Wyze Video Doorbell Pro and Chime Pro Access Point Creation

[muerte33]

Can anyone that owns a Wyze Video Doorbell Pro and Chime Pro verify that the Chime Pro creates an Access Point that is visible on their cell phone with an SSID starting with “wzap”?
When I unplug the chime pro, that SSID goes away, so I am almost sure that is what is creating this SSID.
I assume the Chime Pro connects to your local wifi (either 2.4ghz or 5ghz) and then the doorbell pro connects to the chime pro?
If this is true, what is the password they use on the Chime Pro (hopefully it is not easily hacked)?
Thanks!

[carverofchoice]

Yes, I confirmed this over a year ago. Here are a couple of examples:

Continuing the discussion from Fix-It-Friday 6/3/2022:

@carverofchoice

Wyze Chime Pro is publicly broadcasting the SSID “wzap########” instead of being hidden like other devices do.

This is a minor one that shouldn’t win for a Fix-It-Friday report (lots of the above are way higher priority), and it might even be considered a feature request instead of a bug. I still felt it was worth reporting for Wyze to take back to the team as a report for something that was brought up.

The reason I think it could be considered a bug is that every other Wyze device that acts as a hub, bridge, or some other connection to another device, hides the SSID, therefore logical deduction implies that Wyze’s intent is to hide the SSID, and that this one broadcasting it publicly is an oversight (not intentional), or all the others (for example, the WCO hub, or Chime V1) would publicly broadcast their SSIDs too, but they don’t.

General practice is to only broadcast an SSID if you need easy discovery for adding basically any device. The Chime Pro has no valid reason to broadcast the SSID since we never manually select it for anything, therefore professional best practice should be to make it hidden and not broadcast.

I’m sure it’s just an oversight.

Anybody know what Wyze device would broadcast this SSID?

It is the Chime Pro. It broadcasts an SSID starting with wzap for the Video Doorbell Pro to connect to. You can verify this by unplugging your Chime for the VDBPro and the wzap SSID will disappear. Plug it back in and it will reappear. There is not currently a setting you can select to hide the SSID of the Chime Pro, but at least now you know what device it is for.

@muerte33

I assume the Chime Pro connects to your local wifi (either 2.4ghz or 5ghz) and then the doorbell pro connects to the chime pro?

Correct.

@muerte33

If this is true, what is the password they use on the Chime Pro (hopefully it is not easily hacked)?

I don’t think anyone has to worry about that for many reasons…but suffice it to say that nobody can tell you the password because it is not known, but even if someone did bruteforce their way into it somehow, there wouldn’t be anything on that network for them to access. Access to the VDBPro would require separate authentication, and there is nothing else on that network, so in some ways it’s safer to to do it this way than connect directly to your Router because this gives it an extra layer of device isolation. It’d be more worth their time to hack your actual router, which is also unlikely. I truly wouldn’t worry about it too much. It’s just annoying seeing another SSID public, but it doesn’t actually make you any less safe by broadcasting it publicly instead of hiding it. Anyone who could do anything with a publicly broadcast SSID would not be slowed down a single second longer with a hidden SSID. It’s just nicer to have it hidden when it’s not intended to be intentionally selectable.

[muerte33]

Thanks very much, I should have done a deeper search than I did earlier this morning

[carverofchoice]

No worries, that’s what us volunteers are here for. Ask whatever questions you have whenever you have them. Happy to help.