I’m not sure if this is the right place to give feedback but thought I’d share my thoughts on the new Descriptive Notifications.
Descriptive notifications can be very helpful with certain things. Deliveries, pets waiting at a door to come in, Fedex is delivering a package and leaving it on the front steps. etc. All very helpful and a big step up from the standard notifications. Is there a setting to remove the “fluff” from these descriptions?
Every descriptive notification will tell me about the leaves on my deck, or the doormat, or a BBQ, or a patio table…or all these things that never move in the frame. I really only need to know about things that move. It’s almost as if Wyze is trying to brag about “look what I can detect” giving all these useless bits of information in every notification. This makes the notifications really long to read especially on an Apple Watch.
Most of the descriptive text is helpful. For example telling me the color or type of cat waiting at my door so I know if it’s the neighbors cat or mine. That’s a nice improvement over the standard notifications. There’s too much “fluff” in the notifications. I only need to know about moving things, people, pets, cars. I don’t need it telling me there’s a fence, leaves on a deck, a doormat or other objects that never move in every notification. Seems like the notifications should only be telling us what has changed not what’s always in the frame.
I agree with your base premise that there is to much “fluff”. I really don’t need to know that my garage is “cluttered”. And I think you may be right–Wyze may be “bragging a bit”.
I’m going to give Wyze some leeway. I am starting to see the capabilities of the AI.
Has identified species in the bird feeder (small sample).
Identified my 30 year old sports car based on a frontal view only.
Identified the the store we shopped at based on the name on the grocery bags, as we brought the groceries into the house.
These are not trivial accomplishments. Knowing the level of detail that is possible bodes well for this feature.
I want to see a merger of this feature with “friendly faces”.
I’m already tired of seeing what the brown dog is doing. That brown dog is London. Identify it as such and hopefully an option to “not” trigger an event or notification
I’m getting about 20 notifications a day. In almost all of them my wife and myself are in each event. By now we should have been identified and named. And an option to not trigger.
My 2 cents worth. Now back to determining if the current iteration meets my reliability standards .
I want to see friendly faces also. I see some real promise in this feature in the near future but fealing the early adopter pains on this one for sure. Modify that, my family is feeling the early adopter pains for once. Normally i can hide annoyances but extra notifications I cant. As much as I want to know that i have a gnome in my garden my primary ask is the ability to disable notifications for “all motion” events. No joke im getting close to 200 notifications per day and almost all of them are a car driving by casting a shadow on my driveway. so my notification say red truck briefly stops in front of house (it doesn’t) before continuing on with a flowering tree in the background.
I like the detail provided The CoFounder Dave posted a YouTube about the Descriptive Alerts and the NBD filter. He indicated that this will be tweaked over time based on feedback and information gathered.
200 is way to many. This reminds me of something I observed a few months ago. At that time I was informed (by the forum) that there is a “hidden menu” item called “other motion”. When I turned it on I received 100’s of events overnight (there was a windstorm). Even so I could not live with that and turned it off. When you get these events are they labeled “Motion” or “Vehicle”? If motion then I suspect this is turned on. Later today I’ll try and find that thread. You might try searching the forum for “other motion” or “other sound”.
I have multiple palm trees raising havic with my front yard cameras. Following is a short video showing what my v3pro sees with motion tracking turned on.
This goes on all day. I still get only events and selected descriptive alerts. I may get a false positive every day or so.
This may not be the exact topic you alluded to, but I think these steps might be relevant to your discussion:
Is that what you’re thinking? Something like that might be applicable here, so I think it’s good to ask about notification labels. I’ve gotten the vibe reading this topic that the NBD Filter is probably the way to go in this case, too.
Yep you are correct it’s enabled and the options are different per camera model. Some of them the smart detection is fine. Others I can’t disable it. I have another thread going so we don’t have to solve it here. The regular notifications are working great and are tuned perfect. Descriptive doesn’t care about the detection zone and just uses every recorded event.
Text example. The wind blows the camera shakes and triggers a check. I don’t get a normal motion notification but the AI will pick up the neighbors car parked in their driveway outside the detection zone and notify me about the tree and an empty driveway lol.
Here’s a clip. If you see something inside the detection zone let me know lol. If I bring it in much further it will miss people in the driveway. Sensitivity at 40. It’s not the end of the world but I’m ready for some lvl 2 lvl 3 NBD filter hahahah
Going to dwell on this for awhile. The second shot must have triggered on motion. If my front yard camera did this I would have hundreds of triggers a day.
If I can make a suggestion. Simplify your event triggers. Disable everything except for people and vehicles. See if that makes a difference. If it does then add things back one at a time until it shows what is triggering.
It’s really interesting how detailed they can get the alerts. Maybe they’ll continue to tweak the program to eliminate the redundant information that has nothing to do with motion. “There’s a fence” Who really cares about stationary objects. The added time reading about stationary objects they detect really adds up with the number of notifications Wyze likes to show. Even after tweaking all the settings.
I won’t be able to continue to test this though. I fell for that darn email Wyze sent out saying I should upgrade to the limited time offer for $89 Cam Unlimited. Even though the email said it would add time to my existing subscription. That caused it to cancel my Unlimited Pro subscription and no way to go back to the trial of Pro I had. Customer support wouldn’t fix it either.
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