@joseph-chircop_497308027822318 Thanks for your advice. Yes, SD card was formatted. Even several times while in the camera.

With respect to cloud, I am trying to use Basic cloud plan and so far am getting message "device is bound to another account". Not too sure what it means, but I have not spent too much time investigating it. Any help on how to "unbind" camera to make it available for cloud binding will be appreciated.

Sorry, scratch the last point. I just realised that camera was shared to another phone. After deleting it there, I can now add it to cloud plan.

Cloud recordings are better. They seem to be always 8 sec regardless of the camera recording duration setting.

I have an Argus 2E camera recording to an SD card. It detects motion and sends alerts OK. However, in most cases my recordings are very short. Most of the time 4 seconds. I have changed the recording time to 30 sec in the settings, but it makes no difference.
Why does camera stop recording so quickly after successfully detecting motion?