Hi folks
My Outdoor and V3 camera are out the front of my place with plants in the captured area that move in the wind. I want to capture the usual suspect activity like messing with my motorcycle, car (gone from driveway right now) and so on.
My Cam V3 is on the deck looking down for packages and the rest, while the Outdoor is on the right most border on a fence top. It’s a tiny property. There are no other access points to my place.
How’s my placement and the detection off areas? I won’t remove the trees so is this the best I can do?
Cheers! Darren
I have Cam Plus on both. Don’t need to retain footage long. Don’t need alerts, just using it in a forensic capability.
I’m struggling to understand how members of the community are expected to assess your cameras’ Detection Zone settings or placement without any sort of visual references.
Hey folks,
The forums or my browser were giving me hell last night. I couldn’t post multiple images as I’m a new user while Google photos refused to generate a sharing link when I uploaded the pics to an album. On top of that my kids went bananas, so I bailed on it.
Photos here
Click the photo and it will load the album with the two cameras and detection zones applied and removed.
hxxps://photos[.]app.goo.gl/prhRz2XBe4jnfWny7
I wasn’t even sure if the post went live but knew it would be ridiculous if it did without the pics.
Disclaimer: I don’t have hands-on experience with either of those camera models, so the image of the Cam Outdoor settings screen where you’re showing the PIR Effective Area is especially foreign to me.
If you’re not using notifications and have those turned off (that’s how I’m interpreting your “Don’t need alerts” comment), then I’m not sure what you’re trying to accomplish with Detection Zones. My experience using those on other Wyze Cam models has been primarily to block out things affected by wind (foliage, a flag) in order to reduce “Motion Detected” notifications when using cameras without subscriptions, but I’m also using microSD cards set for Continuous recording.
Since one of your goals concerned activity around your motorcycle, I wonder why you’re blocking most of that out with the four squares on the left in the image attached to your post. I think in your situation I’d probably get rid of that exclusion area and reduce your other Detection Zone exclusion areas if you’re not using notifications. This might be something you’ll tweak over several days until you get the results you’re seeking.
Thanks, Crease! You’re right that I don’t want notifications; it is a relatively high foot traffic area for my suburb and along with cars driving past both triggering recordings.
I hope to use the zones to stop mainly the plants from triggering recordings all the time.
I use the cloud service and look for events around a certain time (say someone asks about a thing that happened last night, a theft, or so on). Lots of junk events make searching harder.
Agree with the motorbike. I have blanked out those areas because of the shade around the tree flapping about. I need the shade but also can’t move the bike. I’d think that a theif would be in the detection zone often enough if they were trying to knick it.
But agree its a matter of tweaking.
In effect, it is probably a matter of whether detection zones or any other camera tech can overcome so much moving foliage in a way that false positive recordings are avoided. Perhaps person detection and movement times within designated detection zones would sharpen it up. If I nailed this, then alerts might be more relevant.
Failing that, continous recording is what I might need to do.
