Last night we had a 5 hour scheduled power outage. I set up a Wyze Cam v3 connected to a power block, sd card installed, set to continuous recording. When I checked the card this morning, there was continuous recording up until the wifi router ran out of power on its UPS and then the footage stopp…

I have V3 cameras that lose WiFi every day. In my truck that drives out of range repeatedly and the cameras continue to record to the µSD cards just fine. I’m going to ask the dumb question because people miss this all the time. Are you sure it was not recording? What I mean is how are you tryin…

Not a dumb question at all. I was accessing it through the SD Card Playback, not the Events tab. I’m attaching two images that show the timeline on the SD card. The power was cut off at just after 23:00 and the UPS on the wifi router ran out just around 23:40, when the recording timeline stops. …

That only makes sense if the camera lost power when the UPS ran down. Was the battery bank powering the camera plugged into the UPS, and could the battery bank have had a momentary outage when it lost source power - test that? The reason I ask is that a lot of USB battery banks have two distinct o…

No, the UPS and battery bank were not connected, they weren’t even in the same room. The battery bank was not connected to anything other than the v3. The fact that there is a UPS in the equation is probably irrelevant, other than it shows that the camera recording issue is somehow related to the …

Strange. I have V3 cameras that lose WiFi multiple times every day - for lengths of time from a few minutes to most of the day. Last month I had multiple camera (including a V3) that had no WiFi for almost a week. All three recorded perfectly for that week.

hmmm, that’s what I was expecting last night too :man_shrugging:t3:

@grapefruityoda is right. It’s really annoying, but a few camera models now start to save recordings with a different timestamp when the internet goes out. The recordings are still THERE on the SD card [initially]…but since they have a different date and time, the don’t show up in the right spot on …

@grapefruityoda @carverofchoice thanks so much for the info. Hopefully it’s something that Wyze fixes soon. I didn’t have time to pull the card today to see if the missing timeline was on there. Thanks again everyone for the trouble shooting tips and the information :tada:

It seems that this was intentional - reboot the cams after 30 minutes of no connectivity to try and re-establish connectivity. They’ve added this to more and more cams and often the firmware update refers to “improvements in reconnecting to wifi”. Note that the video is recorded, but the app can’t…

V3 Stopped Continuous Recording When Wifi Went Out, Continued When Wifi Resumed

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grapefruityoda November 22, 2024, 11:43pm 8

This is a known issue with the latest firmware V3 4.36.13.0416. If you roll back to firmware V3 4.36.11.8391, then it should be fine. I tested this extensively and could repeat it everytime.

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V3 Stopped Continuous Recording When Wifi Went Out, Continued When Wifi Resumed

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