#Plug in outdoor motion sensor light plus

Similarly, you can use a Wyze Outdoor Cam and have it’s PIR sensor trigger to turn the lights on, and have a timer of some kind turn the lights back off after X amount of time of the lights being on.Īnother option is if you have cam plus you can have the camera only turn the lights on when it detects a person, then have a timer turn the lights off after X amount of time of the lights being on.Īs a timer to turn the lights off automatically, some people use a Wyze plug. That works pretty well for several situations. Any time the sensor detects new heated motion (so a person, etc) the light turns on, once there has been no motion for X consecutive minutes, I have it shut the lights back off. I use this method on several of my lights. As stated, you can use a PIR based motion sensor to determine whether to have lights on or off. Therefore, using rules to turn lights on or off based solely on camera motion detection is probably not going to be a viable integration for at least a while. Unfortunately that fix hasn’t been extended to other devices as far as I’m aware. I haven’t tested the sockets yet, but I understand they work this way too, especially since they allow you to set a timer to turn the lights off after X minutes without the cam detecting motion. They must have figured out a solution for this.

I set my floodlight cam to only turn on the light at night when the camera senses motion, and magically it is not turning the lights back on every time the lights turn off. I tested this issue with the new Wyze Flood light and I am happy to say that somehow Wyze seems to have fixed this looping issue. Every time the light turns off, the camera says there is motion and turns the light back on in a loop ad-infinitum. That means that anytime your light turns on or off, the camera will think that is motion and this will cause it to trigger your “turn on the light” rule. Light vs shadow vs different shades will cause enough pixels on the screen to change to trigger a motion detected scenario. It will also be triggered by…yep, lighting changes. This certainly works to detect all motion, but that is not technically all that it detects. What it is detecting is enough pixels change between one frame and the next. The cameras “motion detection” isn’t actually really detecting motion. There are some potential solutions, but part of the main problem here is how the wired cameras (and most cameras in general) currently work to detect motion using pixel recognition instead of PIR.

Plug in outdoor motion sensor light