And only an 8 megapixel image?
I’ve been wondering, since after hours of constant disconnects and reconnect and inability to connect at all, both cameras seem to suddenly be working fine, now!
Do the connected elements and the WYZE mesh router need time to learn how to best communicate with each other? For example, whether to use 2.4 or 5G connections? Does it need time to decide whether it’s going to connect to the main router or one of the satellites?
It would seem that it spent several hours figuring out the best way to connect and stay connected.
I can’t imagine how or why the problem would mysteriously disappear without my doing anything to change things here.
Seems as if it the only way such a thing could happen is if it was an automatic internal change that created the conditions in which the cameras could stay connected consistently.
Thoughts?
Edit: and just as mysteriously now camera two is failing to connect consistently. After working for several hours, it went back into ITS inability to connect or stay connected! 
connections at this time are very intermittent
I appreciate the suggestion; however, I’d argue that #3 deserves its separate topic (or should be merged into the announcement topic for Lamp Socket v2), because I think that original post and my response to that user indicate deficiencies with the socket (which I’ve asked Wyze about). Either way, it seems like Cam Pan v4 and Lamp Socket v2 should work together, but I don’t yet know anything about whether or not Wyze has built those features into the app and back end.
I too want black ones. They aren’t as obvious against red brick, Since black isn’t an option with either the v4 pan or the duo cameras, I dont have to decide between the two yet. I like the idea of the duo as there are times the v3 pan misses something I want to see because it followed motion. But, I like the resolution of the v4.
I’m just the messenger 
. I’ll leave it to you and @spamoni.
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I’m not a Moderator, just sharing an opinion. 
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I’m watching the wifi closely today. When I first configured the the unit I chose the 5gHz band as that was a requirement of mine. Where I deployed the unit is arguably at the limits of wifi but I had a good experience with the Battery Cam Pro on the 5gHz band and I expected the same with this unit.
Initially all looked good. I had 2 bars in the Device Info and the unit responded appropriately. But as the day progressed the connectivity got worse. Finally to the point where I was down to 0 bars and I started getting 3005? error codes. Finally late yesterday I moved to the 2.4gHz band. 3 bars and we were back in business.
I’m not aware of any algorithms in the 802.11 specs that take hours to cycle. There are plenty that are in the milli-seconds, seconds and even a minute or so. What can be happening is the analog parameters changed and the wifi is reacting to that. This could be any number of things, microwave turning on, neighbor coming home and bringing all their devices online, the network noising up due to time of day, etc. If your at the limits of your wifi all of these become exaggerated.
To rule out an issue with the wifi I’m going to bring the unit back into the house, 10 ft from the router and watch it for 48 hours on the 5gHz band.
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Not changing it again, but moved it back to its own topic. you made a good point. 
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My particular case the camera is on the 2.4 and has three full bars of signal yet I still get those errors and constant disconnects and the inability to connect at all. But then an hour or two of solid connection with no problems, followed by several hours of inability to connect at all.
Like I said, it’s just an opinion. I’m for whatever helps the issues get good visibility within the community and especially from Wyze. Thanks! 
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Good info. I’ve moved mine indoors, 10ft from router. Let’s see what the day brings.
Need more frames per second to stop blur on 10% of our cameras. Solution simple. Install 1.2 to 1 chip. , charge more for it. Transmit, only every 2nd frame recorded to SD and uploaded to keep bit rate the same. . Doubled frame rate cuts blur in half. You only need 20 frames per second of a 40 frames per sec camera recorded to SD or sent upline. Yesa 1.2 to 1 chip costs more but you only need 40 fps at night in a few cameras. To limit bandwidth, send up only every other image. Bingo you get the same 20 frames per second bandwidth and you get twice as sharp of image. 1.2 to 1 ratio handles the lower light problem.
I replaced the cable with a DeWalt * High-Speed Charging and Syncing 6 ft USB C charging cable that carries significantly more power to allow for advanced fast charging and data transferring technology.
What engineering keeps missing is the fact that these pan cameras require more power, experience surges when the motor is moving the camera and it takes away from the power required to transmit and receive the Wi-Fi signal, operate the cameras, and especially on these new V4 versions at 4K!
I had similar problems with the V3 pan cameras when I tried to use a longer USB cable. We experienced that the drop in voltage across the cable length was too much to keep the cameras working properly. Apparently the V4 requires even more power to stay connected consistently.
These two cameras I have set up here using the provided cables would not stay connected consistently. Every time I attempted to set scan and pan locations the connection would drop. And obviously anytime the camera did pan and scan on its own the surge was occasionally too much for it to maintain its connection and it would drop.
It is my considered opinion that these cameras, the V3 as even more so the V4, require higher quality cables to avoid power drops.
I will have to watch these cameras for a bit longer to make sure that this is not just a temporary condition. If the frequent occurrences of dropouts and inability to connect disappear, it will be safe to conclude that the upgraded cable is what was required in order to maintain stable voltages for all the other functionalities of the camera when the draw of the motor kicks in.
UPDATE: well, so much for that theory! Ran great for about an hour, then the same problem started up again.
Back to the drawing board, I suppose 
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So my pan V4 was delivered today. There’s now a pigtail. It avoids the problem I had with the pan V3 where I threaded the USB cable the wrong way, and it hindered camera motion.
I tested it with both 2.4 and 5 GHz band from about 3 feet from the router. The picture looks OK, but with the small phone screen, I can’t really tell the difference.
Now the bad part. This camera’s WiFi connection is probably just as bad as the pan V3 when it first came out. With the pan V3, I had to add a WiFi extender for it to work. Over several firmware updates, the need for that extender disappeared.
This pan V4 wouldn’t even connect with 2.4GHz from a distance of about 15 feet from the router. I guess I’ll have to hold off on replacing the Pan V3 until Wyze releases a more stable firmware.
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It’s now connecting from about 15 feet, but I guess, like what the previous posters indicated, it’s going to be intermittent. Also the FOV is wider.
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We have been assuming it had to do with 2.4 or five gig connection or the signal strength but as the pictures below indicate neither one seems to be the issue. My one camera that is very stable has a much weaker signal and is stable. And they are both now connected on the five gig.
I still believe the surge of the motors is causing a power dip which creates disconnect. If I turn off pan scan it seems to stay up more stable. As soon as the motor starts kicking in regularly, it drops.
I am setting up a Cam Pan v4 right now. Working well, but the documentation says it supports wifi6 and I’m not seeing evidence of that? And yes, I do a wifi 7 mesh router, it broadcasts 2.4/5ghz under the SSID name Medonia and has the 6ghz channel broadcasting as Medonia_6ghz. Did I misread the documentation or does this thing really support wifi6?
The pan V3’s home position is waypoint #1, as I previously mentioned. I read it somewhere but couldn’t remember where exactly. But now with the pan V4, it makes it clear that waypoint #1 is indeed the home position. Waypoint#1 on the waypoint edit page is clearly marked with the home icon.
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I forgot to mention, it would be very useful for the pan V4/V3 home position to remember not only its direction, but also its zoom level. So the next time you hit the home button, the preselected zoom level is also in effect.
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Don’t confuse wifi 6 with wifi 6e. 6e has the 6gHz band. I believe the “e” stands for extended.
Wifi 6 is a huge improvement over wifi 5.
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Ahhh, you are exactly right Ron! I should have caught that, but I’m too excited about my new camera!
I have the pan cam v4. Once I set the “home" waypoint (only that one as I don’t need it to scan just follow when it sees something) it constantly bobbles up and down. Just a little but noticeable. Remains fine left to right. There are no green boxes showing that it sees something.