Does this camera offer local recording? I noticed it wasn’t an option in the settings menu. For example, it should probably give you an option to record 24/7
@@Van_City so then what is the SD card used for? I thought it was for 24/7 recording and then it loops… isn’t the solar panel supposed to give it unlimited battery power so that it’s possible? I’m confused about why they would use an SD card when you could just save events directly to your phone as it’s connected already via wifi.
I have an AOSU 360° Solar C9C camera. The camera lacks true security features. The first being a 60 second event recording limit even with a 128GB memory card installed and set up to only record locally(not that local or cloud recording should be a factor in limiting the camera to 60 seconds local max). Imagine it picks up someone hopping your back fence and walking towards your home slowly opps it stops recording / fails to continue to track. or they pace back and forth then begin to walk up to or around your car oops 60 seconds is up. Other times if the subject pauses for a moment, is moving directly toward or away from the camera and even if there is movement across it view the camera just stops recording. This is even for recordings way below the 60 second max. which most recordings are. The camera has no option to force it to continue recording a motion event for the full 60 seconds or for another 5 seconds (or 10 or 20) after it thinks motion has stopped - this is standard on "security cameras". Another standard "security camera" feature is the ability to pre-record. What that means is the camera is buffering a few seconds of what it is looking at (usually 2-5 seconds) and when an event is triggered it uses the pre-recorded video as the beginning of the recorded event. This ability allows you to see what happened before the detector picked up motion (out of range of the motion detector) or if the camera had a detection zone (and a home zone) and you had blocked some swaying branches... As for the home zone it is where you want the camera looking at all the time. Such as your car or front door (the camera does seem to return after tracking to where you had set it to look at but not every time). These features have been available for years on inexpensive ($35 or less) wireless cameras. What made me purchase the camera was the true wireless nature of solar. After 4 cloudy days the camera continued to function. The night vision is ok - if you have street lights around your home turn it off. The lights that can turn on are bright considering. Unfortunately, key security features are missing. I can't state how important it is to be able to increase or record an event in its entirety. But I know this will leave you very frustrated when there is an incident that was partially recorded or missed entirely. I got what I paid for and most unfortunately missed my return window. I will also mention there is not any documentation of its settings and forget about the tech support people offering any explanation of what settings it does have no matter how many times you ask or send examples of missing events. From what I have read all the cameras in this class are the same. Let's call them "Good Luck Cameras" . Good luck getting some usable video when something happens.
Great review Dan. That is one feature packed security camera, I like the active tracking feature! cheers for sharing buddy 👍💯🍻
Thanks Dave, it sure is a great camera with all the features it offers
Another cool Solar camera! Love mine!
Thanks Brad appreciate you stopping by 👍💯
cool solor powered camera and great review
Glad you liked it 👍💯
Does this camera offer local recording? I noticed it wasn’t an option in the settings menu. For example, it should probably give you an option to record 24/7
No it doesn’t offer 24/7 recording
@@Van_City so then what is the SD card used for? I thought it was for 24/7 recording and then it loops… isn’t the solar panel supposed to give it unlimited battery power so that it’s possible?
I’m confused about why they would use an SD card when you could just save events directly to your phone as it’s connected already via wifi.
I have an AOSU 360° Solar C9C camera. The camera lacks true security features. The first being a 60 second event recording limit even with a 128GB memory card installed and set up to only record locally(not that local or cloud recording should be a factor in limiting the camera to 60 seconds local max). Imagine it picks up someone hopping your back fence and walking towards your home slowly opps it stops recording / fails to continue to track. or they pace back and forth then begin to walk up to or around your car oops 60 seconds is up. Other times if the subject pauses for a moment, is moving directly toward or away from the camera and even if there is movement across it view the camera just stops recording. This is even for recordings way below the 60 second max. which most recordings are. The camera has no option to force it to continue recording a motion event for the full 60 seconds or for another 5 seconds (or 10 or 20) after it thinks motion has stopped - this is standard on "security cameras". Another standard "security camera" feature is the ability to pre-record. What that means is the camera is buffering a few seconds of what it is looking at (usually 2-5 seconds) and when an event is triggered it uses the pre-recorded video as the beginning of the recorded event. This ability allows you to see what happened before the detector picked up motion (out of range of the motion detector) or if the camera had a detection zone (and a home zone) and you had blocked some swaying branches... As for the home zone it is where you want the camera looking at all the time. Such as your car or front door (the camera does seem to return after tracking to where you had set it to look at but not every time). These features have been available for years on inexpensive ($35 or less) wireless cameras. What made me purchase the camera was the true wireless nature of solar. After 4 cloudy days the camera continued to function. The night vision is ok - if you have street lights around your home turn it off. The lights that can turn on are bright considering. Unfortunately, key security features are missing. I can't state how important it is to be able to increase or record an event in its entirety. But I know this will leave you very frustrated when there is an incident that was partially recorded or missed entirely. I got what I paid for and most unfortunately missed my return window. I will also mention there is not any documentation of its settings and forget about the tech support people offering any explanation of what settings it does have no matter how many times you ask or send examples of missing events. From what I have read all the cameras in this class are the same. Let's call them "Good Luck Cameras" . Good luck getting some usable video when something happens.
Thanks for the review