You’re lucky. I had to turn the sensitivity on one Cam Pan down to 8 this morning, and after doing that I still got over 80 notifications where NOTHING was moving. The other Cam Pan correctly identified one person on the front walkway, but four other people strolled by the camera throughout the day, and it didn’t even trigger a motion notification (this was working the past couple of days, even though it was being hyper sensitive even set on sensitivity 5). Has Wyze posted anything anywhere that indicates that they’re working on this?
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I’ve seen absolutely nothing that indicates anything. The one person working with me from Wyze suggested flashing the device back to a previous firmware, but, to me it seems that would eliminate person detection, period. And that seems “less than helpful”. I’m considering reaching out to the writer on CNET who recently posted an article on the best inexpensive cameras and asking if they actually tried the current Wyze cam, because it seems to me they actually didn’t. (Maybe getting some additional eyes on this, especially if they write for the industry seems like it might get some traction).
Slightly off topic, the Wyze outdoor cam seems to have nearly the opposite problem. I have ours nearly cranked up to 100% on both (distance 100% and image sensitivity at 90%), and it still sometimes only starts recording after something has literally physically touched the camera. (Squirrel, bird, human. It’s a bit hit and miss, but it CERTAINLY isn’t overly sensitive.)
I don’t know why my rating is 4 star, I’ll change that to a two. Here’s my honest review on Amazon.
Still getting anywhere from 10 to 50+ recording a day of nothing, but as an added bonus person detection isn’t working at all now.
Now as an added extra special bonus, video from the Wyze Cam Pan doesn’t play. If an event is detected, and you access the app either through the alert (person detection is the only allowed currently) or directly accessing the app and access Events, no events recorded via the Wyze Cam Pan play, regardless of what you do to them. So now I can’t even tell if the events it records even capture people, although still nearly nothing is ever marked as capturing a person. (Even if there was a person in the video.)