We’re kicking around ideas for smarter vehicle detection — things like License Plate Recognition (LPR) and Known Vehicle Recognition — and we’d love your input to help shape where we go next.
Would you be interested in registering your known vehicles for more personalized notifications? Something like: “Gardener’s car just left the driveway” or “Your family member just got home”. On the flip side, would you rather only get alerts for unfamiliar vehicles — like “Unknown vehicle just parked in your driveway”?
We’re also exploring how LPR could be used to show license plates as tags or within the event detail page whenever we can capture them. Would that be useful to you? If so, how would you use it? What kind of actions would you want to take based on that info?
This kind of tech takes time and resources to build, but if there’s a real-world need, that’s what we care about most. Help us understand your use cases — and how you’d actually use these features day to day.
Drop a comment and share your thoughts — what would make this feature worth it for you? We’re reading every reply.
I personally would Not be interested in License Plate Recognition (LPR) and Known Vehicle Recognition. I have one Cam v3 overlooking my driveway. I drive out about 3 times per day running errands and I try to delete Cloud video where my license plate is visible.
Might not be a big deal but it’s a habit I got into posting on automotive forums (where everyone blurs their license plate when posting pictures of their vehicle).
None of your present line of cameras can properly “see” licence plates especially on a moving vehicle. In my personal opinion this is another try at a money grab.
Not interested, for me it is another useless vanity add-on.
There’s a growing community of video “takers” called Activist and First Amendment Auditors. They visit publicly accessible locations and record and upload or stream to social media sites. Many use cell phones, Gopro’s and DJI’s small stuff as well has heavy 35mm. Sometimes their cameras are damaged or confiscated (illegally). There’s a need for a less expensive and light weight version. One that someone could place or even toss towards a scene and let it run on its own. Something that if lost would not bankrupt the owner and could pickup a couple of replacements.
Also more citizens are buying body worn cameras to protect themselves. A version that is rechargeable, left running or on standby in a car, to charge or turn on remotely/manually would be a highly useful. If it had a dash/console mounted dock for charging and "grab and pin to clothes would be a winner. Swappable battery would be great. People would buy multiple batteries
Detach/attachable mic. Mic could be tossed closer to a “scene” and IN THE PUBLIC and record. Remember, no expectation of privacy in public. If you have not guess by now, the motive is accountability. Document what law enforcement is doing in public (to citizens).
Knowing that Wyze is potentially spending time and resources on this new feature while ignoring the WCO v1/v2 Cooldown issue doesn’t settle well with me.
I’d LOVE to only get a notification when a vehicle actually MOVES in the detection zone, not a tree moves or a shadow and there’s a vehicle in the camera view, or rain falls between the camera and vehicle.
I have seen mentioned (here and elsewhere) that you also want to be notified only when a vehicle is actually moving. We are working on this, I will check in with the team and see how that is going. The things I mentioned here LPR and Known Vehicle Recognition are things we get asked for a lot and we are trying to understand the use cases and why users want these items.
In Florida, we only use rear license plates. I am the only one I have ever seen that backs into my driveway in 20+ years I have lived here. (Parking in my garage is easier backing in.)
Maybe a “friendly” car feature would work? If it doesn’t exist already.
I get a new lease every couple of years but I sure it would be an easy uodate.
Oregon law is rear and front license plates are required. My wife pulls her car into our garage head first. I back my truck in. This way we both have a good amount of room in the center of the garage to open our driver side doors.
Probably not a big deal to leave my license plates on the Wyze Cloud servers. I am just in the habit of deleting those videos when I think about it.
I admit this may be too big an ask. But we need goals and objective capabilities to aspire to. And I realize if a white Tacoma drives by my camera it is likely not the only one in my city, so “singling it out” might not be a perfect solution, but never the less, I would like: Similar to cataloguing friendly faces, I would like to browse through my picture/video of cars and trucks that passed by so I can “tag them”. Then, when one of these passes my lens, its recognized and “allowed to pass without notification”. Let me clarify. I want to know, I want a record, I want a short video of an unfamiliar car or truck - especially big box truck that passed my camera. I want a record, (license ptale too if possible) of the ones that COULD be suspicious because we don’t see them every day. I don’t want to have to go through 100 friendlies to find the 1 we should be suspicious of.
I would just be happy with just moving vehicles so I don’t have to block my own out with the detection zone setting while it is parked in the driveway.
I think I’d be more interested in you fixing the things you’ve already marketed. After you do that than you can think about expanding to other products.
I would pay dolla’s for LPR. I wanna be able to capture plates on my street. Living on a unique street will occasionally result in “some edge use cases”. That cam is an old skool V2.
For the 1000th time:
45° picture orientation! 90° picture flip is fine, if you’re mounting upside down, but so many times the mounting surface is not flat and vertical!
And if you want to be really impressive give the ability to orient the picture over a full 360°! That would mean someone could mount to any surface and straighten the picture out!
