I recently bought and setup an IPC-HDW5231R-ZE and I can't figure out why it won't record to the SD card. I'm not finding any clues as to why. I've checked the scheduled settings and they are set to record but when I go to the playback nothing is there.
That happened to me on one of my cams; I performed a factory reset and that fixed he problem. It was still on the “bench” (not mounted), so it wasn’t too big of a pain.
Well it was either the "factory default" option or the fact that I unselected general and alarm for the record schedule, but it's now working. Now I can hope to get this set up in time to capture the morons in my neighborhood chucking m80's and shooting bottle rockets into the trees. Thanks.