9/28/2023 0 Comments Garage motion sensor lightThese types of power supplies are notorious for generating spurious RF signals. It’s a long shot, but a small change in the frequency emitted by the camera might reduce the RFI impact on the lights.Īnother source of nearby EMI is the Wyze USB power supply, which I suspect is located very close to the motion-detect light. Most consumer routers/APs have an option to let you manually select the channel (between 1 and 11) to be used. Here’s something you could try - change the WiFi channel used by your WiFi access point. It’s plausible that the WiFi signals (in the 2.4 GHz band) are the culprit, though the electronics in the camera will be radiating at various other frequencies. As OverWatch indicated, the camera is a WiFi transmitter. But it will also reduce the sensitivity of the motion does sound like the interference is EMI (not IR) from the camera interfering with the motion-detect lights. That might reduce the amount of the camera’s IR that’s getting into the PIR. You could try masking a portion of the cover (the part nearest to the camera) with some electrical tape. The cover might be molded with some ridges and grooves so that it functions as a sort of ‘wide-angle’ lens at IR wavelengths. The PIR detector is probably hidden behind a translucent white plastic cover on the front of the motion light. Are there any surfaces nearby the installation? It’s possible that the IR from the camera is reflecting off a nearby surface (soffit, wall, downspout, etc) and bouncing back into the PIR detector. About all you can do is separate the two. It would seem that the IR energy being emitted by the camera is being picked up by the PIR detector in the garage light. The Wyze camera sensor is responsive to IR wavelengths, and thus can ‘see in the dark’, thanks to the IR illumination. The Wyze camera has a number of IR emitters blasting out a lot of IR energy when it’s in night mode. The PIR detector needs to be pretty sensitive so that it can detect the weak IR radiation coming off a warm body dozens of feet away. IR is basically heat, so the garage light is triggered when the PIR detector ‘sees’ a warm body in front if it. The light unit contains a PIR detector which is responsive to IR energy coming from moving objects in its field of view. Your motion-triggered garage light uses a technology known as PIR (passive infrared). I don’t understand how the camera operates, but I assume that its broadcasting IR and the IR receiver on the motion light is picking that up. More testing: When the lights first came on i waited for them to go off and then opened the app, as soon as the camera connected the lights went on. I do have it set to record continuously to a installed sd card. I tried turning night vision off, and motion capture off. The sensor part looks over the driveway and the camera does the same. Motion sensor light is very basic and does not respond to sound. I think it has something to do with the IR or something the camera puts out that the light is tripping on. This is the best place to put a camera at my house and i like the motion lights so i’d like to keep them. I know its the camera thats causing this because before the 5 days it was doing this, so i removed the camera for a test period. This happened all night, on off, on off, back and forth. I plugged the camera back in and every few minutes or whenever the light was ready it would turn on. For those 5 days the light didn’t come on unless a physical object moved in front of it. For 5 days I didn’t have my camera plugged in, (which I have mounted directly over the light). I have a motion sensor light over my garage door that has a IR triggered motion sensor.
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