We can record ‘continuously’ or via motion detection. I’d be interested if anyone records continuously - I’ve done this in the past but actually finding some ‘event’ when you don’t know the exact time is very time consuming. My question is - why record continuously if it takes so much time to find an event you are looking for? Am I missing something? Thanks for inputs.
I record continuously on most of my cameras. The reasoning is as follows: When you have an event and watch it, sometimes it may cut off early or just run out of time. When you click the SD Card on the event, it will jump you to the selected event time on the SD Card and then you can see the entire event and then some.
If you are recording continuously how do you know when an event happens? I’ll just try this and see. No need for a response. Thanks.
SD card recording and cloud recording are two separate functions. You can have one, both or neither at anytime (for the cameras that support it).
SD card recording can be either continuous or events only to the card.
Cloud recording is events only to the cloud. And these events are what trigger your notifications.
I use motion notifications to timestamp motion then if need be and I need to see more, I’ll go to the continuous recordings and see what else happened.
I use different settings for cameras around my house. The most mission critical cameras have motion notifications and cloud recordings along with continuous recordings to the card. Next down are cameras I don’t need cloud recordings or notifications from, but I have those set to continuous recording to the card. Then the lowest priority, but in some ways most important, my cat food dish camera that has its camera set to events only into SD card.
I record continuously on every one of my camera. The vast majority that I am looking at a camera is NOT in response to an event (I hardly use them at all).
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Ok, I’ll bite, what do you look far? People watching? No TV?
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The A to the Q is that the Wyze software seems to be more buggy recording “events only” to a microSD. Of course, a “high endurance” microSD is needed regardless.
The best option is to pair CAM+ cloud recording with continuous recording to a “high endurance” microSD #yw
It seems to me that the camera (v4 at least) has a buffer (memory) inside and when some event is flagged, the buffer is written to the SD card before the motion occurs. Perhaps the event is written on a loop on the SD card and then kept on the card if an event is flagged. I say this as when I see an event on my camera, and play it back, there seems to be about 10 seconds recorded before the actual motion is seen, which tells me it’s being recorded before the motion actually occurs.
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As far as µSD card writing when you are set to Events Only. Every minute is saved in RAM in a buffer. At the end of the minute, IF there is an event at any point during that minute, the one minute buffer is written to the µSD card. If you are set to continuous recording, the same buffer is used except the buffer is always written to the µSD card at the top of each minute.
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Yes. I have seen this pre-capture occur on the V3 cams as well. I found a palm frond laying on the ground when I was outside. I checked my camera later and I can see the event was filmed seconds before the branch fell. I am highly certain there was no movement detected prior to the drop.
I record events only.
I tend to disagree. I just use regular micro SDs since 2019 and have no issue with event recording and no subscription.
I tend to agree with @ssummerlin. On five out of seven cameras I have Kingston 32GB Class C10. since 2022 continuous recording. One of them was in a dash cam for over a year, so makes it three-four years old. I think it boils down to the quality of the card.
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Ok. Just cuz it is currently working does not mean it should be recommended to users.
We’ll end up with another big bucket of users who have trouble with their cards, then come on here and claim that Wyze is intentionally messing with the cams to push users to their Cam Plus subscription program.
You will always have people coming on here complaining about micro SD cards. You won’t cure micro SD card issues no matter what you recommend.
I am just saying most absolutes are unnecessary.
I haven’t had any micro SD cards become bricked, corrupted or explode since I used them in Wyze cams since 2019. I also use micro SD cards in other devices with no issues.
When I upgrade cams, I usually reuse the micro SD from the old cam into the new cam with a reformat.
I can see this might be an issue with continuous recording, but with event recording, I have had no issues.
I guess it’s military training to stand up to musts, got to’s and you have to do this or else.
I can live with any valid recommendation.
No one is recommending anything to anyone, we’re just stating facts. As @ssummerlin said, I haven’t had any issues with my micro SD cards in over two years. To each their own, as said before people will come and complain for everything, just nature of human beings. Can’t please everyone and can’t fix ignorance.
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I have, and it was a Wyze-branded card, too.
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I didn’t consider Wyze-branded to be worthy of consideration. Wyze brands a card from who?
I guess it could happen or I am as lucky as my sister says I am.
Never used Wyze cards and never will,
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