My Wyze base station is set up and working just fine. However, I see that the setup SSID “wyze_bind_xxxxxxxxxxxx” is still broadcasting and open. This concerns me because it is an open SSID that presumably could be used to hack into my network. This is an SSID that is used during intiial setup. L…

This is currently in the road map. [image] Option to set Wyze base station SSID to hidden network Wishes Granted Happy to say that this is in development and will be going to testing in the fairly near future. slight_smile

Glad to hear that - it’s not just hiding the network - it is also fixing the fact it is an open network with no security at all - this is really a bad thing!

[Screen Shot 2020-11-29 at 9.59.26 PM] Yep as you can see. Did a quick portscan which shows the following ports open 53/tcp open domain 2601/tcp open zebra 8888/tcp open sun-answerbook 9050/tcp open tor-socks 9090/tcp open zeus-admin So any random person on the street can connect to …

@msilverman Hello, we’re looking into this issue. Could you provide some additional info for me? What is the status light of the base station when it’s broadcasting two SSID’s? Were you trying to pair any WCO with the base station at that moment? The wyze_bind_xxxx SSID is for setup purposes and i…

Hi, Status light is solid blue and the base station is seemingly operating normally When this issue started, I was not trying to pair a WCO. I was trying to re-pair the base station itself - ended up that an ethernet cable came unplugged so I aborted the re-pairing attempt halfway through, and wit…

Thank you very much! Will look into the log!

I have this same problem. What is the solution?

Haven’t heard of one yet. Wyze folks, any update on this?

Thanks, …don’t feel I can use it until this is resolved. I put in a request to Wyze. We’ll see. best Greg

Wyze base station broadcasting an open SSID - how to turn it off?

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Brian November 30, 2020, 3:48am 4

Is yours broadcasting as Open? Mine is secured and prompts for a password to join.

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