Love the little V2 but if there could be enhancements it would be nice to be able to manually change the contrast and light during night vision as it is quite dark. Also, I find that not all movement gets an alert so I have mine on continuous recording. It would be awesome in playback if the bar could be marked when there was movement captured so when reviewing footage we could have starting points.

Hello @BB2865, you can vote for “Mark events in playback” feature to be added using this link, as for the first request you should create a wishlist request with the idea since I cannot find a similar request. [Edit: see below] [image] Mark Events In SD Card Playback In Progress It is difficult to find events when using continuous recording. Playback is one of the least customer friendly portions of the app due to the difficulty in finding important footage and the difficulty in selecting the correct start time. Marking the events will let people scroll past footage that they may not care about quickly without having to check. Best, WyzeGwendolyn

You can vote for the first part of your request here: [image] Add Exposure and focus point/area, and brightness and contrast level controls Maybe Later In order to avoid under exposing a room with a visible window (or similar high-contrast views) I’d love to be able to choose the area used for exposure calculation. For example, I’d have the cam exposure for the rest of the room and not a window or the top of a lamp or the like. For both #wishlist topics, be sure to click the VOTE button at the top.

I missed that one, thanks Loki :call_me_hand:t5:

I second the ability to do exposure compensation. In night mode, any bright background sources causes the autoexposure to severely darken the rest of the frame. I’m shooting through a window and can’t use the IR lights because of back reflections so there is no real solution. Thanks!

@Cativo Welcome to the Wyze community! Using an external illuminator is a great option for this problem. See post and info here. [image] External light source for night vision Power & Lighting I remember @rbruceporter had posted a pic of the one he used have in action. Check it out. It’s a 940 nm IR source. Absolutely no visible light and works great for the Pan camera. One in the 850 nm range would work for the V1 and V2 cams.

Thanks for the feedback, although a little pricey at 2X the camera price. I think I might experiment with segregating the IR Diodes with some kind of accordion barrier to allow adjustability. I also checked a different scenario with no bright sources and the image is still black so the camera is already aperture limited. The only way to get more exposure is through slower shutter speed, which will probably induce more motion blur, but motion blur is better than no image. Hopefully the team will take notice and provide a firmware update one day.

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@Cativo Welcome to the Wyze community! Using an external illuminator is a great option for this problem. See post and info here.

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