I use a new TEAMGROUP A2 Pro Plus 512GB micro SD card with a new WYZE Battery Cam Pro for 9 days. The first 6 days of continous recording had no problem at all. Then on the 7th day, it stopped recording at near evening. There’s no recordings for 8th and 9th day. Then further inspection, random recordings of the 8th day were mixed into the 7th day and there were tons of .TMP files, which i have no idea whats that. I just got this brand new camera for 1 month. Is it that the 512 GB is too big capacity since their site does not have anything beyond 256 GB ? Or is there something wrong with card ?
Have you tried formatting your 512GB card in exFAT instead of FAT32?
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Pretty low end brand of SD card for continuous recording (and many other uses as well).
Pull the card and format it with sd card formatter from sdcard.org and see if it works better, but it may just be a bad card. If you plan to do long term continuous recording I’d look at Samsung Pro Endurance or Sandisk High Endurance cards.
I’ve never tried a 512G card but I believe I’ve seen accounts of others doing it, but not sure about the battery cam pro. 512G will give you 6-8 weeks of continuous recording, do you really need that much?
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That card is not designed for continuous recording. Teamgroup makes high endurance cards that are rated for 20,000 hours. I have two in my latest v3 and v4. No issues since May last year.
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I formatted the card in the BATTERY CAM PRO with the WYZE app. I was told its better to be formatted with the app.
If you don’t see improved results, then maybe try doing a Full exFAT format in a computer.
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I do 2K resolution setting and sometimes may forget to pull card, so I don’t want to lose footage. I did not know TEAMGROUP is low end. But i just used the card only a few times though and it was brand new
I have had good luck with SanDidk High Endurance SD cards. My oldest SanDisk is a 32GB card set to Continuous Recording for 3 years.
Three years ago I bought a few 32GB cards because Wyze recommended manually flashing camera firmware with 32GB size cards. I figured I could use them for Continuous Recording and flashing firmware.
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Please enlighten. How does exFAT and/or FAT32 affect microSD card ?
I have read on this Wyze forum that if you are having issues with one file format (FAT32 or exFAT), trying the other format might help.
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Here is a good overview on file formats.
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BTW, can you recommend any actual UHS-2 micro SD card readers, I have tried so many but they always end up being generic 80-90 MB/s, not the proposed 100+ MB/s speeds
I just bought one of these. I can’t comment on the speed because I only use it to transfer grand-daughter pictures off of my phone. It does claim 5 Gbps.
Who told you that? Their internal formatter has had issues from time to time. With mine, I’ve found that after initial format in a PC (I use the SD card formatter utility but even the OS format should work fine, as long as it is set to exFAT), then formatting using the Wyze app is ok. BUT my cards are a max 128G. 512G may always have to be formatted in a computer.
At 2K resolution, a 512G card will save at least 6 weeks, probably closer to 8, of continuous recordings. Probably a bit excessive.
exFAT is more efficient and once you go above 32GB some devices will not work correctly with FAT32.
In many cases the reader is capable, but the card is not (the specs on the card are perfect condition maximums, like one really large file, once you start transferring multiple smaller files like the wyze clips, it will slow way down).
Can also run into USB limitations and PC limitations also, keep in mind your PC is likely virus scanning each file, etc.
100+MB/sec from a Micro SD card is asking a lot.
Guess I have been lucky. I only format my µSD in the cam since 2019. 