I have 8 V3 pro cameras with 256GB cards for full time recording. I am in Northeast Brazil.
I have a deco 60 mesh network with strong connectivity to the cameras.
Connectivity to cameras varies with time of day. I attribute this to accessing the servers in North America. When it connects quickly I have 6 cameras that go Live quickly. I have 2 cameras that connect very rarely. They are the ones with the fullest SD cards (Almost full). Connectivity is so bad, it is hard to tell if it is recording fulltime. I can live with varied connectivity because all I care about is the recording. The 6 cameras I can verify the SD recording. The other 2 cameras are useless to me because it can’t connect strong enough to verify recording. The 2 cameras share nodes with other cameras that work fine.
Any way to narrow down the issue? What can expect being in a different country and connectivity?
I can’t see why anything related to the SD card would impact your connectivity to the Wyze servers. If the SD card has a lot of events on it or is struggling to keep up with the recording, I could see that potentially impacting the camera’s responsiveness.
Are you viewing them locally (same network) or remotely? If local, then the wyze servers aren’t doing much, the video is streaming directly from the cams to your viewing device in that case.
Interesting… I thought all traffic went through their servers. I have an IoT network and all cameras and including the phone I am using is on the same IoT network. I have tried moving a camera to a different network but no difference. If it is streaming directly then it makes no sense why I am having this issue. What triggers the local streaming vs the servers?
If you are watching from the same local LAN, the feed is direct from your camera to your phone. It does take an Internet connection to establish the feed, but once established, it’s all local.
Does your IOT network have AP/client isolation enabled (devices cannot see each other)? Usually when you set up a guest network and disable access to the LAN, it also enables isolation. In that case, even if your phone is on the same LAN, it will go via the Wyze servers since they can’t stream direct.
But if the cam and phone can communicate and are on the same network, as @k6ccc says, the control and authentication goes through the wyze servers, but the video itself (whether live feed or SD card) goes direct. Obviously cloud recordings if you have Cam Plus go via their servers regardless.
In my case my cams are totally isolated from my viewing devices, so all my video streams via Wyze servers, and it hasn’t been an issue for me.