How to record to microsd card on new outdoor camera

[angus.black]

Turn off the base, insert the SD then start the base agsin.

[johnnymets]

I’ve shut off the Base station and turned it back on, didn’t help.

[Seapup]

Assuming your SD card is good, it’s probably formatted to exFAT standards. Your outdoor cam and base require FAT32 standard. If you have only a MacOS machine, try running Disk Utility against your card. Format to MS-DOS (FAT) standard. Follow this if you have a Windows computer, V2/pan cam or USB>SD card adaptor:

Outdoor Cam MicroSD >32GB?

That’s a good idea for those who have a USB>microSD card adapter. For those who don’t have an adapter, but have an SD reader/writer in a laptop or whatever, just download a FAT32 format utility like this one from Ridgecrop. Click the picture on the webpage to download. For those who have neither, but have an existing v2 or Pan cam, just stick your card in the cam and format it via the Wyze app. The Wyze app will convert your exFAT32 formatted card to a FAT32 formatted card usable in your…

[johnnymets]

That worked, thank you!

John

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Assuming your SD card is good, it’s probably formatted to exFAT standards. Your outdoor cam and base require FAT32 standard. If you have only a MacOS machine, try running Disk Utility against your card. Format to MS-DOS (FAT) standard. Follow this if you have a Windows computer, V2/pan cam or USB>SD card adaptor:

[Seapup]

Glad you got it working!

[SDQ]

This WCO has been a huge disappointment for me. Twelve second recording max. Even then it doesn’t get recorded to either scard.
I can’t tell you how many important events this camera missed.
I have 8 cameras and understand how they work. The WCO seems to do whatever it wants. Which is pretty much a whole lot of nothing.