Fix-It Friday 8/5/22

[SlabSlayer]

There have been reports of difficulties with the Detection Zone feature on the VDBv1 (wired version, not Pro).

See these topics:

Video Doorbell Ignoring Detection Zone

Anyone has this issue since the last iOS app update? Aside from the “Step 3” issues that seem to have greatly improved lately (read “not fixed” yet), I discovered that the Video Doorbell keeps sending me notifications triggered by cars passing by the street. This area has always been excluded in my setup but, since the recent app update fixing the “eternal spinner” on the area definition zone page, the page is accessible but it seems the camera is just ignoring the zone defined in it. Most c…

Video Door Bell Detection Zone

Hi Wyze Community! I recently purchased the Wyze Doorbell Cam and installed in yesterday. I’m currently having issues getting the video door bell to detect motion when/where I want it to. Steps I’ve taken so far: Motion detection sensitivity boosted to 70 from default (somewhere around 1-5). This resulted in cars traveling from left to right triggering the motion detection but not cars traveling right to left. As fun as it was to use the new doorbell I didn’t need to know every time a ca…

Wyze Doorbell cam detection zone rotated 90 degrees after update to 4.25.1.042

After updating the firmware on my doorbell cam to 4.25.1.042, I noticed that my detection zone wasn’t blocking the correct areas. I eventually discovered that the area being detected was actually rotated 90 degrees counter-clockwise to the map of the detection zone. In other words, the area ACTUALLY being detected was 90 degrees counter-clockwise to the area INDICATED in the detection zone map. Prior to this latest update, the detection zone was accurate, and matched the map correctly. When …