Cats! Olympics! How do they walk across tops of bushes?? We just don’t know! 
I have deer eating my flowers in front yard and side. I would love to trigger the specific sprinkler zone according to motion on that wyze camera. Can I do this and how?
Yes…ish. Assuming you have Cam Plus on your camera, the problem is that Wyze AI treats all animals as the same detection, so if you have any cats, dogs or other animals that go in that area, it will trigger for them too.
What you would do, is:
Set up a new rule/automation.
For the Trigger, choose a camera watching that specific sprinkler zone/location (use a detection zone if needed to limit the detections to a specific sprinkler zone area), and choose the trigger that says something like “detects a pet”.
For the Action, choose the sprinkler controller and select the zone that camera is watching.
Now whenever any animal (including any deer) is detected in that sprinkler zone area, the sprinklers will turn on.
Olympic winner for water drinking and flea removal.
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MFP doesn’t look so good here. Doesn’t seem to be Olympic material at all. I’ve been a (qualified) supporter of the fancy pants to this point but I don’t know too much languor here. Speaks of ‘character flaw’ (as you’ve been trying to point out.) I stand corrected. 
Well MFP is good at some things, like making 20+ event videos a day, every day. 
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Here are a couple more videos of how it’s working.
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Wow that flower bed is popular by multiple cats. Is your wife planning catnip or something?
No, just normal, heat tolerant (north Texas region), flowers and shrubs. I think it’s more that she prunes or deadheads them twice a day to get more blooms maybe? We also use a rubber, shredded mulch that lasted 15 years at our previous home. The first thing she does now is check that camera as soon as she wakes up. It puts a smile on her face when she sees a cat run away! She doesn’t hate cats, she just doesn’t like the “presents” they leave her that she finds when she’s smoothing the mulch out.
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I wonder how much of an inducement (in-deuce-ment!) the choice of mulch is. When my cat was much younger, there was a brief period of time where his habit changed (he was also ill) and he was doing his business outside the litter boxes, choosing a particular rug instead. I recall reading at the time that certain types of rubber backings/coatings used on the bottoms of rugs to prevent slippage can attract cats and contribute to this behavior. Getting rid of the rug solved that problem.
That may not matter much with your nocturnal visitors, though. Being outdoor cats, they probably just look for material loose enough to move when choosing where to make their deposits (de-poo-sits!).
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One more. We are wondering if they are going to learn, but if not they keep us laughing!
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I love it. Especially because it’s totally harmless too.
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@carverofchoice, I agree. @pdc.coach1962, please keep sharing these!
I genuinely like the cats who live with me, but I still like seeing them receive harmless comeuppance when they’re being naughty.
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Same. I’m enjoying the videos. I love cats, but they can be taught to be good. 
Last night my littlest boy caught his second snake this month. He wouldn’t let me touch it. He kept picking it up and running away so I wouldn’t take it from him. The 
eventually played dead so the cat would get bored and leave it alone. 
It worked too. Cat eventually got bored and left it alone to live another day. The last it caught, it left in my teenage daughter’s bedroom. So I told her to be on the lookout because he just caught another one.
That’s the 4th snake I’ve seen on our property this year, which is really weird. We must have a nest nearby. We don’t usually see snakes around here. There is nothing around here but houses and a freeway. No stream, no fun wild animals/critters, no fields, etc. Maybe I have a neighbor like my younger self…I used to catch and bring snakes home all the time. I once caught 56 in a half hour and put them all in my bathtub after plugging the drain…but some squeezed into the overflow drain and came up in my neighbors’ toilets. 
They called my parents asking why they had snakes coming our of their toilet…traumatized them for life from feeling safe sitting on their toilet. 
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We once had a mouse problem in our previous house where apparently a bucket that was storing dried corn (primarily for feeding squirrels in the backyard) had a compromised seal, and since it was near the house the mice attracted to that presumably decided to continue the trek into the house to see what else they could find. My cat (indoor only since shortly after he showed up and adopted me) and I could both hear them scurrying across the tiles of the basement ceiling, and he would frequently climb onto different pieces of furniture to try to get as close to the ceiling as he could. He was clearly tracking their movements.
Over the course of several days I was able to trap a significant number of mice, which I left (some still alive and crippled) in the middle of the alley behind the house—where I imagine they soon became food for neighborhood strays, because they were always gone when I would go back to deposit more—but one day walked into the downstairs office to see my cat stretched out and recumbent on his side like a lion sunning itself on a savanna post hunt, a dead mouse lying on the floor near his chest. There was no visible blood, and the mouse appeared to be entirely intact. My cat just looked like he was really pleased with himself for finally getting one of those rascals, and I was so proud of him!
I have a nephew who’s currently in his early twenties, and a couple of years ago his cat came in through his bedroom window and deposited a mouse on his bed. He freaked out and flicked the mouse out the window, then went out to the patio for follow-up. He then decided that he was going to sweep this mouse off the patio slab and so grabbed a nearby broom, whereupon two five-lined skinks that were in the bristles leaped onto his chest, so he had a second freak-out, flung the broom away, and reportedly screamed like a young girl.
His younger brother took care of the mouse disposal after directing an unflattering epithet toward him.
My sister enjoys telling this story. It’s too bad she doesn’t have video evidence to accompany it. Clearly they could use a Cam Floodlight Pro. 
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What about your other friend, Monsieur Mauvaise-Odeur?
He went to visit someone else and I hope he stays there.
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These are so great. 
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