Recording to the SD card is completely independent of the 12 sec notification clips.
Say there is motion at your door like you say, and it trips the cameras motion detection. The camera then records and then send you a 12 second clip for notification purposes. Now the 5 minutes cool down starts, and you won’t get another 12 second clip til that 5 mins is up
If you had continuous recording enabled to your sd card, you can take the time stamp from the 12 second clip and go to that time in the playback to view what else occured at, and after that time. In my personal opinion, I highly recommend continuous recording. There is also motion recording to your sd, where it saves a clip from the minute that the motion occured.
Playback can be viewed from anywhere your device data allows it with the Wyze app. A way around the 5 minute cool down is to use a Wyze sence motion detector, that once it detects motion is alarmed (in rules you can set it up to trigger various things). It takes about 45 seconds for the motion detector to clear before it can trigger again. So you know if you motion is not clearing, something is still moving.
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