new network. Same result you have been having until he turned off that orphaned node.
We lost internet for a few hours and none of my cameras were online. I have a UPS on both the router and cable modem and they never lost power. However my Hubitat Elevation continued to function locally because it is not reliant on the cloud. If your cams continued to work with no internet, I am intrigued to know why.
Mine do and I’ve experienced this at least a couple of times. As long as the cameras were already connected to the WiFi when the internet connection was lost and the phone was on the LAN, the cameras would still function as the connections are all local.
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It’s possible your phone was on cellular so the attempted connection was no longer local and failed.
I can also confirm that. I am in a process of switching ISPs and have rebooted the new gateway numerous times. The cameras keep streaming locally as long as they have power and connected to the router even though the router has no outside connection. The viewing device, iPad in my case has to be connected to the same local network as the cameras to be able to view them.
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