Hard stop on Pan Cam v3
On the Pan Cam V3 please allow a hard stop when tracking something. I get more videos of the wall, the sky, or the box part of the camera than i ever needed. Often time totally missing the person because the camera got “distracted”. By telling the camera, never ever go past this point, you’ll actually increase the reliability of them.
I turned off all pan options on my 9 cameras. Pan is a joke, it gets stuck everywhere plus while the camera is doing the pan, video quality isn’t great, the subject gets pixelated.
I turned the speed down to the slowest (could be slower in my opinion) but it definitely helped. That “stuck” problem is a nightmare.
I agree, this is badly needed. My camera pans to a point where its looking at a wall and thinks someone is there, and doesnt come back. The whole reason for these panning cameras is to see real people moving around.
Pan V3 Sure likes to look at the Ceiling
When In Pan-scan mode, the V3 keeps getting stuck looking at the ceiling fan, which I can understand given motion detection. It would sure be nice to set detection zones in Pan-Scan.
Another nice addition would be “No-Go Zones” in the motor controls. I have another Pan V3 that always wants to wander out of the Waypoints and stare at the ceiling, or the wall behind it.
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Pan Camera Detection Zone improvement when tracking motion
Detection zone should been selectable on the entire area the camera can move.
Actually, i was force to deactivate following, because my camera is located in front of my backyard shed, when my dog go behind the shed, the camera start following the neighbours. Because the only detection zone possible is at the initial position of the camera, that is in front (looking at my house)
For now, i deactivate those tracking options, because it put me at risk of been in trouble if the neighbor notice my camera following him on his backyard, after it initially follow my dog.
My camera follow my dog, they when it move, it become outside set detection area and start following my neighbors… That become a possible problem as i could be in trouble.
Be able to set detection zone on the entire area the camera can move will avoid those risk.
Campan v3 disable pixels based on camera angle
With waypoints set and when cam-pan v3 tracks motion, there are times the camera angle changes and tracks unwanted motion. What is needed is the ability to disable the pixels when the camera is pointed at that view angle. Enabling detection zone is not an acceptable fix and does not work because when you enable the detection zone, that view becomes the default position and overrides the set waypoints.
Example… If a waypoint is set with tracking enabled and the camera begins tracking someone, at the angle when the camera moves towards the unwanted motion, a setting could be added to the app to disable the pixels.
The feature could act like detection zone, but with detection zone enabled, that becomes the new default view and overrides the waypoint.
The new feature could be to first set the angle, and then disable the pixels in that angle. The app should be able to store into memory the X, Y, Z angle coordinates the camera is pointing and ignore those pixels when it tracks something and enters that position.
Please set up the ability to set limits on pan/tilt and also improve detection to not think my trees and their shadows are cars or people talking.
Nice 
I was thinking of doing something similar
For me the constant getting caught on a ceiling fan gets me.
Not to mention trees and shadows, sometimes mine goes crazy and I have to reset the whole motor function thingy
I have that issue also in my Cam Pan V3. It keeps tracking trees waving (above the tops of houses) and identifies it as a vehicle. I have waypoints set and none of them go that high so I have no idea why it keeps tracking trees that high up. I have motion sensing down to 40% and noise sensing down to 25%.
You’d think that after all this time with this same issue they would have programmed a feature like this into the app.
Waypoints and motion tracking are 2 totally independent functions. You’re confusing “Track Motion” with “Pan Scan”.
Not at all. I know the difference.
I am just letting people know that nothing in the camera is set to even look up that high, be it waypoints or something else. No idea why it wants to track something up that high with no reason to.
I watched the videos that indicated a vehicle and the camera is pointing in one direction then suddenly turns about 160 degs and points up high to track a branch blowing in the wind. Not sure how it even knows it is moving when it’s only about 20 degs less than the complete opposite direction.
Why shouldn’t it? It’s one thing to ask for such a limit, it’s another to imply that everybody wants it that way.
You obviously installed it outdoors, but what if I have it indoors on a desk? Wouldn’t it makes sense to have it see the ceiling as well?
I am not saying to limit it for all cameras. Like most on here we want a way to limit to where it looks via the software, not a physical limit.
Besides my camera is mounted with the screw at the top, aka it’s upside down so having a physical stop would not in the least make any sense.
I don’t see anywhere where I or others have said that, so not sure where you got that idea.
Revisiting this topic reminds me of an idea of how I’d like to see this implemented as a user experience: Scanorama (or Scan Zone or Pan Zone or Pan Tilt Zone or whatever seems a suitable name).
When a user sets a Detection Zone on Cam Pan v3, the app presents the user with a live feed from the camera, which is great because the user gets to see where, for instance, trees are blowing or flags are flying at the time the Detection Zone is being set. The user doesn’t have to guess where the motion is that he or she is trying to mask from the desired detection area.
Wyze should do something similar with motion limit, only present the user with a screen that gives them a “Scan now” or similar button to create a panoramic still of what the camera is capable of capturing. A live view may not be needed for most situations for setting these limits and might be difficult to implement in a practical way, but I think a full still image might work. Give clear instructions that the camera should be securely mounted in place, that the scan will also reset the motor controls before beginning, and that it will take some time to perform a panoramic scan of the camera’s entire field of view while the camera is in that position. Maybe the user could even leave the screen at the time instead of waiting, much like during a Restart or firmware update.
Once a completed scan is available on this Settings screen, present the user with the panoramic view that was created during the scan. Give the user the ability to zoom in and out and pan the image (which will be necessary for such an image on a phone screen), and give it a grid overlay similar to Detection Zone where a user could grey out areas not to be scanned or (what probably makes more sense) give it a crop tool similar to what’s available in a lot of photo editors: Allow the user to “crop” the image to only the area that should be included as the camera pans, tilts, tracks, and goes about its business. Show a clear boundary of what’s included and where the motion limits are (i.e., make the excluded areas grey as in the Detection Zone setting).
Also on this screen, provide the user with an override toggle. When enabled, the user can manually pan and tilt the camera past the boundaries using the controls on the camera’s Live Stream screen. When disabled, using manual control respects the boundaries set on this screen.
Most importantly, respect the boundaries that the user sets and then extend this feature (if possible) to all Wyze Cams with a panning ability.
Wyze Cam Pan motion tracking path
I’d like to see a way to limit the motion tracking path of the Pan v3/V4 like detection zones but limiting the camera from “chasing” something into an “out-of-bounds” area.
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Any updates on this? PTZ limits seem like a pretty basic request and quite comon elsewhere. I just bought 2 Pan V3s, and like others over the years, have to deal with them looking at the walls or their own bases.