Does the camera upload immediately upon sensing motion or is there a lag, what happens if some one disables the camera will it not transmit?
2091027
There is a lag and it seems to vary. The camera restarts on its own if the power is interrupted but has to reconnect to the router and that does take maybe a minute or even 2 but it does come back up as soon as it can get online.
2091028
The camera does upload as it is recording. If the camera is disabled, it will not upload anything new.
2091029
Hi the camera is recording all the time !! When it sees an alarm it keeps a time before and after alarm !! If it's been disabled it will not work if you lost Internet its lost the time it go's off till the time it gos back on !! The best you can do is have a back up eg with a card and a E M P S ( emergency power supply) but it is a good system !!!!
2108664
No. It is motion activated. You set it up leave it and it only takes pics and video when something moves in front of it day or night
2179587
Hello... This particular camera does not automatically follow and focus on motion detected objects. There are cameras on the market that do, but those are very spendy.
655375
The camera is triggered by motion of humans or animals. If the sensor has not been triggered the camera will remain in sleep mode. This camera has the ability to do both video and photos.
1421835
I don't notice any significant lag. It connects wirelessly instead of via infrared. That may help reduce the lag. I'm running it on a TiVo Premiere.
843651
It will stop recording 30 seconds after it stops sensing motion. I hope that helps take care.
934515
Its motion activated. Says so right on the box. PIR Motion activated, that's infared tech. I have tested it (only at 12 ft) in every lighting condition (none, cross light, and light behind person) and it just works great. I have my set to take photos only when triggered by movement.
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Hi Elena,In my case it depended on my settings; once I set the camera to email photo files every time a motion was detected, I found that it almost instantly prompts emails that contain photos. Depending on your connection and your memory allocation on your mobile phone or computer, you should be able to start and accumulate sequential shots during and after the incident. I tested the camera after I set and activated it before I left the house; since I was the only one in the space at the time, the motion detector picked up all my moves instantly and I had received almost 5 emails on my mobile phone even before I had gotten out the door. I hope this helps. Hi Elena,In my case it depended on my settings; once I set the camera to email photo files every time a motion was detected, I found that it almost instantly prompts emails that contain photos. Depending on your connection and your memory allocation on your mobile phone or computer, you should be able to start and accumulate sequential shots during and after the incident. I tested the camera after I set and activated it before I left the house; since I was the only one in the space at the time, the motion detector picked up all my moves instantly and I had received almost 5 emails on... » Read More Hi Elena,In my case it depended on my settings; once I set the camera to email photo files every time a motion was detected, I found that it almost instantly prompts emails that contain photos. Depending on your connection and your memory allocation on your mobile phone or computer, you should be able to start and accumulate sequential shots during and after the incident. I tested the camera after I set and activated it before I left the house; since I was the only one in the space at the time, the motion detector picked up all my moves instantly and I had received almost 5 emails on my mobile phone even before I had gotten out the door. I hope this helps. « Show Less
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I find that there is no lag time, or lag time of perhaps 1/10th of a second. Perhaps there is a lag time involving focus, but if you focus the camera and then press the button there is no lag time.
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I think what may help is motion detection. I already asked the tech support guy and he said they are working towards this functionality. I would think it be done soon over the next release or two. So far my camera works great so over all its a good by. good luck ;)
1560813
there is about a 1 second delay with taking pictures; at least, it is when i'm trying to take a picture of my dog. there is a mode to place the camera in for pets; i tried it once. i do believe there was still a delay but the picture wasn't blurry. hope this helps.
289145
The camera is independent from the transmitter and the on/off procedure is awkward and primitive. The camera is activated manually by a tiny button (push once) on the side of the quad.. The button (pushed again) turns the camera off. It's video only. No still photos.
689091
The camera has motion detection built in but the notification is via email (it actually sends a few screenshots of what set it off in the notification which is nice). If you have your email setup with push notifications or periodic fetching then it'll pop up on your phone that way.
596145
It must be defective because mine works all of the time. Since I have had the camera I only had one incident. I unplugged the camera and restarted it and have never had another problem.
1374748
All digital cameras that I have used do have that "lag". It is focusing and that takes a bit of time. You can help by pressing slightly on the button until it is focused and then it will have very little lag. Try that, do not push it all the way down, just half way and watch the picture. when the square changes to green press the button the rest of the way down and it should have eliminated the lag. Good luck with it, I sure like mine.
1948135
Mine is about 3 seconds unless I hold but don't push the button then I control when it takes it and there is no lag.... Very good STARTER camera....
2166189
The pass through has no delay that I can detect, but the USB capture is delayed. I was able to demo a video game that required quick reflexes pretty much as was normal, I wasn't noticing that any more movements were delayed or that things seemed to happen too fast for me to react.