I get around 10 to 12 days (260 to 280 hours) of continuous recording on my 128GB micro SD card recording 1080p on my V3 camera.
It doesn’t record anything when you turn off the camera.
Your camera needs to be able online to access playback footage in the app, but there’s a few caveat on this one too. If you are within the same local network (WiFi) then you can technically access the playback footage without internet as long as you stay within camera livestream on the app. I believe if you exit out of the app then you won’t be able to connect afterwards. Perhaps someone can confirm this as I haven’t thoroughly tested this.
It’s more accurate to say the camera will record no matter what as long as you have power even without internet, but a few things may make it seem like it doesn’t record.
- Situation 1: Camera was working, but internet goes down and comes back up 2 hours later. Once internet is restored, you can playback the footage in the app even with those 2 hours.
- Situation 2: Camera was working, but internet goes down and you immediately unplug / plug the camera and internet comes back up 2 hours later. Once internet is restored, you can’t playback the missing 2 hour footage in the app.
- Situation 3: Camera was working, but internet & power goes out. Power comes back on almost immediately, but internet comes back on 2 hours later. Once internet is restored, you can’t playback the missing 2 hour footage in the app.
- Situation 4: No internet and you power on the camera. Once internet is restored, you can’t playback footage in the app.
Situation 2 and 3 may seem very similar, but Situation 2 was self induced so remember to don’t do that. There’s probably more situation to this, but I think you get the idea. The camera needs to first establish an internet connection with a NTP server to provide the proper timestamp and record into the correct folders. Afterwards, Wyze’s app relies the recordings being in the correct folder to align the footage chronologically.
If it can’t establish an internet connection to a NTP server, then it will start recording into a random folder with a random timestamp. Your only choice will be then physically removing the micro SD to view the footage in a PC or phone.
Please note OG doesn’t behave the same way as other cameras. They still have the same limitation as above, but with one more limitation. After 30 minutes of internet outage, then it starts recording into another folder even without power cycle / power outage or etc.