Since the outage last month I’ve had nothing but problems. My Cam V3 Pro started going offline every day so I replaced it with a Cam OG. The mount didn’t work for my purposes and I needed a black camera instead of white (not Wyze’s fault of course) so earlier this week I replaced the white OG with a black regular V3.
As of a couple of days ago, that new V3 and another V3 I have which are both watching areas where pets often go, I think out of between 15 and 20 or so recordings containing pets, the cameras have tagged “Pet” once. And this was with two dogs about 3 feet from the camera.
One of the V3s is new so I don’t have much previous data to go by but the other one has been there for over a year and it would detect pets every single time out to 20 feet away which is as far as it sees because there are shrubs there.
The cams I replaced, the OG and the V3 Pro which overlook a much larger area would both reliably identify pets out to 40+ feet. But the V3 I put in their place has not detected a pet correctly since I installed it.
We’ve had a lot of coyotes here recently and one of the things I rely on the Wyze cam for is to alert me when there is a coyote outside - the OG, V3 Pro, and other V3 would tag them as “Pet” to about 95% accuracy.
But for the last several days, nothing, just generic “Motion” (or Person if a person is there) which is useless to me because I only have those cams set to notify me for people or pets, otherwise I get an alert every time a leaf blows by or the wind moves a branch.
Did Wyze do something to their pet detection?
Come to think of it, a third V3 watching a different area also hasn’t tagged any Pet events lately even though people walk their dogs there all the time too. But that one’s not as important for this because coyotes don’t go there. ::EDIT:: Perfect timing - as I was writing this post, someone walked past this third V3 walking two large black Labradors about 15 feet from the camera. It did not tag them as Pet, just tagged Person and Motion. So, Pet detection is completely broken.
And in case I can’t get this fixed, what other cameras have good Pet/Animal detection? I’ve already been placing Ring cams next to some of my 15 Wyze cams and the almost daily issues with Wyze are getting very old so I’d consider replacing the two V3s that are no longer detecting Pets with yet a third company’s cameras since Ring doesn’t do pet/animal detection.