Hi! First of all, I LOVE this camera. It gives me all I need at a very good price. One issue I am having is way too many motion detection alerts (I have the sensivitity set to 25). The main issue is flying insects are triggering alerts, which is highly annoying. Does anyone have a recommendation to…

I was getting 20+ bug alerts per night (not an issue during the day). Three nights ago I installed the external motion sensor included in the wyze sense package near the camera picking up bugs, turned off all detection on the camera itself and solely relied on the external motion sensor to trigger …

@kjay wonder if this would work well to decrease motion detections from the sun and clouds too.

My camera doesn’t get any cloud or sun in the frame but I think the motion sensor would help. Mine does trigger from moderate wind blowing trees tho. Have you tried setting the detection zone to exclude the skyline?

I believe this topic may interest you all. You can VOTE for it at the top-left. :slight_smile: [image] Ignore Motion Detection for events under X seconds In Progress I have this feature on my Dlink cameras, and its very helpful at night, when bugs / rain / snow fly past t…

@kjay , i don’t have the sky in the frame… But when the brightness changes on the trees/grass due to cloud coverage then it sets off the alert. @DreadPirateRush thanks! I’ve already voted previously.

@cheaplikeafox I think motion sensor should ignore clouds and shadows. I just took a flash light and shined it all over the area the sensor covers during night with no trigger. As soon as I stepped in front it triggered. Actually now that I think about it the camera use to always trigger when a c…

@kjay yeah… It doesn’t ignore clouds/sun. The wyze sense motion sensor still detects bugs as well though right? I am getting more false alarm alert videos WITH the wyze sense motion sensor instead of without so far…

@cheaplikeafox that’s weird. I’ve only had 3 false positives since April 26 two of which were bugs and one was wind. Which is a huge improvement on the 20+ bugs/ day and 5+ sudden light changes (headlights) /day. If the bugs are really big (moth?) or really close to the sensor maybe it will trigg…

@kjay I had the sensor separate from the camera and I was getting a lot of false alerts. Maybe it was sensing something but the camera didn’t have it in view. I moved the motion detector closer to the camera to see if it’ll make a difference.

I’m pretty stoked. I solved my false notifications (bugs and sunlight) with the Shortcuts feature. I was getting about 30 a night from the cameras due to bugs and another 50 a day because of the sun creating false alerts for the sense motion sensors. During the day (sun hits the motion sensors …

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