I’m sure they are the same… time will tell.
Appreciate your help. Are you in Yorkshire?
For my sins yes :). Of course only joking. Yorkshire is a beautiful English county.
I have been there a couple of times… Tis lovely.
North Wales here 
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Ah right a fellow Brit. I’m not sure why I thought you was American.
North wales is a place I’ve visited and driven through many times. Indeed the number of times I have driven the A55 Expressway I’ve lost count.
Ahhh the A55… travelled it many times… maaany times lol.
I lived in America for 17 years… if that counts?
Perhaps I type with an accent 
Ha no I guess I just made an assumption. It is always nice to see other UK based people here especially if British as well. Always nice to help fellow Brits get the best out of Yi products.
I also wrongly assumed you was me too. I’ve see what The stands for
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I wish more people would get into home security, it’s not expensive anymore… And I’m sure it would cut down the amount of illegal activities… maybe that’s just wishful thinking… Anyway Have a great night, what’s left of it, and we’ll chat tomorrow…
Appreciate your help!
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Agreed. But I’ve dabbled in it for many many years. Including having a smart home where I can track movement in every part of it. Every external door is monitored and almost every inch is monitored. Plus now with smart assistants I can talk to the house and let it do things for me.
I have forgotten the last time I switched on a light with a light switch !!!
And yes I will return to you with what I find from the SD card recordings.
Sadly, I have just tried multiple SD Cards from my Yi internal cameras and they they are unrecognised by my Mac when trying to view them. So sadly I can not confirm how the SD recordings look on a computer.
@Steven_Kami - any chance we can get an understanding of how files are saved to an SD card please? Is it a single file or are they spilt into time spans? If they are spilt can you have technical support confirm what they recording file length is and what the naming convention is like please?
Cheers.
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Morning Yorkshire from Wales.
Thanks for trying with the SD card. I think I can check the card as I have a card reader. I will get back to you. I did record a 10 or more hour video, so it will be interesting to see…
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Afternoon.
A couple of days ago I set my cam to continuously record. I could see that it was recording on the timeline view. (solid orange bar, as opposed to the broken orange bars of motion detection.
I transferred the contents of the SD card to my computer.
Thee were 92 folders containing over 2,000 video files.
Each of these files were between 1 second and 1 minute. Never more than that.
So now I’m wondering where the 10+hr video that was continuously recorded is?
I’m going to try again with the continuous video, but remember when I started it…
Will keep you informed.
T
I’m wondering if some of that 10 hours is broken up quite significantly. Reading about it, it would seem that it does save in chunks and not in one mass as I first thought
What is the naming convention of the files like ? Could you type one of the file names to a message for me please? It would be good to see if this is date / time formatted.
It would be great if it is proleptic Gregorian calendar. But I feel it may be Epoch time (UNIX timing system).
Or worse still hexadecimal or worse again just random.
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Hi
The folders are named as follows: 2021Y03M06D18H
Which is the year 2021
Month03
Date 06 and
Hour 18
Within these folders are the individual video files, named as follows 03M50S10.mp4
Where 03 in the minute
50 is the seconds
and the 10 is how long the video lasts…
I’ve set my cam to continuously record again. This time I know what time I started recording so it should be easier finding it… I’ll leave it go for a couple of and e what we get.
T
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That to be fair is very good naming convention. Not sure why the SD card would not open on my Mac. I tried multiple and two different brands.
What length is each file Miss Cymru?
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haha miss Cymru… love it…
Inside each folder are a number of video files. Each lasting between 1 second and 1 minute.
I think this was my initial complaint, if the activity goes on for more than a minute it won’t record anything past 1 minute. hmm
Love the Tudor rose!
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The white rose of York our famous heraldic rose.
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I’m a huge Tudor fan. But being Welsh, I have to go red rose with Henry VII… 
Ok, the continuous video is not continuous, but is recorded in 1 minute chunks, so each hourly folder will have 60 1 minute video files.
I guess this will be easier to track down the corresponding video on the SD card, to the alert…
I would still rather use th emotion detection to record all video, regardless of length.
T
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That sounds good. Lots of files but should be easy to find the footage. The motion detection should work as well as too the searching via the app.
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This is what I use with my 32 gb card. The time and date stamps at the bottom are easy to scroll through. Getting into it from a little SD card symbol top right middle of the camera you want. Hope that helps.
. If you can’t see that, send me your email and I’ll send the windows 10 screen print to your email.
Tom
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