Orbs floating by doorbell cam

Hey, everyone, I think that is tiny spider webs that go across the camera in the night. We cleaned the area, sprayed AROUND not on the camera, so hopefully the little critters will go away.

How did you clean your camera?

I have this same thing. I first noticed it back in Dec 2019 and it happens on and off. I do have porch lights that are on when I see these orbs. I am in the northeast and it’s in the 20 & 30’s temperature wise. I am suspecting that it may be some kind of insect as the other night I saw an orb with a head & legs on one side of it and it looked like the body part of the insect was the orb. I have to say it is really strange and it seems on the nights that I see them, it goes on for several hours between midnight and 5AM. I might try the insecticide and see if that works.

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With all the uncertainty in the world I am thinking someone I have lost is protecting me

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I have had 4 orbs set off my ring camera which is set to recognize people only. First was on Feb 25, then Feb 26, Mar 2 and Mar 23, 2020. In each case you can see through the orb. Have been a bit weirded out.

I have them as well. They just started as the weather got warmer. Looking at their movement and size I think they are an infrared reflection off insects. Similar to what happens with a cats eyes at night. Just less focused and the light is scattered more creating the Orb effect.

My first orb was 11/06/19 1am
2nd orb 3/29/20 1:29 am

I have had my ring installed for over 6 years and just started experiencing this in November 2019

We have had the exact same orb in our camera since the end of February. I’ve cleaned my camera multiple times. Multiple times a night I see the same orb. Why all of the sudden. Would we all have same orb?

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6am this morning got an alert from my kitchen camera which woke me up pretty quick! It’s one of the new Ring indoor cams. Check out the video, could be a small spec of dust reflected against the IR leds but to be honest I reckon it was just a ghost -

https://youtu.be/aC1aD6uSNRY

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Had camera for several years, first time last night, alert goes off and nothing but “orb”

https://ring.com/share/6809813335225938970

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Yes, its someone visiting you. That’s cool you caught it on camera. They really wanted you to see them. It was a big one! Love it !!!

Yes!! We see ours anytime between 12:00am and 4:18 am. Very strange!!

We have had our ring doorbell pro for a couple of years and never saw the orbs until recently. Ours started February 15th. A lot of these posts say that it started in Feb or March. I don’t think insects around the world all united and decided to crawl on the ring doorbell at the same time. I have security cameras pointing in the exact same direction and they never see them. But the security cameras work off of pixelation and not a heat signature. I’m thinking of setting up a stick up cam looking at the same direction to see if both devices pick it up. If they did, that is something for sure. If only one device picked it up, then that may tell us an insect or device malfunction. I would need to make sure that the stick up cam uses the exact same motion detection as our ring doorbell pro.

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Yes, what is that? It’s so creepy. My ring went off 3 times last night while we were sleeping. Three different orbs. What is it?

Yes thata exactly what mine looks like too.

I agree. My Ring Doorbell Pro NEVER had these issues prior to Feb of 2020. I’ve had my unit for nearly 18 months and never had any “orbs”. I think the answer falls under the category of malfunctioning units. I suspect they updated the firmware on our units when Ring was having all of their security issues and now it’s causing these malfunctions that appear as floating orbs. I never have malfunctions during the day and from what I can tell there are no insects at all on my unit. I have the interior and exterior of my home sprayed by professionals quarterly and we’ve not seen any insects/bugs. Additionally, I live in the Upper Midwest and the bugs don’t really come out of hibernation until late March or early April, due to the fact that we have much colder weather than other parts of the country. If it were insects, I highly doubt we’d see the orbs in February when it is often sub zero temps. I never had these false notifications (or floating orbs) previous to Feb and if it were bugs/insects, we should have seen them last year in the warmer months.

Well this doesn’t look good. I have a question before buying the stick-up battery cam. But I see they have quit taking email questions, the chat is only a library response and not a real person and their support phone line just says, “We are not taking calls, goodbye” and hangs up.

I don’t know why this just started for so many people. It’s been happening to me for 2 years on my doorbell pro. Ring either doesn’t know what it is, or they don’t want to tell us. It has been asked before. It CANNOT be bugs. It CANNOT be glare. It CANNOT be firmware. It’s something else. The fact that they won’t answer just makes it worse.

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We have these perfect orbs that appear grey-white colored that float around in view of our Ring doorbell cam, setting off the Ring. The circles last about 7-10 seconds before floating off the field of vision. They occur frequently. We have never had more than one per night. For example we had one April 2 at 2:17 a.m. and one at 11 p.m. on 3/29 and at 9:09 p.m. on 3/28, etc.

The orbs appear only at night. It is not an insect or spider. Our porch light was not turned on for any of the dates mentioned.

We certainly do have an occasional spider or insect that appears on camera.

These orbs do not move like an insect or spider. They float. They do not crawl. They do not look like spiders. There are no legs or features except for the greyish-whitish circle. The circles appear to be about the same size, which appear about the size of a button on a dress-shirt. They float almost like they are on varying invisible tracks before disappearing. Has anyone else experienced this? If not, any thoughts?

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