Smart home monitoring camera issues

[VarunM]

I recently got the home monitoring system installed (door sensors, motion sensors, security cameras). The sensors work fine but I am very disappointed by the cameras. Some issues I noticed during the 1 week I've had these cameras:

1. I was told I could record 24/7 for 7 days by using an sd card in the tablet, I brought a brand new class 10 64 gb sd card and it recorded for 1 day but now the tablet says the sd card is corrupt. The card is working just fine as I can use it without issues on my computer.

2. There is only 100 clips per day upload limit. One of my cameras was set to medium sensitivity and within a matter of 2-3 hours it recorded 100 clips and filled the quota. I was suggested by the technician to keep the sensitivity low.

3. Cool-off time between motion sensing instances are so high.

4. BIGGEST ISSUE: Camera motion sensing sucks. I've had so many incidents where did not record clips when the motion actually happened but it did after the incident which is useless because that footage is of no use. 

     Some examples:

1. I had a cat walk all the way from the end of my fence toward the camera and the camera only managed to capture a clip of the cats tail which is of no use to me because the face never got captured
2. My car comes into the driveway at night and goes inside my garage (headlights brightly lit). The driveway camera only recorded a clip once my car was inside the garage. What use is this clip to me? I don't know what happened, what car came in, was there a person or not?
3. A food delivery person walked over the driveway to drop off food and the camera did not even sense motion nor record a clip. Motion sensing is the whole point of this camera and it didn't do it!

On the other hand I have a nest doorbell which senses motion and notifies instantly. I get more activity and alerts from the doorbell than the 3 cameras I installed through Rogers. It's like the cameras just decide to work randomly rather than when you need them to work. I am still within the cancellation period of my contract and planning of returning these cameras but still keep the indoor sensors. I rather get my own cameras because anyway the camera monitoring from Rogers is not tied to emergency services.

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[RogersTony]

Hello, @VarunM

Welcome to the Rogers Community Forums!

It's disappointing to hear that your experience with the smart home monitoring cameras has not been great thus far. We really appreciate all of the feedback you've provided and I will be happy to address your concerns.

You can definitely record 24/7 from 1 camera to an SD card but once you have inserted the card and set up the 24/7 recordings you should not remove the SD card without turning off the 24/7 recording or it will corrupt the card. Please format the card and reinstall it in the touchscreen and it should work again for continuous recordings. If you wish to save any portion of the recording, you must insert a USB drive in the touchscreen and download the recording file. This is the only way the recording will be unencrypted and able to view outside of the touchscreen.

With regards with to the video storage quota, you can subscribe to a Video and Picture Storage add-on which will bring your quotas to 600 videos and 1000 pictures per day. Regrettably, we are unable to adjust the cooldown time between motion sensing events.

If you are finding the camera is not detecting motion properly, we may need to adjust the mounting of the camera to get a better angle. A technician may be required for this, feel free to reach out to our Smart Home Monitoring technical support teams or send us a private message @CommunityHelps and we can get started on this for you.

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RogersTony

[VarunM]

Hi Tony,

Thanks for your response. For the SD card I had already removed the card formatted it and reinserted but it just keeps saying the card is corrupted. Even before that I never removed the camera to begin with, I was going through a days footage on the tablet and I noticed that the system stopped recording at a certain timestamp. So before removing the car I clicked the REC button again on the same camera but got the message that the card is corrupt and sometimes I get the message that insert a card which is weird since it is in the tablet.

For the motion sensors the camera mount angle is fine what does not work is the motion sensing which is so random. Like today it sensed a cat walk across my driveway but failed to again detect a human walk. If I increase the sensitivity then it detects even a headlight reflection from my neighbors driveway which takes up 1 clip for the day, so this way similar small instances take up clips if the sensitivity is set to medium instead of low.

I was told by the technician that these cameras are very old and haven't been upgraded for over 6 years but they are expecting new cameras soon, but didn't know when that soon would come.

[RogersTony]

Hello again, @VarunM

Thanks so much for those additional details. 

Do you have another SD card that you can try in the touchscreen to see if it is able to recognize it and record? Please ensure to format the card before inserting it into touchscreen.

If it is not working even with another SD card there could be an issue with the touchscreen. We would need to have a technician out to look into that for you. If you do not have another SD card to test we can still have a technician out. Feel free to send us a private message or reach out to our Smart Home Monitoring technical support teams to have a service call booked.

RogersTony

[Leo-R]

I've been using Rogers Home Monitoring for over a year now and I've been complaining for months now that in order to get the video recording I need to reboot the touch pad every day. Last technician that came said it is a software issue from Rogers but man when this will be solved? I know for a fact the issue is not with the SD card that gets full and won't overwrite it. Can someone help on making this thing working for good?

[RogersTony]

Hello, @Leo-R

Welcome to the Rogers Community Forums! 🙂

Thank you for posting your concern to our community. I know how important it is for your camera system to record properly so you know what's going on in your home.

You definitely should not have to reboot the touchpad daily for the continuous recording feature to work properly. We will need to escalate a ticket so we can investigate this for you fully and ensure you are notified once we have an update. Please send us a private message @CommunityHelps so we can get started on this for you.

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RogersTony