I just hooked up to Blue Iris twoASH22-W. Note it makes no difference between Blue Iris or using its default Android Smart Home app, same issue. Will constantly disconnect with no reason.
The camera will lose packets or disconnect from WiFi every 10 minutes, sometime it loses a few packets, comes back, sometimes it disconnects entirely and then reconnects, other times it completely reboots. Not regularly but unpredictable way, I cannot replicate the exact time.
It just disconnects, and then connects again. I checked my AP settings and the Wireless signal is fine, better than other devices, the disconnection happens from the camera side, and other Amcrest Wi-Fi cameras don't do this, neither does any device on my network. When I go to check the camera, the light is red, as if it's rebooting, sometimes blinking, depends on if it's rebooting or reconnecting. It does this every 10 or so minutes, then it completely loses connection until you reboot the device from the power switch.
Either this has a bad firmware or there are some serious hardware issues. It looks to me like some memory leak or buffer overflow, something in the camera just does not like to be constantly connecting, or maybe overheating, but it does this at night as well. The cameras are new, brand new, just installed, they are doing this from the first hour they are connected.
On Amazon others complained about similar issues while other reviews say it works fine. Some said one batch works fine and another does not because he had them working fine and newer models don't work fine. I hope this is a software issue because Amcrest is still selling them on Amazon. They clearly don't work fine. If this was a hardware issue, they should have pulled them out of Amazon instead of selling the defective batch to customers.
The camera will lose packets or disconnect from WiFi every 10 minutes, sometime it loses a few packets, comes back, sometimes it disconnects entirely and then reconnects, other times it completely reboots. Not regularly but unpredictable way, I cannot replicate the exact time.
It just disconnects, and then connects again. I checked my AP settings and the Wireless signal is fine, better than other devices, the disconnection happens from the camera side, and other Amcrest Wi-Fi cameras don't do this, neither does any device on my network. When I go to check the camera, the light is red, as if it's rebooting, sometimes blinking, depends on if it's rebooting or reconnecting. It does this every 10 or so minutes, then it completely loses connection until you reboot the device from the power switch.
Either this has a bad firmware or there are some serious hardware issues. It looks to me like some memory leak or buffer overflow, something in the camera just does not like to be constantly connecting, or maybe overheating, but it does this at night as well. The cameras are new, brand new, just installed, they are doing this from the first hour they are connected.
On Amazon others complained about similar issues while other reviews say it works fine. Some said one batch works fine and another does not because he had them working fine and newer models don't work fine. I hope this is a software issue because Amcrest is still selling them on Amazon. They clearly don't work fine. If this was a hardware issue, they should have pulled them out of Amazon instead of selling the defective batch to customers.