V3 Starlight Sensor: Image Brightness & Clarity and Light Levels required for Auto IR NV on\off have been significantly degraded by Firmware update(s)
There have been many reports in the forum of serious degradation in the quality of the V3 cam image, especially in IR NV, resulting from a recent Firmware update. The IR NV and Color NV are significantly darker than previously documented. Also, the image quality is very poor: grainy with excessive digital artifacts. Image quality in color daytime has also lost it’s previous clarity with many digital artifacts, motion trails, and skipping.
Reported and documented here:
The change in image brightness and quality coincides with a change in the light levels required for the V3 to Auto engage and disengage IR NV. Cams will switch into IR NV in very low light conditions, but will never disengage IR NV when light levels far exceed the threshold to engage it. Forcing a settings cycle (on\off\auto) back into Auto will return it to Color vision until the extreme low light engages IR NV again.