Unable to Share YI Home with family

@alberto Welcome to the community! Thanks for sharing.

Did Golfpaul’s advice in the comment above yours help at all?

Is there an issue with the App on iPhone12 Pro? I have tried sharing QR code, I have tried setting up a new account and I have tried logging in with my credentials into my wives phone all to no avail. She now needs to use her old iPhone just to check cameras. This is extremely frustrating.

Hey @Golfpaul You should be able to log into your account using your credentials on your wives phone. We do not restrict sharing in this way. Can you double check credentials are correct when trying to log into your wives phone?

Thank you for your patience. Let me know how it goes.

Credentials are correct, it allows me to log in but there are no cameras to view on her phone when I log in with my credentials. On her old phone I can see the 3 cameras when logged into my account.

That is a bug of some kind. Can you please write to support@yitechnology.com with a link to this thread for the technical supports reference. It sounds like this needs to be escalated so our app team can take a look and fix any bugs.

If you have already contacted support@yitechnology, please send me your ticket #?

I’ve heard nothing back about this and not received any messages and still have the same problem.

hey @Swiseman81 Can you please send me the customer support ticket number you received with contacting our technical support team? I will follow up with them and find out more.

Hi Kami,

This is getting really frustrating. He have invested money on these cameras based on the advertised functionality and now we cannot use it. Everybody here is rasing exactly the same issue and you have no answer for it. Instead you are telling them to raise it to support. Why don’t you raise this to support. What exactly is your ole here?

I am having the same issues now. Same exact message for all 3 cameras and we live in the same house. Can I get trouble ticket and have technical support reach out to me?

dont use qr code or sharing option.
phones must have the same log-in info
tried on my 3 phones, ios or android
or same fb account on all phones for yi only .
and still you can access fb on any account
it works.
hope helps …

Hello. To contact technical support:

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no really, still having same issue, no matter what I do.

Hey @alberto I am so sorry this is lingering. Have you contacted our support team? Please email support@yitechnology.com.

If you have already done so, please send me your ticket number so I can follow up with the support team.

I was having the exact same issue, after upgrading my phone, whilst my account was recognised I could no longer detect or share the camera getting the wron region message.
This is how i have resolved it. The problem is with the router and WiFi network your devices are on (2.4GHz & 5GHz). The camera is on 2.4GHz whilst your shiny phones and iPads are almost certainly auto selecting the 5GHz network to make use of the superior bandwidth.
Solution;

  1. Temporarily disable your routers 5GHz network. Note: router password will almost certainly be required. Ref your router instructions on how to do this.
  2. Restart your devices and go through the pairing and sharing sequence (I deleted the apps and re-installed but I don’t think you need to go this far). As a minimum go to airplane mode and then reconnect to WiFi to force the connection to 2.4GHz WiFi.
  3. Once you have reconnected/shared to all devices re-enable your router 5GHz network.
    Et Voila. Sorted. :slight_smile:
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Incredible @Alex100 Thank you so, so much for sharing! And, for being so detailed That will be super helpful for others in the community I assure you.

New phones are most definitely going to auto-selecting 5ghz instead of 2.4. You are the hero of this thread!

There is obviously something wrong with the YI IoT app when performing the “detect devices on network” function. I brought this camera May 2019 and had no problems setting the system up then. So an app update since then has obviously broken the device detection function when multiple frequencies are used. The whole network is not being scanned.

Hey @Alex100 have you tried our Kami Home or Yi Home App for the cameras instead of the Yi IoT app?

You can log in to either with your Yi account credentials. If interested, give that a try.

Keep us posted. And, we have regular app updates to fix bugs.

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Hello, I am another unsatisfied customer.

Just bought two cameras.

Two users.

User 1 can add the cameras but cannot send invites to ‘verified’ User 2, both on the same wifi network and set to the same Country.

User 2 cannot add cameras without the camera being reset therefore removing the two cameras added to User 1’s phone.

User 1 & 2 then have no cameras so User 1 has to re-add them leaving User 2 still without any cameras.

Sorry to hear you are having issues using the share functionality.

Could you try the hints and tips from this post please? Unable to Share YI Home with family

Also take a look at this support article https://help.yitechnology.com/hc/en-us/articles/360010802913-Sharing-Your-Camera-With-Friends-and-Family

For reference Kami & Yi are the same company so any reference to Kami will be fine on the Yi and vice versa.

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Hey @barspeed I am sorry to hear youre having trouble sharing access to your account with Family

Are you comfortable sharing your login information with user 2?

Thanks for your patience. We will get this figured out.

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