![]() ![]() ![]() When watching, it looks like gnats or fruit flies flying close to the camera, but it's far too cold out for bugs. When viewing in the dark (the effect stops if I turn on the porch light) I can see little specks floating upward across the camera image. ![]() Hope that helps if not, post again and well try something else This is a problem with many cheap "night vision" cameras on the market, although ir leds do work to illuminate the night for cctv, the cameras that have them built in are built like garbage in 90% of the cases, the ir illumination actually causes a reflective effect on the image, good ir cameras have ir cut off filter that filter out the reflections, the best way to utilize infrared for night time illumination is to use a good day/night camera with ir filter lens built in (color day- black and white night) without ir leds and use a separate ir illumination modules or ir lamps. Most likely caused by the ir led's themselves, go outside without turning on your porch light and stare closely into the camera, if you see the ir led's flickering up like the image then thats your problem, glass in front of the leds will also produce this effect Does anyone have and idea what I'm seeing? Is it a video artifact? Thank you!! I tried to google this but just got a bunch of ghosty paranormal nonsense, and I wasn't able to find a video that looked like mine do. The specks are blurry and appear to be very close to the camera lens. We've observed these little "floaters" every night, any time that the camera is using the IR for illumination. I also thought that it looked a bit as though there were a fire under the camera and we were seeing floating embers, but of course there's no fires on my porch!! Standing on the porch I can't see any kind of floating specs, there's no dogwood trees shedding bits of fluff or anything. The specks always move in generally upward motion, sometimes zigzagging or curving across the screen. When viewing in the dark (the effect stops if I turn on the porch light) I can see little specks floating upward across the camera image. The camera uses near infrared led's for night vision. Tonight, it is 14 degrees f and there is no snow or rain or anything like that. The Camera is under a roof and protected from weather. I never had these false notifications (or floating orbs) previous to Feb and if it were bugs/insects, we should have seen them last year in the warmer months.Hello, I have recently set up a camera on my front porch, set to view the driveway and any (dropped, banged, kicked, smashed) package deliveries. If it were insects, I highly doubt we’d see the orbs in February when it is often sub zero temps. Additionally, I live in the Upper Midwest and the bugs don’t really come out of hibernation until late March or early April, due to the fact that we have much colder weather than other parts of the country. I have the interior and exterior of my home sprayed by professionals quarterly and we’ve not seen any insects/bugs. I never have malfunctions during the day and from what I can tell there are no insects at all on my unit. I suspect they updated the firmware on our units when Ring was having all of their security issues and now it’s causing these malfunctions that appear as floating orbs. I think the answer falls under the category of malfunctioning units. ![]() I’ve had my unit for nearly 18 months and never had any “orbs”. My Ring Doorbell Pro NEVER had these issues prior to Feb of 2020. ![]()
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