I get to many detection events for the same parked car - can it detect the car then not notify me over and over that it detects a vehicle creating numerous events. It seems that the car in motion detection would be good but once it is there for a period of time events need to stop - tech support tells me the only way to fix is turn off vehicle detection
That works great. The shadows in the driveway set my cam off “Vehicle” which is why I try to remember to turn off vehicle detection during the day when home. WYZE knows the problem and said they would work on just detecting moving vehicles but don’t expect a solution anytime soon.
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Welcome to the Wyze User Community Forum @tjbeads! 
Cams are triggered to upload to the server by any motion event within your FOV or DZ if on. The server then looks at every single individual frame, one still image at a time, 20fps day, 15fps night, looking for anything within the FOV or DZ if on that looks like one of the AI objects that you have designated. Because it is inspecting still frame images, the Server AI Engine does not see any motion. If there is any object in your FOV or DZ that looks like one of your designated AI Smart Detection objects, in any single still frame snapshot, it gets tagged. That is just the way it is. Whenever you have a Motion Activated Upload Event, it sees a Vehicle and it tags it. You have a couple options:
- Reduce the sensitivity to reduce the number of uploads
- Use the DZ to block out the Vehicle
- Move the cam position to not have the vehicle in frame
- Turn off Vehicle Detection
There is a Wishlist topic linked below asking Wyze to develop Moving Object Only AI Smart Detection. You can follow the link, vote for it, and add your post there.
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I have vehicle detection disabled and still get constant vehicle events anytime there’s motion while a vehicle (stationary or moving) is in frame.
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I hate that it picks up parked vehicles, I get a ton of them as well. I only want to know what moved and don’t care if a parked vehicle is in the background, just like I don’t care if a rock is in my yard. The point of motion detection is to detect and record it then identify it, that’s all.
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Wyze cam 4 omg detects the two vertical straps of our hanging chairs that are in the field of view as Vehicle detected every minute or so when the wind is blowing . It even draws a nice green box around the straps as they sway in the wind. To be fair it does detect real cars that go into the driveway.
This makes detection kind of useless. Everyone in the family has turned off alerts from the three Wyze cameras (doorbell, floodlight and cam 4) and they are agitating for us to get one of those other cameras that really work.
In the meantime I have ordered longer power cables so I can move the camera to a different location where the hanging chairs will not be in the frame but if it is anything like the floodlight camera it will pick up branches and flowers swaying in the wind, lawn ornaments spinning and the neighbor pulling the garbage carts down the driveway to the street.
Can this be fixed or should we just accept that AI can’t tell the difference between a car and a strap or a lawn ornament or a tree or a tulip?
Has to be one of the most asked questions. I do see any change on the horizon.
Exclude the vehicle from the detection zone, it will ignore the motion of the straps (or at least not tag/alert on them). As long as you are relatively accurate with the exclusion zone, it will still catch someone walking up to/around the car etc.