Hello everyone, I’m new here. I bought a Wyze Cam Pan V3 almost a month ago, and initially, I used a 128GB SanDisk Ultra memory card. At first, it recorded well, capturing about 4GB per day. However, when about 64GB had been used, the videos and events saved in the timeline started to lag, as if the video was freezing, which was quite inconvenient. I assumed it was due to the memory card’s performance.
After researching memory cards, I learned about the different classes and their specific uses. I ended up buying a 256GB SanDisk High Endurance card. But even after just one day of recording, it had already used 10GB, which is more than double the previous usage, and it still had the same lag issue as the previous card, even though it hasn’t reached half its capacity. It’s important to mention that the lag is shown both in the live view and in the timeline. I’ve also updated to the latest firmware. I’m wondering if anyone else has encountered this problem or if it’s normal? If not, unfortunately, I’ll have to return the camera.
It should work with either card and should record the same amount of data per minute either way, these cams do not need high speed cards, and both of those cards are good endurance rated cards (the High Endurance being a bit better, but both should last a long time).
Are you using continuous recording or event-only? If continuous, 10-15GB/day is what it should record. If using event recording it will obviously depend on how many events get recorded. It records about 10MB per minute, will vary a bit based on the complexity of what it is looking at.
I have two Pan v3s, one has a very strong wifi signal and is smooth, one is on the edge of usable wifi and usually works fine, but some days and times it will lag. So your issue sounds like a connectivity one, either the wifi signal is too weak or 2.4ghz is congested in your area. If it is congestion, changing your wifi channel may help. There are some other settings in the router that can be tried too.
The more events on the card, the more data has to pass back and forth to index the timeline, which could explain why it seems to be more problematic once the card is filling up.
"The strange thing is that the SanDisk Ultra was recording 4 GB per day, and now that I switched to the High Endurance, it’s recording 10 GB per day. I’ve used the same continuous recording settings on both. It could be due to Wi-Fi, but I’ll mention that I tested both memory cards at the same distance. Could you tell me what settings you use on your cameras? And what type of memory card do you have? Do you record continuously or only events? Do you also experience lag when the memory is filling up, both in the timeline and the live view?
Settings and wifi don’t matter when it comes to how many gigs per day it records to the SD card. That is basically hardcoded into the camera from the time you first turn it on. The only thing you can change is continuous vs. events only. 4GB per day is not normal for continuous so perhaps that card was bad and it stopped writing at some point. Or maybe it for some reason said continuous but was only recording events.
Continuous is fine, that’s what I use, as long as your SD cards are rated for it, which both of the ones you tried are.
Only other possible explanation is that if the cam loses wifi for a certain amount of time, it reboots and starts recording to a hidden directory until it gets wifi signal back. Once it is able to set its time again, it starts recording to the normal part of the SD card. That may affect how much the camera “thinks” it has written to the card.
I do not have any difference in performance whether my 128GB cards are freshly formatted or completely full. So a poor wifi signal could potentially explain both symptoms.