Manual Record not appearing in Playback

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natinadaka

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Oct 3, 2022
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If I click the "Record" icon in the Live view, the icon turns orange. I leave it like this for 10-20 sec, then click it again, and it turns from orange to white/gray. If I then go to Playback view for the day in question, I don't see a manually recorded clip that I (think I) just made.

I know recording does work, though, since I turned on motion detection, created motion, went to the Playback view and saw an entry that was recorded for the motion.

Anyone else observe this? Am I doing something wrong?
 
natinadaka said:
If I click the "Record" icon in the Live view, the icon turns orange. I leave it like this for 10-20 sec, then click it again, and it turns from orange to white/gray. If I then go to Playback view for the day in question, I don't see a manually recorded clip that I (think I) just made.

I know recording does work, though, since I turned on motion detection, created motion, went to the Playback view and saw an entry that was recorded for the motion.

Anyone else observe this? Am I doing something wrong?
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Manual Recorded videos should be in different location than the Playback view location. It usually record to the computer or phone you were using at the time.
 
Hmm, are you sure? The reason I am skeptical is that the Playback tab has checkboxes with the heading "Record type" for the type of record you want to play back. They are; "General", "Event", "Alarm", and "Manual". All are checked.

Motion and other things can trigger recording that is saved to the SD card. It seems like there should be an analogous function where the trigger is the user hitting a button.
 
Just go to >Video, then click Path. You will see the location for the Live Snapshot, Live Record, Playback Snapshot, Playback Download path of the videos.

When I manual record videos with my computer, it goes to my C: drive folder.
 
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I see what you mean now.

Yes, you are correct that manual recordings appear to be saved directly to the client computer by the plugin. I wasn't seeing this as I was running IE and the camera plugin in a Windows Sandbox as discussed here: video performance issues in the web UI. When you terminate the Sandbox, those files ago away. Of course, you can probably solve this by configuring a host to allow the Sandbox to write to a folder on the host.

Back to manual recordings, though, it looks like there is no way for them to be stored on the SD card. I wonder what the "Manual" Record Type in the Playback tab is for then.
 
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