Foscam Spotlight Cameras turned green

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Foscam Spotilight Cameras. THey have been in service for about 4 months now. Then with 24 hours of each other, they both turned green. Reset them. Powered them off. Firmware is latest. Tapped them a few times. Ran a magnet over them (per the Foscam tech note). Toggled IR. Any ideas? Are they just permanently broken?

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During the day when you cover the daylight sensor can you hear the mechanical IR cut filter click?
If it's a bright day you might have to use something more opaque than your finger, like black electrical tape.
 
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Foscam Spotilight Cameras. THey have been in service for about 4 months now. Then with 24 hours of each other, they both turned green. Reset them. Powered them off. Firmware is latest. Tapped them a few times. Ran a magnet over them (per the Foscam tech note). Toggled IR. Any ideas? Are they just permanently broken?

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Happened to one of my cameras.

I fixed it by going into the foscam NVR software and then the settings for the camera. Under video -> video adjustments, it hit Default and then save. It reset whatever broke and the video was back to normal.

I have 4 of these, but it only happened to 1.

Hopefully that helps.
 

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Happened to one of my cameras.

I fixed it by going into the foscam NVR software and then the settings for the camera. Under video -> video adjustments, it hit Default and then save. It reset whatever broke and the video was back to normal.

I have 4 of these, but it only happened to 1.

Hopefully that helps.
GavinCampbell, Thank you very much! I didn't even have the NVR software installed, so I installed it and I reset it to default. And it fixed it. I was only using Blue Iris and I would not have thought to install the Foscam NVR software. Must be a bug in their camera firmware.
 

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GavinCampbell, Thank you very much! I didn't even have the NVR software installed, so I installed it and I reset it to default. And it fixed it. I was only using Blue Iris and I would not have thought to install the Foscam NVR software. Must be a bug in their camera firmware.
Foscam support wrote and told me that it was a known bug and it would be updated in a future update (assuming they meant camera update and not nvr update).
 
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