hello I'mWanderer001 and despite the title it is not actually all
doom and gloom for Wyze cam or Wyze the company they did introduce a new AI
which will allow you to do person detection with your Wyze cam now this
is for Wyze cam version two and for the Wyze cam pan Wyze cam one sorry you're
out of luck but those are the breaks with a twenty dollar camera you can get
a new one not terrible now there was a lot of information that they put out
about the Wyze AI here in order for people's sense to be utilized I'm not
going to get into all of that you can go to Wyze official channel to check that
out but I will show you what it looks like on my Wyze cam version two so I'm
going to enlarge my camera here and just kind of get it back there so you will
have to do a firmware update in order to use the AI and you will now notice down
there in the corner it says Wyze actually here probably easier on the big screen
here it says Wyze and their partner for the AI so that's how you'll know that
you have updated your firmware and now have it so to add people detection or
person detection to your camera you come over to account and then you would come
over to firmware upgrade to make sure that your device is upgraded next you
come over to Wyze services and in my case I already have it turned on which
is why it looks like this so I would just select person detection and then I
can pick my cameras that I wish to have this happen on now if you were setting
this up for the first time there are several screens which I will flash up
here that will walk you through making sure that you upgrade your Wyze cam so
that you can have this service now coming back to the camera itself we
would go into our camera that now has person detection come up to settings and
under event recordings you can see detect motion
scheduled all-day notifications you now have person detection if you don't have
person detection turned on you would select it here and you still have the
choice for all motion if you want it I have found that it is between 80 to 85
percent accurate I had to do some tweaking in the detection zone so here I
turned up the sensitivity to high and then I did in fact keep the zone turned
on because I was having difficulties when it wasn't zoned actually picking up
and it still has a little trouble picking up stuff in this dark corner of
my house but I will say having person detection has cut down on the amount of
notifications that I get now so it's not notifying me every time something is
detected however there are not a hundred percent accurate and let me show you in
the event log so in the event log you will also now have a new button which is
filter out all the events except for ones that have people in them now coming
down and this is why I say it's only 85 to 80 percent accurate right now here is
a picture or a motion capture that it took of my cat that is not a person but
there also now is this help improve the AI so we can share this with Wyze and
say I saw a person I didn't see a person so this was not a person so it sends
that feedback I can also select for some of these darker ones because it has
problems right now with this dark region detecting me as a person it detects
motion perfectly fine but not people yet so there's a couple that I've gone
through and said this is a person this is a person to hopefully train the AI
for those darker areas now I will say if you do not have the person detection
turned on first so I have a bunch of ones back here from earlier this morning
of when a a maintenance guy came to do some stuff
around my house I did not have person detection on and you can see even though
there's a person there it's not label living labeling them as such so it
doesn't go back and real able things that are in the role already so it's
after you turn person detection going forward now I will say as a free service
this is an awesome add-on for a twenty dollar camera or the thirty dollar ish
pan camera and I really really like Wyze and I really like the ecosystem that
they're building which is why I am very concerned with this Wyze services
because one of the things that I had thought I grabbed a screen capture of
but did not was next to the person detection it labeled it as free which is
all well and good and even even the introductory video to the AI system has
specific wording that concerns me where it's Wyze is moving forward to offer
more services to our customers at a reasonable price so when I hear that I
think this services area and we're gonna get out of there because it's not
focusing very well is going to fill up with other services which is fine but at
a reasonable reasonable price concerns me because Wyze then turns from the
scrappy hardware company to a services company like ring or Microsoft now it
does sound like right now at least they're planning extra storage at a fee
now the AI is great at a fee but if you want more than person detection if you
want probably learn the people in your house and don't notify me when it's
these people there will be a fee for that I'm not saying that a company
shouldn't be making money I just AM concerned when a hardware company you
know scrappy hardware company that makes good quality cheap products starts
changing into a services company you you've tread a very fine line there and
I'm not saying it can't be done but there are a lot of other examples of
companies that have gone through this transition and they did not keep their
company mantra intact when they made the transition I really really hope for Wyze
Wyze the company their sake that they are able to do that but with the
introduction of these services I hope that they they do not forget their their
core buyer who helped them get to be as big as they are with these free services
and free add-ons I know you need to make money and hardware will only get you so
far please please PLEASE Wyze don't lose sight of what made you great because
once you do the next scrappy startup is gonna come along and eat your lunch
again I really like Wyze products in fact I'm
waiting for my sence and Wyze bulbs to come in and if you saw the video I did
of the plug that may or may not have been announced by now you know I I
follow this I love it I really want them to succeed please please please don't
lose sight I have been Wanderer001 if you have any questions or
comments please leave them in the area below and as always thanks for watching