AI should be able to detect “ME” and stop sending notifications to alert “ME” I’m cutting the lawn, in the driveway, or on the deck.
Notifications overload causing me to turn them off.
You can create an automation that will turn notifications off notifications when you arrive home and turn them on when you leave.
this can be done by creating a new automation and selecting the when I arrive or leave a location. Make sure Home is one of your locations.
The AI does have “Facial Recognition” to do this and then notifications can be set to tell you if it detects a unknown face and ignore known faces. The problem is that it reduces the distance it can inform you about people. In order to know it’s YOU and not someone else, your face has to take up a certain amount of pixels, I think it’s like 300 pixels or something IIRC. So the distance from the camera can vary depending on whether it’s a 1080p resolution cam or 2K camera. But generally speaking, for a 1080p camera it is only accurate if the face is within like 10 feet (IIRC), and a little farther out for 2K cameras. It can sometimes detect them farther away depending on various factors, but the accuracy is lower. So that won’t help while you are mowing the lawn more than 10 feet away from the camera or not looking right at it. And without face detection, there’s no way for the camera to know it is YOU instead of someone else.
This is a common complaint with every major smart camera company.
There are some things people have been trying, but most of them are complicated and advanced (example: run a local detection with frigate, train it to recognize specific things about you vs other people, screengrab snapshots and have it and/or an external multimodal LLM analyze whether the person is likely you or someone else before sending the notification). Most people aren’t capable of implementing that themselves.
Best solution most people do with all companies is to either snooze notifications (Wyze has a special feature for this to snooze notification for a camera or the app for a set time), or have a custom automation that knows when to disable/enable the notifications for when they will be most useful (scheduled time, trigger based, or location based like Spamoni suggested).
Those are pretty much the options right now (this isn’t just a limitation with Wyze. I have cameras from several smart cam companies and they all have this limitation)
I refuse to use location geofencing when the cameras have facial recognition that rarely works. If I can look at the footage and determine that it’s me, I expect the camera to 100/100 times. I expected this level of accuracy at rollout but we are well beyond that and it still isn’t remotely accurate.
You have unrealistic expectations.
Use geofencing rules and it will solve your complaints. Or create a shortcut that silences your cameras for ad-hoc use.
Here is what works for me. Let me start by saying i have Cam Plus Lite, so with only Person Notifications and a 5 minute cool down i do not get many Notifications to begin with.
I leave Wyze Notifications On in the Wyze App. I only allow Wyze Notifications on my iPad Pro. I have Wyze Notifications Off on my cell phone. I don’t want Wyze Notifications when i am driving, on a call or texting.
When i mow my lawn or work in my garden i don’t have my iPad Pro near me so i don’ t notice the alert on that device.
If you have the Wyze App on multiple devices, try not allowing Notifications on some of your devices to see if that prevents Notification Overload.