From what I'm reading with Q&As, this camera is 'on' 24/7 and I cannot set it to record photos or video only at night. Is this correct?
1085754
That's exactly what I understand. Mine never worked so I don't have practical experience.
1085755
Yes, there is no setting for it to only run at night. I was very happy with the way the camera worked though, and I had the camera up for a month and a half and the batteries weren't down any more than 50%.
1492385
There is a setting for that. I no longer use that camera, but I remember that you can disable that. Check in all settings, maybe some setting about clock.
341342
Yes but then what the point. It will only capture pictures during the day. The night pictures will be all black
1539284
I leave my camera plugged in 24/7 and it works perfectly. I have to periodically readjust the camera position because it gets moved when we do housecleaning.
841260
If you want to keep recording at night with engine off, you should hotwire to battery directly, have a large enough memory and make sure you tether the cam with your computer and make sure it's on continuous since the default is little event when your vehicle stop suddenly or when you go over a bump. Hope that helps
2265767
Night recording is pretty dim. It works, but if hours of darkness recording was a priority for me I wouldn't have kept it.
1558868
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.
951330
Hey. This camera hasn't battery - this is car recorder, you should use in car usb charger. It's very dark in evening times. And video has a lot of graininess after sunset. I'm not recomend you buy this camera
729321
It's just a camera, no sensors no recording. My dvr allows me to set it to only record when there's motion but that is based on when the picture changes not any sensors
2254096
Mine is not the one pictured here but that is the right middle number. Even when I have told people it has a camera they are not positive where it is located on it. All you see is a small hole that could be for anything. Low light it is possible to see but not good. It does not have night vision so you would need to set up lighting. I have a motion light in one area and for another I have night vision light in the other. As for recording. Any security dvr will work fine, you just need to keep it hidden where you know ppl are not going to look. Most dvrs require a monitor. But after it is setup you can remove monitor and just use a smart phone or computer terminal. Choose a dvr you can get answers on for setting up. They can be hard even for a techy
277088
As of now I think its over 3 days but I have my DVR set to reset itself. So I'm not too sure. Everything is still working but as for the night seeing part of the camera's It could be better. With my outside lights on it works good. You can always put the video of all 4 camera's onto a usb card. I have done that many times watching my lawn guys cutting my grass. LOL..
214312
I'm not sure. I have never been able to find a setting that would turn it on during video recording and now we don't use it more than once a year so the battery is dead. It would make sense that there should be a setting that would let you turn on the light during video; maybe the company's website has the user manual PDF download...? Good luck
2275360
This can be turned on/off via the settings. But it has no function, so if the camera is working it doesn't matter.
1115323
Make sure your camera has night vision or its a waste of time. Camera should detect night time auto. If no night vision, forget this
1769348
Yes, it has good capability to capture photo at night during video capture simultaniously. I was in a indoor function, my battery was down for my still camera. i took photo using this. it was good. But dont expect like a SLR one.
274253
It will not record through the window AT NIGHT. The lights on it shine off the window. It works just fine during the day through the window. Better without the screen, but still is fine with the screen. I love this camera in every other way.
838376
It's a dvr it's not suppose to turn off, it needs to be recording at all times