This is not the first time this has happened to me. I have an original outdoor cam, hooked up to a Wyze solar panel. The solar panel works great, and the camera should be charging at all times.
Yesterday, for some reason, the camera started recording an event every minute, until the battery drained and the camera went off-line.
What would cause this to happen?
Do the event recordings give you any indication of what motion may have set it off? Was it windy with a tree in view etc?
Got the same camera with the base station and solar. In my experience I’ve notice the camera battery gets drained extremely fast when the camera is not accessible. Not sure if it’s because the software has crashed or if its trying to reconnect. In the app it appears to be online. But when you try to see live footage it’ll never connect. And on top of that, if you don’t reboot within a few hours. The battery will get drained and you’ll end up having to manually recharge the camera. Sometimes rebooting the base station solves the issue. Which is easy to fix since I can just pair the base with a smart plug so I can reboot remotely. But other times that isn’t enough and I’ll need to get a ladder to physically flip the switch behind the camera. I’ve got to say this is my least favorite Wyze camera. Constant supervision is needed. Need to check daily if the cooldown got reset to 1 min or if the camera is even responding at all.
So, we do have trees overhanging the driveway and so get some cool moving shadows, at times - they do not normally set off a situation like this.
It appears that this started with NO motion at 7:22am on 6/1, and MOST of the recordings are of our stationary car in the driveway (no motion at all), and MOST of the recordings are 8-10 seconds long (despite the fact that I have the camera set to record a max of 5 minutes with a cooldown of 1 minute - and I don’t think I’ve EVER gotten a 5 minute recording, even when its warranted). Recording continued every minute until 8:37pm. I guess that’s when the battery was fully drained.
I don’t know if that cam model has the “motion tagging” (green box) option on it? If so that might help determine what is setting it off. If you have a detection zone set, maybe that is being ignored for some reason, motion/shadows outside of it are now triggering events? That happened with a version of OG firmware last year.
WCO has that annoying Motion Tagging green box. It is under More on the app.
It does have the green motion box and, in the majority of the videos, there is no motion.
All 14 of my cameras Love Parked cars, V4, V3 Pro,V3 and WCO. 
But isn’t there usually some other form of motion that triggers AI to “think” it was the car?
The plug in cams will record vehicle if it is in view without any other motion. The WCO cams will usually not unless there is motion someplace. The PIR on the WCO is normally really good 97% of the time and will not record events like moving trees, parked vehicles or shadows moving but every once in a while they go nuts and record any and everything
On my cams, this is no longer true. They have fixed this bug. Vehicle events are now about moving cars or in conjunction with another AI object, in my case, my neighbor’s cats.
When did they fix it? Maybe I will try it some day but I have all the vehicles in view of the cameras Blocked with the detection zone for now. I still have person & pet on. If I walk anywhere near the vehicle I get Person only not person/vehicle.
I didn’t see any announcement, but I vaguely remember someone saying that they are working on a fix. And then I noticed recently that I’m no longer getting clips of my parked cars.
Just happened again today. Drained my camera battery overnight, taking a video every minute or 2 from midnight to 5am. Is my camera dying, or do I need to clean a lens or sensor, or something? Why is this suddenly happening more often, when conditions overnight were no different than any other night?
I believe that camera uses a passive infrared (PIR) sensor for motion detection. Since you can’t see it with the naked eye, IR can be very hard to troubleshoot. Any living thing or anything that puts out IR (like a neighbor installing a camera with IR night vision) can trigger it.
Has anyone installed something like that recently (or have you installed new or moved existing cams with IR)?
It is also possible the PIR sensor has failed. I have to replace my motion lights every 10 years or so as the sensors just eventually die (sometimes they won’t trigger at all, but more frequently they start triggering constantly).
Nothing new has been installed, it seems far more likely that the sensor may be failing. I have been noticing that it does NOT catch valid movement in the detection zone, often times.
That would be my guess too then. I’ve noticed often it is the lens over the sensor that actually dries out and discolors over time, but I’ve had lights with perfectly fine lenses that the sensors just go haywire.