Interesting, did you get two videos (one from each cam) in that circumstance or just the “action” cam?
Will have to toy around with it to see how it impacts notifications, SD recording etc. I have several cams on the front of my house for different purposes and could have one trigger the other(s) to upload a clip.
One cam in particular has to be reachable (facing outward from the door to get a good head on view of the person coming up the walkway) so is at risk of being ripped off, and is probably the only one that would get a good clear view of the person’s face.
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The latter: Only the non-triggering camera that was designated to upload via Action (not the triggering camera that actually detected motion) gave a playable event video. It basically confirms your experience that the camera detecting the motion and serving as the trigger doesn’t produce a playable cloud video even when that camera itself is designated in the “Upload a short video to the cloud” Action.
I guess that’s why we do continuous microSD recording. 
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Seems to be a combo of an old feature they forgot to remove and a bit of a glitch.
I always just assumed that option in the “actions” was for subscribers only. But then I guess it would be under a separate section (just like the triggers has a subscriber only section at the bottom).
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Now the question is if you create two automations, one with cam 1 as trigger and cam 2 as action, and the other in the reverse, do we get two clips. Gonna set my two front door cameras up that way out of curiosity to see how they act tomorrow.
This was also my thought. I didn’t think a non-subscriber would have any access to a cloud video upload, so I definitely learned something from this.
Yes. That’s essentially what I did with my first and third test rounds above, but I decided to do a fourth test round to confirm:
- Motion Detected on Camera 1 ➜ Upload video from Camera 2
- Motion Detected on Camera 2 ➜ Upload video from Camera 1
I got two playable clips. Since I’m using Cam Pan v3s relatively close together, there’s a decent chance with doing it this way that something usable would result, because I have Track Motion enabled on both cameras, but it’s still kind of hit or miss: In one of the earlier tests, by the time I triggered motion on one of the cameras, the other camera (the uploader) had already reset to its home Waypoint, so I got a 12-second video of no meaningful motion (though the time stamp counter incrementing second-by-second demonstrated that it was actually video and not just a still image).
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The only spot I think it will be useful is my front door that has two OG cams at different angles which have to be within reach in order to get the image they need to get, I have them both set to tell the other to upload a clip now, curious to see what impact it has on notifications etc. May prove to be useful or at least a “can’t hurt” sort of thing.
My other cams are all looking at totally different things so wouldn’t be any use on those. I suppose I could tell my front Panv3 (which detects motion constantly throughout the day) to tell every other cam to upload a clip then I’d have tons of free cloud space 
Or set every single cam to tell every single other cam to upload a clip, really create a mess.
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Darn, had a eureka moment but it didn’t work out.
I set the trigger as an individual cam, and the action as a cam group. All the cams in the group uploaded except the trigger cam. Thought that one would work.
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