I’d like to request that Wyze offer the splitter cable for the Spotlight that mounts until of the V3 cam to be offered for sale in the accessories section of the online store. I have a spotlight I had warrantied due to the splitter cable going bad. I verified that it was the cable and not the spotlight itself. I was sent a new spotlight. Now I have still functional spotlight but no way to use it because Wyze does not sell the splitter cable separately. I tried a 3rd party micro USB splitter which was unsuccessful. I think most on the market only offer power only connections, and the splitter included with the Spotlight utilizes a data stream as well to be able to allow the Spotlight to communicate back and forth with the camera. Unless the Wyze splitter had some proprietary tech built into it. I feel Wyze would do themselves a good service and save themselves money with this product offering. Instead of sending out complete Spotlight kits for warranty replacements, they could send just a new cable instead of a new cable and spotlight. Also those out of the warranty period can keep our spotlights going.
These are cheap junk. Even if you do manage to eventually get them to work, they will soon fail and you will waste lots of time trying to get them recognized. Wyze support is impossible to reach and really worthless. They want you to restart the camera force close the app and check connections. As if people have not tried that. Every spotlight kit I’ve tried (4) have failed within 2-3 months and you have to remove them so the camera can function. I posted a review on Wyze.com about all of them failing and Wyze promptly removed it. All I said is they broke within a month or two. You know our dealing with an unethical company when they remove all negative reviews.
As long as the splitter cable is in good condition, my spotlights have been working flawlessly for nearly 2 years now. If yours failed, it’s either a bad splitter cable, or just defective light. Usually deleting the camera and light and starting over should resolve, but shouldn’t be necessary if either component is working as it should. My guess is your splitter cables went bad. They aren’t just for power supply, but also data link for the camera and spotlight to communicate with each other. If it goes bad, the data link is broken andthe light won’t work and it could interfere with the camera operation. Wyze REALLY should address the cable issue by selling replacement splitter cables by themselves which you’d think would save them $$ from having to send out whole new spotlight packages to customers where simply the cable is the probably and not the spotlight unit.
Recently saw the garage door controller cable for sale on the Wyze website, curious if this cable which appears to be a splitter would work with the spotlight. I had bought an aftermarket micro USB splitter but it does not support data on both cables which the original spotlight splitter cable does and is required for the spotlight to operate and the cam to recognize it’s connected. Still dumbfounded how the cable that remains stationary and is never bent or touched fails after time. The spotlight itself failing I can understand but not the cable… Someone from Wyze or knowledge please answer if the garage door controller cable will work as a replacement to the spotlight splitter cable.
I’d guess that the camera is sending USB data commands to the spot light…
When using the 3rd party splitter did it show as an attached accessory? If not then they you posit that those splitters didn’t have data is probably spot on.
You could DIY a splitter using these…
Match the colors up, solder together, put some heat shrink on them.
I finally made my own as I couldn’t get a splitter with the genders I needed in USB for some POE power delivery stuff. So DIY… it was. I am only doing power, but so long as you keep the colors matched up you should be fine. Thats really all those splitters do. More expensive ones might have a chip inside them, but I am betting thats not the case as most I’ve seen even for an SMD device wouldn’t fit.
thanks for posting this, however, every single spotlight kit I have bought has failed (and fairly quickly at that). I just don’t want to spend any more on a 100% defective product. Wyze should recall these. Its shocking they still sell this.
I’ve only purchased them as refurbs at about this price and they’ve worked well enough for my purposes. They have undocumented idiosyncracies you have to suss out so even at their best not turnkey. 
I actually recently had my original good spotlight stop working, but it was the actual spotlight. The splitter works in my other V3/spotlight setup.
For me the spotlights lasted their worth, so I’m satisfied in that regard. I wouldn’t seem them as a trash product, but having the spotlight integrated in the unit like the V3 Pro, OG and the V4 is definitely a better route for Wyze to take on all future cams.
Thank you Peepeep for the refurb link. That’s even cheaper then any 3rd party cable and since I need 1 of each item now lol.