I have the cam set to record to the SD card events only but I have events turned off. I noticed that the card was getting used so I looked at it and it is still recording to the card, I just have no events listed. The only way to stop it is to turn off SD card recording. Is this normal? If so it seems like only turning the camera off will stop recording or leaving the camera on and turning the card off. I would have liked turning events off to stop recording.
Yes the camera will record to the SD with events turned off, it is normal. Are you sure your camera is set to events only and not continuous? This cam is set to continuous, I have never tried Events only.
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Logic would say if you are set to “events only” and disable all events, it should not record to the SD card. But I personally have not tried it.
It is possible that it continues to record them and does not “tag” or “notify” though. If that’s the case, they should probably change that from “events only” to “motion only”. The reason I say it might be possible is that I have a couple cams on “events only” and they still record motion during the 5 minute cooldown, even though no event is tagged or notified. Which in my case I like, but I can see how this would be confusing.
I try one off my V4 cams on events only and see what it does . I will first turn off Event Recording (Aka Cloud Recording ) then change the SD to events only.
Test done: Set SD recording to Events only, camera continues to record to SD card, no cloud video.
I tested this again. I do not have any cloud storage at this time. This camera is in my basement to monitor for water coming in. It has a 32G card in it which I formatted in the camera. Events are turned off and I have never seen it register an event. It was set for “events only” recording. I never expected to see any use on the SD card. I looked at the card usage some days ago and it was 1G used. How did this happen I thought, no events recorded. Took the card out, put it in my PC and there was a record directory with videos for several days, mostly all me doing laundry. So it seems to record even if events are turned off. Not how I really wanted it to work.
Cloud recording and SD card recording are 2 independent actions. One can be turned off and the other will still work. The sole connection is that pressing the SD card icon will play the corresponding SD card clip, provided that it is accessible, while a cloud recording (or image) is playing.
I don’t see why that’s an issue, when there’s a setting to turn SD recording off.