Okay thanks for your advise.
I will remove rules 3 and 4.
I want to record movements at night. I have camera set up in my veggie garden and I want to detect what pests are coming in at night to eat my veggies.
I set the camera to turn on 30 mins before sunset (rule 1)
I set the camera to turn off 30 mins after sunrise (rule 2)
Then I was a little confused how to record motions at night. I set up rule 3&4 to detect motion at night but as you said these rules will cause confusion because I have the same times as rule 1 & 2. In settings I have record events all day I assume even though it is set to all day it should only record when the camera is on that is between 30 mins before sunset and 30 mins after sunrise.
So by deleting rule 3 & 4 you are saying I should now be set to record movements at night or do I need time 3 & 4 to turn on motion detection but change the timing so they happen whilst the camera is on Eg 20mins before sunset and 20 mins after sunrise.
Thanks once again for your assustance.
Regard
Graeme
Just delete 3 & 4. Go into the camās settings and make sure Event Recording > Detects motion is toggled on and leave it on. Cam turning off at sunrise+30 will prevent all recording until cam is turned back on. When cam is turned back on, previous settings are maintained so there is no need to turn motion detection on via rule.
Since you are trying to detect motion at night, youāll need to set your motion detection sensitivity higher than the default (50?). Iād start somewhere around 65-70. Not sure if you get light changes in your garden from passing vehicles at nightā¦ if you do youāll get an event recorded for each vehicle that passes.
Let me know if the cam turns off successfully and no events get recorded in the day. And if you catch a critter eating your garden at night. I.e., let me know if everything is running ok.
Great news the camera turned on and it turned off this morning.
I deleted those monitor detection rules as you recommended, and I have left the event setting to record all day.
My remaining items which is not a major issue, as other than being annoying everything works is āerror 10ā. Have you seen or heard of this error. I googled Wyze error codes and got to a list of them but 10 was not listed. Other than getting the message it seems not to do or cause a problem.
Do you know if Wyze technicians are working on the ability of the Wyze cameras to stop showing motions when all the motion is a plant moving in the breeze. How they would do it or even if itās possible I do not know.
Thanks once again for resolving the starting and stopping the camera
Regards
Graeme
The cameras detect motion as changes in pixels. You can try to set the detection zone to exclude any plants that move in a breeze, reduce sensitivity, re-aim the camera, but there will most likely always be false motion detection.
Thanks WildBill
I have zone set but unfortunately this year and I guess it has been very dry rats have decided to live near my veggie garden and they love tomatoās .
I grow the tomatoes for the wife and myself. At first was not sure if it was the micro bats we have in Melbourne Australia or rats hence set the camera up.
Then to my shock there were a few rats first time in years.
Sea pup was very helpful in assisting to getting the camera on and off sunset and sunrise. That part works good now. Unfortunately the leaves and branches where I am aiming the camera to detect rats do move in the flight breeze hence many false alarms even when sensitivity is set low.
I am pleased thatās to Seapup that I can detect the rats. Plant movement I guess I will have to live with who knows one day there may be an algorithm that cancels out plant movement.
My next major task is getting rid of rats, I hate them.
Looking at my account it states I have ,
Cam Plus Lite (PD Legacy)
Can someone confirm is Cam Plus Lite (PD Legacy) the same as Cam Plus Lite. As I am not sure if Wyze thinks I have not opted in hence the reminders or are all Wyze account holders getting these prompts.
I havenāt seen that one before and canāt find a description for it. I would try powercycling your cam (physically unplug for about 10 seconds and replug).
We donāt have access to see what Wyze is working onā¦ only what they publicly announce or status change of wishlist items. I see you already have added your use case/comment to the associated wishlist item and voted for this.
It is the same. After you opted in to the Cam Plus Lite service via the Web Services website, did you assign/enroll your cam to the service via the app?
They are just transitioning the name from āPerson Detection (Legacy)ā to āCam Plus Liteā. The old plan was for V2s and Pan V1s. The new plan expands that to include the V3, Wyze Cam Outdoor, the Pan V2, and hopefully more.
Thank you for your reply.
After checking with my son in law I thought it must be okay as his reads the same of mine.
With future alerts it would pay for Wyze to explain the wording as I am sure I am not the only person who was concerned that they had not updated correctly.
No problem. The wording I mentioned is from Accounts tab > Cam Plus Lite (PD Legacy). But I understand there are other routes Wyze uses to message you. This has been rolled out in a very confusing manner, hopefully people will find roots here.
Well, I was attempting to establish a location for Sunrise/Sunset rules (without having/leaving Location permission enabled on the phone) and was stumped, so came here to search and found your illustrated account. Thanks!
The āCancelā and āSaveā options on the map were camouflaged to my eyes (over land vs sea and looking like city names I guess) so couldnāt go forward.
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Hey, I think Android āforce dark modeā may have been the ācamouflageā culprit. It does distort things unexpectedly and I forget I have it on sometimesā¦
I.e., let me know if everything is running ok.
