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[Crease]

@jazztml

I had noticed that when I tried to use it and see what that feature was….it would not do anything.

That was my initial experience with Smart Focus on the first Cam v4 I set up, too, but I eventually played with it some more and described my first experience seeing it work in another topic:

@Crease

I was starting to think that maybe access to this feature was limited to subscribers, as well, but I decided to toggle it off and back on and try it again.

So far I’ve set up only one of four Cam v4s I received yesterday, and it’s looking out a window into my backyard. The view captures part of a stairway coming down from a deck, and the stairway makes a 90° turn partway down. I watched the live view while I went down the steps and started across the yard, and I could see that the view was partially zoomed in on me as I was moving laterally with respect to the camera. Then I turned around, walked back across the camera’s view and began up the steps, all while still watching the live view. At this point when Smart Focus kicked in, it looked almost like it was following me up the steps and past the turn, and I had this mental moment where I thought: “Okay, but wait…this is a static camera.” In that instant, it almost seemed like I was watching myself with a Cam Pan v3 with Track Motion enabled.

That is some freaky cool !

I realize that the Smart Focus control—even in the production app—has a “BETA” label on it, so I wonder if it’s just a little glitchy and required the off/on toggle to reset something.

It’s kind of a nifty feature, but I haven’t gotten much actual use out of it. I figure if Edge AI that’s in Cam v4 is there to support Smart Focus, then it should actually be doing something (I’d consider to be) more useful and provide on-board Person Detection.

I don’t know if a different Internet service provider will resolve your problem, but it might be worth a shot, especially if it means you’d get a different router/wireless access point that could address a potential Wi-Fi bottleneck or other issue as @dave27 previously suggested.