I’m at a loss trying to determine how to use “smart focus” on my new V4 camera. Can anyone explain how to turn this on, turn it off and how to use this feature. I haven’t found anything useful about this on the web.
To Turn it on or off, you tap on the smart focus option. If the little box is green, it is on, otherwise it is off. Here is an image of mine, which is on.
Here is how I use it. The distance from the front of the house to the street is a little far. So when the camera sees motion, it will zoom in on it while still showing the entire view in the little window. The smart focus will then follow the motion until it stops or gets beyond the range it can track. Nice feature to use, but I don’t use it on all of my V4 cameras.
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This will look like a “picture in picture” while this is working tracking something in frame.
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Thanks guys, Can I assume the smart focus only works on LIVE action and not when replaying events ?
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Correct, I have only seen it working on live streaming
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Thanks again. Seems like it would be great if smart focus worked on events too. Am I wrong ?
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Looks like you may want to vote on this wishlist to support it!
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@Omgitstony
I agree and voted….tlhutch4
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I vote on that too smart focus on events and as recording
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@albertespac
Welcome to you. Also, Hoping you actually voted on the wish list.
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Great idea. Voted.
I just received my V4 camera. I have had OGs up to now, but wanted the higher resolution. Does the V4 not zoom like the OG?
If you’re having issues zooming the v4 view under Android, try going to Wyze app Home > Account (lower right) > App Settings > Enable Hardware Decoder. Toggle decoder the opposite of what you currently have it set to.
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The V4 will zoom with a double-tap on the image. That will take you to your device’s max resolution. A reverse pinch will zoom it out to the camera’s maximum resolution ability.
A V4 is much more resolute than a V3 or OG. 
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Wait, so reverse pinch zoom is not the same as double tap zoom?
Also, double tap zoom won’t work on events, right?
A reverse pinch will zoom in further.
Depending on how you view it, double-tap zooms and unzooms live view to the full-screen resolution limit of your device (typically in portrait mode you see the whole picture top to bottom, and have to scroll right and left to see more).
From double-tap you can reverse pinch to zoom in further to the resolution limit of the camera, but then you have to scroll up/down & left/right. Another double-tap (or forward pinch) then unzooms that.
The same thing happens on events, but on double-tap you have to scroll up/down & left/right on all ways of viewing the clip.
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Is the smart focus toggle at bottom of screen a per-user app setting or will it turn it off for everyone?
You have to tap the smart focus icon on the bottom of the app to turn it on or off.
As per the photo posted above, if it has a little green box that means it is turned on.
It’s a per-device/app instance setting. I.e., you can have 3 devices, all same account or all different accounts, viewing the same cam, and each device maintains it’s own Smart Focus setting.
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