Whos genius idea was it to disable Detection Zone when enabling TRACK MOTION

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Why now out of no where when I enable “Track Motion” does it disable my “Detection Zone” No longer auto returning to its preset position?

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If you just want the pan cam to return to a set point after motion tracking, that’s what waypoint #1 is supposed to be. I haven’t tested this lately though.

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Yeah I’m not sure what happened but my usual setup is now not working. I usually have detection zone and motion tracking utilized so when someone walks up the driveway it tracks them under the camera along the deck and towards the front door, the camera then resets to the original position after 15 seconds.
Instead now I get this message… “Your camera has the detection zone setting enabled, which only applies to its current position. Tap “Continue” to disable detection zone and use track motion.”

If you have Track Motion activated but then try to set a detection zone a message pops up saying that track motion has now been deactivated…

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You can’t have Pan Scan and Detection zone active at the same time either.

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I never activated the detection zone on my pan cam V3s. I consider it impractical, as the detection zone is only good for one direction.

As for your requirement to “reset to its original position”, that isn’t what the detection zone is for. If you set waypoint #1, that’s what the camera resets to when there’s no motion.

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For my use case detection zone allows me to disregard the sidewalk and roadway that is within view and only track someone that comes onto my property. With how it was setup originally it would track as mentioned above and then return to the driveway viewpoint. It worked perfectly but suddenly the permissions have changed.

Currently the issue is you can NOT have Detection zone and Motion tracking set at the same time.

Per Wyze descriptions it should be working…
" Additional Notes

Some behaviors to note when using a Detection Zone:

  • The Detection Zone will only be active when the camera is in the position you selected when you set the Detection Zone. If you (1) manually move the camera away from the Detection Zone OR (2) if the camera moves away from the Detection Zone following motion when Motion Tracking is turned on, after 15 seconds of inactivity (no motion detected) the camera will automatically return to the position you selected when you set the Detection Zone and will reinstate the Detection Zone."

https://support.wyze.com/hc/en-us/articles/360030147091-Detection-Settings-and-Zones

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I don’t know why you seem to think I have the problem about detection zone?

If you review the thread, I was helping someone who had the problem.

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I appreciate your input but I think you’re missing the point.

The OP and myself require Detection Zone. You offered PanScan and that does not work with Detection Zone, I merely mentioned that.

You also stated that

when clearly it is.

Wyze recently changed the permissions on how Detection Zone & Motion Tracking work together and that has had a negative impact on how the OP and I use it. It also goes against how Wyze says it should work per the link I shared.

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I never did, quote the phrase where I offered ii as a solution.

This is what I posted. Here I was suggesting an alternative way for the pan cam to return to a set point; an alternative way, that doesn’t use pan scan. And you interpreted it the opposite way!

Edit -

Are you confusing pan scan with waypoints? They’re not the same.

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This is getting way off topic… I didn’t mean for this to turn into anything so accusatorial, I just felt that your responses did not work with Detection Zone.

I apologize if I am incorrect but I was thinking waypoints are only accessible in PanScan?

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Definitely NOT. You can use waypoints, independent of pan scan.

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I have the same problem. I want the cam to pan as you walk up my driveway, but not follow the cars on the road…

Detection zone used to solve that problem.

I’m happy I found this thread, I thought I had forgotten how it worked, and just imagined that was what it used to do.

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I’m having the same problem. 2 cameras, one works with both, the other one stopped working as you described. I’ve reset it, deleted it, reinstalled it, still not working as it did or how the other one still does.

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Yes, why has this changed??