Please note, Smart Detections are available with Premium Service only, click here to find out more.
Smart Detections uses computer vision to detect people, pets (cats and dogs only at this time), and vehicles within your video. Through this feature, you can customize your video and alert preferences to decide whether you want to see video and alerts for all motion, people, pets and/or vehicles only, or have them suppressed.
Navigate to Modes and Motion Alerts within the app to customize your Canary experience.
For example, you can set your device to record only people, and send alerts of only people too. You can also set your device to record people and pets, but not vehicles. With this configuration setting, your timeline will be less cluttered, and you will receive fewer, more personalized alerts more tailored for your needs..
Smart Detections are only available on Canary devices that are running firmware version 7.2.0 or above.
Why are my pets sometimes detected as people?
Smart Detections uses advanced computer vision algorithms to identify people in your video and send you alerts. Sometimes, pets are incorrectly detected as people (vice versa). We’re continually fine tuning our algorithms to improve Smart Detections accuracy, reducing false alerts, while providing you with security you can trust. You can share videos with Canary to help us to improve our services by tapping on the Provide feedback button on the video entry.
What is the yellow rectangle on the timeline?
The yellow rectangle on the thumbnail of your timeline video represents where Canary's algorithms identified some type of movement triggered by a person, pet, or vehicle.