Hi, I’ve tried almost everything at this point, but every morning it’s the same. I come down to see that the spotlight is on, despite showing as off in the app. As you can see on my video, I’m in the app, it shows as off although it is on. If I switch to on and then off in the app, it does turn off. But next day it’s the same again.
Firmware updated, no automations (only installed it a few days ago), and settings are set to not use Spotlight.
Is this a known issue? Any help would be much appreciated.
Hi, are you saying that Spotlight turns on by itself? Have you checked the camera logs yet? You can find them by clicking on the three dots at the top and scrolling all the way down.
I don’t know what causes the bug on your end, but until the cause was determined you should help yourself with a workaround.
Set an automation which reacts to the activation of the spotlight, activate a 3 or 5 or whatever you suits minutes timer after that period the spotlight will become turned off.
First off, thanks for the quick replies, what an awesome forum!
I just checked the logs, nothing out of the ordinary, I can see when I actively turn it on/off in app, but it doesn’t register when/what turns it on automatically during the day.
I like the suggestion to automatically turn it off again, let me just see if that works, if so, I’ll consider it solved. Although the mystery remains
Hmm just checked, I don’t see “spotlight on/off” as an available trigger in the default Aqara app automations. Can you elaborate how you would set it up?
I will try, but haven’t tested this automation on my end.
First create a scene in the Aqara app with a name of your choice (1), a waiting time of your choice (2) and the order to switch off the spotlight of the camera (3).
Then add this scene to Apple HomeKit (4).
After that create a new automation at HomeKit (5-8) with the trigger to activate the scene (9) of the Aqara app to turn off the lights after your chosen time (2).
I hope that will work for you.
But remember this automation will start every time the camera’s spotlight is on, regardless of manually or automatically set. It turns the camera’s spotlight off every time.
Oh I see what you mean Frank. To clarify I do want my smart lights to work as they currently do, meaning it’s only the spotlight feature on the G100 I want to disable, not turn off any other lights in my house. Like John mentioned this doesn’t seem to be an available trigger yet.
I’ll try and leave it unplugged today John and see if that makes a difference. But it is the adapter that came with the camera, so I don’t expect that to be problem.
It exactly does this, the scene from the Aqara app turn off the camera lights but doesn’t affect any other lights in your home. See (3) in my screenshots.
I’ll keep my fingers crossed that everything works. Restarting the camera might help. It’s probably unnecessary to disconnect the camera from the power supply for the whole day, but it certainly won’t do any harm.
I have a question. Have you used a longer power cable? Recently, a user here had problems, and it turned out that this was the cause.
Frank meant that you can control the camera’s spotlight via Apple Home. I hadn’t thought of that. If you follow his instructions, you can set it to turn off after about a minute when it turns on. This is only a workaround, of course, and not a real solution to your problem, but you might want to check whether Apple Home Automation is turning on your camera light. It’s easy to confuse the light if you don’t rename it. Maybe you even accidentally created an automation that turns on the light?
