My ring doorbell 720p works perfectly at night in color.
Ring doorbell 2 poor night vision.
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.
This is the doorbell 2.
The porch light is super bright.
Power pro is installed everything else is working fine i have reset the camera.
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 also added hdr control to its battery powered.
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.
At 2 01 night vision turns on and the recording turns to garbage.
At 4 16 delivery driver pulls out of my driveway and his headlights turn night vision off back to decent full color video.
Ring rolled out color night vision to its wired security products featuring cameras such as the video doorbell pro and spotlight cam wired.
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.
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.
At 4 29 night vision turns back on and poor video quality continues on throughout the night.
Your ring video doorbell pro is designed to draw power from the same 16 volt ac power transformer as your internal doorbell mechanism.
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.
Again my porch light is on and in this case there is.
This is my second camera as i received a replacement because ring said the first camera was bad.
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.
I ve noticed that at night the doorbell never shows the night vision view and always keeps the regular view.
I think this started with the new update to the app.
Ring doorbell 2 not switching into night vision.
I have the doorbell mounted on the brick about 1 5m directly under my porch light.
