Motion Detects, Video Records, Get Notified - No Action in Recorded Video

[80sTiger]

Everything is working OK for the most part, but when I check a recorded 10-second (default) video from a recorded motion activity (for which I was properly notified), the activity is already over ... I'm thinking maybe it started recording too late after the activity was completed ? I got 10 seconds of my backyard recorded but with nothing going on. What's up with that ? Thx.

[BansheeRider]

How high is your motion sensor setting?

[80sTiger · Accepted solution]

80, the default. I cranked up the recording time to 30 seconds from 10, and tested the exact same motion and it got most of it then, with about a 2 second delay from wake-from-sleep.

[JustLearning]

Mine are set to maximum recording time, but I still have this problem. It was fine before. Now I have motion detected, the camera records and the video shows an apparently empty room, in a property that was meant to be empty at the time. This is more than one camera. When I first got them, they would record a person walking into the room, now they record after that person has left!

[jguerdat]

You may have bad cameras if you're recording in an empty room.  Of course, make sure that IR bouncing off walls from sunlight isn't causing the issue - maybe stick them in a dark room to verify.

Delayed recording can also be a symptom of weak WiFi between the camera and base.  Just something to check.