Even since the OG Telephoto was announced, I’ve been wondering how well it might work for license plate capture (LPC). I just got my OG Telephoto yesterday and decided to put it to the test. I aimed the OG Telephoto at a spot on the roadway 70 feet away from my home. I have a Dahua varifocal came…

Great testing! Thanks for sharing!

As a followup I did some nighttime testing for a stationary license plate. Surprisingly, the camera can also read a plate up to 70 feet at night in color mode. In fact, color mode actually works better than B/W night mode due to the reflected glare of the IR diode illuminator. [Screenshot 2023-0…

Thank you for your tests! I’m debating between adding telephoto vs V3 pro for me to capture cars parked in the driveway and this is great to know.

Honestly, There would be a huge market for residential LPC market. Is it on the wishlist? @wtimothyholman @carverofchoice @sv11 @IL1 @habib

It is on the wishlist and I just voted for it, but I’m afraid Wyze hasn’t really looked into this yet. https://forums.wyze.com/t/license-plate-scanner/152880 Also it might be helpful to check out this license plate test by LifeHackster: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqnW05lUHzY I do have a lot o…

IL1 posted a good wishlist item for this. There is another similar one here too: [image] License Plate OCR Maybe Later Hi there! It is an amazing camera and very affordable and simple, congratulations! My suggestion is to include “license plate” reading or recognition (…

Wyze wouldn’t need to develop a true LPR camera with optical character recognition. That would be overkill for 99.9% of residential homeowners. Instead, an LPC (license plate capture) camera would be more than sufficient. The optics and electronics of the OG Telephoto are already capable of LPC i…

[image] IL1: Also it might be helpful to check out this license plate test by LifeHackster: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqnW05lUHzY LifeHackster makes the same mistake that many others do with nighttime LPC, by assuming that the IR glare will prevent reading the plate. The solution is to …

[image] wtimothyholman: modify the camera so that it thinks it is always daytime. This would set frame rate to maximum and shutter time to minimum I was pretty sure when I tested on other Wyze cams that all you have to do was set the “Night Vision Mode” to “Off” and then it stays in daytime m…

Thanks, that is useful to know. But the frame rate is only part of the problem. You have to set the shutter time to a very small value. Wyze would need to provide some means for the user to manually adjust it.

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IL1 posted a good wishlist item for this. There is another similar one here too:

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