Something has changed on the app (Android) recently.
When I tap on the live feed for a camera so that I can zoom to see more detail. I get the bottom half of the screen showing any events for that camera.
The problem is that all my other 10 cameras do not show any events until I reselect each one individually on the list I get when I click the “cameras” button on the top right of the screen.
Honestly, I am getting quite annoyed at having to reselect all of my cameras on the list every time I want to zoom in to one of them.
I think what’s happening is you’re moving between tabbed sections of the app, maybe without realizing that this is what’s happening.
In other words, you’re starting from a device in the Home tab (selecting an individual camera from its Favorites or Devices tile to get to its Live Stream screen) and then scrolling through the Recent Events section for that camera on the Live Stream screen until you get to the bottom of that list and the app presents you with “To see other events, go to All Events”. As soon as you tap the All Events button, you navigate to the app’s Events tab, and because you’ve arrived there from a camera the app sets a filter on the Events list for that single camera. What I see when I do that is a “1 Camera ” button at the right of the horizontally-scrolling strip near the top of the screen, and if I tap that button I get to the Filters screen where I can make other selections. I think that’s what you mean with this:
Instead of selecting your other cameras individually at this point, the easiest course of action—if you want to see all events for all of your cameras—is probably to just tap Clear All at the top and then Show Results at the bottom. This should reset the Events tab to its unfiltered state so that you can scroll through and see events from other cameras in the timeline. If you want to narrow the scope of that list, then you can again tap the “Camera ” button to select only individual cameras or the button above that to set a filter for both cameras and event types (noting that certain event types like Person or Pet detection require an active subscription).
If you don’t make any changes on the Filters screen when you have arrived at Events from a single camera’s feed, then I believe that filter remains “sticky” and will still be active the next time you visit the Events tab…unless you get there by tapping the All Events button from a different camera as when you started above. If you just clear the events filter, then you should have an unfiltered view of all your events the next time you open the app and tap the Events tab from the Home screen.
I think the key is to be mindful of how you’re arriving at the Events tab. If you go straight to Events from Home, then the filter applied to the list should be whatever it was the last time you left that tab/screen, so you can set the filter where either all of your cameras or none of your cameras are selected, and that should have the same effect, but I don’t think there’s any way to “lock” that. Just be aware that if you navigate back to the Events tab by tapping All Events on an individual camera’s Live Stream screen, then your events are going to be filtered for that camera and that selection should remain “sticky” unless/until you change it.
That’s my understanding of how the app works and why you’re experiencing what I think you’re describing, anyway.
That perfectly explains what I was doing wrong and how to sort it.
What confused me is that I have been using the app for quite a long time and it was only this morning that I had a problem - I must have carelessly tapped a wrong button that put me into a “doom -loop” that I didn’t seen able to get out of. Maybe it was too early in the morning!!
Once again, thanks for your really helpful information. If it’s much appreciated.
I know some things have changed with recent app updates, so at first I was wondering what camera(s) you might be using and if that was relevant. (I don’t have any Cam v3s, but I’ve read comments about recent changes to the app’s UI for that one, and I wondered if that was what you were experiencing at first.) Once I figured out what I thought was happening, what you described made more sense to me. (Coffee may have been helpful.)
I think the filter setting has been “sticky” for a while now, which used to frustrate me a little, but now I’m just in the habit of tapping Events ➜ ➜ Clear All ➜ Show Results to reset the view or actually filtering to a certain event type and camera group, like when I want to see if the little USPS truck has driven by the house yet on a given day so that I know when I can walk down the street to get the mail without wasting a trip to the box.
I just assumed that there had been a change to the app - I’ve had issues with app updates that made changes that took a while to sort out.
I’ve had my V3s for a few years now - none of them have ever been switched off and they are still going strong - apart from one of them that was bricked by an iffy firmware update and another that suddenly decided to start saying “Ready to connect”even though I hadn’t touched it for months.. Even though it has put itself into setup mode it wouldn’t let me finish the rest of the setup.
I noticed this, too, and I thought it has always been this way.
It’s pure laziness on the coder’s part. It’s very easy to save the previous state of the event/camera filter. After processing “All Events,” return to the state that was saved.
Over the past few years I have come to expect simple errors that the coders didn’t didn’t spot. It also tends to make me think that new updates do not get tested a thoroughly as they should be.
The filters are easy enough to forget they’re on for me. Android.
I just tap Events, then tap the little SD card next to the filter funnel, and it runs thru all events, until I tap it to view one, per camera that has any events.
Fiddling with the filter is a pita for me.
Once I stop the scroll, I have tap another and go back or acoll on my own, no obvious way to start the run again. Cams with no events don’t show up.
I only have 14 active, I also sometimes just select which camera or group right from the events screen, cameras button dropdown. Just how I do it sometimes, not saying it’s the only way.
But the SD button runs thru the events and if I see something of interest I can stop it and look further. That’s just my personal reference with Wyze.
On another brand WiFi cam I’m testing, it does events in 5 minute± clips, each clip may show an animal or person symbol, I can select a clip if a symbol of a detection is there.
Then the camera’s feed on the little blue flow line shows white dots for each detection which I can then scroll to and view.
Both ways, Wyze and other brand work for me.
Testing only because it’s Home Assistant compatible. And Wyze is not. Yet.
I don’t think that’s an SD () button, and reading your description initially confused me until I opened the Events tab to see what you were talking about. I think that icon is intended to be like a line chart on a page ( + ) to represent the My Day timeline. That’s what I see when I tap the icon immediately to the left of the . I think the events pulled into that view are all cloud-based and not streamed from individual cameras’ microSD cards.
I understand why someone might think it looks like an SD card, though, especially on a small screen.
