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Cameras will not work if wifi disrupted
Simplisafe is good with one fatal flaw. Your outdoor cameras will not work if the wifi goes down and the base station does not reconnect when wifi comes back on. Someone must be in home to do physical reboot so if you are away at length your system cameras are worthless. They know about this and simple solution to be able to hardwire base station to wifi router is not something they care about. Unlike Ring which allows hard wire connection to wifi router. Its too bad they don’t fix this.
emily_s
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3.4K Messages
7 months ago
Hi @lamovitz,
Yes, our cameras do require a Wi-Fi connection in order to function; unfortunately they will not be able to work when Wi-Fi is down. But regarding your Base Station, you should not need to reset it to reestablish its Wi-Fi connection, it should reconnect on its own.
Have you tried setting up a Guest Wi-Fi network that only your Base Station and other SimpliSafe devices are connected to? This can help in case this issue is due to a router setting that is affecting the connection.
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lance843
1K Messages
7 months ago
Weloose power quite a bit and our base station always connects back to wifi and yes anything that runs on wifi goes down if it goes out and that's every brand of wifi cameras but all mine connects right back up in no time so must be something with your router or provider doing that. Plus the base station has a built-in cell chip inside so the base station will still connect to the monitoring company but if your cameras are not connected back then of course they will not work so seems to be a router or internet provider issue.
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