Motion tracking gets distracted

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I have a can pan v3 for my front yard. It frequently misses the important stuff because it gets distracted. My neighbor walked over from the left. It tracked her sort of (bottom of frame) until it crossed the driveway, then it briefly boxed the driveway to street junction and just sat there. After she to my door (no video because it’s looking at the street, she walks back in frame and it doesn’t track at all had to find on SD card.

I’ve noticed when people walk under it gets to pointing down and just gives up. Should rotate and keep. Tracking.

[SlabSlayer]

A well documented problem, among others, w\ the PanV3. Browse the other issues:

#cam-pan-v3

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Unfortunately a lot of Topic subjects are poorly descripted so you have to dig thru all the conversations. I’ll look for tags settings.

For instance a similar but not the same issue happens when it detects someone walking by, shows bottom of tracking box, tracks, but never moves up to put them in frame, only their feet. Tilted down to reduce camera chasing vehicles, but oddly enough it moves up and tracks vehicles it shouldn’t… Hahaha ANI

Is there a list of tags to add to a thread or reply.? Logged in via browser so I could use app and forum.

[SlabSlayer]

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It frequently misses the important stuff because it gets distracted.

The cam is highly susceptible to missing events because it is daydreaming chasing other motion events. Reducing the Motion Sensitivity may reduce this affect.

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it briefly boxed the driveway to street junction

Check the cam range left and right to make sure that the rotation stop limiter isn’t causing it to stop at that point. When manually panning, you should get a floating toast popup indicating when the limits are reached.

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Unfortunately a lot of Topic subjects are poorly descripted so you have to dig thru all the conversations

This is a regular issue in the forum. The other option is to do a Forum Search or Advanced Search for specific key words or phrases you are seeking. But, if you click on the hashtag provided, or go to the menu list and select Cameras and select the Cam-Pan-V3 tag, it will show every topic tagged for that cam. Most recent replied topics will be at the top.

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issue happens when it detects someone walking by, shows bottom of tracking box, tracks, but never moves up to put them in frame, only their feet.

I have not yet seen that issue reported.

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Tilted down to reduce camera chasing vehicles, but oddly enough it moves up and tracks vehicles it shouldn’t…

There appears to be a correlation to the speed of the object triggering the cam to tilt to pan in frame.

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Is there a list of tags to add to a thread or reply.

Yes. New topics are tagged at the time of their creation. However you correctly tagged this thread cam-pan-v3. Replies cannot be hashtagged. Topics that are mistagged should be flagged to the moderators to be retagged.

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Some of the more documented PanV3 issue threads:

Wyze Cam Pan v3 - Does not return back to home position

I just got my Wyze Cam Pan v3. Excited I replaced my Cam v3 looking outside from second floor on to my driveway with Cam Pan v3. However my excitement didn’t last very long when I encountered these two issues which are really disappointing to say the least. Even though I have defined motion detection zone, which includes most of my driveway except the top one line of squrares (on motion detetion zone screen) to avoid the street and cars passing through it, but that does not prevent Pan v3 t…

Motion Detection Quirks with the New Cam Pan V3

Interesting observation using my new Cam Pan V3. It manages to detect cars going by just fine. It detects people OK too - even people walking dogs. But when several deer go by in the same location, they’re essentially invisible to the motion detection algorithm. I’m beginning to think that this may not make a very good wildlife cam. Anyone else seeing this behavior?

Pan Cam3 chasing it's own IR reflections

I’ve only had the Cam Pan 3 for a week and noticed a weird one. My cam is mounted against a wall under my back porch overhang. I have three waypoints set all within the 180 degree outward view. One night this week the cam spotted a bug or something flying past and followed it to the left until the wall was in part of the view, at which point the IR created a bright spot on the wall which the cam thought was more movement so it “followed” it, and as the bright spot became brighter it kept foll…

Chasing Snowflakes

My Cam Pan V3 is chasing snowflakes! I reduced the sensitivity to 10 with no luck! And as many others have mentioned, it is NOT returning to home position, so I’m also chasing the cars that were supposed to be outside my detection zone (DZ). I’ve had to turn off notifications for now until this is resolved. On the plus side, I picked up a coyote running across the driveway!