(updated to include samples from the CamV3Pan and CamV4)
I just installed some V4 cameras around the same house as some V3 and V3 Pan cameras. When listening in Live view or in recordings, what the microphones hear is wildly different between the models. The V4s’ microphones are WAY more sensitive, to the point where I cannot have audio turned on in live view because, for example, the buzzing of the Cicada insects sounds like a table saw is running beside the camera (which, just to be clear, isn’t), and a bird or chipmunk chirp will sound like a hammer drill drilling into the brick wall.
How can the sensitivity of the microphone pickup be reduced (and I am not referring to the sensitivity that triggers recordings of events)?
Ok, but then Wyze needs to address this because the use of audio is all but rendered useless. There has always been a background noise on the app that mutilated the audio quality, but now, it renders the audio intolerable as well.
I just checked my V4s and they are fine (not noisy like your audio samples)
It sounds like you have tried these V4 cams in various other locations?
It sounds like perhaps you may have some other (electrical?) interference? from other devices on the same electrical panel circuit perhaps? or nearby the location?
Have you tried using a Wyze power adapter from a cam that is quiet? and perhaps try the V4 cams plugged in where you have quiet cams.
or a bad batch?
Here is sample from one of my V4s. I have similar ‘noise’ , I think, on all of my Wyze cams & also my Nest cams..
Actually Nest cam not as noisy but definitely significantly more expensive.
I have requested in previous years to add an optional ‘audio noise’ filter to the Wyze cams even if the software filter is in the iPhone/iPad Wyze app instead of on the cam.
The sound you hear in the sample files is not an interference issue. It’s the amplification and interpretation of the sound by the microphone. There is a CamV4 in a carport where a CamV3 used to be. About 20’ further there is a CamV3 Pan. The latter still hears the same insect, animal, etc sounds, but does not amplify them to such an extent. There is the “standard” background din that has existed with all Wyze cameras, but this is just crazy.
As for your idea to put a V4 and V3 side-by-side, I’ve done that too (within 5 feet of each other but pointing in almost 180 degree difference angles so as to not “echo” off each other. The V4’s microphone was just amplifying the sounds much more loudly.