can you turn off certain cameras while leaving others on? Also does this have no recording unless detects movement or locates a person or something?
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It can record in motion detect only. What do you means turn off the cameras? If you take out the power of the camera, it will have no signal to the DVR so it won't record. or you means you want the camera still on but it doesn't shows on the screen?
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This is one of eight cameras i have. This one is high in the front of my house. Not very good res., and it does not set off the motion detector. Sorry.
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the motion detect is basically there to help with space on your memory card/internal. if it is set to on and you pull up to a light/get stuck in traffic, it will stop recording after a short time of no movement. one you start moving again, it will begin recording again. it will not record when the vehicle is turned off and the camera is off and there is movement. this camera doesn't have the parking features that other cameras have.
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When your camera is turned on, your camera is uploading video to our servers if you have CVR service enabled. If you only have Live Streaming, the camera will only detect motion and sound events if you have those enabled, or stream live when you choose to view it. You may turn the camera off at any time in the camera's settings, either from your computer or our mobile app. Hope this helps!
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There is no on-off button. You have to plug and unplug, or turn off through device. Device should control recording.
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thanks Draven...but do you know if i can also hook up extra motion/trip sensors ? ...and does the cpu use pixel changes in camera images to detect motion that act like a trip sensor/alarm ?
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It records as soon as someone ring the doorbell. I forgot to check if it does have a motion detector. You can't access the recorded feed remotely. It is meant to show you who's outside the door when your home without peeking at the peephole plus taping it so you know who tried to visit you while you're gone. It is really a fun useful gadget. I have it in my condo in Asia. If you want to access the feed remotely and record it in an sweetdreams card, I have the security camera at the house here for that. And yes, it has a motion detector, light sensor so it can record in the dark etc. pretty much what you wanted. I can't use this in the condo since the association is pretty strict about the common space which I'm perfectly fine with. Have a great weekend.
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No, you need software to record. Good software really is key to recording and motion detection, especially on these cheaper model cameras.
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Tom, honestly I don't remember, but it will keep recording. What I love about the camera is that I can set it to record certain times or I can set it to when there's motion sensed to record. It let's you set motion zones from where you want motion to set off the camera. This is convenient because if you have pets you can set the motion zone higher off the ground to where your cats, dogs, etc won't set it off. The best part is that it records audio very well too. The only thing is because it is connected to the internet there is a 3 second delay, but to me that's not much of a con with all the other pros. I hope this helps. Tom, honestly I don't remember, but it will keep recording. What I love about the camera is that I can set it to record certain times or I can set it to when there's motion sensed to record. It let's you set motion zones from where you want motion to set off the camera. This is convenient because if you have pets you can set the motion zone higher off the ground to where your cats, dogs, etc won't set it off. The best part is that it records audio very well too. The only thing is because it is connected to the internet there is a 3 second delay, but to me that's not much of a con with all... » Read More Tom, honestly I don't remember, but it will keep recording. What I love about the camera is that I can set it to record certain times or I can set it to when there's motion sensed to record. It let's you set motion zones from where you want motion to set off the camera. This is convenient because if you have pets you can set the motion zone higher off the ground to where your cats, dogs, etc won't set it off. The best part is that it records audio very well too. The only thing is because it is connected to the internet there is a 3 second delay, but to me that's not much of a con with all the other pros. I hope this helps. « Show Less
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These cameras have very little intelligence and do pretty much what they are told. So if it is turning itself off at night then the DVR is telling it to do that. You will need to check you DVR settings and specifically the operation time. The camera is incapable of doing this on it's own.
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You can watch the camera on wifi- and I believe you can set up motion detection recording if you like. Actually viewing the cameras works much more efficiently on android or iOS platforms. I have both. They do make a decice that allows you to record up to 4 cameras onto an external hard drive. I don't have that one. The cameras work well for viewing, and the pan tilt works well also.
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You just get a digital peephole viewer where nobody on the outside can see a shadow pass over the peephole so they can't tell if somebody is watching them or not. No recording possible. Period.
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hii read that this device has a blue light that comes on to let you know it's secretly recording....if that's so then the scene or screen changes somewhat. that's something i'd notice if it came on whenever there's movement. please clarify.
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Barry! I just read now in the manual: Motion detection ON (enable) OFF (off). Try this when you connect 12 VDC to camera. It should detect motion. I never used this function either:-( Steve
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No, this camera records only when motion is detected by its internal motion detector. It has no connection for external devices.
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No I don't believe so. You can set the motion detection to alert you and then you can choose to record what is going on in view of the camera or take individual snapshots.
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No motion sensor. Also, recording pauses if you play a song. You can set it to resume when the song is over, but it's a roll of the dice. The manual claims that there are all sorts of settings and button functionalities. But they seem to work on an arbitrary basis. The only thing it does consistently is record whilst looking like a clock. I wouldn't rely on it for much else.