Remove the 9 day (or 100GB) limitation on continuous recording for the V3 cams. Large SD cards up to 256GB are common now that the cameras support exFAT, and even if unofficially supported, are being used in these cameras. 9 days is not enough history for many common camera applications, and motion detection is not reliable or consistent enough to remove the need for continuous recording. Seems like these cameras were updated to support a larger file system, but never removed this 9 or 10 day limitation (or it may be about 100GB limitation, cannot tell for sure). [Mod Note]: Request was moved to this category as your request is satisfied by existing functionality.

@SlabSlayer I have tried testing everything from the list you provided, including using a range extender right next to the bedroom window cam. which shouldn’t be needed as the router is less than 6 feet from the extender. I have checked this on 128 and 256 Gig cards SanDisk HIGH ENDURANCE Video Monitoring for Dashcams & Home Monitoring 256 GB microSDXC Memory Cards in both the important cams I have. Ok, the really weird thing is this, and please understand I can reproduce this 100% on all 3 cams. The problems of freezing/buffering only occurs on playback that is exactly less than 1 hour old. Anything older than exactly 60 minutes plays back fine with no freeze or buffering. This is the reason I asked for users to test playback on recordings under 60 minutes old. Again, I state that this is 100% reproducible on my end. Jeremy

I believe you are reproducing it. I watched the videos you posted. Yes… Weird that it is only on file transitions within the current hour. My theory: The cam read or app play is having issues with the transition between adjacent video files located only in the currently indexed (newest and active) hour video folder (named on a 24 hour format). Because it is only happening within the currently indexed folder that is still being actively written to and read from simultaniously, it may be a FAT issue for the cam to read and write to the current folder and causes a conflict with two way data transfer.

I tried pinching the timescale but wasn’t paying attention to the time displayed, …I was rather focusing on the white vertical bars that were not moving which made me think it wasn’t changing the time scale. :smile: I’m OK now and after changing the timeline to one minute increments, I can still see the issue occurring at the same place. Will resume testing later today when I have some time available Thanks

I just tested the new 255GB EXFAT card in the newly upgraded Beta FW cam which is within its first hour of recording. It transitioned over the X:00 minute mark smoothly. The top of the hour 1 minute skip is still there. One interesting observation I made is that there is regularly a fluctuation in the data transfer rate that seems to coincide with the seconds time progression of the watermark timer. As each second clicks off, the data rate drops from 87.x KB/s to 47.x KB/s. My other V3 on ẞFW FAT32 remains steady in the 145+ KB/s range BUT… It is located close to a range extender whereas the new EXFAT cam is using the extender from a greater distance with significant barriers. Would be interested to see what the data rate does when this anomaly presents.

@SlabSlayer I can confirm mine drops from 118kps to 0kps in 2 or 3 decrements. More than happy to post a video clip to show this Jeremy

@SlabSlayer in fact you can see this here on a previous posting :- [image] Wyze Cam v3 & Cam Pan v2 Firmware Beta Test 9/8/2022 Beta Thanks for the feedback. For the floodlight cam, do you mind factory resetting it and try to update to the beta firmware again? If it’s still offline after update, could you please help us get some SD card log files? Thank you very much. Jeremy

Hi all, any updates on this beta going into production soon? I have several cameras impacted by the ~90gb limit on my 256gb SD cards. When can we expect this to be ready to download via the normal update process?

This feature was fixed several releases ago and is available on the current production release of firmware for the V3 cams.

Hi SlabSlayer, I’m very confused by this reply. My Wyze Cam v3 on firmware 4.36.9.139 (May 2022) is still stuck at 87.94GB recording on a 256gb SD card. Based on the comments above by carverofchoice, I understood that the fix was going into public beta in August. So how was this fixed several releases ago?

The new firmware 4.36.10.2864 (November 2, 2022) is out, but according to their change log, they are doing a rolling push over two weeks, so it might take some time before you receive it. I am also waiting for the same firmware for all my V3 camera.

V3 camera - allow continuous recording more than 9 days

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@SlabSlayer in fact you can see this here on a previous posting :-

Jeremy

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V3 camera - allow continuous recording more than 9 days

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