I have 2 Wyze V3 cameras I am testing in my lanai. The cameras work great in the daylight but I have found that I do not have enough ambient light to operate them in color mode at night. As noted these are being tested inside my lanai which is a metal cage with plastic screening. The lanai provides an enclosure for a swimming pool.
The issue I am having is that I am using IR mode at night but the video looks like it is either raining or that bugs are consistently flying by. It is not raining or there are not any bugs flying by.Here is my question:
Would this situation be caused by the IR being reflected off of the water in the pool? Or has anyone else had this issue? I have tried 2 different cameras but they both operate in the same manner.
I don’t even think we need the pictures. This is an incredibly common situation. For me I found that just turning off the IR LEDs on my V2s essentially eliminated the dozens of insect alerts I was getting each night, and there was enough ambient streetlight to get by.
This might work for you, although if the V3 isn’t pulling night color you may not have enough light for ambient IR either.
The other typical approaches are to rely only on person detection or to use separate supplemental lights (either regular or invisible IR).
Yea like others have said . When in night vision , the camera use the IR lights and it can detect bugs , dust , webs etc .
The best fix for this is to get cam plus , that way you can only be noticed of AI events like ; person , pet , vehicles , etc and you can toggle off all other motion which is what that is…
Agree. All itty bitty little flying bugs. Because the cam has the IR emitters surrounding the lens, the bugs, in this case almost microscopic 'no see ‘ems’, are attracted to the lens and the IR light is reflecting off of them, fractions of an inch from cam face, directly back into the lens.
They don’t show during color vision because the IR emmiters are off and the IR filter is retracted. The color light source doesn’t come from the cam, it comes from the opposite side of the bugs and there is no IR to attract the bugs.
Even with CamPlus, I still get a very high rate of false positive AI tags for bugs, spiders, and webs when the IR NV is on.
Some users have found success with leaving the IR mode in Auto, but turning off the IR emitters and installing an IR floodlight away from the cam so that the IR source is not coming from the cam and reflecting back.
I am so jealous of your glass covered/indoor pool setup! It’s so beautiful! This is basically exactly what I want to do at my next house! Right now I have an outdoor pool, and it is insane how much stuff gets into it from neighbors’ trees, etc…your setup is so AWESOME! Still keep the sun, but can use it year round, no wind to freeze you out, fewer things blown into it, just awesome. I am so jealous, it’s so beautiful and perfect.
I don’t have much to add that hasn’t been said already…basically bugs swarming the IR…there are ways around this…have a separate IR light away from the camera somewhere, then they won’t swarm the lens, or a regular light somewhere and leave the camera on daylight mode instead of night vision.