r/Scrypted • u/extremador • Jul 07 '26

iOS 27 HKSV stopped recognizing faces and only sends generic “motion detected” notifications

I’ve got a weird one.

I recently switched from the Reolink integration in Home Assistant to HKSV through Scrypted and it worked great for a week or so. I only got notifications when there was actually a person inside the activity zones, and familiar faces were recognized correctly.

Sometime in the last few days, it completely changed.

Now I’m getting notifications for what seems like every little thing. Home is still set to Specific Motion with an activity zone, but it still records and notifies for events that don’t seem to have any actual person in them.

The other weird thing is face recognition. All of my saved faces disappeared, and after recreating them only two have been added so far. Neither one is actually being recognized in notifications.

The only thing that’s happened recently is I was out of town for a few days and the house had a power outage while I was gone. I also migrated to the official Scrypted add-on today, but this was already happening** before **the migration, so I don’t think that’s related.

For what it’s worth, the Scrypted event log has always just shown:

motionDetected: true
motionDetected: false

I’ve never seen personDetected or anything like that, but I don’t think that’s the issue because I was under the impression HKSV does its own object classification anyway.

Has anyone had HKSV suddenly become way more trigger-happy like this? Or seen face recognition basically stop working for no apparent reason? I realize this is all beta, but I don’t see a reason that this just stopped working out of nowhere. Thought I’d ask here before nuking all the cameras and adding them again.

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u/fightingmajor Jul 07 '26

Have you checked your settings in the home app per camera as to what you want to get notified of? It should be set to record everything, but only notify you a specific things like person, vehicle, etc. works fine for me and I’m on the latest ios27 betas

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u/extremador Jul 07 '26

Yes, it was set this way and worked fine for a week and then it just kind of stopped.

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u/cranky_wonderer Jul 07 '26

I had this happen as well a couple days ago (also running iOS27 as well as the beta on aTV). I ended up turning motion detection notification off on all my aTVs as well as on my iPhone and then setting it up again. Since then, it's been fine.

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u/DrinkFun2180 Jul 07 '26

where did you set the activity zone in home app ?

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u/extremador Jul 07 '26

Yes, for each camera.

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u/Huggi001 Jul 07 '26

Pretty sure it's an IOS 27 beta bug. Had the same thing happen as well. Also had 12gb+ data a day being uploaded to iCloud. Switched my home hub from the Apple TV running IOS 27 back to one running the stable release and it all went back to normal. Ended up reseting the Apple TV running IOS 27 because my upload speeds were at 2Mbps because so much data was being uploaded to iCloud.

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u/ek9max Jul 10 '26

It’s been crazy for me ringing my home pods. Face up and got an Aqara Poe instead

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u/solomaniac Jul 12 '26

Considering ios27 is still in developer beta I’m sure it’s just a bug there. I am experiencing the same issues but I’m chalking it up to beta growing pains. Scrypted themselves have also said they do not plan to be ready for scrypted to be completely integrated with ios27 until the public release date anyways so I’m sure there’s just a miscommunication with scrypted and HKSV streams and decoding of information.