If this is true / if it were true then it would indeed be garbage when it has a perfectly viable PIR sensor instead. [Edit: Oh he or she is saying that it records Events on that motion, not that it triggers the floodlight - that’s actually fine by me.] So either the poster is wrong, his or her settings are wrong, the product is defective, or his or her sample is defective. I wouldn’t necessarily dismiss his or her complaint out of hand, and the fact that the release is brand new doesn’t have much to do with it.
Usually the crew here offers suggestions to fix the behavior first…
Well it should at least do the basic functions right out of the box. It does not. Can fiddle with setting all you want. It’s not going to fix the problems that require a update to be pushed. PIR Doesn’t work in daytime. The cameras motion detection cannot be disabled even though I tried making settings that should have done just that. If it quakes like a duck, walks like one, then it’s most likely a duck…
Hopefully this well be fixed. Why it wasn’t dealt with in beta. I don’t know. Wyze isn’t the company they started out to be. Like wyze sense worked perfectly…it got discontinued in favor of crap that don’t work.
I have watched like all 56 recordings this thing triggers on. These are all after my last settings fiddle. What I see is any change in ambient light triggers the v3 to detect motion, and sends alert, records the 12 second video and triggers rules to make other cams do 12s video. At no time did the light itself come on. That’s because nothing moved in the driveway. The PIR never detected motion which is correct. Wyze has this set up with the idea when there is a change in light, then detect motion thinking the security light is on. So, like I felt from the get go, this is a 20 dollar motion light with a v3 stuck on it. Day time no alerts, because I have the motion detection set to 1 sensitivity to try to prevent every passing cars lights from being detected. Which didn’t work.
Way it should work PIR should be the only reason motion is detected day or night and then trigger the v3 to record.
If they don’t correct this, any cheap PIR flood light and a v3 will do the same thing, probably better because you can mount the v3 in a way not to let light reflection from setting it off.
“So, like I felt from the get go, this is a 20 dollar motion light with a v3 stuck on it."
Not to disparage Wyze but this is exactly what it is. I was really hoping Wyze would have used their AI computational Cam Plus events to trigger the light but they decided to go this route. There are floodlights available that do exactly what I want but they are $300. So I guess it was silly of me to hope for those features on a light under $100
I’m on your side about this, even though I haven’t installed mine yet, I just know from experience how bad the Wyze software is. But I was hoping this time it might be better, not holding my breath though. One thing I really dislike about this floodlight is that the V3 camera is permanently mounted. So instead of Wyze just selling it without the camera at a lower price point, and letting us use one of our own V3’s we are forced to get yet another camera which would most likely need another CamPlus subscription. And it gets old when Wyze products don’t do things they advertise them as being able to do. Just fix the freaking software, if you have good people it should be easy to fix.
Gosh, I don’t know if I’m just a total nube or have just been very lucky, but I’ve just not experienced the bugginess launching new devices some have mentioned. Of course I haven’t gotten the floodlight, but I think I will eventually. Hopefully the bugs may be worked out by then. Good luck wyzers!
I read in another post that the V3 can be removed. According to the OP, there is a single screw holding it in place and the power connection is actually the same.
In all honesty, I do not have the floodlight yet. I am only passing on what I have read on the Internet. And we all know how reliable the Internet is.
The cable that comes out of the V3 camera and goes into the PIR sensor unit does not come unplugged , it is permanently attached , yes there is one screw that you can unmount the camera but you cannot unplug the cable from the camera or from the PIR unit , it makes sense to me that the reason the cable is permanently attached like this is for weatherproofing.
Can you control the lights at all from the app? From Wyze’s installation video, it looks like the only control you have is over the camera. I want to be able to turn the flood light on and off and adjust brightness through the app.
@mvb I can attest to this. I went to 4 HDs looking for switch and found it at the 5th (a hole 6 miles away). Now I just wish the solar panel would get ‘leaked’…
So I got one at THD to replace an existing floodlight. Quick and easy install. I like it, but…
I can’t find a way to integrate the light independently of the camera. I wanted to also install a smart switch to control the light so I turn it on from somewhere other than the app.
Anyone from Wyze reading this, please make the light a device that shows up in Alexa or ST. Not just the camera.
Yeah, I was going to hold off and order the floodlight. I also want to use the smart switch to turn on the light (without the app). I hope that gets confirmed working, and I’d buy it.
