My Cam V3 Pro is mounted outside on the eve of the house. The camera is adjusted to limit the field of view to my yard and driveway (while excluding the road and neighbor across the street), The camera lens is clean.
I’ve noticed when an animal crosses the driveway about 12 to 15 feet from the camera; the focus, both as video and snapshot, is so poor that it is not possible to determine the type of animal. Cat, opossum, racoon or armadillo, the image is too poor to tell. Ditto for people walking in the same area. If the person was already known, they could not be identified from the video.
I bought the Cam V3 Pro because of the supposed improved image quality over the standard Cam V3.
I will be grateful if someone can offer a fix or even just confirm that the V3 Pro is just not a very good camera.
Is it blocky/square edged type issues? If so that is the camera’s compression. It is worse at night/low light, and more noticeable when something is moving side to side vs toward/away. The further away the worse it is.
You should check your wifi quality too, as low bandwidth will force the camera into lower resolution and/or lose data in the stream which makes things even worse. If you have an SD card, see if it is as bad on there, if not, then that points to wifi or possibly ISP issues.
Thanks for writing. On the larger computer screen, I’ll now guess that it is a racoon. (All the animals are welcome. It is just that knowing their habits helps me minimize inadvertent proximity to the dog.) Although moving generally left to right, the image seems more blurred than blocked to me. The camera indicates it is working at 2.5k and I’ll re-verify the number after dark. Although located outside, the camera no more than twenty feet from the router (but a masonry may be attenuating the signal.
I am running a dozen WYZE cameras (10 V3, 1 OG and 1 V3 Pro) on a nominal 300 Mbps WiFi network. Is it possible that the bandwidth constrains the resolution when the camera’s mode shifts from passive to active?
You’re competing with two things, low/uneven light and bugs moving in addition to the animal. A lot for the compression to deal with.
Masonry can definitely impact the signal significantly, but that doesn’t look to be the issue as the image is high res and motion is smooth.
These cameras support 75M wifi so that’s what you’re dealing with. 75M wifi is going to get at best 50M but that’s almost impossible, so 30-40 is more likely (could be a lot less depending on congestion and interference in your area). A single 2.5K Wyze cam takes somewhere between 2 and 3 megs, so only if you fired up multiple cams at once livestreaming would it probably start to hit limits.
But what you’re seeing there looks like purely compression to me. If it was bright and sunny or in nigh vision mode with no bugs flying around, the raccoon would have been more clear. The fact that it was moving perpendicular to the camera and fairly quick hurts you too.
One of the disadvantages of color night vision is that the quality of the image won’t be as good, it has to overexpose things, then compress that overexposed image.