Night vision at specific time

With the street light on its just very dark by the house. You can’t make out much around the vehicles

I have asked Wyze a few times to include a control for when the IR filter is swapped in. Just adding a bit more latency would be good… Every car that drives by at night triggers a switch from IR to color, then back.

At one point I disassembled a broken Wyze V2 camera, the filter holders are plastic, and I doubt they will stand up to a lot of flipping over a timeframe on the order of a year or more at that rate.

Hopefully Wyze will add some controls to allow for IR filter swapping…

A v2 is a different story. You really need an IR light at night. But for a V3 in most cases, ambient light is sufficient.

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I prefer the IR filter for my locations at night. I include the V2 filter story as a suggestion that the filter swap process may be the same, and not take that level of swapping each night. Are you saying that the filter swap mechanism is different in the V3 vs., the V2?

Not at all. I’m saying that in most cases, the ambient light is such that a V3 doesn’t need the IR light.

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Nope

Nope nope, is that good enough for ya?

Cool, thanks for the suggestion, however my back area is VERY dark at night.

Looks like it, yeah. Plus I think the objects are too far from the camera. My driveway view at night with night mode off, is like my V2 view an hour after sunset.

Edit - sorry, I conflated yours for another post with a view of his back yard.

No problem at all, I do it as well… :slight_smile: My front yard is just bright enough that ANY additional light triggers a an IR filter removal. So every time a car drives by, the IR filter swaps out, then after the car passes, the IR filter swaps back in. It is also just dark enough I want to see more, hence the use of the IR filter… More latency would solve this, or an adjustable threshold would help… In any case, thanks again, for your suggestion uptopic.

The light isn’t close enough to the camera, so the view of the vehicles is too dark for my liking

There’s actually a fair amount of detail there - probably better than my V2 could do in either mode - but I see your point. You could try forcing the IR lights on all the time.

I added a small light of 500 lumens to assist the cams (smallest i had avail) and it helps alot.

That’s a good idea. I’ve been thinking of adding a floodlight. That would help out two of my cams where the street light hits

Of course you could also go the IR supplemental light route to get detail without the target noticing the extra light.

IR supplemental light?

Would that just be ir light that the camera can pick up?

Yes exactly. They’re pretty cheap but I’ve never tried one. Search the forum for “illuminator”. Here is one thread.

Before you spring for an IR illuminator, try adjusting your cam down a little to eliminate the glare/flare of your streetlight (upper limit noted by red line):

Then go into your cam’s advanced settings and set Night Vision Mode to Auto and Night Vision IR Lights to Off. See if that adjustment and setting properly trigger the switch to NV mode at night.

If the NV switch works and you wish to run the cam’s IR lights, set Night Vision IR Lights to Near and Night Vision Conditions to Dusk. For your use case, it’s important to set NV Conditions to Dusk, not Dark. You can set the IR Lights to Far if you wish, but you’ll get more annoying triggers from flying insects.

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I find a low wattage lights work better. I use solar lights and most which are less than $10t WM. work well for illunimation. Whats the wattage…I dont know,but if I ever go to town and remember,Ill get some different bulbs/watts and put them in my drop light and seewhat works the best. Im guessing its near 10 watts that make the illumination the best.