# Person Detection - what am I missing?

**URL:** <https://forums.wyze.com/t/person-detection-what-am-i-missing/40555>\
**Category:** Beta\
**Created:** [June 26, 2019, 12:38pm UTC](https://forums.wyze.com/t/person-detection-what-am-i-missing/40555 "2019-06-26T12:38:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![MMediaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a587f6/32.png) [@MMediaman](https://forums.wyze.com/u/MMediaman)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2019, 12:38pm UTC](https://forums.wyze.com/t/person-detection-what-am-i-missing/40555/1 "2019-06-26T12:38:20Z")

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I have enabled the **Person Detection** service and disabled all _Other Motion_ on a cam with Firmware v2 4.9.4.90. Yet I have seen no Person Detection events. What am i missing?

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**Author:** ![None](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f19dbf/32.png) [@None](https://forums.wyze.com/u/None)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2019, 1:02pm UTC](https://forums.wyze.com/t/person-detection-what-am-i-missing/40555/2 "2019-06-26T13:02:03Z")

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I guess you’re missing people?

But seriously, this is a beta thing. It’s not working very well, yet. I have a bird feeder in my backyard that this software thinks is a person.

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**Author:** ![MMediaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a587f6/32.png) [@MMediaman](https://forums.wyze.com/u/MMediaman)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2019, 1:52pm UTC](https://forums.wyze.com/t/person-detection-what-am-i-missing/40555/3 "2019-06-26T13:52:58Z")

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😄, yea I am _ **missing** _ people & I know its Beta. Didn’t know if maybe I had something misconfigured. Found that for 1 of 2 cams where I have this turned on, I got some proper detection after rebooting the cam.

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**Author:** ![jwestly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3ec8ea/32.png) [@jwestly](https://forums.wyze.com/u/jwestly)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2019, 1:31am UTC](https://forums.wyze.com/t/person-detection-what-am-i-missing/40555/4 "2019-06-27T01:31:30Z")

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So far it has detected birds as people like crazy in my back yard

But didn’t detect the person who broke into my truck. But luckily the motion detection did and I was able to help police

It seems to me that the camera needs to be closer to the truck to determine that a person is present. Like my bird camera is very close to the feeder, I am running out of options as to how to move the camera closer to the road

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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:** [June 27, 2019, 1:59am UTC](https://forums.wyze.com/t/person-detection-what-am-i-missing/40555/5 "2019-06-27T01:59:23Z")

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So far mine has not missed an actual person but has falsely identified light flickers, bugs, birds, squirrels etc as people.  
That being said I keep on sharing because it’s good software, in beta testing, and I think it will get better.  
Keep on sharing…

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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:** [January 26, 2021, 4:44am UTC](https://forums.wyze.com/t/person-detection-what-am-i-missing/40555/6 "2021-01-26T04:44:38Z")

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Closed on January 26, 2021, 4:44am UTC