I have the doorbell mounted on the brick about 1 5m directly under my porch light.
Ring doorbell 2 poor night vision.
This is my second camera as i received a replacement because ring said the first camera was bad.
The porch light is super bright.
Ring doorbell 2 not switching into night vision.
This is the doorbell 2.
At 2 01 night vision turns on and the recording turns to garbage.
If i do a hard reset on my db2 the color at night works for 10 r so seconds then goes off back to night vision and will not work again.
At 4 29 night vision turns back on and poor video quality continues on throughout the night.
If you ve been living under a rock and don t know what ring is it s the little rectangular box next to people s front door that looks discreet and has a doorbell on.
When viewing the live view at night on a non battery powered ring device you ll find that your image is in black and white.
My ring doorbell 720p works perfectly at night in color.
The color night vision toggle in your ring app will enable your ring device to use ambient light to create false color images in live view.
It seems there is not enough light that even with the night vision the doorbell is unable to make out anything beyond your front door.
Posted by 2 years ago.
I ve noticed that at night the doorbell never shows the night vision view and always keeps the regular view.
The company has since heard their consumers and developed new night extension pieces upgraded versions of ring and ways to improve the computer s vision in the dark.
Again my porch light is on and in this case there is.
Ring rolled out color night vision to its wired security products featuring cameras such as the video doorbell pro and spotlight cam wired.
At 4 16 delivery driver pulls out of my driveway and his headlights turn night vision off back to decent full color video.
I think this started with the new update to the app.
I covered the three infrared lights with black tape turned on the color night vision and the porch light and i get a good picture that way otherwise it s black and white and you cant see anything but shadows with the porch light on or off.
Ring doorbell 2 not switching into night vision.
It is also possible that if there is a light above the device it is causing too much reflection on the right side stopping the camera from picking up any further with night vision.
Problems can arise however when a doorbell mechanism draws so much power that there s not enough left over to power your ring video doorbell pro.