When your camera is not in “night vision mode” (when your picture is in color), you need visible light in the area to see. When your camera goes into night vision mode (black and white image), your camera can also use the IR lights to illuminate the area.
This camera is in night vision mode, and is using the IR illuminators to lighten the scene. IRs are invisible to the naked eye.
This looks like "night vision mode is disabled here, and the shadows you see are from the moon light coming through the trees. To illuminate this scene you need a porch light on, or some flood light etc.
i believe us said these are same as ring and arlo cameras and cheaper. have u tried the other brands? and i also can not get the OG light to come on. it is set to auto, NOT manual, so its suppose to come on when motion detected. it is not. to many different settings on every different camera/ why dont they make them all the same
Turning off night vision does work to get color video at night but the image quality is inferior to the black and white. So I leave mine on auto. Black and white works better for me.
The main problem with Infrared mapping colors to visible light is a person dressed all in black can appear dressed to be all in white when the infrared reflection from their outfit is mapped to B&W. For that reason, I have opted to use only color night vision. Got to have an accurate description to relay to the police. They will probably not stop someone dressed in black if you told them they were dressed in white.
