Always recording

[yelloguy2]

Hi,

I have an Amcrest HDSeries 720P WiFi Wireless IP Security Surveillance Camera System IPM-721S (Silver) since Feb of this year. I have not been able to set it up to always record the video to either an SD Card or a network share. I can see the video on my phone app and I have been able to login to the browser interface and change setting that way. I have been able to set motion alerts but that is not very useful for my requirements. What I would like to do is simple:

1. Have the camera always recording. Bonus, if the camera can only record during waking hours and NOT during nights.
2. Copy all the recordings to a network share. I have a Windows share that is always available on the same network. I can access it using //192.168.1.1/shared/video or //routername/shared/video on my laptop. But I don't know how to set it up on the camera. Failing this, I have a 32gb microSD card in the camera. I don't really know how much video that can accomodate but I wouldn't mind if it was 3-7 days. I could either lose the older video automatically or back it up manually to the share myself.

I have set the schedule to always record for all weekdays. But I don't think it is recording anything. I can't see any files on the iPhone app or the web UI. I have not tried connecting the microSD card back to the computer.

Thanks for any help. Amcrest support emails were pretty useless.

[homeuser22]

I just signed up to post this exact question! I'm using the IP2M-841 and it's been (relatively) trouble free since I've had it (I have 12 of them). However, since the last firmware was pushed a couple of weeks ago I've been having constant issues. Time being wrong and now this.

When I try to set the schedule to always record (general) and click save, I get a save error on the web page. Same using the App.

I can't even get it to save motion clips like it used to. I've tried resetting the camera and re-formatting the SD card.

I hate to get so upset but the camera was working JUST FINE until you guys pushed that ridiculous update--who's only function I can see was to enable your pay-cloud service.

[ricg]

First time owner here and mine has the latest update from 9/8. Is there a way to go back to a previous firmware?
btw i saw that same issue you reported.

[Melvin]

Hello yelloguy2,

Its possible to have the camera record 24/7 to the Sd card. You can schedule this from the camera web interface on a PC under set up > Storage > Schedule. If the network share is accessible from PC, it can be set up to record there using the Amcrest Surveillance Pro software. For this, you need to leave the computer running all the time with the software. If you have a NAS like WD cloud with FTP support you can also set it to record 24/7 without a computer as well. Please find the link for Amcrest Surveillance Pro below. You can contact our support team if you have additional questions or need any help.

https://amcrest.com/contacts