Nope, we’ve had weather lately and I’ve gotten good at recovering the lights. Thankfully they now are able to re-establish themselves with the actions that were previously configured once I re-home them on my network.
It is a PIA still though and Im still disappointed with Wyze for letting this go on for so long
I believe the most recent firmware update for the bulbs that addressed this issue of failing to reconnect after losing power.
I have the same problem with my wyze bulbs. What makes it even worse is that I have 24 bulbs and they are 12 feet high. Any solution?
Same problem right now. Fully updated bulbs, app, phone, and router haha. Everything is as it should be and other Wyze Cams are connecting, but after a recent router reboot the bulbs refuse to join. These bulbs have been a real rollercoaster ride. All of my TP Link (kasa) stuff is more expensive but it always works. I might have bought into the wrong ecosystem.
I have the same issue. I just bought 4 new bulbs. I got all of them to connect once and updated the firmware on them. I tested all of them in a lamp to make sure they would work before installing them in a difficult to access fixture. After moving the bulbs to new fixtures none of them would reconnect to my network. I even removed the devices from my app and tried to re-add them but they won’t connect. I even tried placing back in the original light fixture where I had them working, but still no luck. I have good signal strength to my network.
I was going to suggest the recent firmware update (1.2.0.273 on July 29,2020) but looking at the more recent other posts that might not be the case.
I have three bulbs that started pulsing and after being turned off and on have not reconnected to the bridge in the same room.
I’ll keep trying to get them reconnected but any suggestions are welcome.
The bulbs connect directly to your WiFi, they do not connect to the bridge that you plug into the cam
This is not a router issue. This is a problem with their bulbs. Every time the power goes out at my house this happens, but every other smart home device I have not from Wyze works fine. It’s BS.
I was not saying it is a router issue I was just clarifying that they do not connect to the bridge. Although I did have a momentary outage last Saturday and all but one of my 8 bulbs reconnected, the other one i flipped the wall switch off then on and it reconnected.
I wasn’t replying to you specifically – was just saying in general, since it’s easy for people to blame the router.
Wasn’t trying to sound rude, if I did. Seriously just wanted to confirm this, since it’s happened to me at least twice now (I think 3 times, though).
I would be hesitant to complain about this, but it’s just very annoying when you’re already frustrated that the power has been out, only to find that half your lights don’t work.
A few other things did this as well in SmartThings, in all fairness, but most of my smart home stuff still worked completely fine (75% of it, with the bulk of the missing 25% being Wyze, versus SmartThings), so it just seems SmartThings and Wyze both have a bug or problem to solve. Again, not trying to sound rude – just explaining myself.
It’s all good not rude at all, and I know a lot of people are quick to blame the router. I also use a mix of SmartThings and WYZE, I do have one problematic WYZE bulb at times but it is due to the location and housing on the fixture. I can swap it for a good bulb and the good bulb then acts up, therefore telling me it is the fixture.
I’m having the connection issue with two of my bulbs/sockets. I was very happy to see that Wyze has added the reconnect feature in the latest version of the app. Unfortunately it only works if you are on the same network! This makes this new feature practically worthless if you ask me because I can easily power cycle the bulb and accomplish the same thing. Grrrrrrrr.
Does anyone know what it means to lose the connection and go offline? How is it that the app can communicate to the bulb when it’s “offline” and have it reconnect but only if it’s on the same local network? Why can’t the bulb determine that if it’s offline after a certain period of time try to automatically reconnect? This doesn’t seem to be too hard. After all the bulb only has one function which is to turn on and off.
My guess is it has to do with security but after all this is only a light bulb and if it doesn’t work it’s not very useful.
When you talk about the ‘reconnect feature’, what feature are you referring to?
In the most recent version of the app when a bulb is offline there’s a reconnect button in the app for the bulb instead of saying offline. Unfortunately if you push it and you’re not on the same network as the bulb it says it can’t do it. There is a similar restriction I think for the time-lapse feature.
I have not come across that yet, so I am unsure about that. I will have to force one offline and see what it does
I have the same issue.
I have been using the reconnect feature regularly, worked well. Since a month or so the feature disappeared. I really want it back as I have 30 or so bulbs and some go offline regularly.
It made life infinitely easier, so of course it disappeared without notice.
