For a little while now, a v3 cam that has been placed in my parents garage will stay in Night mode (black & white) even when there is plenty of enough light for it to be in color.
I can toggle night mode to off then back to auto, and it will stay in color fine.
Turn off the lights in the garage, it auto changes to B/W night mode with IR.
After a few min, turn the light back on, it stays in B/W nigh mode with IR and never changes out of it. Even when the sun comes up and there is even more light, it has to be toggled in the app off to get color again.
Must be a firmware issue with latest update?
donāt recall when it was last updated as a few people access it and any one of them could have accepted the update pop up.
I have tried restarting the camera, and it also has been unplugged and plugged back in.
You have an environment where it gets too dark. All but one of my cams get enough light for color night vision 24/7. The one that doesnāt still gets enough light for night vision without IR lights.
In your case, maybe setting the night vision mode to āautoā and the night vision conditions to ādarkā may help? That may help it recover faster from darkened conditions.
Its been set that way already for a year or so. and has worked fine until recently.
no change in the environment lighting or location of the cam.
only has changed is firmware.
it wont even auto come back into day mode color when both garage doors are open on a sunny day and the place is flooded with light.
I had a similar issue recently, but it was not continuous. What I did was go into the settings and changed the Night Vision condition from Dark to Dusk. It seemed to change the mode. then I restarted the camera and went in to see, it looked ok. I put the settign back to Dark and it was ok from that point. I may have toggled the Night Vision IR Lights from Far to Near and Back again (But verified after each chanfe), but donāt remember.
Also Note, I cycled through each Night Visision Setting, On, Off, Auto. After each change I went back to the Camera to look and make sure.
Interesting, I have the spotlight kit on mine so I have the IRR/nite turn off and have the spotlight set up for automatic and always so now when itās Dart it comes on
Well, I just put a Wyze bulb in my basement today with V3. I have the same issue you described nearly 3 years ago. When itās on night vision, then I put on my Wyze bulb, the cam stays in black and white. I have to toggle through the on/off/auto to get the basement showing color again. Some things were never fixed, it seems. Any updates on your end?
From your other thread, it seems your cam is having other hardware related issues, so I wouldnāt assume it is related. On the newer cams (not sure about the v2 you have) you can choose āduskā or ādarkā for the night mode which can help determine when the camera goes into/comes out of night mode too.