I was playing around with docker-wyze-bridge to get RTSP from my v2 cam and scrypted for HomeKit integration which has a motion detection plugin that allows for multipoint selection to create various zones. I was able to eliminate the car sitting in my driveway and also eliminate the neighbors driveways across the street by using multiple custom shaped zones, basically using many points to outline the zones of interest. Vastly better than a fixed grid. Also beta tested a blink cam and it has grids like wyze but at least it offers a finer division when zoomed in to help minimize capturing unwanted nuisance motion. No doubt wyze could do better if they were truly motivated to do so.
Very nice.
How do you handle reflected light at night into your defined zones? This provides many events on both my Wyze & Nest cams.
Wyze also needs more resources, which requires more revenue, ⌠and so it goesâŚ
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The cam position only saw light from head or tail lights from one driveway across the street which I was able to exclude. The street was straight so no lights hitting like if on a curved road. Cars moving along road never created a glare problem. Really never had much for issues at night. However since cam was inside looking out a window, I had to disable the ir lights so only had visible night video when the sensor light in the entry came on to illuminate the area.
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This is a great idea, but I see itâs from 2018!! I guess this one isnât coming?
This wishlist request says granted because back when it was first requested the detection zone was way more limited. I think we had something like a single square box we could position. They changed it to be multiple static boxes in a grid which gave us more flexibility overall.
There is a possibility that Wyze could update their detection system again now that the CSA matter is specifically adding certain kinds of support such as multiple zones, privacy masks, Cartesian coordinates (polygons), etcâŚ
But itâs also possible they will just keep their existing grid system since they can still map the coordinates to the matter fabric even though nobody else will be using it the same way.
I wouldnât be surprised if they eventually modify the way their detection zone is done, but I donât think that itâs a high priority over several other things on the list. I would assume no significant detection zone UI changes are coming for at least a couple of years (if ever).
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