How do I make the V4 cameras good?

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Thanks @peepeep
When I clicked on my post it did allow me to see the history and it did show that my entire post was replaced with the “post deleted” message, but I couldn’t edit it at all.

I think this is a message from Wyze saying we post way too much,

As for people who vent, I’ve dealt with ones who complain the loudest, but when they are willing to answer questions and implement workarounds, they do come around and become an ally.

One of these days I’ll replace a couple of my V3s with the new V4s I got, and do a comparison…

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Vent, fine. Insulting those that offer help, not fine.

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:+1:

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:laughing: I’ve been meaning to speak to you about that.

I often become closest to those I’ve had a good argument with. Aim for a *good one’ is the lesson, I guess.

Lol, sounds like me. I’ll look forward to it. :slight_smile:

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I noticed your deleted post was gone in like 24 hours. Maybe the AI art thread is taking up too much space on Wyze forum servers :laughing:

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Orangutans are skeptical of changes in their cages… :notes:

As are amphibians. :wink:

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I myself am very disappointed in the version 4. I just hooked it up in my three is clearer And it zooms better than the new version 4. No wonder they had a special on it. I am very disappointed

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Check and make sure it isn’t at 360P resolution. When I first installed mine it was at that (probably because my phone had a poor signal where I was working on it). At 2.5K it is better quality than both my OGs and the v3 and handles motion much better.

There is a known issue where the v4 will drop to 360 when signal is bad without telling you, and not bump back up until you tell it to. However the SD card recordings seem to stay at 2.5K no matter what.

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I have full signals, my camera is in The 2 K and it has a fair picture until you zoom. Before I’m out the camera in the picture showed zooming in on a license plate. It would have to be really close because it gets blurry. The night camera shot is brighter than the version 2… But I don’t think it is better than the three. It took me a while to figure out where to touch the screen to see what camera power was on. It is staying on the best… I’m just not that impressed.

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Tap the screen when you’re on the camera’s Live Stream page. There will be an overlay icon in the upper-left corner that you can tap to cycle through the 2.5K, HD, and 360p streaming options.

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Guess everyone’s experience is different. When I tested the v3 vs OG, the v3 had terrible ghosting/blur on any sort of motion, and if it rained, it was constantly blurry and blocky. OG picture was definitely better both still and motion.

Now that I’m comparing the v4 to OG, overall the v4 is sharper with better quality, but there are some things I don’t like as much such as some parts of the picture being more in focus than the others. But in fairness, the “out of focus” areas look like the whole picture on the OG so I suppose that is still an improvement.

OG colors are more vibrant at night but they’re almost overstated, and things are pretty grainy and blurry in color night mode. v4 has more muted colors (they need to settle on something in between the two) but none of the graininess or blurry/blocky, much clearer at night than the OG especially when there is motion. I suspect the OG is oversaturating too much at night and the v4 isn’t doing it quite enough, like I said a happy medium would be nice.

Regardless of what is shown for the resolution it is still possible for the image to look worse when you don’t have enough bandwidth, however from what I’ve seen the v4 is, if anything, too quick to reduce to 360 when the bandwidth is too low, so if yours is staying at 2.5K that’s probably not the case.

Take a still frame or video of the live view and see if the properties are 2560x1440 just to make sure it is really in that mode.

With all models of cam, I’ve noticed that a picture or even recording of the video is higher quality than what is displayed in the live view of the app. A barely readable license plate becomes crystal clear in some cases. But with any of these cams, zooming will obviously significantly decrease the quality, it is digital zoom and dealing with a lot of compression.

I haven’t specifically done a comparison of zooming on the v4 vs OG as they are no longer mounted in the same place. One theory is that the higher compression used on the v4 (to make it use the same bandwidth as the 1080P cams) is having a greater impact on the zoom, since that’s where the compression becomes very obvious.

Wyze is coming to the point where they’ll need to increase the bandwidth and/or add optical zoom to these cams. They can’t just keep adding more and more compression to keep the bandwidth to around 1mbit per second.

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Thanks for your help. I have noticed that the camera says it was set up 8/24. I just received it Saturday and set it up this evening, 12/16/24.
It makes me wonder if the camera had been sold and sent back, possibly because of picture. I appreciated your help getting it to the 2.5 but it is still basically my old version 3 camera quality.
I will try to contact them tomorrow and see what they suggest. Thanks again,

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Yeah that suspiciously sounds like a used/returned camera. It should not show a date before you got it, but once someone sets it up that date is in there forever.

I posted a thread comparing the OG to v4 both day and night, maybe take a look at that and if the picture quality is better than yours, suspect maybe a hardware issue with that cam.

Have you tried running it in HD (1080P) mode to see if it is more comparable to your v3? That shouldn’t make any difference since the bandwidth used by the v4 at 2.5K is the same/similar as a v3 at 1080P, but who knows.

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I heard it happens. A friend did not notice till later on. He was lucky that the camera worked fine till this day. All of my cams show my connection date correctly, thankfully.

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I believe it’s possible that the early activation can sometimes be due to QA testing. I have actually had this happen to me several times with various brands.

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It’s too bad they can’t post a short message inside like TSA does when they inspect your luggage. I would prefer to order a virgin camera. Only thing I accept new with use, is my car when it has a few miles on it.

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That’s something I’ve wondered about, as well. I installed my Video Doorbell v2 on 6 November 2023, but its Activation Date shows in the app as “08/29/2023”, and the product was officially released on 24 October 2023. :man_shrugging:

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