Motion Sensitivity at night

[dwlw]

This evening I noticed that two out of my four cameras were not detecting motion at night.  Only when I introduced an artificial light source would the cameras detect motion and emit IR.  This has never been an issued until the other night (at least that's when I first  noticed it)

I cleaned the lens and rebooted each camera by removing the batteries for at least one minute.  This has not solved the problem.

Recently there has been a temperature change 15-20 degree increase in outdoor temperature.  It is now currently 45 degrees outside.

Other than a recent temperature increase and a software update (my app on my android does not work correctly now), there have been no other changes.

Any ideas?

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[jguerdat]

Could be temperature but I get nighttime detection at over 20 feet without additional lighting. Has your positioning changed some, perhaps from changing batteries?

[Mattic419]

I've had my cameras for about a week now and everything was working great up until 2 days ago. The motion detection works periodically during the day and not at all at night now. I've tried adjusting the sensitivity but still nothing. Any ideas??

[JamesC]

Mattic419,
 

It could be the location of the camera that is causing the issue. If you have more than one camera, a good test can be done by swapping locations of the affected camera with a camera that is behaving normally. This will let you know if the location is the cause of the issue.

JamesC