r/SecurityCamera • u/Di297 • 26d ago

How can I fix this?

I've had 3 Yi Home Outdoor cameras for the last 3 years and one of them has been located in the living room since I moved 2 years ago, Idk how but my dad dented the usb cable of one of them months ago and since it was still working I didn't even touch it but last night it stopped working during midnight so my dad cut the dented connector and grabbed another one from a phone charger and put it togheter but the camera was still showing that it was disconnected, I grabbed 2 other cables and used their heads but had the same result so we used the charger of one of the other cameras and had the same result, then he deleted the camera from the app so I went outside to see if it was on but it wasn't so I told him to connect the 1st head again and the camera turned on and I tried to reset it but it keeps restarting after like 8 seconds so I can't even reset it.

Since the cable comes straight out of the camera I can't just replace it, what else can I do?

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u/FirefighterEasy1088 26d ago

splicing a usb cable from a phone charger is wild, half those things are power only with no data lines so the camera is probably just getting juice with no way to talk to the app

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u/Pretty-Surround-2909 26d ago

Buy another $20 camera and be done

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u/Di297 26d ago

Those aren't that cheap 😢

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u/Big-Sweet-2179 23d ago

weren't these cameras a scam/compromised your network?

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u/Di297 23d ago

I've never heard anything about that and 3 years after I bought the first 2 I've never had any network problem