Ring Indoor Camera Night Vision Not Working

Link indoor cam and all your ring devices to the ring app to make your security work better together so you can control them all from your phone or tablet.

Ring indoor camera night vision not working.

Alexa show me my camera enjoy hands free home monitoring with select alexa enabled devices so you can hear custom notifications from echo dot launch video with echo show and more. Why all of the sudden the night vision is not working on my camera i ve had it for about 3 months and no problems and now it s so dark you can t see anything. Open the ring app. The ring device should be able to see through a window during the day.

Message 1 of 10 30 948 accepted solutions highlighted. Night vision on most wi fi cameras uses a relatively simple trick of physics. Enable color night vision in your ring app to help improve clarity at night. If the camera is in a dark area check that the infrared lights surrounding the camera lens are illuminated.

Move the camera to a well lite area. Because infrared isn t visible to the human eye you don t even notice and your camera can use that ir light to record video at night. If your camera is facing a window the infrared light can be turned off. One or more ir leds blast out as much light as possible acting as a floodlight.

What is color night vision. To check the voltage of your ring pro. At night your powered ring device still uses advanced motion detection but also uses passive infrared pir to verify the motion. Certain models of ring devices have a night vision feature that allows you to see through the camera in low light conditions.

Ring pro works fine for a couple of events and then stops working. Power pro is installed everything else is working fine i have reset the camera. If not check the night setting in the ring app. Since windows block heat sources your ring device will not be able to accurately view or record through a window at night.

Tap the three lines on the top left. Not ringing your existing internal doorbell correctly. I think this started with the new update to the app. By turning the color night vision feature on the camera will use.

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. By using infrared light the camera can create a black and white image that is then beamed to the live view in your app. Your ring pro requires a power source that supplies a minimum of 16 volts ac. Night vision doesn t work.

If the field of view for your camera is not well lit this could be cause for spotty detection at night.