Wyze Product Release - 8/26/2025

[Crease]

@ronl4625

The Pan Control is basically worthless if a few seconds after you get to your destination the unit “goes home”. This is with Smart Track and Pan Scan turned off. This is the deal killer for me as it negates a basic feature of the unit.

I think that’s a real issue, and it’s annoying. Hopefully that’s something they’ll address in a future firmware update. I personally find this particularly frustrating when I want the camera to be in a certain position to make the microSD card slot accessible and don’t want to manually (as in moving it with my hands) position the camera, following guidance from Wyze:

One kind reminder: for the calibration to stay effective, please avoid manually moving the camera position or forcing the rotate of the camera by hand.

That’s why I’ve started temporarily setting a new Home Waypoint to accomplish this:

@Crease

Regarding your specific request, one thing that’s actually kind of cool about Cam Pan v4 is that the Home Waypoint can be whichever Waypoint you want it to be (it doesn’t have to be the #1 position), and changing takes only 3 quick taps (one tap to select which Waypoint you want to be Home, one tap to the Home icon to reassign it, and one tap to confirm the selection). I find this helpful when I want the camera pointed in a certain position to make the microSD card slot more accessible for easy card insertion/removal without manually manipulating the camera’s position, and setting a temporary “Home” Waypoint this way prevents the camera from timing out and automatically tracking back to whatever Home position was previously set.

I’d really like to see Wyze develop this as a separate feature, though: Have a user tap of the “eject” button in the app also position a Pan camera (to a user-defined position based on however the user has the camera mounted) to make the microSD card slot accessible and freeze the camera in that position until the card is ejected and the user confirms that the flap covering the slot is closed. I haven’t seen this suggested elsewhere and have a note to write this up as a Wishlist request but haven’t yet done that.

@ronl4625

There also appears to be a bug in the Pan Cam Controls.

If that setting isn’t surviving a reboot, then I’d definitely log it and submit that to Wyze. That sounds like a legitimate bug if it’s repeatably behaving as you describe.

@raym64

One thing I did notice is that like the standard V4, it still can’t be added to Home Monitoring. I was hoping by now they would have been able to add the V4 and now the Pan V4

Per the Reddit AMA, Cam Pan v4 is expected to be added to Home Monitoring System in the future:

Pan v4 will support Home Monitoring System (HMS). Integration work is in progress and is expected to be available in the next app release, targeted for mid-October.

Another user mentioned (non-Pan) Cam v4 when asking about HMS, but I didn’t see that addressed in the AMA.