Wyze Cam COOL DOWN setting doesn't work

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I have few WYZE OUTDOOR CAM. 2 of them plugged in with power so don’t have to worry about battery on those 2 otherwise they are crappy with short battery life,

I go to settings and switch to NO COOL DOWN period and 5 mins below that. but the video clips are short no continous recording and when I check back a day or 2 days or 3 days later in the settings on when wyze app on my iphone, the COOLDOWN reverses to 1 min. Have been going on for long time. app is up to date and super strong wifi at home. also the camera notification beep happens 5 secs after an event is detected. i am up for renewal of subscription but if you guys have a suggestion for similar pricing camera. pls provide one. i need couple of camera for front and back and i dont like dirlling

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Apparently what you’re describing is a known longstanding issue, and searching for @Antonius "6 November 2023" turns up a number of results, because I think @Antonius “celebrates” the anniversary. :grin:

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Yeah, this has been an issue for 14 months. You can’t go lower than 1min cool down on Wyze Cam outdoor even if you’re a paying customer.

They’ve acknowledged this issue and started to work on it, then suddenly ghosted us on the issue for 14 months now (16 months it’s been happening). Pretty disappointing. :man_shrugging:

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i didn’t renew my cam plus unlimited for $100. They should make wireless cam outdoor with much longer battery life than the current ones so if i leave it outside without wire, I don’t have to charge every 4 days. I have 2 of them plugged in so battery is not an issue but the COOL DOWN setting not going lower than 1 min is very bad. whenever you chat with WYZE reps they pretend to not know this and the 5 secs event detection alert delay and wants you to create ticket number and log in and back and forth useless trouble shootings that never produce result.

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But setting your cooldown setting lower will run your battery down faster, you’re saying you want more battery life. You can’t have both.

If you want a lot of battery life, get some USB battery banks (and obviously protect them from the elements). Or a solar panel.

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If you read my post above , out of 4 I have two of them plugged in so I don’t have to worry about battery . The other two are not plugged in and the full battery last few days only not the 2-6 months they claim. I see that Wyze still continue to mention the camplus subscription benefit as no cooldown period even though everyone knows cooldown auto sets to 1 min . And as you guys said it’s been going on for yrs . The other part maybe not as bad as no cooldown is the event detection alert which happens 5 secs after an event is detected . There was a review of this on YouTube 2 yrs ago . Wyze still hasn’t done anything to fix this .

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I’ve a friend who has seen my two Battery Cam Pro’s with solar panels and is considering a purchase of the same. The BCP’s don’t suffer from this Wyze Mandated 1 Minute Cooldown Syndrome like the WCO v1 and v2’s do.

The question I’m asking myself, is, Why would I recommend that he buy the BCP’s, when they two are susceptible to the Wyze Mandated 1 Minute Cooldown Syndrome at any given moment without warning?

The fact that I have EIGHT WCO v1’s, and One WCO v2’s that have a bad case of the Wyze Mandated 1 Minute Cooldown Syndrome makes me want to never recommend a Wyze product to friends and family ever again.