A few months ago, PG&E had a power outage. This, obviously, took all of my cameras offline. When power was restored, the majority of my cameras came back online without issues. However, 2 of my V3’s didn’t.
One V3 no longer powers on at all (at least from what I can tell). When plugging it in, there is no indication light or anything that would indicate that it is turned on.
The second V3 has the blue indicator light when I plug it in, but it doesn’t seem to do anything else. I have tried holding the reset button but nothing happens. The light just stays solid blue.
I have tried using different power outlets and tried using different plugs (the official Wyze ones) but the first camera still doesn’t indicate that it is turning on, and the second still doesn’t do anything but have a blue indicator light.
As a last resort, I tried deleting them from my camera list and re-adding them, but to no avail.
I have since replaced them with some OG cameras, but it seems a shame to have two cameras no sitting there gathering dust.
The one with no power at all is likely fried. If not under warranty, it probably just needs to be trashed. Try the factory reset procedure on it but if you’re not getting any light at all, unlikely that will do anything.
For the other, sounds like you already tried the factory reset, see if you can get it to take the manual firmware as @StevenA mentioned, but if that doesn’t work, it is also probably dead.
When the power comes back on from an outage it is often very dirty and several spikes/surges. Usually the “wall wart” adapter takes the brunt of the abuse but sounds like in this case it made it through to the cameras. The guts of these USB adapters (not just Wyze, many of the ones out there) are pretty basic with minimal filtering or protection for the upstream device.
I had ordered a micro SD card reader which will be delivered today, and will try and flash the firmware on both and see what happens. Hopefully I can rescue at least one of them.
My card reader arrived, I formatted my SD card to FAT32, put the firmware on it (renamed it to the appropriate name), followed all of the rest of the steps, aaaaand nothing.
One of the V3’s is just completely dead (which I figured) and no status lights come on or anything. The other V3’s status light comes on, but refuses to flash the firmware. The light just remains solid.
So I don’t think there’s a whole lot left I can try. Thanks for the replies though, I appreciate your time and effort.
Sounds like they’re both toasted. Good opportunity to get a couple OGs or v4s, both much better than the v3 from my experience. The v4 will mount the same way the v3 did.
