No apology is necessary, but I appreciate that! Thank you! 
We were all new here at one point or another, and it took me a while to learn how to navigate this space, too. I asked to have your post moved to its own topic so that we could focus on it here and not derail the other discussion where you originally posted. The Moderators here are good at helping with that stuff.
Yes. That’s why I said that’s one of your options (#2 in a previous post). I think that’s fine, and that’s also how I initially used Wyze Cams and one of the reasons they’re a great value for a lot of applications. I’m not trying to talk anyone into subscribing, though I definitely see some benefits of doing so since I’ve tried Cam Unlimited.
If you take a look at the comparison page that I linked in a previous post, then that should show you what you what features are available without a plan as well as the various subscription tiers. You can absolutely use microSD recording for Events Only or Continuous recording without a subscription as long as the camera and card are cooperating (we’ll get to that below).
That’s what makes me think you were initially using a trial subscription, which records events to the Wyze cloud and allows you to view videos from the app’s Events tab. I asked a previous question about that because I’m trying to figure out if that’s what happened with your experience.
When you don’t have a subscription and try to view events in that section of the app, the app will show you only a snapshot (if you look at the plans page I referenced, it calls this “Thumbnails only”) and prompt you to subscribe. Instead of hitting the regular (play) button there, you can tap the SD Card icon (you might have to tap a blank area of the screen first to make this visible) to navigate to your microSD card recording timeline and view video event playback there…but that’s only if your recording to microSD card is working properly, so we also need to get into that issue.
That’s really frustrating, and unfortunately some Cam Pan v3s have been having issues with microSD recording for months. You can search the Forum to read more about those discussions, or you can let me know if you have difficulty with that and I can share some links later. The short version—at least as I understand it—is that some Cam Pan v3s don’t seem to recognize microSD cards when they’re inserted, or they’ll recognize the cards for a while and then stop acknowledging that and start to throw errors. It’s a vexing problem, and I don’t know what the answer is. Several of us have tried bugging Wyze again recently to get some more attention on this problem, and we’re still waiting for a response. 
Having said that, it’d be good to know if both of your microSD cards are in good working order. Have you tried both of them in your regular Cam v3 to make sure they do what you expect? That might give us some indication of whether you’re dealing with a card problem or a Cam problem, and my experience with Cam Pan v3 has me leaning toward the latter, but it’s good to rule out the former.
Something else you could do if you think a particular card is part of the problem is use the SD Memory Card Formatter to format the card in a PC and do an “Overwrite” format to see if that “refreshes” the card. Some people might call this a “full” format, and it can take a while, so you can start it and let it run while you do other things on your PC. That may or may not resolve the issue.
I know this is a lot of information to wade through and try to absorb, especially when you’re a new user here, but we really do want you to feel welcome and help when we can.
