Hello,
this is my first post, but I have noticed my camera is slow to capture people as well. Here is where my camera points and here is my detection zone. The black line is where it starts to record motion so I see the tops of heads. I have tried to increase sensitivity of the camera, but then it picks up leaves blowing by.
Is that where it will detect a person walking down the driveway or across in the direction of the arrow I drew.
I would turn the cam to the left a little more so the face of the cam is in the direction of the red line. Turn it a few degrees at a time and test it. PIR zone is very wide. If you don’t like it move it back. Detection is best when movement is across the PIR, not straight at the cam. I would also tilt the cam down a little. The video below from today is from one of my WCO, the face is pointed at the white SUV in the driveway to the left. The garbage truck is 53 feet from the cam.
Ok, I will give that a try. So to answer you question if Amazon parks out in the street. the black line is where it will first detect them. So by the time it activates I only get the top of their head. From how I have it set up it should detect them right below the mailbox right above your arrow so I can capture their face. I was going to mount it on the other side of the driveway so people would walk across it, but it is to far from the basestation. I couldn’t upload the video but the black line is where the top of the detection zone is. See how far he got before the video started recording.
You can test your delay by standing near the wco but out of view, then outside of the cool down, place your hand in view and wave back and forth 10 times. Wait for the motion alert and then count the amount of waves that you see. If you waved 10 times, but only 8 are shown? How long does it take you to wave twice? That’s the delay or wakeup time of the pir detection to camera start recording.
The space between the thin black line and the where the dude is standing is not to far apart and can be traveled fairly quickly at a brisk walking pace. Plus the walking ng route appears to be fairly straight at the camera, and like mention above, PIR doesn’t work as good if the subject is coming straight at the camera.
How can I eliminate the “time to wake”? I have videos showing new animal tracks in the snow but never see the animal. I would want to have camera on always and maybe just transmit starting at motion detection or a selectable # of seconds before.
Unfortunately for me, this “time to wake” delay is making the camera useless.
If your useing the wireless outdoor battery camera your out of luck,you need a V3
Like stated, If you want it always on camera, you’ll have to choose one that’s plugged in the power like the V3.
The time to wake is related to the “sleeping” that the the wco does and between the pir detection, camera wake up and start recording. .
Is the V3 rated for outdoor? If not, what is the option to use outdoor that does not have the lag?
V3 is outdoor rated, The supplied power adapter is not so you have to run a power from inside unless maybe you have a covered weather proof power outlet you can plug it into or use this option???
V3 Looks interesting. (not happy I bought outdoor though). However; outdoor came with a gateway that allowed it to work on my mesh network. I cannot isolate the 2.4 network from the 5. Does the V3 comes with a gateway or will it work in a mesh network?
All the Wyze cams use the 2.4 GHz network. There are tons of people here that use mesh routers (not me) so if you post the type and model of the router someone could tell you how to set up a V3 on it. The V3 connects directly to your wi-fi network no/base station/gateway involve, Make sure the area you want to put your camera has a good wi-fi signal directly from the router. You should look at the information and questions here.
https://support.wyze.com/hc/en-us/sections/360011231672-Wyze-Cam-v3
That is unfortunate. I thought that Wyze had a solution (gateways) to work around their limitations of only supporting the 2.4 network. The WOC and door lock currently use a gateway.
I have an Arris TG4482A router. Hopefully there is a reasonable solution to using the cameras with this.
Is that an ISP provided router by Xfinity? I looked at the manual for it but didn’t see anything I understood on how to get the correct network. It does have a 2.4 and a 5.0 network though. If someone here can’t figure it out tell the jackasses from Xfinity to do it. I have Xfinity but I have my own cable modem/router so I don’t have to deal with them and I don’t have to pay a rent fee to use it every month either.
It is an. Finite router and it does have both a 2.4 and 5 network. However; to avoid having to manually manage each separately and assign devices to each, you use the sam network name and password on each. It then automatically manages everything - ie a mesh network.
My son had an Ecco mesh and we tried multiple Wyze cameras with difficulty. Wyze tech support advised to have Ecco shut off the 5 network, then connect the camera, then have Ecco turn it back on. That was unacceptable.
We returned the Wyze cameras. Nest was pricey but they just work.
I’m late to this but I have an Echo mesh network and I do the “turn off 5, add smart devices on 2.4, then turn 5 back on again” all the time for all sorts of things (light bulbs, sockets) and it works fine. the time that the 5 network is turned off is only a matter of minutes.
