Insects and trees

Please, Wyze Gods…please make the AI ignore insects and trees. 97% of my notifications are bugs. Flying bugs, crawling bugs, webs of bugs, bugs classified as cars because they reflect the IR light, bugs reported as people, wind chimes reported as people… Most of the rest are moving trees that freak me out because they’re labeled as people. And now suddenly, the pet detection is only working about 1/2 the time and I need that to protect my garden from critters. I was reported as a PET more than a few times, which is annoying, to say the least. I’m small, but come on!

I have quite a few Wyze cameras that I use. The AI is getting worse all the time. If it doesn’t improve soon, I’ll be replacing them with something more reliable regardless of the cost.

At one point I bought an IR blaster (illuminator) hoping to brighten up my backyard for my window mount V3.

Now that I think about it I think it may also solve the IR light reflected off bugs issue. Has anyone else done this? Does it help with AI detection?

I have not personally done this, but I’ve seen other users suggest that using an external IR illumination source prevents insects from being attracted to the Cams’ own built-in IR LEDs. If you can minimize insects’ attraction to the Cams’ views and exclude them from the fields of view, then I would expect that to reduce false positive AI detections. Placement of the external IR source probably has a lot to do with this, though: In other words, if you place the IR close to the Cam, then you’re probably still going to attract some bugs to the Cam’s vicinity, and that doesn’t really solve the problem. That’d be my expectation, anyway.

Every so often, in my garage with v3 Night Vision and IR lights on I see this.