V3, V3 Pro and V4's are dropping offline

Something changed. Not on my side, same setup, same router. Router node is literally 15 feet inside the garage from the outside cam. Everything same, but 3-5 of my V3, V4s are dropping offline. This is more a report to see who else, than a request for help. I’ve already tried nearly everything, including rolling back to older firmware, even though there was not a recent update.

In particular. I have an outdoor metal almost square simple lamp mounted to the side of my garage (HOA, so can’t swap it out for something else. ) As far back with V2 until V3’s arrived, I have had a camera inside the lamp using its power. No light bulb, just 2 prong adapter and Wyze cam adapter. Then with intro of V3, then V3 pro and V4, I have swapped out each to leave inside the lamp. In other words, for years its worked. But sometime about 3-4 months ago, nothing stays online. I have swapped out cameras at least weekly, they work fine inside the garage, as soon as added to the network, re-added to the network, even a new one added to the network. Work fine until connected and (hidden) moved inside the lamp. Absolute mystery.

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Maybe something changed on the ISP side :thinking:

Nope. Thought of that. So, tried my Starlink too. Makes no difference.

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Down detector isn’t showing widespread abnormality yet.

I did have a V3Pro start acting weird a couple days ago though. I noticed because the spotlight was flashing on and off with motion instead of staying on for x minutes. I tried redoing settings, etc, and noticed something else weird too and I couldn’t resolve the issues. Finally clicked on reset services and restarted the camera and it was back to normal. Only happened on 1 though

And to add to the mystery, I just remembered that I have another of the same exact outside lamp mounted at my porch. It has to of the V3’s in it. And same ones have been there for years, working without incident. So, makes no sense every one of several up to a rotation of at least 6 fail each time I put one there, but others work just fine in the same metal lamp.

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Why is someone clicking the “Solution” box on posts in this tread? I’ve seen no solution and I certainly did not say its resolved.

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