New issues with night vision and signal aquisition

I have multiple cameras, and have noticed several issues since the latest firmware, mostly related to night vision. I have several indoor cameras I point out various windows. During the day the picture is perfect. Sometimes I get glare off the windows because of the angles, especially if a light is on in the room. At night, in pitch black rooms it used to give a great night vision image. Now, if there is the slightest bit of light outside (i.e. a street light) the night vision won’t even turn on, so I get a pure black image with just the street lights. I also have cameras that are used exclusively pointed in indoor rooms and I have the same issues. The slightest bit of light causes it to switch back and forth repeatedly. Sometimes the IR lights cause it to think its too bright and switches repeatedly, even if it isn’t reflecting off of something. If my TV is on pause and I un-pause it and it brightens the room back up the camera clicks back and forth.

The picture for the outdoor wireless cameras is still good, but battery life has gotten exponentially worse. I will address that in another post.

All of my cameras have been very slow to acquire the signal lately. It is the same behavior from the PC app and my iPhone app. I have gig speed internet, unlimited ISP data, top of the line mesh router, newest computer, newest iPhone and it can still take up to 30 seconds for the camera to pull up when clicking to view the live feed. Sometimes the signal will just drop out and I have to click a different camera and go back to the first one I wanted to look at for it to re-acquire a signal.

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