Note: I haven’t specifically tested any of this yet, but I have many of these, and install them for clients as well. So, I will be getting to this shortly.
In the meantime, as I understand it…
Notifications on Person Detection (NOT on motion-only)
How it works is that it begins recording on motion, and once that starts, it examines the recording to figure out if there is a person present in the motion event that triggered the recording.
It is possible to configure the system to only send notifications when it determines a person has been detected (and to specifically NOT send notifications when it simply detects motion).
At first, this may seem to be a good solution, but…
Security Drawback
Unfortunately, due to a built-in delay between initial motion being detected, recording being triggered, and when it times out, and is open to further detection, if we have it configured to only send notifications when a person is detected, that means that (and this is an example directly out of their user forum), if a car drives up in the driveway (which would be detected as motion, but NOT get sent as a notification), and then a person gets out, even though they would normally be detected as a person, in this case, there will be no notification sent at all, unless they are still there, in the driveway, or walking up the sidewalk after the timeout.
Wyze knows about this issue, and I assume they will make some sorts of modifications to their system to ‘fix’ it at some point, but no idea on timeline for anything on this.
Here are links to a couple relevant threads in their forum…