@Trmckin21
I didn't intend to give advice, but merely to describe our experience and that of many posts in this forum.
When our Google Nest Camera (Battery) is plugged in (as it always is), it functions as well as our older Google Nest customers, detects events, and records 24/7. But if I unplug it and walk in front of our camera, it does not detect that as either a Motion event or a People event. So our experience (and, it seems, that of many posting in this forum) is that when the battery camera is not plugged in, it does a poor job of waking up from its "Idle" state in order to detect and record an event.
Given all that, I would not be at all surprised if, when on battery power, the camera is quick to decide that an event is over and quit recording.
By the way, if you're running on solar power, your camera is running off of the battery: "If you’ve connected your Nest Cam (battery) to the Wasserstein Solar Panel, the panel doesn’t directly power the camera. Instead, the battery is trickle charged by the panel, and the camera runs off the battery charge." (https://support.google.com/googlenest/answer/11830989?hl=en)
We bought our Google Nest Camera (Battery) in Sept. 2021; we got it only because the week before Google Nest quit selling the Google Nest Outdoor Camera. Judging from all the posts I've seen since, I'm glad we bought the optional power cable at the same time.
