Wyze Cam V4 isn't as good as the V3 in the dark

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@dave27

I was going to open a wishlist to request they adjust it again, but then figured that wasn’t really the right place for it (that would be more for asking them to add a user accessible adjustment etc).

Yeah, and that seems to have already been requested here:

Add Exposure and focus point/area, and brightness and contrast level controls

In order to avoid under exposing a room with a visible window (or similar high-contrast views) I’d love to be able to choose the area used for exposure calculation. For example, I’d have the cam exposure for the rest of the room and not a window or the top of a lamp or the like.

Interestingly, one post in that topic made this request:

@carole625

Color / brightness is horrible during the day on the Doorbell v2. It really takes away from this camera’s features vs the Doorbell Pro. Please add the Wide Dynamic Range (WDR) Option (like Doorbell Pro)

They later ended up doing just that, so it seems like something they could do for other cameras, as well.

Specific to Cam v4 and this topic, though, if the color is an important issue for enough people, then it seems like something that might be best addressed in a fix-it-friday topic, and those are tentatively set to resume early next year. It’s not something that I’d be likely to prioritize (I think other issues are probably more severe and affect greater numbers of users), but they do give the community opportunities to vote, so maybe enough people will be upset that this will get some attention.