Motion tagging is turned off. The cat is moving towards the camera. When I switch over to the SD card, I can see the entire video, no gaps.
I’m skeptical, but I’ll try changing the sensitivity. It’s set to 50 at the moment.
The motion tagging can just help you see when the cam is/is not registering motion. My OGs on the default setting won’t pick up the rabbits in my yard, but if I crank it up to 100 they will. Each cam model has a bit different sensitivity, 50 on one may not correspond to 50 on another model.
Is your SD card set to continuous or events only? I believe on the one I have that is events only, it always records a minimum 30 seconds or so no matter what (or maybe its 15), where cloud events stop when the motion stops (or shortly after). Though I don’t have a subscription so I can’t confirm that, but that’s what I’ve seen others describe.
I turned off motion tagging because earlier it was said that the motion tagging might have been a cause of the problem. I’ll turn it back on. I have all of my SD cards set for continuous recording.
Now I’ll have to wait for that cat/raccoon/possum/squirrel to make another appearance.
Thanks for your suggestions. It’s greatly appreciated. 
I think we were al throwing ideas out, I don’t think motion tagging was ever part of it (but anything that put extra load on the cam made sense to disable, as it did seem to be the cam getting overloaded). Should be fine to turn it back on.
You can try bumping the sensitivity up, if it is too high and you’re getting false alerts, turn it down some, if still not sensitive enough, turn it up some. I have one OG that faces downward from below my front door, the detection zone is just my steps, and the sensitivity is at 100%. Rarely get a false positive. That’s my “package detector” cam so I know when Fedex tosses a box from 20 feet away. Lower sensitivities won’t pick that up. And occasionally a rabbit will decide to see if there is anything of interest on my steps and leave me a photo.
One thing I really like about the OGs is they did some tweak to make them ignore lighting changes, and now those are the only cams I have that won’t trigger when headlights wash across the detection zone. My v4 with the sensitivity turned down to like 30 triggers on them every time and any less than that and it misses useful stuff.
Today (2/21/26):
- First cat detection, 6:17pm, 21 second video
- Second cat detection, 9:50pm, 3 second video
The cat passed by my window pretty much the same way, yet the second event was usual 3 second recording.
Did you watch the motion tagging box to see if it stopped or was only there very briefly?
Maybe turn it on continuous recording so you can see how long it is actually detecting motion.
On the short event video, the tagging box stopped after the cat walked through about 1/3 of the frame. When I accessed the SD card, the tagging responded the entire time the cat was in the detection zone. Weird.
The sensitivity was set at 75. Bumping it up to 90.
This morning, I walked past the camera twice and both times, it only recorded a 3 second clip. I walked past it a third time and there was no detection at all. 
Regarding all of the different cameras (v2, v3, v4, OG, etc.) you’d think that the detection firmware would be rather similar, yet the detection with the OG has been problematical. 
Given that it records to the SD card fine, I’m almost wondering if this could be a connectivity/wifi issue back to the wyze servers.
You may want to try the “reset services” on the cam, just note you’ll need to re-set your detection and notification options after.
Are you streaming this Cam OG in Web View at any time when you experience this? I still haven’t seen that question answered here, and that’s the one thing that comes to mind (as I noted above) when you continue to mention seeing 3-second recordings.
Nope, I’ve never done any streaming. All the 3 second event recordings are after the fact.
I’ll try resetting the services on the OG.
Now that I think of it, I have another OG pointed towards my backyard and I’ve haven’t had a dropped or short event recording ever. That said, I don’t have any animals roaming back there since I installed a new fence.
Thanks for answering that. I wondered if what you’ve described is related to that other issue I linked above (and I don’t know if that one has ever been resolved) because of the 3-second thing, but now I’m on track with what @dave27 has been asking about, like an issue with services, sensitivity settings, or something else. 
Here’s an interesting turnaround: After bumping up the sensitivity to 90, my OG caught/tagged a 15 second event of a cat passing by AND a 14 second event of a raccoon passing by. 
BUT when I walked past the OG on three different occasions, ALL three events were only three seconds long. 
Go figure.
Did you walk by quickly 
Have you tried doing the “reset services” on the cam? You’ll need to re-configure the detections and notifications you want but that only takes a few seconds.
Nope. I walked by, stopped for a moment, turned around and walked back. Maybe I should’ve crawled on my hands and knees? 
I reset the services the day before, after I read your post.
Yesterday, I casually walked by my OG on three different occasions and all three had three second event recordings. Each time I was tagged, but that was it. No animal detections.
Could it potentially be a signal/bandwidth issue? I would think that would cause no detection at all but maybe it has just enough to start uploading then loses it?
Are you able to bring it in near your router somewhere and do some tests to see if it behaves better? Or maybe move the router closer to where it is / use an extender to test.
The no detections occurred after I bumped the sensitivity to 100 from 90. Reverting back to 90 to see what happens.
Regarding the router, the OG (sensitivity @ 50) that’s pointed towards my backyard is further from my router and I haven’t had any connection/detection issues at all. Same for my v3 set outside of my garage and the v4 set at my front window. It’s purely on the OG set at my side window.
Keep in mind distance is not the only factor with wifi. On 2.4ghz you could have a bluetooth device nearby that is causing interference, or a neighbor has something closer to that cam, etc. Even a USB3 connected device in the area can interfere with 2.4ghz wifi.
So don’t rule it out based on distance, or even based on “bars” or signal strength.
Over the weekend, I walked past the OG and each time the event recording was only three seconds. A cat and possum passed by on two different occasions and the recording was 22 and 17 seconds, respectively. I think signal strength is not the issue here.