I have Detection Zones set on all 3 of my cameras (Doorbell, Floodlight Cam, and Battery Cam Pro). However, I constantly get notifications about motion outside of the set Detection Zones. Does this setting actually do anything or is it just technical fluff to make customers think it does?
My detection zones work 98% of the time on V3, V3Pro, V4 and WCO cams. I have my truck parked in the driveway in clear view of V4. I blocked the truck out so the cam doesn’t tell me that a parked vehicle is in the drive. If I go out and walk past the truck I will get only person detection not person and vehicle.
I’ve also had pretty good results using a Detection Zone with a Video Doorbell v2 to reduce notifications I was getting from a flag and shrub (affected by wind) and headlamp reflections from cars up the street (not actually crossing in front of the house). It took a while to get that tuned, and enabling Motion Tagging helped me to figure out when the excluded area wasn’t large enough, because the green boxes would extend into the detection area.
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At night I get fog from our HVAC system in the left corner closest to the camera. How would I use the detection zones to ignore that but yet I need to see the entire yard still.
Just grey out the HVAC system in the DZ and leave everything else.
I’ve found the zones to be very accurate. If it doesn’t seem to be working at all, try doing a “reset services” on the camera settings, reboot the cam, reboot your phone, etc.
There are occasions where something near the edge of the zone can trigger it even though it seems outside the zone. It isn’t completely perfect, and you can use the green box (motion tagging) to see what triggered the event, sometimes something outside your zone will cause the box to be in the zone. Or a shadow, lighting change, etc caused by something outside the zone, but causes lighting change in the zone can trigger it too.
Adding to what @dave27 wrote, enabling Motion Tagging—even if you don’t want the green boxes showing up in your videos all the time—can be helpful for troubleshooting Detection Zone issues, as can sharing screenshots and relevant videos (e.g., a triggered event when you weren’t expecting one because you thought the Detection Zone was set to exclude it) here in the Forum if you want other eyes on the issue. It can be a trial-and-error process, and then you can disable Motion Tagging once the Detection Zone is performing as expected.
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My understanding is that the green box is never recorded; it’s an overlay. Personally, I find it distracting and always disable it. And the Wyze logo.
This has not been my experience. It’s part of the recording when Motion Tagging is enabled.
Yup all mine record the box. Doesn’t bother me and I find it handy sometimes to draw attention to what is needed. It nearly always shows up in the still frame of the event which I like also, again focuses your attention quickly.
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I like that, too, and what shows up surrounded by the box—whatever the camera’s logic “decides” to use for the thumbnail of an event—is sometimes striking, especially when the video footage from the card is reviewed.