I noticed later: regular pulses of loud static when monitoring SD card playback of continuous footage recorded prior to the upgrade:
Static that wasn’t there before.
Video is all there and plays ok. New video and audio both ok.
I noticed later: regular pulses of loud static when monitoring SD card playback of continuous footage recorded prior to the upgrade:
Static that wasn’t there before.
Video is all there and plays ok. New video and audio both ok.
I was hoping that upgrading might improve connectivity to the v2 farthest from an access point (weakest signal) especially its performance in a group.
But no.
That cam is also closest to the multi-family building next door that has a fair amount of tenant turnover so:
‘Fair’ signal plus crowded/changing channel interference probably dooms this cam’s connectivity to ‘variable’ at best.
Finished updating the final four cameras. All updates completed without issue.
Three of the four exhibited the same behavior:
The fourth, with the Record Sound setting toggled OFF, suffered this:
Playback timeline marked as past continuous video present, but does not play: ‘no video at the selected time’.
Both of my V2 cams have quit recording after updating to 4.9.9.1851. They both have Samsung pro endurance 128GB cards installed.
Same result for the final four cams, all of which were running FW v4.9.8.1002 prior. The one running FW v4.9.8.501 prior was the only outlier.
Anyone care to speculate what happened here?
weird
Anyone care to speculate what happened here?
Sure - WYZE development teams are in way over their head and QA is nearly non existent. We all get what we pay for. When issues are pointed out they initially act like they care then slowly sweep things under the rug and eventually completely ignore them. IE: WPA3 for v2 cams (said to be released July of 2021 and still not working), v1 contact sensors (totally swept under the rug and nobody got their money back). There are more examples, but what’s the point in listing them?
So some error in firmware programming could cause the regular pulses of loud static on the SD cards on update? To a lay-plus person (me) this seems odd.
Hmm. If the problem did not exist for years. Then the firmware was upgraded and the problem began. I am not sure what else it could be other than one heck of a coincidence.
Wifi connectivity bug introduced somewhere between firmware version 4.9.9.1433 and 4.9.9.1851. On 4.9.9.1851 cameras will never re-connect to WiFi after a power down/reboot, they will only connect to WiFi on the initial setup process. Any subsequent power down/reboot they will just sit there blinking amber/blue for hours. My WiFi network hasn’t changed and confirmed this behavior on 3 separate V2 cams. Downgraded to 4.9.9.1433 and they connect just as they should and appear to work fine after mu…
it stopped recording on SD card. Spent an hour with chat support but didn’t fix it. Are you trying to force us purchasing cloud??
This is the same thing you said in December. Could you please provide an update?
I hadn’t updated the firmware on any of my Wyze cameras for over a year because I’d had problems in the past. Foolishly, I decided to give it a go. I guess I like a challenge because, as expected, all the updated cameras went offline. I was able to get two cameras back online by removing, resetting, and re-adding them. Sadly, one of the cameras is already back offline. I had vowed in the past to never again do a firmware update, but this isn’t the first time I broke a vow. I’m curious how often…
Tossed an update over in this thread.
Just coming back to give an update. I was told it is currently in QA testing and after it passes that it will start working through beta. I do not have the timeline though, I will keep an eye on the progress though.
Android app v2.39.0 (179) (same as I’ve been using throughout)
v2 Firmware 4.9.9.1851
CamPlus Lite
The flaw is in the cam Notifications Menu. The Person option is greyed-out, un-selectable.
Interestingly, the two cams with the flawed menu still send Person Notifications (their setting before updating.)
The Notifications menu flaw ‘went away’ (I think Wyze can update elements of the App independently from a full version update?)
They’re all consistent now.
Separately…
I stopped receiving Person detections and notifications in the last several days on several v2 cams.
Turns out Settings > Event Recording > Smart Detections > Person changed status to OFF on its own.
Also, on a few cams Settings > Event Recording > Schedule had changed on its own.
Changed them back to their correct settings this morning and will report back tomorrow on the effects.
/edit All’s well.
In addition…
Connectivity of the cams in general, and especially in 3-4 cam Groups, is substantially BETTER in tinyCam v15.3.10 (latest beta release) than Wyze app v2.39.0 (179) on my network.
In Landscape orientation, with the same 4-cam Group displaying in both Wyze app and tinyCam, task-swapping from Wyze to tinyCam and back with the Android Recents icon, effectively ‘gooses’ (favorably) the connectivity of the group in the Wyze app.
I just unpacked and setup 6 new v2 cams (I ordered them in early 2020 but was only able to pick them the shipping destination this week). Unfortunately, after successful initial setup, the firmware update the app prompted me to do seems to have bricked 2 of the 6 cams as far as I can tell.
This is my first experience with Wyze equipment and I am a bit concerned about the results so far.
On the first bricked cam I have tried the steps of changing power adapters, cables, etc without success. On the second bricked cam I have left it plugged in as-is so far. In both cases the cams’ status light just shows solid yellow.
Might you @WyzeJasonJ or anyone else here be able to provide guidance on how to revive the unresponsive cams?
Hey Neil, in case you haven’t seen it… Cheers, peep
I have a few Wyze Cam v2 cameras that have stopped working and it seems to be when the firmware got updated. The first unit went offline in early February and shows error code 90 when trying to connect to it. The light is solid yellow. It makes a physical clicking noise occasionally. I have a few of these boxed/unused in a drawer so I got a new one out, set it up and it worked. I upgraded the firmware via the app and it did exactly what the other one was doing - error code 90 and a solid yello…
can this wifi bug bricking cams PLEASE be fixed already?!
Is there a new cam v2 firmware in progress? If so, is ETA near or far? Thanks!
I already gave up on the 4.9.x… firmwares – tried the last one prior to this (…1851) and no go (went offline minutes later)
I just went back down to the last 4.8.x… think I’m secure? I’m behind a NAT. Someone PLEASE lmk! Thanks