I have a camV2 that makes a repetitive clicking noise at night. It will click 10 or 12 times then stop then again in a little while. I think it is turning the IR lights on and off randomly. Has anyone else had this happen?

That is the night vision filter moving in and out of position. A forum search for “click” yielded these (and more) [image] Camera CONSTANTLY clicking Cameras i have the wyze v2 camera and i have to say; so far i’m incredibly unhappy. i’ve restarted it HUNDREDS of times. i…

[image] mbernier: I think it is turning the IR lights on and off randomly. Has anyone else had this happen? It’s been happening with my cams since like forever. It is NOT the IR lights turning on and off. The click is from a mechanical assembly that moves an optical filter back and forth …

OK, I can understand that. Any notion how to make it stop? It wakes me.

Unfortunately there is an issue where the camera may switch between day & night modes many times before stabilizing. The only work-around for that is to either leave it in day or night mode, or manually switch between them.

You can stop the twilight clickity-click noise by setting Night Vision Mode to either OFF or ON . The problem is that the Wyze implementation of AUTO mode is buggy - under some lighting conditions, it just can’t make up its mind and flip-flops the IR filter back and forth.

Yes, I see that now. Surprisingly, away from city lights, the clouds moving across the moon are enough to confuse it.

Did a google search specifically to see if anyone else was having this issue. I have 4 V2’s and have never rnoticed this issue. I moved one into my son’s room about a month ago. Just last night my wife told me that the camera in his room was clicking non stop. I tried turning IR lights OFF, but …

[image] Mos_Jeff: Wondering if I need to contact support as I have never noticed this on any of my cameras before. Jeff, There’s no harm in contacting Support. Another affected (unhappy) Customer chiming in about the clickity-click defect will help keep the issue on their radar, and perhaps …

Sometimes the constant clicking is a camera that is going through constant reset cycles due to problems with the SD card (corrupt, or needs formatting). If there’s and SD card in it, try taking it out to see if the clicking stops.

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Newshound October 9, 2019, 1:28pm 9

Repeated flipping between night & day mode is pretty common, unfortunately. We had their attention on the issue for a few minutes, but I haven’t seen any new activity in a couple months now. It is a defect in the firmware that they are aware of.

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