I have an Argos pro 3 camera at the front of the house, that i have schedule set to only record during a small number of hours at night. During the day the area has quite a high volume of traffic. I have noticed that the camera still powers up outside the schedule every time movement is detected, it determines that there is no need to record, and it powers down again. You can see this as in the evening time, when it is dark, but still outside my schedule time, the infrared leds power up on movement. This is draining the battery even with the larger solar panel fitted.

I think this is silly, a battery camera should prioritise battery capacity, and so it is a lttle mad that the camera will power up on every movement, when there is no need to do so.

Do any of the latest generation battery cameras NOT do this. i.e. fully honour the schedule and therefore do not waste battery power outside the scheduled time ?

Regards
Ian

@joseph_1979

Nope, all three cameras are connected to solar panels, none are connected to a charging adapter

If I use the app to set a schedule when I don't want to record, the camera STILL powers up during that time when it detects movement, it just doesn't record. You can see it happening at night, the infrared leds power up. On a battery camera, this is a waste of battery, especially if there are multiple movements during that time, which may be the very reason why I've set it to not record.

So why does the camera still power-up (at least the infra-red leds) when it detects movement during a time period that is outside the recording schedule.

I have an Argus Pro, and Argus 3 Pro and an Argus PT.

All have solar panels, yet they charging icons are all different. See the attached picture.
The argus pro is showing 100% full, with a sun beside it, and the battery is showing green, but with a power symbol inside it.
The argus 3 pro is also showing full, with a sun beside it, but the battery is showing Blue, with no power symbol inside it.
The argus PT shows a power symbol where the others show sun, and also shows green. Its only at 99%, but even when at 100% it shows the power symbol.

Why all the different symbols, and colours

@reolink-fiona

Thank you for that, again that explains a lot. You would need to advise people of this, as most would clearly think that cloud recording would be based on the same schedules and AI filters as the SD recording. As it is, Cloud recording on can result in appreciable more battery usage than with it off, depending on the AI filters.

@reolink-fiona

Thank you for the explanation.

In relation to cloud recording, I am find some recordings on the cloud service that should not be there, i.e. they occured at times that I have excluded camera recording, and there is no equivalent recording on the SD card.

Can you advise how it is possible to have cloud recordings triggered and stored, without having recordings on the local SD card. I would expect that cloud would only have recordings that have also been stored on the SD card.

@imcneill_467871306096807

Also further to the above, if PIR detected is a pre-requisite for recording to be triggered, if the PIR is turned off in the settings, how does recording get triggered.

Can someone please clarify how the detection system works in the 3 pro. There are various settings. I note that the PIR spec says it is good for a max of 9 meters and is better picking up transverse movement than movement towards the camera, I understand this.

To be clear, does there need to be detection by the PIR initially for any possible activation of recording/notification, i.e. is it PIR first and then the detection AI kicks in to determine if it is a person/vehicle/other and the rules determin if it should be ignored.. In other words, can recording be triggered by the AI alone, or must the PIR have detected something first ?

Hi there,

I have a schedule set for recording and the same schedule set for notifications. Can you advise why the status light (blue light) lights up if it detects movement outside of the schedule, I have similarly noted that the infrared leds also light up outside of schedule. Given it has been told neither to record not to notify, one one assume the camera would be it its most power-frugal mode during times when it can not possible record or notify ?