u/ignishaun

Wyze Camera v3 and bundled Garage Door Controller were working fine. Got a new router because my old one went end of life a little under a year ago. Now when I press "Garage Door" in the app, there's a 5-20 minute delay before the garage door actually opens (when it works at all). All my other Wyze cameras are working fine. The floodlight is similarly having a delay before turning on/off, but I don't care as much because I otherwise have that set to Auto anyway.

I'm forwarding the necessary ports https://support.wyze.com/hc/en-us/articles/360031479511-What-ports-are-necessary-for-Wyze-Cams-to-operate, and I don't see anything being blocked in the router logs. Has anyone had this problem and figured out a solution?

Thanks for the help yesterday. I figured out that my Netgear router had IPv6 disabled by default, and was having hiccups when the OpenWrt router was expecting it.

To recap: I have a super vanilla OpenWrt setup (I mostly want the regular security updates), and a second Netgear router connected via wired backhaul to one of the OpenWrt's LAN ports that sends/receives data to Wyze cameras that are too far for the OpenWrt router's WiFi to reach.

Essentially:

WAN<-->OpenWrt Router<-->Netgear Router<-->Wyze cameras

I'm able to view the Wyze camera footage now, but the Wyze garage door opener is spotty at best. It was working fine when I had two of the same Netgear routers, so I'm assuming something about the OpenWrt's firewall is less permissive. I know there are certain ports Wyze officially requires https://support.wyze.com/hc/en-us/articles/360031479511-What-ports-are-necessary-for-Wyze-Cams-to-operate. Would I need to open the ports on my OpenWrt router? Forward them? Something else?

I have a super vanilla OpenWRT setup (I mostly want the regular security updates), and a second Netgear router connected to one of the OpenWRT's LAN ports that sends/receives data to Wyze cameras that are too far for the OpenWRT router's WiFi to reach.

Essentially:

WAN<-->OpenWRT Router<-->Netgear Router<-->Wyze cameras

The Wyze cameras are connected to the Netgear's guest network and were working fine when I had two of the same Netgear routers. But now, the Netgear router usually says it doesn't have any Internet, and when it does have Internet, I can view the live camera footage for 2 seconds or so before the Internet shuts down again. It does the same thing if I do an Ookla speed test, and whether I'm connected to the Netgear's guest or main network: Internet works for 2 seconds or so before going down again.

The OpenWRT logs don't indicate anything at all when this happens, so I'm not sure what to try next. The only thing I see in the logs is that the IP address I reserved for the Netgear (192.168.1.3) was rejected, so it got a different IP address reserved.

8 hours later edit: I figured out a huge part of the problem. The Netgear router had IPv6 disabled by default, and was having hiccups when the OpenWRT router was expecting it. On the Netgear router, I: 1) Enabled IPv6 and set to auto config, 2) Set IPv6 Filtering to Open, leaning on the OpenWrt router to filter, 3) Disabled SIP ALG, and 4) set NAT filtering to Open, again leaning on the OpenWrt router to filter. I can now view live camera footage indefinitely, but doing an Ookla speed test still fails after 2 seconds or so, and using the connected Wyze garage door controller is spotty at best. I can live without the speed test, but any ideas why the garage door controller only works intermittently?

I couldn't find the answer in the FAQ or search results. Essentially, my home network goes: [modem]-->[router 1]-->[router 2], using Cat6a for all backhaul. The routers are both Netgear R6700AXes, which got their last security update 10/29/2025, and aren't able to run OpenWrt. Security-wise, do I replace both routers? Or would it be sufficient to replace just router 1 with a new router that is getting support, and rely on new router to protect against something getting to router 2?

Thanks in advance.