I use my wyze cam as a wildlife camera, and “pet” detection has always been great for picking up the raccoons, skunks, birds, and opossums that frequent my yard almost every day and night.
In the last week my camera has captured nothing but cats and squirrels, so I’m wondering if the pet detection AI has had a recent update that prevents other wildlife from triggering recordings. I guess it’s possible that everything else has just avoided their usual routes for the last week, but that’s never happened before, so it seems unlikely.
I don’t really want to record everything triggered by motion, as that means I have to wade through dozens of videos of plants blowing in the wind.
I have SD cards in all of my Wyze cameras set to Continuous Recording. I have Cloud videos set to record all motion Events but I only want a Notification for Person.
The majority of Wyze users don’t review every Cloud video. I feel it is nice to have all motion recorded for troubleshooting or when I do feel like wading through tree branch videos.
This issues is perplexing for me. I have plenty cloud videos showing person and pet but only person is identified with an icon and in the push notification. Yet when I go into my sdcard footage, both person and pet are identified with icons. What is the explanation for these inconsistent results. Cam+ unlimited subscriber with appropriate detections checked. I’ll take any plausible answers.
I have pets for both record events and notifications. I don’t do one without the other. Cloud and sdcard should should show same results. BTW forgot to mention this is happening on my doorbell duos.
Doorbell duo cam or regular cam? No issues with my regular cams, also get both on a single event. DB duos are the problem. Happy for you that you are not experiencing this.
I think that’s a plausible explanation, given recent experience with AI-labeled sound detections going nuts last month. Eventually that seemed to correct, and you might be able to help “train” Wyze’s AI with your detected events by submitting video feedback, but I can’t speak to how effective that is.
