You are not alone in the concern for what seems to be a step backwards in audio reception for the V3 cameras. Video is great but a lot of us want “sound” as well. They are not listening to this complaint.
I saw a post where someone thought maybe they covered/sealed the microphone to make the camera outdoor capable.
In any event if you want audio more than video, buy a V2. (The black car camera is a V2)
BWC
Thank you. I originally bought the camera to hear if my dog was barking or whining while I was out. I honestly couldn’t tell from the audio. Very frustrating. The video Zia excellent, so it is surprising the audio is so terribly bad.
First off, thank you for the good laugh in regards to the Wyze crapper. I was laughing my ass off while reading.
All I pictured was the scene from “Lethal Weapon 2” when a cop was sitting on the toilet with C4 under his butt for several hours, sweating in fear. LOL.
“Hello? Noonlight home security”? Yeah, hi. Yes, it happened again. new firmware upgrade while dropping a duce. I’ve been sitting for hours, afraid to get up, and I can’t feel my legs! What’s your safe word, sir? “It’s I don’t want to die while dropping a duce”? Okay, we will dispatch a deputy Dewey to assist again. He’ll be there anytime between now and next Thursday. Thank you for choosing Noonlight, partnered with Wyze!
Thanks for the audio tests between V2 and V3. CLEARLY, this is still an ongoing issue with these damn cams and their misinformation when advertising this camera by stating “it has an improved microphone and speaker”. Sure!! [Mod Edit]
The V2 does sound a bit clearer and louder. It’s still muffled though, which really pisses me off! I’m going through a custody matter (never-ending) to which I’ve intrusted this [Mod Edit] V3 cam as my main video and audio source for the living room ( body cams and dash cams saved my ass on several occasions), so to me, it’s a crucial item to have with a quality U3 Micro SD card up its butt so I may pull the footage onto my PC and submit it as evidence. My child said something that would have been a “nail in the coffin,” so to speak, a perfect opportunity to prove my child’s best interests.
After reviewing the footage, I thought I was going to go ape[Mod Edit] and take a 2,900 mile ride to jam this camera up a certain someone’s [Mod Edit].
With court approaching, I’ve been going nuts trying to use various programs such as Audacity in an attempt to amplify the audio in hopes of improving the clarity to a listenable and acceptable level. YEAH, due to their crap mic, or design flaw, I’m SOL.
I’ve fixed many audio issues I’ve had with my dash cam with minor tweaks done to it in order to drown out my cold-air intake sound and other background noise while driving. It drastically drowned out the voices. And no, not the ones in my head (lol), mainly the little voice coming from the carseat in the back. But hey, the tweaks worked pretty well as it’s now a video/audio file that one can hear and make out what was said.
With the Wyze v3 Cam… GOOD luck! I have a better chance of resuscitating the dead using audio corrective software than actually attempting to correct the audio issue from these files. There is only so much software can do if the hardware has been compromised. That 3,000 mile ride is really starting to sound good right about now, but the $5 per gallon is just not worth it (lol) Ugh. Thanks a LOT Wyze! Another fail! From the looks of it, I think a certain someone’s main engineer may have voluntarily placed one up his @@@ just for fun anyway.
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Trying to monitor my home remotely- The audio on v3 camera ‘live view’ seems to have the horrible noises. When I ‘view playback’ those noises aren’t audible. So it appears to be something with the live audio encoding. My audio playback from the sd card seems fine.
You’ll find the V3 audio is pretty inferior to the previous V2 cam. My experience so far is that the audio quality was sacrificed when they chose to make the cam suitable for outdoor use. Seems to pickup the higher frequency voice and noise tones. Terrible on lower frequency male voices. 2 cts.
My playback from the SD card has the same noise as live. It’s horrible.
I got the camera specifically to listen to my dog who was having separation anxiety issues. He was in a heavy duty crate so that he couldn’t hurt himself. But in the crate,I couldn’t see him. I was unable to hear if he was whining or crying. It was even hard to tell if he was barking. The static and other bizarre noises are constant. The camera is useless to me.
Please improve v3 audio quality. Due to compression, audio is unusable.
Any news? The newest cameras I have all my audio comes thu like it has a crap ton of interface… very disappointing… not even that old either.
I have two. V3. One just recently started crackling. Only when the mic is on. Sound alone is fine. This is since the last update.
The camera at our back door is still fine. I’m sure is an interference issue and I hope they find a solution soon.