# Person detection only event recording

**URL:** <https://forums.wyze.com/t/person-detection-only-event-recording/88997>\
**Category:** Wyze AI\
**Tags:** not-platform-specific\
**Created:** [February 16, 2020, 10:14pm UTC](https://forums.wyze.com/t/person-detection-only-event-recording/88997 "2020-02-16T22:14:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Thork](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/82dd89/32.png) [@Thork](https://forums.wyze.com/u/Thork)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2020, 10:14pm UTC](https://forums.wyze.com/t/person-detection-only-event-recording/88997/1 "2020-02-16T22:14:42Z")

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Question for those who still have old firmware that supports person detection. Can you configure the settings so only person detection events are recorded? Because if it records all events I may miss an actual person because of the 5 minute cool down period between event recordings. Especially when it’s breezy its constantly recording tree branches.  
Thanks!  
Thor

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**Author:** ![tomp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/wyze/user_avatar/forums.wyze.com/tomp/32/4837_2.png) [@tomp](https://forums.wyze.com/u/tomp)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2020, 12:56am UTC](https://forums.wyze.com/t/person-detection-only-event-recording/88997/2 "2020-02-17T00:56:27Z")

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If I remember correctly, and that’s a long shot- there was an option under event recording for person, sound and motion Each could be turned on or off.

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**Author:** ![alvaros](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/wyze/user_avatar/forums.wyze.com/alvaros/32/27735_2.png) [@alvaros](https://forums.wyze.com/u/alvaros)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2020, 4:30am UTC](https://forums.wyze.com/t/person-detection-only-event-recording/88997/3 "2020-02-17T04:30:32Z")

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I think you can’t do that. There is an option for sending notifications only when it senses a person, but _not_ for video recording. ie, if it senses motion but doesn’t detect a person, the camera will not send a notification, but will upload a video.

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**Author:** ![WyzeJasonJ](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/wyze/user_avatar/forums.wyze.com/wyzejasonj/32/8461_2.png) [@WyzeJasonJ](https://forums.wyze.com/u/WyzeJasonJ)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2020, 4:38am UTC](https://forums.wyze.com/t/person-detection-only-event-recording/88997/4 "2020-02-17T04:38:41Z")

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You can only limit the notifications, person detection is dependent on the event recording. If the event is not recorded there is nothing to analyze and there is no way to prevent a video without a person from uploading. All you can do is turn off the event notification but you will still have issues with the 5-minute cool down. The only way around that currently is [CMC](https://services.wyze.com/detail/cmc)

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**Author:** ![Thork](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/82dd89/32.png) [@Thork](https://forums.wyze.com/u/Thork)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2020, 5:02am UTC](https://forums.wyze.com/t/person-detection-only-event-recording/88997/5 "2020-02-17T05:02:22Z")

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Thats what I was afraid of, thanks much for the info. I don’t want to pay for the motion detection service until they fix all the bugs… the $1.50 a month is totally reasonable though… assuming motion detection is working properly