I’m not trying to beat a dead horse here as I know this has been discussed a lot on the forum. However, recently the quality of night videos have deteriorated considerably. Not sure if it is firmware or hardware related, so I need some advise from seasoned users on this forum before I take it with s…

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this is what mine is showing [image]

I assume you are talking about the purple area on the top right. I think it is the way the light is hitting the lens at a downward angle like this one. This cam was about 4 inches above the ground and the sun shining down at an angle top to bottom. As soon as the sun moved a little further West the …

I killed the Action Star Spider because it was a Black Widow :astonished: It built a web all around the faucet for my outdoor hose, I tried to wash it away with a strong water jet stream without success. I then got out the broom and the spider came out of hiding and it is now a flat dead black widow…

habib, ran into the same issue with my night cams [image] Wyze cam v3 latest update hobbles Starlight sensor? Cameras Antonius - that’s interesting, I installed mine in January I think. Has the weather been hot in your area? Guess I should try submitting a ticket as …

Sometimes the artifacts your seeing come from poor internet connectivity. One thing I’ve noticed with mine is that if the signal strength is low, the quality of the video degrades enough to be noticeable in low-light conditions. These same artifacts aren’t noticeable in black and white or during the…

All it took was couple emails and a short video clip. They made me go through rebooting and regular troubleshooting, and then they confirmed that the camera is bad.

That’s what I thought too. Then I brought the camera inside and placed it beside the router. Pulled the blinds and the artifacts appeared. They are also on the SD card recordings as well as in live view. The problem with firmware flashing is that you can only go two versions back. The quality degrad…

My internet connectivity signal has remained unchanged, 3 of the 5 cameras are at full bars and the other 2 at 2 bars. Your note about the quality change happening about a week after the update is interesting though.

Plain and simple, the StarLight sensor gave up :slight_smile:

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mahalobay June 27, 2022, 2:47pm 45

habib, ran into the same issue with my night cams

Guess I should try submitting a ticket as well

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