How to have notification of sound being detected. Third cam pan v3 i try and I tried to talk to 6 people from wyze ...so i turn to the community

Hi

I do receive motion dectection notifications. I dont have paid plan but for general sound detection it is not required.

here Is what i turned on. on picture.

when dog barks or whine i want to know.

At the moment even with sound sensitivity to 100 pourcent, when I clap my hands, sing yell beside the camera:no notification and the mic works because I can hear the sounds in live mode.

Do you guys know how to fix that ? i have iphone 11 .

thanks

What does the Event Recording setting screen show? By default sound events are disabled.

when i click the funnel and select sound and motion and select de camera . I only see motion detection events. is this what you refer to?

or this on the picture?

That screen is set how it should be - was it before or did you toggle on the sound one just now?

Basically the sound toggle on that screen has to be on before any of the other sound related features will work, so you’ll only get events from now on if you just enabled it.

If it was on all along, have you tested if the mic is working - when in live view tap the speaker icon on the video and is it picking up sound (and/or do your motion events have sound on them)?

Correct me if I am wrong, but isn’t this a smart event requiring a cam plus subscription? Those options under sound events (crying,barking,meowing,etc) are not selectable without a subscription.

What does the screen show when Manage is clicked under Device Notifications?

I get barking notifications because I have a paid subscription.

Additional thoughts. Specific detection and sound events for recording and notifications as listed under customize and manage are central to Wyze’s A.I. initiative. If they were generally available, paid subscriptions would not be necessary and a critical source of revenue to sustain Wyze and its survival would be lost.

My interpretation is they’re not trying to use the smart events, they have “other sounds” checked. I think the dog barking was just an example of something they want to trigger it.

The results of “manage” are the first picture they posted. Smart triggers are greyed out as expected.

Unfortunately, it will not. It will be excluded as a smart event. The “Other Motion” and “Other Sounds” options appear if I click all events but disappear if I click on smart events. Ironically, I can select all the options individually under “All Events” but assume that’s possible because I have a subscription. Not sure what the effects are if I do that instead of the smart option. Maybe I’ll try it for a day and see what happens to my notifications. I’ll post the outcome.

Not sure what you mean. From their screen shots they are not using smart events, so those are all greyed out, same way it looks on mine. They are using standard “all events” which only lets you change “other motion” and “other sound”, which will capture everything.

Just tried to identify the differences between the options and what is available. A subscription makes a difference for what options you can trigger. Smart events will not trigger notifications under “Other Motion” or “Other Sounds”. They will be excluded. Perhaps a caveat is needed by Wyze in explaining what you will not get if you don’t have a subscription when it comes to the “other” selection. Although Wyze clearly identified what you get with smart events and sounds.

As indicated in my last post, I’ve turned off smart events on a couple cams to see what the impact is on notifications and how might correlate to not having a subscription.

Yes, I agree that not having a subscription means you can’t use smart events. OP is not trying to use smart events, so that’s not a concern here.

With no subscription, “other” means everything, including things that would normally get classified under one of the smart categories.

Respectfully, I have to atrongly disagree with you. Why market and sell subscriptions if that was the case.

I’m going to tag in @carverofchoice and @Crease and ask them to weigh in on the content of this conversation thread and friendly debate.:smiley:

I think there’s just a misunderstanding. With no subscription (which is how I run), all events are captured as “other”. They are not tagged as person/pet/vehicle etc, just generic. You also cannot filter out ones you don’t want, you get everything.

The subscription gives you the ability to filter things out and tag things with different labels (plus have cloud recording).

@samsam

“when dog barks or whine i want to know.”

Perhaps this is why things took a left turn based on this comment. It’s an ai event and won’t be processed under other. As he has stated he is not getting sound notifications. He has not responded that this been resolved. If he gets a sound event as other and it’s barking or whining, then I certainly stand corrected.

Since @fmills1d pinged me, I’ll chime in and say that I agree there may be a misunderstanding, as my impression from the beginning of this topic is that @samsam wants to get notifications of any/all sounds detected by the Cam Pan v3, regardless of what those sounds are, but is specifically interested in dog barking/whining and expecting only generic sound and not Smart Detection to be the determinant of what initiates a detection and notification. When I read @dave27’s question about  Settings âžś Event Recording âžś Sound  yesterday, I thought that was the right question. :+1:

Because I’m using Cam Unlimited, all my Cams are automatically added to that subscription, and I’m not aware of an easy way to unsubscribe and test the generic sound detection in a way that would avoid subscription interference without creating a secondary Wyze account and re-initiating setup on the Cam Pan v3. Short of doing that, I’ll say that I agree with @dave27 and don’t believe a subscription is necessary for nonspecific sound detection, which should include the dog barking but wouldn’t be tagged/labeled as such.

My one other thought for @samsam was to be sure  Settings âžś Advanced Settings âžś Record Sound is toggled on (), but in the testing I did just now I don’t think this is actually necessary. I set my (subscribed) Cam Pan v3 like this:

  •  Settings âžś Detection Settings âžś Sound Detection Sensitivity âžś 100
  •  Settings âžś Event Recording âžś Sound 
  •  Settings âžś Event Recording âžś All Events 
  •  Settings âžś Event Recording âžś Customize Detections âžś Other Sounds âžś NOTIFY 
  •  Settings âžś Advanced Settings âžś Record Sound 

Then I started making sound near the Cam with a handheld clicker. Even with Record Sound disabled, I was still able to generate “Sound detected” notifications, but only once every five minutes. I guess I didn’t realize (or maybe I’d read somewhere and forgotten) that even with a subscription there’s apparently an enforced cooldown for nonspecific sound detections. Weird.

I don’t know if this helps the situation at all, but I’m interested in seeing an update from @samsam.

Yeah I interpreted that as just an example of what they want to hear since they have no subscription, not that they want it tagged as “dog barking”. They’re not getting any events at all, including yelling into the cam etc.

d by Wyze in explaining what you will not get if you don’t have a subscription when it comes to the “other” selection. they should yes

Hi it seems to have work to turn on event recording. thanks every body

agree there may be a misunderstanding, as my impression from the beginning of this topic is that @samsam wants to get notifications of any/all sounds detected by the Cam Pan v3, regardless of what those sounds are, but is specifically interested in dog barking/whining and expecting only generic sound and not Smart Detection to be the determinant of what initiates a detection and notification

I also am on a cam unlimited subscription. I unclicked the smart detection events button on a couple cams and went with just all events. It did not make a difference, I still get the smart events I selected on those cams. I was hoping to match what @samsam was experiencing. It appears that with the subscription you will get smart events regardless if the smart button is clicked on or off as long as you customize the listing, None of the choices are grayed out with a subscription which I thought would happen if the smart events button wasn’t clicked on. So I question where is the exclusivity between all and smart if you do or do not customize except you get nothing if you do not.

Thanks for the update @samsam . Good to know you are getting the results you want. As I stated I stand corrected if my understanding was wrong and you can get certain outcomes without a subscription. Also thanks @dave27 and @Crease for helping me understand where I was mistaken.