Hello,
I just had a request from the Police for 2 hours for my main V3 cam,
What is the procedure to record the 2 hours ?
Do I have to stay in from of my app on the phone and press record ?
Many Thanks,
Does your v3 have an SD card and if so, is the SD card set to Continuous Recording? Also, let us know if you have Cam Plus, Cam Plus Lite or No Subscription at all.
Your answers to the above questions will determine how and what videos you can give to police.
I use 32GB SD cards set to Continuous Recording and get about 3.5 days of stored videos before being over-written.
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I think your answers may depend upon
- the nature of the request,
- whether or not you choose to honor it, and
- how you’re currently recording footage.
If the answer to #3 is continuous recording on microSD and you choose to comply with the request, then the easiest path is likely to pull the microSD card from the device, copy the files from the requested time block to CD-R, and hand that over. If you do that, then you’ll want to keep a few things in mind:
- The camera may have a procedure for safely ejecting the microSD card. I don’t have a Cam v3, but on my other cameras the procedure is something like this: From the camera’s Live Stream screen, tap Settings ➜ Advanced Settings ➜ Manage MicroSD Card ➜ Eject MicroSD Card.
- When you pull the microSD card and insert it into a PC to copy the footage (to CD-R, USB flash drive, or whatever)…
there should be a folder in the root directory called “record”
⤷ filled with dated “YYYYMMDD” folders
⤷ and inside each of those should be 24 different hour folders, “00”-“23”
⤷ and inside each of those should be 60 different minute files, “00.mp4”-“59.mp4”.
You can use those dates and times to determine which footage you want to copy. For a two-hour block of time, you’ll be copying roughly two of the hour folders (depending on the requested start and end times) and 120 total 1-minute files.
If you’re not continuously recording to microSD, then you may not have the footage to provide, but I don’t know what the instructions would be if you’re saving/accessing recordings only via subscription (Cam Plus, etc.).
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People still use CD-R? 
I think I just barely threw away like spindles of 100-200 totally unused CD-Rs that I’ve had for more than a decade (got them free during some Black Friday mania long ago). They were never getting used and everybody I asked said they would never use them, so I finally just got rid of them (I might have sent them to a Thrift store instead of trash…hard to remember). I seriously couldn’t even give them away to my nerdy tech friends, and many of the youngsters didn’t even know what CD-R’s were, let alone have a CD ±R/W drive (I haven’t used one in so long, I recently had to go buy an external drive to access some old photos stored on a CD).
I would personally probably zip the files together and upload them to a file site that gives a link the LEO’s could then download the files from. But it might be easier to ask them if they have a flash drive you could load it onto instead or something. If you’re doing them the favor, then you shouldn’t have to give away your own flash drive. Though, personally I wouldn’t trust plugging in someone else’s flash drive to my computer. I would definitely do an upload site myself.
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I have a microSD 128 gig card with the cam plus lite. It records continuously.
The police don’t want a cd or USB key.
They want me to share it with them on file sharing website.
Thanks,
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Even though it is mentioned above since you replied to me I will recap. I would take the 120 one minute video clips and Zip them into one file to a file sharing site. You should be able to put the v3 SD card into a computer to grab all 120 video clips.
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Yeah, that’s exactly my point: For me, the one time I’ve supplied home security camera footage to law enforcement, the officer who requested the video said I could deliver it on a CD or flash drive. I didn’t want to give up a flash drive, and the CD-Rs I already have, so they’re cheap and available, and I didn’t mind burning files to one of those and dropping it off at the local patrol station.
When managing other security cameras and DVRs was part of a previous job and we had a law enforcement request for footage, I’d usually crop to the relevant video for that and burn it to disc for them to take away, as well.
You mean you can’t just throw it up on YouTube? 
I concur with what others have said about just zipping the files into an archive and doing a single upload that way. They should have access to software that can stitch them together, if needed.
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I even have some CD-RW.
I have loads of thumb drives.
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I would use Dropsend. It provides a link or you can email the link to an address. Send files for free up to 4GB.
I did keep all the blank CD-RWs I had, I just couldn’t justify storing hundreds of CD-Rs anymore. I’m sure I still have a few though.
Me too. Most of them are relatively tiny though.
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The police uses https://fromsmash.com.
Thanks for help, I did the upload.
The longest was checking my app every 5 minutes.
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Fantastic. Might as well use what is offered.
I have sent entire movies by email. (None were sent over state lines.)
I have varying sizes. Prefer 128GB/256. Works great as a drive D to free up my SSD C drive.
Also works great on Roku for anything downloaded on YouTube to avoid commercials.
Also works great in car to hold personal music.
I do like how you can boot an entire OS on USB.
Many options.
A couple months ago I threw over 70 100MB zip drives disks in the trash. Half were still sealed in wrapper. A zip drive is expensive on Amazon.
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Back in the day when Iomega Zip Drives were popular, I bought a Syquest SparQ drive because I needed to move big files back and forth from home and work. SparQ disks were 1GB.
“Time marches on”.
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Wow. It sure does.
My old work PC had 10MB cartridges. I collected 10. Each had a version of DOS and loads of apps. Later Bernoulli drives with 100MB arrived. We were amazed.
Btw, did you see Spinrite is back? We used to use Spinrite to change drive interleaves. Now it works on SSDs.
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I love Steve Gibson’s (the creator of SpinRite) Security Now podcast. I never miss an episode.
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I probably have a zip drive disk here somewhere with no zip drive. We’re all old. 
I’m sure there are a lot of things now that will basically be similar jokes in a couple of decades.
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Only jokes us old folks will understand. 
