V4 Spotlight won’t come on if the porch/garage lights are on, DESPITE the rules…?

Recently moved into a new house, and neither V4 spotlight will come on at night IF the porch or garage door lights are on outside. This was never an issue at our previous home.

The rules for both cams are: if person/vehicle/pet detected between sunset to sunrise - turn spotlight on. This ONLY works if the garage lights are off, or if the porch light is off. I’ve tried changing all of the settings, resetting the cams, etc. I can manually turn both spotlights on and off, but it looks like the auto spotlight will ONLY turn on at night if my outside lights are off.

I suspect that there’s some sort of ambient lumen sensor at play here… but also, if I am specifying the rules to enable spotlight from sunset to sunrise, why isn’t this happening EVERY time ?! Just seems odd, and this wasn’t an issue at my last house.

Also to note…a streetlight is right on the corner of our new home…could this be the cause of the issue? Still seems silly that the camera is simply not following its own rules unless it feels like it’s dark enough outside.

Spotlight won’t turn on no matter what settings you have if there is enough ambient light. That’s how it works.

Slight correction, it will if you use an automation. It will not if you use the built in “auto”.

That’s the thing…I’ve got an automation set here, and it still will only turn on when the outside lights are off at night … even though the automation is telling it to turn on when a person is detected from sunset to sunrise

Do you have the spotlight set to “manual” in the settings (or at least have both options under “auto” unchecked)?

The spotlight sucks when there is other light available, it make the view and video a lot darker. Just set the V4 with the spot light to off and set night vision to Auto, IR lights on or off /your choice.