I respect your preference, though I it is not mine. I definitely strongly prefer cool white for my outdoor lights and all my indoor lights during the daytime. I only like warmer lighting for my indoor lights in the evening/night. I would be upset if they didn’t allow cool lighting at all. I can see more clearly and it makes me feel better/happier throughout the day to have such good light.
Studies have shown that it actually improves mood (happier), improves/increases productivity and focus/attentiveness, feeling energized, less eye strain, etc. This is why warm lighting indoors is better at night, so that your body starts to calm down and get ready to sleep. Cool lighting is also great for security, which is a big reason for this thing existing. I would also prefer for intruders to be “shocked” with cool lighting.
But I totally get your rationale of wanting it to be relaxing, especially if you are not really using the floodlights for security purposes as much as a convenience for yourself when you are outside, or respecting your neighbors. That is actually quite admirable. And you said you want it to be more relaxing, and you are totally right that warm temperatures are much more relaxing, so with that being your priority, I totally understand. I appreciate you helping me understand from that perspective. I have raised this issue in the AMA, asking about why they didn’t support warm lighting and whether they’re consider offering something we can put on the lights to filter it to a warmer color for those who prefer that.
Well, just like how annoying those cool white bright headlights on cars are, so it outside home lighting. It’s just too blinding, when it doesn’t need to be. And back in the day outside lights were never like that and were just fine for home security. Warmer temperature light is just more soothing, just like fireplace lighting. It doesn’t put me to sleep and if the brightness off warm LED light is increased I can see things just fine. But with an adjustable temperature light, it could normally be a warm light and then when an intruder actives it, it then brightens up to a cool white to shock him. That would be the best thing for me.
I disagree that cool white light has less eye strain, at least for me, it burns my eyes. But why would you want or have cool lights on during the daytime outside? Maybe I missed something.
But as you’ve said at least now with this new floodlight it will be easier to add a filter, to warm the light up a bit.
Sorry, I just poorly worded it, I meant to simply say I prefer cool lights outside (not during the daytime, just whenever I do use lights outside). And then as a completely separate thought: I like cool lights indoors during the daytime and then warm at night. So instead of wording it this way (I also forgot a comma which added to the confusion):
I definitely strongly prefer cool white for my outdoor lights and all my indoor lights during the daytime
I should’ve worded it this way for clarity:
I definitely strongly prefer cool white for all my indoor lights during the daytime. I also prefer cool white for my outdoor lights.
The “daytime” clause did not apply to my outside light use, and I had intended a comma to convey that, but it was not clear, and may not have been clear even if I had remembered the comma. Perhaps a semi-colon would have been more appropriate to break up the thought. My apologies for the miscommunication.
That’s a fantastic idea! I agree, that would be great! A missed opportunity. Again, I wonder what the cost increase would have been to have lights that support both.
We’ll see what the Product manager says about the temperature subject (both WHY they didn’t support it as well as whether they will offer a filter option to filter it to a warmer temperature). I did ask about it for you.
No doubt it’s all about the cost, as to why they didn’t include warm white. But it can’t be that much more. Heck, I’d pay extra for that option. I think a warm light temperature that could increased in brightness by a slider, then after its highest setting it turns to cool white or maybe two sliders, one for each color temperature. If they could do that I’d buy a few, maybe even more for gifts.
No, light control AI only has options for Person, Vehicle, or all motion. So if you want it to turn on for animals, just use all motion.
Note that Cam Plus will still allow separate event recording and notifications for pets, but it just won’t affect the lights for just pets.
Yes, the ambient lighting is adjustable and lets you select the brightness on a scale of 1 to 100.
You can also set the activating floodlight brightness to a different higher level when it detects a person/vehicle/motion. So you could have ambient lighting at like 20% and then have it turn on at 100% brightness when it detects a person, then switch back to 20% again when the person leaves.
For me it is a visual preference, I find nighttime warm light pleasing, and nighttime cool light to be very off-putting. I have tried filters on other outdoor lights, it just looks…off.
I have a few Wyze indoor bulbs that shift color temperature, I would loike that feature for the flood, so those who like the 5000k light can have that, and those who like a warmer look can adjust to that.
Exactly, constantly disconnecting and going offline is far from functional or acceptable. I wish Wyze would focus on fixing so many of their broken and glitchey product than release multiple iterations of the same thing, doorbells, floodlights, i guess it will be robot vacuums next…
This depends on what set it off. If another AI motion set it off, for example, a person, it will tag both person and vehicle. If the motion was set off by non-AI, tree branches, or shadows, it should not tag the vehicle.
Jason already answered this, but I asked this in the AMA and the PM responded, so I’ll include his answer too:
We actually added more logic to the AI computer vision algorithm to address your concern about Wyze Cam Floodlight Pro. Only moving AI objects will trigger motion detection. If there is a parked vehicle and no other moving AI objects are detected in the frame, the camera will not treat it as motion so you will not be notified. However, if there is a person walking in the frame plus there is a vehicle parked in view, the Motion Event will tag both the person and the vehicle. The notification will say that a person and vehicle have been detected by your camera. In short, the AI model on Wyze Cam Floodlight Pro only reports moving AI objects. But it will include static AI objects if motion is triggered by other AI objects in the frame.
Honestly, this alone almost makes it worth getting these floodlights for lots of people who have been wanting something to ignore the parked vehicles from other motion events.
You can always attach your own. Search for something like outdoor wired USB adapter. I know Spamoni4 helped someone else do that a while ago. Basically, you just wire it into the little wire caps while you’re setting up the floodlight. Depending how big your floodlight mounting box is and how small of an adapter you buy, you can probably even hide it entirely inside the mounting box. In that way, anyone can do this without forcing the extra cost on everyone who doesn’t want it.
We’ll have to have someone who does it, post a Tips & Tricks thread on what they did so others who want it can replicate this.
This is a really great camera for people who don’t have cam plus IMO since the onboard AI not only controls the lights, but also works for notifications and event tags.
Yeah, the AMA has so many awesome explanations. The PM has definitely convinced me that this is the best camera Wyze has ever made. I’m impressed with everything they did with the local AI on this thing, all for free without a subscription. In some ways it even works better than Cam Plus since it can ignore stationary objects like parked cars, which Cam Plus can’t currently do on the other cameras. That’s amazing.
I think some of us will just have to figure out a USB solution for those who need it, and then it will fit the needs for other people too, but I almost wish it was possible to buy this camera without the floodlights on it, just so I could put it in other places at a cheaper price.
Does anyone know if the Wyze Cam Floodlight Pro motion detection range of 30 feet is accurate? I’m hoping with 180 degree viewable that the range would be further.
Basically he says that it isn’t actually limited to 30 feet, but they say 30 feet because the local AI vision is where it is most accurate with a high confidence interval. So, it is possible for it to see and detect farther away, especially in good lighting, but it seems that they would rather under-promise and over-deliver in this case.
Based on the above, it seems a few different factors can affect how far away good detection will be, including things like the Lighting conditions (including whether it is daytime or nighttime and whether you have the brightness on your floodlights set to 100% and where the lights are pointing to --focused on the object in question, etc), and the Size of the object (it could obviously detect larger cars farther away than smaller people).
I was pleased to read confirmation that it isn’t actually hard-coded limited to 30 feet.
Just to follow up, I did ask about the warm temperature, and he answered, and as we both guessed, cost was the main reason:
I do not know much about LEDs, but I thought it was possible to have the same LED change temperature, since I think this is how things are done in LED lightstrips and LED Displays, etc. IDK, maybe those kinds of LEDs don’t get as bright or something and they were trying to maximize light coverage. Either way, it was a cost consideration. Just wanted to let you know that they answered.
Thanks for the follow up. But it’s interesting that they said it would have to have both cool and warm LED’s. Is that how their white bulbs worked? What about their color bulbs? Because both of them reach a similar temperature range. Either way I can’t see it being that much more expensive, maybe it was 10 years ago, but not now.
I thought of another option but doubt they can do it. What if they could let us control each of the 3 light panels separately, then I could put film over say two of the panels for warm light and just have those work normally, and leave the one (say the center) without film. Only the two panels with the film would be on normally and if a motion event was triggered then the center panel could also turn on, making the area much brighter. And actually, it could be one panel with the film and two without it. Unless there is a hardware limitation to doing this, I’d think it could be an east software update. Because this could also be useful for those that don’t want warm film over the floods.
I have raised this issue in the AMA, asking about why they didn’t support warm lighting and whether they’re consider offering something we can put on the lights to filter it to a warmer color for those who prefer that.
