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Buggy not what I was expecting
Fantastic packaging and everything is so simple, everything is laid out for you instructions wise, it even has an app that lets you control the camera it’s great!
EXCEPT
Out the box this camera was buggy. I want continuous recording on an SD card and this camera is very capable of doing that and it fails miserably at it.
First issue was camera not recognizing my Sd cards I had 5 different SD cards ranging from 2gb to 128gb made by Samsung and other name brands I can’t remember but all 5 failed to be recognized by the camera.
After I updated the camera and reformatted all my sd cards the camera found them, great on to the next step.
I mounted the camera to watch a squirrel feeder and the camera comes with a 14day trial of premium or whatever, it alerts for motion detection great. First time using it worked out well, it recoded everything from before the first motion happened till whenever I told it to stop. So once I got my footage off the app I made sure the camera was still (in theory) continuously recoding and went about my day.
4 hours later “motion detected” showed me a snap shot of what was moving and I proceeded to look towards the app to see what happened or what was moving.
And boom “no video at selected time”...
Great so what I get no video of what happened or anything?
I pull the SD card and I find my first video and it plays fine it’s properly formatted and it’s in about 1 minut segments.
As for anything else after this first video which was only 4 minutes is unplayable, giving me an error on my computer it’s not formatted properly.(not sure what this is)
This is my first impression of this camera so far I will update when or if it’s necessary, I’ve seen plenty of video saying how great this thing is and everything works blah blah blah, no go look at people trying to troubleshoot this you’ll find full forums of people trying to figure this thing out. I figured wyze has their isshhh together since this is the v3.
UPDATE***
After fidgeting with the camera it would only capture the first 1/4 of the day on continuous recording then later in the day it switches to recording 1 min of every 10mins? Not sure what that is but it’s not recording everything and I’m losing patience with this thing, problems are hard to diagnose as the menu system or app is too simple and doesn’t give you any real information like a go pro would granted 30$ to 300$... either way... I can’t recommend thing if this is going to be a thing for security...
March 2021 · Electronics · verified purchase