@Mryflyguy wrote:
That's exactly how mine is configured, with the same results. That sure makes the stand alone battery version useless!
I tried making these configuration changes suggested by Customer Care but the camera is dead to the world when on battery. If I had a battery powered installation, the camera would be o its way back to Google!
Thanks for reaching out to the Google Nest Customer Care Team.
- It's expected that you would receive more events when plugged into a power source and running continuously. For issues detecting events on battery, we'd suggest checking the wake sensitivity and determining how long events were in frame that were not picked up.
- When on battery power, the camera is in an idle state and when motion is detected the camera then turns on to determine if an event needs to be created. This means if an event goes through the field of view too quickly then the event may not be saved. You can improve this by turning the wake sensitivity up to pick up motion further away from the camera and increasing the event length in the settings.
- If the cable is in place where the camera is mounted then please leave it plugged as this would allow the camera to keep the stream running 24/7 and would help any events that occur are picked up as the camera will already be on and awaiting any motion to be picked up.
