It’s NOT a router issue!!! Wyze tech support is full of CR@P!!! and doesn’t know a damned thing about how wireless works! Hence why new plugs use BlueThooth to set up!
These cr@ppy V1 units, once you do the hold the button in, become their own tiny AP (Access Point for NOOBS) thst broadcasts itself, asking for any device to join.
Upon initial setup of the V1 units, first you set your phone to Airplane mode, but then turn you wireless back on. This should kill the phone/Data side so it can’t reach anything there.
Then in the Wyze APP, you select your home wireless network. The next step you then select said device in your list of available wireless networks. This will remove your wireless from your home network then join the plugs little wireless network.
At this point, there should be a mini 2 IP network betyween the plug wireless AP and your phone. Hwever, I believe that isn’t happening with the latest firmware. Checking what IP addres the plug has it’s 192.168.4.1 and I see my iPhone has acquired 192.168.4.2 Using a Ping app on my iP{hone, it searches onm the known subnet 192.168.4.xxx and finds 192.168.4.1 which responds to pings. So, we can see the iPhone can reach the plug’s IP however the POS lug’s firmware isn’t allowing it to respond back!
I believe the Wyze NOOBS [Mod Edit] up on last update and left some kind of handshaking after connmection between the plug and the iPhone Wyze APP, thus not allowing the setup to continue. After a while it times out and asks you to try again.
So sadly, if your Wyze plugs are running firmware 1.2.0.80, there’s a good chance your screwed the next time you unplug it for a long duration. BTW: WHY are the V2 plugs running a lower firmware version - 1.2.0.239 ? Anyone at Wyze care to speak up?
I’d prove this further with a wireless sniffer and time, however, I retired from network support and network security 3 years ago and presonally, I just don’t feel like messing with this right now. I may look into it later as I currently have two V1 AP’s that are dead and now only good for target practice at 100 yards…
Or maybe crack one open and see if it has a SPI interfce and actually see what the POS is doing…
Meanwhile, I’ll just keep an eye out for future sales on the plugs - probab;ly what the Wyze jerks really want us to do….
MOD NOTE: Post edited to conform to the Community Guidelines.