Setup questions for Cam v4

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I’m setting up a new Cam V4 and I have a few questions:

  1. How do I set the camera resolution? I can’t seem to find the setting for this.
  2. In Spotlight Settings > Schedule it is set to “Sunrize-Sunset”. What is that for? I have Spotlight Control set to “Manual” (I don’t want the spotlight coming on at night while I’m home. Maybe I’ll turn that on when I leave for vacation. Is that Sunrise-Sunset setting to only allow the spotlight to come on during that time when movement is detected?
  3. What is the “Monitoring” icon at the bottom used for? I see that “Disarmed” is selected at the top, with “Home” and “Away” available options.

Thank you.

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If you tap its live view, a resolution control button appears in the upper left corner. Pressing that button, the resolution cycles through available settings. For some reason, Wyze likes confound its users by hiding buttons this way.

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The Sunrize-Sunset setting isn’t applicable if the spotlight is in “Manual” mode. You’d think Wyze is smart enough to hide this button in this case.

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That is only if you have Wyze’s alarm/monitoring subscription. If you don’t DON’T TOUCH IT, it will mess your settings up. Ask me how I know :wink:

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How do you know? Asking for a Canadian friend. :wink::grin:

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Because foolishly I pressed one of those buttons :grin:

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What setting got messed up?

I don’t have Home Monitoring but will frequently press the Monitoring button at the bottom to see Live View of my four main cameras.

I never touch Disarm, Home or Away.

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That’s what I was talking about. Can’t remember exactly but notifications, rules that I had set and much more got disabled. I had to go back and reset them back.

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I take it touching Disarm, Home or Away buttons is what causes settings to change.

My experience is just looking at Live View in Monitoring does not cause any of my settings to change.

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Yes, I guess I should’ve been more specific.

Same here, however I rarely if never use the monitoring tab. I don’t find it useful at all.

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I would agree.

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Very useful for me. It serves as an extra “group” that I can quickly view from the home screen with a single press.

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@peepeep should formulate a poll. :frog:

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This plus it’s easy to swipe between groups if you have more than one configured in Monitoring, and the way the timeline can be scrolled and marked for multiple cameras is kinda nifty.

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I can see it used like that being useful, but I only have seven cameras in one group. Swiping left and right in the group view works for me.

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I find the whole monitoring section too small for my liking on the phone. The landscape mode is no different than group view.

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There’s at least one difference that @ssummerlin pointed out in a related topic. They seem to have resolved the display timeout issue that was a problem for me when Monitoring’s landscape view was introduced in beta, too, so I could probably go either way but generally use groups more frequently if I want that kind of view.

I hope at least some of this discussion is useful to @alfredojahn! :grin:

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I only use group view most of the time as my iPad is on my desk right beside my main monitor. I use the phone when not at home whenever I get a notification and to play around settings. I hate using the iPad to flip through the interface because it doesn’t fully support landscape mode.