Solar Pan Cam needs pan options settings, automatic pan waypoints like the plug in Pan cams

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The regular non-solar one pans every few seconds; this one does not pan to waypoints without manually doing it every time. A trigger won’t work for movement if it’s not pointed at the area. So if something moves on the side of it unless it is panned, it won’t trigger a recording; they don’t pan as the pan cam does. It kinda defeats the purpose of a pan if you have to manually do it. There needs to be an option to choose continuous pan.

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Welcome to the Forum, @manderlynn! :wave:

If you’re referring to the Pan Scan setting on Cam Pan v3 and Cam Pan v4, then I imagine Solar Cam Pan does not have this setting for the same reason it doesn’t allow Continuous microSD recording unless it’s powered by an appropriate AC adapter in order to maximize battery life. I could see some utility for allowing Solar Cam Pan to have a Pan Scan feature if it’s powered by an external source, but I haven’t yet seen anyone request this in the Wishlist.

Solar Cam Pan does have a 360 Scan control, and that can approximate how some users set Waypoints, but that’s a one-time/on-demand thing, and, again, I imagine that’s what Wyze came up with as a way to allow live view area scans while trying to preserve battery.

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Or, alternatively, allow a detection by another camera to trigger the pan camera to pan to a specific waypoint. If my fixed camera picks up something in my driveway then trigger my front yard pan camera to pan to waypoint #4 that I’ve set in the software because that waypoint includes the driveway. Then the pan camera can track whatever is there.

I understand why they chose not to implement pan scan to conserve battery. I’m thinking that the fix may be to go with the regular pan camera but connect an external solar battery with the necessary capacity. Maybe that’s a good idea for a third party solution.

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That’s been suggested in an existing Wishlist topic, and perhaps that list should be expanded to include Solar Cam Pan:

As with any Wishlist topic, you can visit that one to click or tap the Vote button above the initial post and share your ideas and use cases in the comments to show your support for the product and feature request/suggestions that are important to you.

Edit @ 2026-02-07T02:08:03Z

I see that @Seapup added Solar Cam Pan to the list and edited (the quote in) my post above. :wink:

My recommendation to visit the Wishlist, comment, and VOTE still stands. :grin::+1:

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