Motion tagging and event recording to the SD card are not on the same sensitivity as for notifications. I find this to be not intuitive and causing a lot of WTH responses. There seems to be a missing link where sensitivity actually starts triggering a notification. For example, if motion tagging (green box) were to identify every motion recognizable and a red box identified motions that trigger notification, users would be able to fine tune the sensitivity and could visually see what should trigger a notification.
What Iām proposing is to change the color of the motion tagging box from green to red if the motion meets the user defined sensitivity setting, which should trigger a notification.
Knowing what is possible to detect (green box) and then being able to actually see what the user has selected via sensitivity being trigger on (red box), will hopefully end some of the confusion and trouble tickets. Iāve put in at least one report where Iāve seen green boxes without getting an event (sensitivity at 100) so I expected a notice.
Iām a little surprised more people donāt want to know what motions trigger a notification when they adjust the sensitivity slider. Did I not explain this well enough?
I think I understand well enough. It is a feature request similar to mine so I should probably vote it upā¦ Iām a little confused by āMotion tagging and event recording to the SD card are not on the same sensitivity as for notificationsā.
Do you know this from previous questions/answers or something? The settings in the app donāt imply this at all. Is that what you meant by āI find this to be not intuitiveā¦ā.
Yes, from previous discussions with @Loki and others. From my understanding, Wyze wants to just make them the same, but currently the motion tagging and what gets triggered to be saved to the SD card are not affected by the sensitivity setting slide bar. They took the abundance of caution approach and saved more motion when event recording was selected (vs. continuous recording). <=(Edit: this last statement may be incorrect.)
My preference would be for the motion tagging green box to continue to show what Wyze is able to determine as motion, but to change that green box to red (or some other color) when the motion meets the sensitivity setting the user has chosen to trigger an event notification. Right now, it is a mystery when an event triggers a notification/12sec video. The red box would clearly show it so users could slide the bar until the red box goes back to green and theyāve tuned out false alarm motion. Such as tree shadows, small birds, leaves, etc.
According to this, Iām wrong. But Iām not sure that is right, otherwise many many people are not checking their record on event videos and trusting video to be there.
Push Notifications are only for the 12 second Event clips
Record on Event motion detection sensitivity is not controlled by the motion detection sensitivity and set to 50, the default setting.
This would mean if you have the sensitivity up high the 12 second Event clip could trigger but maybe not the Record on Event as the sensitivity setting is lower.
I hope this helps !
Please let me know if you have any additional questions !
Interesting. I use record on event, so I should turn the sensitivity way down if that is true. Now Iām wondering if the detection zone is detached as well, in which case itās more of a notification zone.
I agree, all of these settings that are not common is very confusing. Your solution sounds like an improvement to motion tagging. Itās frustrating finding out the adjustments you are making in your settings are doing nothing as some are fixed by default.