Thank you! Here are the two videos the one on top is from Monday and the bottom is from yesterday.
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Thx!
Your Color Night Vision videos appear to be Good HD quality. The only anomaly I see is the washout light rays from the light on the left.
So right now, the thumbnails are the only thing that are poor quality.
What do the full frame pics look like when you click on the Thumbnails?
Also, in the bottom video there is branch and shadow movement. With constant pixel movement the compression algorithm introduces more anomalies. My 2 cents
I am pretty sure the idea that external light is affecting the quality. I looked through videos and I do believe that there is a spider web over the camera. I think this is causing some lighting and quality issues. I am going to try and get up there to clean it to see if that helps at all.
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Have you had a chance to figure out the FW update that broke the camel’s back?
Last night was a full moon and turned the night vision off (IR Off) and I saw acceptable quality considering that there is no artificial light for miles (Note the resolution is 360p).
Then I switched to Auto and after a second or so it switched to IR. I’m guessing not enough light to stay in colour vision.
Also, back in the city with plenty artificial lights around, the quality is acceptable. This is on a cloudy night with the moonlight filtered by the clouds:
This one is on cloudless night:
All my cameras are still on 3.36.9.139. For some reason I don’t have the option to update yet and I am to lazy to flash (or to scared) to the latest FW
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Thanks for reminding me. I ran into a problem with the cams refusing to take a flash to any version prior to 4.36.8.xx. not sure if it was the Firmware or the card causing the issue. Became frustrated and short on spare time so I abandoned it at that point.
I tested 4.36.: 10.2700; 9.131 and .139; 8.32, .26 and .15 (6 versions back)
All of these were compared side by side to the .2700 baseline operating at exactly the same time with identical settings.
All have nearly the exact same light exposure brightness in outdoor conditions under both Color Night Vision, IR Night Vision, and daylight color vision. You can’t pick out one video from the next. Negligible differences.
Additionally, the deplorable video compression “pixel mash” image smudging is present in equal levels in all firmware versions.
This leads me to believe it may be server side settings that is leading to this phenomenon.
Totally agree as all my cameras all of the sudden started having much (not as good as a year ago) better NV colour quality.
Thanks for doing all the legwork.
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@WyzeDesmond Here’s the V2 in my garage. Yes, IR is turned on in the app. Running latest greatest released firmware. Night vision was set to auto, then I turn it off, then I set it to auto again.
Sent in a log as well: 789164
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Holly smoke! That’s terrible.
All of my V2’s are like this now. I have no interest in testing various old firmware versions until I might find one that fixes the problem. WYZE needs to fix it without me donating time to their problem.
I’ve already given WYZE an easy (what seems like) 100 hours since becoming a customer in 2018.
I hear you loud and clear my friend. Every FW update breaks something. I don’t understand why they’re trying to fix things that don’t need fixing. I feel for you…
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My V2 cams are all either like this as well, or are deteriorating to that level. I posted on this forum some time back that my understanding was that the IR emitters were life limited from 20,000 to 50,000 hours (~4 years). I started down the Wyze path in 2018 with the V2, and the original cameras are no longer able to generate an acceptable night vision image. The daytime or illuminated capabilities are still very good IMO, but where I need the night vision - I am changing to the newer V3’s. FYI I am currently running 8 V2 and 5 V3 cameras.
Here is my garage taken with the older V2, I’ll send the second shot taken at same time location with the V3 in another post. …So I guess I can’t do that since rookies have a limit on number of replies. Trust me, the V3 picture is clear as a bell and perfect. Sorry I can’t show it to you…
Yeah, the 3 replies in a row rule is VERY lame to say the least. I have no doubt that your V3 garage image is much better than the V2. I’ve swapped most of my V2’s out for the same reason. I leave the garage cam in place because it’s the garage and if someone is going to get into it they are going to either open the door or turn on the light.
I had no idea that the IR sensors have a life expectancy of so many hours. Doesn’t this mean that all cameras that use IR sensors are eventually doomed to the same issue? Thanks for your time and input!
Anyone have any video like this? Really horrible night vision IR near.
The “circuit board” is NOT real, its from the camera.
That’s a new one that I haven’t seen or heard of before. If I understand you correctly, are you saying the image above is the camera looking back in on itself or maybe a reflection on the lens from the inner workings of the camera?
Yes, this is a new V3, upgraded to latest firmware out of the box.
Its pointed at usual stuff in a room–wall, furniture. My Cam Pan v2 is not perfect in the dark but its nothing like this and I understand it only has 940nm IR just like the mode this V3 is in.
Support having me do the usual factory reset, yada yada. Seems defective to me and I’ll probably swap it out. If the replacement is like it, I’m done with V3 for sure!
Yeah, I think you have a bad cam. They should swap it out under warranty no questions asked. Well after you spend an additional hour or two with tech support that is. 
I linked your FW file list in another thread. A user pointed out to me that .139 is linked twice but .131 is not linked.
Great resource to have. Any way for a quick edit? Thx!