Around the clock, 24/7, my camera detects my STATIONARY vehicle in the driveway. Hundreds of events daily. Somehow teach the camera to ignore my vehicle while still recording visitors vehicles.
This is a common complaint. Something else triggered the event, and the AI detected that there was a vehicle. Behind the scenes, when the AI analyzes an event, it is looking at a single frame, therefore it has no way of knowing if the vehicle is moving or not. At least that’s how a Wyze person explained it a while ago.
Here is an example video of what K6CCC is referring to. The plant near my porch trigger a motion Event recording. If I had Vehicle Notification on, the car in the background could have triggered a Vehicle Notification.
Since I only use Person Notifications this car turning around in my driveway got recorded but I did not receive a Notification. If someone got out of the car, then I would get a Person Notification. This is what works for me.
Setting a Detection Zone to block out the vehicle in the driveway (nearly always parked in the same place) has worked pretty well for me.
These are all reasonable suggestions, yet they do not resolve my complaint. I use the feature that puts a box around what is being detected. It continuously “detects” my car in the driveway, but doesn’t put that box around it. Because we have a home-based business where people park in our driveway (despite being told not to!), I must have a camera on the entire driveway, which includes my car. Every minute or two, the camera is detecting a vehicle, but the green box does not appear, indicating what it has detected. Of course, I can turn off the notifications, but what good does that do for me when a customer arrives? I cannot use the selective field because I don’t park in the same exact spot every time I drive it. Besides, doing so leaves my car unmonitored at night.
Long-winded response, but I hope you now understand my gripe.
Oh, and there are no moving bushes or trees within the camera’s field of view.
Have you tried lowering the Detection Sensitivity of your camera? My cameras are set at 90. A lower setting might still detect vehicles on your entire driveway but might be less prone to false motion Notifications.
If possible, you might also try moving your camera to a different location that can still see you entire driveway. A new loction might also reduce false motion Notifications
I sense your frustration. Wyze cameras do not work exactly how i like, but i make do with the settings that is closest to my liking. Good luck.
As others have mentioned, this is largely due to the two-part process that Wyze uses to process events.
Step 1. The system notices something that triggers an event – for most of us that is motion, occasionally for some people it may be a sound. This initiates all the other event processing (cloud recording, notifications, etc).
Step 2. Completely ignoring step 1. The system now looks at the first frame of the event to decide WHAT it sees. Your vehicle is the most prominent thing in the frame so the system happily tags the event as “VEHICLE DETECTED” despite the fact that the same vehicle has been stationary in exactly the same spot for the last week.
Apparently no one at Wyze ever considered that it might be useful to identify what triggered the event rather than blindly telling us the biggest thing in the first frame of the event recording. (Or perhaps someone considered it and decided that it was too much work).
Same problem. It sucks. I hate it.
So instead of frustrating Wyze customers and making them jump through hoops to overcome an obvious problem with their firmware, what are they doing to fix / improve the issue. The old answer saying a “bug is actually an undocumented feature” or “It’s working as designed” just tells me Wyze does not care about our concerns. This issue makes my security (5000 miles away) useless.
This would absolutely solve the issue; HOWEVER, we don’t want to do this either, as the vehicle in question is an often-stolen Ford F-150. It will fit in the garage only if all the tools and machines were to somehow vanish. It’s a miracle my Accord has returned to the garage after a seven-month stint in the driveway while the truck was rebuilt. And I’m not returning my Accord to the driveway in the summer sun of Texas.
What MUST happen is that Wyze corrects this problem of detecting immobile vehicles. I pay for a subscription for my 10 cameras. I have certainly earned better software.
Step 2 makes sense. I still hate it and think we all (esp those who have subscriptions like I do) deserve better software. ESPECIALLY since our cameras are TRAINING THEIR AI.