I just purchased the v4 and have it set on my window looking out onto my porch. However; because of the light on it; all I get is the glare and reflection of it. I cannot for the life of me figure out how to shut the light off. Any suggestions?
Change the Spotlight Control to Manual, you have it on Auto.
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The spotlight looks like it is set to manual to me.
Make sure the camera status light is off, night vision is set to Auto and the IR lights are turned off.
This is what happens if the spot light is set to auto inside looking out a window.
What Antonius showed is not the spotlight control on a V4. On the camera main window, tap the display so it brings up the controls for mic and speaker (and a few other things). In the lower left corner is the spotlight control. Shown off in the screen capture below.
Can’t really tell from their picture if it is the spotlight or the IR lights causing the problem. Both need to be disabled when looking out a window, good idea to shut off the status light too.
I looked at their original screen shot and it is set to “low” which I believe is a single light, so I suspect you’re right (since you can see two LEDs in their pic).
They should have a “window mode” which disables spotlight, IR LEDs, and status light…
The angle of cam to window in their pic will still result in interior lights interfering though.
Yeah I noticed that with my v4, I have no idea why they thought that was important enough to put there. My OGs don’t say it.
To Wyze it might be important 
Considering if you turn the spotlight on then exit live view, it turns off, I’m curious when that screen will ever say “on” except maybe for the 30 seconds after motion if you have that enabled…
That only works if the camera is NOT in a group - and almost all of mine are in groups.
Good points. I verified that it does turn off when you leave live view.
Was curious, as we’re you, why?
For grins I created a quick automation to turn on the spot light. When it triggered it showed “Spot light on”.
It is Office V4 in the screen shot. It’s been on for over 10 minutes.
For grins I went and disabled the automation. It went to “Spotlight off”.
They had to put something on that line. Maybe Wyze thought the state of the spotlight was more important than if the camera was on or off.
On or off shows on the favorites screen as my screen capture shows
I would make a little platform out of cardboard, plastic, wood or a combination of all and put the face of the cam right against the window glass, You can move it to the left or right to get the full field of view you want. The red area is my attempt at showing a flat cam platform.
That is what I did, the face of the cam is pressed against the window.
I did this with a Cam v4 box when I initially set it up to look out the sidelight by the front door, but it was occasionally shifting (the cats like to look out that window, too). Now that particular camera sits on a short iron cylinder (some old heavy weight I found in the garage) and the magnet in the camera’s base keeps it from moving.
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Probably open the screen and clean the window too 
Oh I don’t doubt the accuracy, just the usefulness