Several newbie questions about Floodlight cam and Wyze cam V3

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@carverofchoice

I hope that helps answer your questions regardless of whatever you choose to do

Thank you for the very detailed answers! After writing all of the questions, I continued to read other comments in the forum and I’d almost written this choice off. Your answers have put these units back into my top contenders

I have a couple of followup questions.

@carverofchoice

Yes, though the Floodlight also has PIR sensors and you can actually have the PIR sensors control the lighting instead of the camera motion detection triggering it (ie: the floodlights only turn on when they sense something with moving heat instead of any kind of motion on the cam such as branches, leaves, in the wind, etc). You can also set it to require BOTH heat and motion to trigger, which further reduces false triggers.

Do you have experience with the PIR sensors and find they work well, particularly when both heat and motion are used to trigger events? I certainly want all human events captured but don’t want a bunch of false triggers.

@carverofchoice

1- Even without a Cam Plus subscription you can use the Events tab to find where motion was detection and tell the camera to jump to that exact location on the SD card Playback. This makes it easy to find where you want to look on the SD card. Then if you want to rewind a little to see what happened just before this or keep watching longer, it is easy to do so.

A read a couple of stories in the wishlist section of the forum for Fast Forward/Rewind (Fast Forward/Rewind (and other scrubbing alternatives) In SD Card Playback - #719 by carverofchoice) where people were having so much trouble locating footage that they gave up and that concerned me. But re-reading those cases was more about locating animal activity that may not have triggered an event vs the case that I’d care about with a human triggered event. In my cases, your description of the way it works should be fine for me, though I can see benefit of FF. Thanks for these particular details.

Is the Events tab, that you speak of, in the app?

@carverofchoice

9- Sorry, I haven’t tested in the negatives, we’ll hope someone else answers that.

I think I may post a focused question on that. Surely there is someone out there that has experience with cold weather.

Thanks again for your detailed help. It is very much appreciated!