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.
I know cloud and local recording are separate, I do not have cloud so not germane to this discussion. So it records clips even if events are turned off however you cannot easily find them to play back as there is no event, You have to scroll through the SD card looking for stuff.
I wanted to automate the recording with a single button push but turning the card recording on and off is not part of the things you can automate. You can automate turning the camera on/off, notifications, events on/off but not the card recording. So I have to manually turn on card recording for all my cameras when I leave and manually turn it off when I return. If it was one of the things you could automate, I would be fine with that.
You are trying to use event recording to control SD recording. It doesn’t work that way. It’s the “Record to MicroSD Card”, that does what you want. In Wyze lingo, “event” means cloud; it doesn’t have anything to do with SD cards.
You can try, “Events Only” SD recording instead of “Continuous”. Don’t get confused with the word, “Events” here; Wyze is terrible with terminology.
That is the issue. If you set the SD recording to Events Only the camera still records continuous but the events are not marked on the timeline if you have (Event recording-Motion) turned off (Aka Cloud recording.)
I think to OP should just turn the Cloud Event recordings back on, put a 256GB card in the cam, set SD recording to events only and go for it. Events will get tagged on the timeline. Since no subscription there will just be photos on the app events page. Tap the photo, to see video on the SD.
That’s not my experience, I have 3 OGs on “events only” and they only record when there is motion. It really should read “motion only”. Calling it events is confusing based on the behavior being observed here.
Although I do have events/notifications enabled, maybe it changes to continuous if you disable that? Never tried.
I tried it yesterday on one V4, Turned off motion recording (Cloud) and set SD to events only, cam kept recording. I have not tried cloud recording motion on and the SD set to Events Only. Maybe I will today sometime.
I have no cloud recording at all so I’m only referring to detection/event settings on the cam and SD card settings.
With mine, with event recording on and set to “all events” which is my only option, and the SD card set to “events only”, it only records to SD when there is motion in the detection zone. Note that even during the 5 minute cooldown, it will record a new clip if there is motion, it just won’t tag/notify for it.
But I have not tried turning off events (in the cam settings), maybe that causes the SD card to go continuous?
I just tried and @Antonius is correct. If you turn the Event recordings off and set the SD card to Events only it will continuously record. Bizarre to say the least.
“Does not compute”. Assuming that’s a situation they never accounted for or tested well. I guess you can’t have “events only” if events are disabled, but I’d agree that should mean it simply doesn’t record.
Probably some hacky ways to minimize or maybe eliminate it (sound only, sound turned all the way down or microphone covered/disconnected) but sounds like OP wants an easy way to toggle it on and off.
Never been something I’ve considered since I don’t have cameras looking anywhere I would not be comfortable with being seen. They may catch me scratching my ass walking in my door or something, no biggie.
Can’t replicate that on a V3. What camera did you test this on?
Edit - Same result on a V4
V3, I will try it again just to be sure I’m not hallucinating 
I tested it on a V4 yesterday, recording continues on the SD, just not tagged on time line.
I was definitely hallucinating 
Recordings off produces no footage on SD card. Sorry for false report.
EDIT: Same results on V4
I have the opposite result.
In order to test no-cloud, SD-events-only case, I have to reformat the SD card to delete previous recordings. Formatting doesn’t clear the previous smart-icons on the SD timeline.
Another proof that Wyze doesn’t really test its releases.