The IR nut is tough to crack if your camera does night vision. Those cameras with a ring of LEDs around them? They're IR transmitters. The camera is designed to detect IR, so it can't filter it. This is a popular method of seeing in the dark and is used on systems way more expensive than dollar store close-outs.
Would it be that difficult though to have a modified Bayer filter with an RGBI array instead of RGBG?
You would have to use different dyes for all pixels, since the currently used ones let IR light pass, but it doesn't sound that difficult to do (since we already have both IR-pass and IR-block filters).
