@Wayne-TP Hey. 

Yes indeed the motion tracking feature returns to original home spot after 20 seconds, however  you should be allowed to select only one of the markers and give one of them a home marker, this means the camera will return to this position if they have changed the angle with the controller and left. In my case I want it to point back at the front of the garden. This means the camera will always be recording what I want, and track the right things. For example, if my family member used the camera and decided to point it at just a brick wall behind it, then I would have to go back into the app and fix it to point in the right direction as they have left the app and not fixed it after using it or having fun with it. 

About the rain droplets, I have clicked on the front view marker as illustrated by the blue arrow, and it is significantly lower after a rough night of rain, well I don't know if it's the force of the rain, or the constant tracking, but the microphone does get impacted during the rain creating a horrible loud sound of the motors, but seems to get fixed up when the camera dries up. 

As stated the camera view only fixed when calibrated in the settings. 

I don't think it's even just rain which uncalibrates it, it's just general usage of the tracking feature which seems to make it point slightly in the wrong direction after a while.

  @Wayne-TP 

Any idea if this is being worked on? The biggest issue is the camera uncalibrating itself constantly, I believe it has links to do with motion tracking, I have to calibrate it multiple times a day for it to point in the right marker direction. Thanks. 

  @Wayne-TP Hey,

I think I have figured out the issue with the lens not returning to the right position, I don't think this is an issue with just the rain but also markers, and controlling it, as it seems like the camera doesn't 100% always know it's correct position on a certain factor.

VIDEO (upload keeps failing to tp link site) samsung link

https:/ /quickshare.samsungcloud.com/uJoBHSI4wXDt

As you can see in the video at first the FRONT marker is in the right positiom, as it's just slightly above the bin's lid on the top video of the preview, this is where I had originally put saved the marker.

However, if I tilt all the way down, and try to return to this FRONT position afterwards we can see that that the lens drops below bin.

This is only fixed afterwards if I tilt all the way up and then press the FRONT marker, then it's in the right position.

But with the rain I think this increases the tilt for it to be more incorrect, since its constantly moving around and maybe somehow losing its callibration.

During heavy rain the camera angles 100% never return to the correct angle, I don't have a video to try to find the moment this happens as the app video time line is extremely annoying to use since there is 0% precision, and no thumbnail previews whilst trying to look through the footage quickly, but the issue is just presented in the camera not knowing always where it is as seen in the video.

  @Adamx 

Interesting what you are saying about rain drops triggering the motion.  I've just got a 510W and suffering badly at the moment with bugs at night triggering the detection and I've had read things about rain doing the same, but not experienced any rain yet

  @Paddy99 

Here the exact same thing... What are your motoindetection settings? Because my C500 has recorded almost the whole night because of some rain en mostly bugs which the camera tries to follow.... Even some AI person detection which obviously aren't persons...

  @Smogie 

I've got mine motion sensitivity turned right down to 2 because otherwise it seems to ignore my activity zones and picks up our neighbours driveway and activity as well as cars on the main road above.  I still get it picking up at night but I think it's down to light reflections although I might try a level of 1 but that just seems crazy.

With regards to the bugs, they do appear to have stopped now although I did get a nice silhouette of a spide crawling over it the other day.  I don't seem to be affected by rain either.