That is the most likely scenario based on how most of them work. The power to the camera will be cut out by the floodlight.

It will take the camera some time to boot up, but before the camera finishes booting up and determines the situation at hand, it is possible that your floodlight will cut the power to the socket again, and the camera won’t be able to save recordings or decide what to do about motion. In this case, the Wyze socket will not function properly because the floodlight will cut all power to the socket, making it so the camera cannot get any power to record or see anything, and thus not function at all until the floodlight sensor thinks there is motion, then it will turn on the socket and the socket will turn on the light and the camera. Some things like that can make a difference.īut in most cases, it’s likely your floodlight has a sensor which cuts off all power to the bulb socket when there is no motion and only turns it on when it senses motion. I have also had floodlights where the bulbs themselves had some kind of motion sensor in the tip of the bulb and so the bulb itself did the detecting. There are a few possibilities and depends on how the existing floodlight detects motion…for example, I have had floodlights that have their own PIR sensor that then turns on the regular floodlight bulbs if it detects something.

Motion sensor outdoor light adapter