These are a couple of issues I continuously have with both of my pan cam V3s.
Detections. At one point both my pan cams were tracking every little thing and I had the sensitivity set to 50%. This includes tiny bugs and dust or dirt when it’s bright enough to reflect light. I lowered it to 40% and restarted the camera, but still tracked everything. I then set it 30% and it seemed fine. A few weeks later they were installing fiber optic along our backyards and the cameras weren’t tracking anything, not the workers walking around and not even the mini excavator they were using. I reset it to 40% and it seems to be working better but still does not seem to track some things it should at times.
Notifications. When I had the cameras set to 50% I was getting notifications all the time and most of that was nothing, maybe snow or a tree moving in the wind, or actually nothing at all (that it would track for a split second). This was all through the night. Then I set my notifications to be muted during certain times like when I was home. I had it set that way for a few weeks and I finally started noticing that I was barely getting any notifications at all. I then disabled all the automated settings for muting and unmuting but still no notifications. This is not just for my cam pans as I do not get any notifications from any of my cameras anymore. The cameras are recording events, just not notifying me when something happens. I have it set for all notifications to be on but I get nothing.
Motor rotation speed controls. Do these do anything for anyone? I have two waypoints on one pan cam and 3 on the other and I want it to go slow in between each way point, but they both always move at the same turning speeds as they did when I first installed them. It doesn’t matter if I put it at the fastest speed or the slowest speed because the actual turning speed of the cameras never changes. I’ve restarted the cameras and reset the services both multiple times with no change whatsoever. The only time restarting the camera did anything was when we had a bad storm and I was looking to see how bad it was when lightning struck nearby and whited out the camera. The camera did not clear up again until I restarted it. The camera was not hit by the lightning.
For some reason I always thought the motor speed was only for when it was using motion tracking, not necessarily for moving between waypoints. But I haven’t used pan cameras much because it started to feel pointless like it would track things I don’t want it to track, so I mostly keep mine in a fixed position now.
When the IR lights are on (night mode), it will track a lot of bugs, dust, mist, etc. Unfortunately the only way around that is install separate IR lights away from the cam (or disable motion tracking).
Lowering the sensitivity may help a bit however as you’ve seen, it also means it will not detect stuff further away.
There does seem to be some issue or change recently (a few weeks ago). Only way myself and another have found to get them consistently on android is to go into the app settings and toggle on “running in background”. For good measure, go into android settings for the app, under battery, and set to “unrestricted”. I have not found any change in battery use by doing this, and notifications seem to be working consistently again.
That setting is the time it spends on each waypoint, not the speed at which it moves from one to the next. That speed is fixed and can’t be changed.
EDIT - sorry, I see the setting you’re talking about now. Honestly I’ve never changed it, has always been the default of 5. I don’t know if it is supposed to affect the pan/scan or not.
You actually can’t change the speed of the motor (at least not that I’ve ever seen). I believe the setting OP means is how long it spends on each waypoint before moving on.
EDIT - I just looked, and I see it. I think I noticed it before and have never actually changed it. 5 seems to work just fine for me.
I just did a test on my pan v3’s and found that rotate speed is affected during manual rotation with < & > from the camera home screen. 5 must be the default as that is what mine were set and I have never used that feature. But I definitrly saw a difference between 1 and 9. I didn’t do any other increments.
Yes, sorry I edited my post as I totally forgot about that setting. I can’t say for sure which things it affects (@fmills1d has confirmed it changes the manual rotation speed). It would make sense that it doesn’t affect “track motion” as obviously you want the camera to move as fast as needed to follow the person/object. For pan/scan, I guess they probably figure the waypoints are the important parts and you don’t want it to spend a lot of time going between them. You can add more waypoints in between which might have similar effect?
I’ve found a lot of the features of these cams other than “live view” to be quite useful.
The problem with having more waypoints is that it always sits at each way point for 10 seconds. I’d prefer it if I could adjust that time for each way point. Say 20 seconds on the primary and 5 seconds for the others.