Bumping because we have the exact same issue and it’s super frustrating. What good is catching cars passing by if we can’t get an alert for someone entering our driveway (other than us backing out)?!

Hey neighbors! The best way to fine-tune motion detection is through trial and error. As each environment differs from the next and areas can change from day time to night time, it's best to make adjustments to settings until motion is working as desired. Many neighbors find use out of the sensitivity slider and the "people only" setting. This will assist if vehicle traffic is setting off motion too often. I recommend also using all 3 available zones to draw. Having multiple zones versus one big zone can emphasize movement across each zone. Keep in mind not to overlap any zones as this could affect detection as well. I hope this helps! :)

I certainly understand trial and error. We've been doing exactly that. It still doesn't address the situation where the motion is detected when we back out of the garage, but it's not detected when we pull into the driveway. Both actions are within the zone.

Agreed. I don’t mind that it picks up vehicles passing - I personally want that - and I have all my zones enabled with the range bubble well exceeding where I want motion picked up in my driveway. The ring doesn’t seem to “see” any vehicle pulling into the driveway, regardless of how sensitive and how large a field I choose.

If you have People Only mode turned on it only detects people and not cars (unless people get out of cars)

Exact same issue! My wife leaves for work it goes off. When she comes home nothing. She opens the garage doore and pulls in, no alerts. I can walk to the mailbox from the front door and the door bell cam will go off and spotlight cam driveway will as well. when you walk back up nothing. While I appreciate the updates and new technology... I don't want to be the test monkey at the expense of my protection. These updates should work when rolled out. IMO I should note they did work prior to all of the updates so if the RING advisors could let us know how to manipulate the new settings that would be great. I have tried all kinds of different adjustments with no luck.

Hey @KP6Five and @Babw. Have you tried playing around with your Motion Wizard settings? Sometimes you need to readjust these every so often to ensure the configuration is up to date and as it should be. In addition, do you have motion frequency set to frequent or standard? Sometimes on standard, if there was a recent motion event, the next motion event that may follow right after it may not happen since the device has been "snoozed" from a recent event triggering it on. I say to play around with the Motion Wizard settings, test our new motion verification (on or off) if you have it available, and turning your Motion Frequency to frequent!

Hi my Ring doorbell pro was working perfectly i had the zones set up to cover the area needed and put it on people only mode. It would pick up everything n the area selected for example people walking past or up to door and cars pulling up too plus when somebody opened front door etc. Since the app locked me out of my phone and tablet about 10 days ago motion detection barely works anymore. It misses most people coming to door so pointless as a security doorbell now.

I am having the same issues. I have the zone set to the end of my yard and I see alot of things where people are running thru it, etc. And it used to go off then I had this issue with it kicking me out of my account and now that I'm back in it only goes off half the time.

Same issues. I work off the battery and I was working fine for about 8 month then they updated the software and now it will detect a car a long way off down the street moving but nothing at the doorstep. I have all the settings set to minimum and it still triggers falsely. Originally Ring swapped out my bell saying it was because my battery was playing up. Didnt make any difference initially but meanwhile they updated the software a week later and I was back to a few weeks. Last update took me right back to the start. I think they know there is an issue but they are unwilling as they want to keep rolling out the new functions and want to get people to install direct wired. The problems not as simple as that as the flaws are in the detection as you all mention.

I saw this, and _had_ to reply! There have been times when we could not determine what set off the alert. But with your post about shadows from branches or clouds passing overhead, I'm sure that's what it was on the occasions we couldn't see anything else. Yesterday, I forgot to take it off People Only mode before I left the house in the early afternoon to run an errand. While it alerted when I pulled out of the garage to leave, it did not alert when I pulled into the driveway and garage upon returning. That's when I checked and saw that I forgot to take it off People Only. So, going back to one of my original questions: The system sees my car pulling out of the garage as a person and therefore alerts. But, it doesn't see my car pulling into the driveway or garage as a person? Strange. And repeating myself, the reason we even have it on People Only after dark is that otherwise, it will pick up the headlights of every passing car. Having to switch the mode twice a day - every day - is tiresome and sometimes I forget.

Yes! Same thing happened with my Ring as well. It picks up cars going by but will not pick up cars pulling in my driveway; however, it did pick up my wife’s car backing out of the garage yesterday. The bad thing is that the street is NOT in the detect zone but my driveway is! I’ve been tweaking the motion zones and moving the motion sensitivity up and down and just when I think it’s working it does the same crap. What’s the purpose of configuring all these zones when it does the opposite of what you want it to do?