# Will updating my firmware stop my timelaps? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cameras\ **Tags:** not-platform-specific\ **Created:** [October 22, 2020, 1:40pm UTC](https://forums.wyze.com/t/will-updating-my-firmware-stop-my-timelaps/137904 "2020-10-22T13:40:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Grant837](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Grant837](https://forums.wyze.com/u/Grant837)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2020, 1:40pm UTC](https://forums.wyze.com/t/will-updating-my-firmware-stop-my-timelaps/137904/1 "2020-10-22T13:40:12Z")
I have a time-laps running for a month but keep getting requests to update my firmware. Will an updating kill my time-laps? ---
**Author:** ![tomp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/wyze/user_avatar/forums.wyze.com/tomp/32/4837_2.png) [@tomp](https://forums.wyze.com/u/tomp)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2020, 3:54pm UTC](https://forums.wyze.com/t/will-updating-my-firmware-stop-my-timelaps/137904/2 "2020-10-22T15:54:44Z")
Welcome to the Forum Community, @Grant837. I was curious about your question, so I ran a quick test. I started a time lapse, let it run for a few minutes then upgraded firmware through the app - not the upgrade all. When the app finished upgrading the firmware I went back, checked the time lapse and it was still running. I stopped it and was successfully able to download and view it. That being said, I make no representations since you are working on a month long time lapse and I do not want to be responsible for you losing all of that effort! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![dr.know](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/wyze/user_avatar/forums.wyze.com/dr.know/32/24509_2.png) [@dr.know](https://forums.wyze.com/u/dr.know)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2020, 8:34pm UTC](https://forums.wyze.com/t/will-updating-my-firmware-stop-my-timelaps/137904/3 "2020-10-22T20:34:35Z")
Remnds me of the time we were unloading a cement mixer down a ramp off my pickup truck. Jokingly said, “What could possible go wrong.” As if on que, one of the wheels fell off! Agree with @tomp, Don’t tempt fate. 😟 ---
**Author:** ![Grant837](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Grant837](https://forums.wyze.com/u/Grant837)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2020, 10:22pm UTC](https://forums.wyze.com/t/will-updating-my-firmware-stop-my-timelaps/137904/4 "2020-10-22T22:22:27Z")
Thanks all. Indeed, I think I will wait the 10 days before I update. Good to know it would like work, in case the need arises. ---
**Author:** ![tomp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/wyze/user_avatar/forums.wyze.com/tomp/32/4837_2.png) [@tomp](https://forums.wyze.com/u/tomp)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2020, 10:53pm UTC](https://forums.wyze.com/t/will-updating-my-firmware-stop-my-timelaps/137904/5 "2020-10-22T22:53:07Z")
Amen!🤯 ---
**Author:** ![WyzeJasonJ](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/wyze/user_avatar/forums.wyze.com/wyzejasonj/32/8461_2.png) [@WyzeJasonJ](https://forums.wyze.com/u/WyzeJasonJ)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2020, 4:32am UTC](https://forums.wyze.com/t/will-updating-my-firmware-stop-my-timelaps/137904/6 "2020-10-23T04:32:23Z")
I am going to chime in here also because I have done testing with this around this time last year. I will also call in @Bam did some time lapses where he turned the cam off at night so the time lapse would only run during the day. So I think @tomp test is valid. Although the old rule of if something can go wrong it will usually go wrong is there. Mainly I know you can power off the camera, in my case I unplugged it and it picked up the time lapse when I plugged it back in. I think @bam turned his off in the app. Neither of us updated firmware during it but @tomp test showed at least on this one it worked. ---
**Author:** ![Bam](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/wyze/user_avatar/forums.wyze.com/bam/32/12148_2.png) [@Bam](https://forums.wyze.com/u/Bam)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2020, 12:45pm UTC](https://forums.wyze.com/t/will-updating-my-firmware-stop-my-timelaps/137904/7 "2020-10-23T12:45:33Z")
oddly enough I am also running a month long timelapse…as something messed up the one I did last year. I would err on the side of caution and just turn the reminder off for now. @WyzeJasonJ is correct, you can schedule the cams to turn off ( such as during the night) and then set another schedule to turn back on and the timelapse will resume. I just can’t speak to doing a full update as it seems during the reboot that the camera however intermittent **might** loose the “heartbeat” and that may mess up the lapse. ---
**Author:** ![Grant837](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Grant837](https://forums.wyze.com/u/Grant837)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2020, 10:06pm UTC](https://forums.wyze.com/t/will-updating-my-firmware-stop-my-timelaps/137904/8 "2020-11-27T22:06:16Z")
Hey all, indeed, it works to set a month long timelaps and turn the camera off at night! I did wait until between timelaps months to update the firmware however 😉 Thanks for you help.