Waypoints how do they work

Regarding the waypoint which I set up on the pan v3 ain’t this supped to follow you as you pass the cam if not then what is it’s feature or how is it supposed to work?
I had my cam on and it never followed me I only seen myself as I come into that view.

Waypoints are simply areas set for the camera to cycle through. It is not used to follow you.

If you would like the camera to follow you, live stream the camera and then scroll below the live stream to the left until you see the Track Motion icon and then turn it on.

Welcome to the Wyze User Community Forum @bwatt1972! :man_raising_hand:

Waypoints are resting spots for the cam to dwell for a bit while completing it’s “Scan” of the area. This is the Pan Scan function on the toolbar.

If you want it to move to follow motion, enable the Track Motion option on the toolbar.

You may need to scroll that toolbar to the left to see the rest of the buttons on the right.

When I try to set my waypoints, I am presented with this screen


I can’t control where the camera is set at.

It looks like either your phone has very small screen dimensions or you have enabled Android display zoom.

Use the directional control pad located above “Preview” to move cam to desired view and tap “Set”. Repeat for additional waypoints. Tap Save when done.

Android screen zoom set to minimum:

Thank you so much, The Android display zoom was enabled. Problem solved.

The nice thing about setting waypoints even if you don’t use the auto-pan-scan feature is the ability to quickly move cam view to a preset location. When live streaming the cam, just tap on one of the waypoints located under the live stream.

If you have waypoints defined and you don’t see your waypoints under the live stream display, drag the Recent Events panel down by swiping down on “Recent Events”:

This might be the wrong thread for this but I’m looking for a way to set the dwell time when Auto tracking is on before the cameras returns to the home waypoint after motion has stop. I have a campan v4.

Scenario: I have 2 way points set, left and right, covers almost a full 180 deg front view of an area in my house. Home waypoint is far left looking at my stairs. Far right looks towards my kitchen and the trash/recycle bins. Camera tracks my dog (or a person for that matter) coming into frame from the left, camera sees him and tracks him as he walks to the right, my dog stops, he’s near the recycle/trash bins and kitchen now, he stands there and sniffs the air, doesn’t move for a bit, which he often does, just listening and sniffing the air barely moving. The camera moves back to its home position on the far left. Dog is out frame for the camera to pick up now … dog gets a free trashcan lunch if he wanted, with no camera to catch anything.

Not aware of any way to customize that, other than maybe turning up the motion sensitivity so it sees smaller movements as motion and stays focused there.

You could combine motion tracking with the pan/scan feature and set 2 or 3 waypoints so even when it stops tracking motion, it still scans the area and will have a chance to pick the movement up again.

I think the idea of using Pan Scan along with Smart Track and adding an additional Waypoint or two in between your current Waypoints is an interesting thought. I almost never use Pan Scan, and I haven’t played with it enough on Cam Pan v4 to know how well it cooperates with Smart Track or how the Cam would behave if it was tracking motion that stopped long enough for it to resume Pan Scan.

Let’s say you set it up like this:

  1. Waypoint #1 is Home and looks at your stairs.
  2. Waypoint #2 is in between #1 and #3.
  3. Waypoint #3 looks at your bins.

What if you’re using both Pan Scan and Smart Track and the Cam is about to move from #2 to #1 but catches the dog on its way to the bins, so it tracks the dog over there. When the dog stops to sniff and the Cam is no longer detecting motion, then does it resume Pan Scan where it left off and go back to #1, which would’ve been the next one in its sequence? That would be my expectation, but I haven’t specifically tested for this, so I don’t know. :man_shrugging:

If that’s what it does, then that doesn’t really solve the problem. It might be worth trying, though, just to see if that can get you closer to your goal.

I was thinking that I’d seen an existing request like yours (ability to customize what you’re calling “dwell time”), but I’m not currently finding that for Cam Pan tracking; I’m seeing it only for the Pan Scan feature:

That topic seems specific to Pan Scan and not to how long a pan/tilt camera will pause while tracking a target that has temporarily ceased motion, so what you’re looking for might be best proposed as a new Wishlist request (please consult How to Use the Wishlist if you choose to do that). I also have a vague recollection about complaints months ago that Solar Cam Pan was returning home too soon when a tracked target stopped moving, and I think that Wyze made some changes to the tracking logic on that one, but I don’t know if that affected that Cam’s “dwell time”. I think that what you’re describing seems like a feature that could be applicable to all panning Cams, including that one.

On my pan v3s, when I played with pan/scan (I don’t normally use it) after tracking motion, it goes back to whatever waypoint it was on last and continues in the sequence as if nothing had happened. Can’t say if the v4 is different but I’d assume it is the same behavior.