wetteddy 0 Posted April 7, 2012 Hi, I have 2 Rainbow Model IPV1V3 IP cams. I wanted to use the motion dection feature so I put an older (about 1 yr old) PNY micro 4 gig SDHC class 4 card in one of the units and everything worked fine. I then purchased another SDHC card(Samsung 16 gig class 4) and the camera will lock up on reboot. If I swap cards, the problem follows the new card. I thought I must have a bad card, so I exchanged it for a Sony 16 gig SDHC class 4 card. The camera recongised the card and would allow me to format it, but it will not save files to card. Thinking that the camera could not support the larger size card, I then bought another PNY 4 gig class 4 card and it locks up the cam on reboot aswell. Should I be using a class 2 or Class 6 sdhc card instead? Has anyone else experience this type of issue? Thanks Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
buellwinkle 0 Posted April 8, 2012 You are pushing the limits of class 4 as it is and not all cards that say class 4 can actually go that fast. So get class 10, they aren't that much more dough. How do you like the Rainbow cam, never heard of them before but the prices seem good. Do they work well at night. Do you have any images from it that you can share? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wetteddy 0 Posted April 8, 2012 It's good cam. Unfortunately, Rainbow has gone out of business. The dome security cam that I have does not have any IR lights. However, with a 60 watt fluorescent light (see attachment) it does very well. User interface is easy to navagate. My only complaint would be that it will not send video files to a ftp server. It will send frame by frame pictures of the movement, but who wants to look through 300 pictures for a 10 second clip. Anyways, logining into the cam to look at the video files isnt that big of a deal. One other issuse I have noticed with this cam and maybe it happens on alot of other IP cams, is false postive alerts for motion. I have notice that when the video change from b/w to color, it records video as if there was motion. I have not tried it yet but I was thinking of shutting the color off and let it run in B/W mode all the time. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wetteddy 0 Posted April 10, 2012 OK, so I bought a Patriot 8 gig class 10 SDHC card and installed it with no problems. The cam recognized it until I formated it. After format it no longer see's it until a reboot. After a reboot, it see's the card but it wont record motion to it. Any suggestions? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
buellwinkle 0 Posted April 10, 2012 Sounds like a software bug maybe or the SD card slot is defective. Try a lower resolution and lower frames per second to see if a lower bit rate will help out. As for motion detection, if you want 100% accuracy (or at least way better than you have), see if you camera has input ports on the back and most do. Check the firmware lets you trigger an event based on external input. Then buy a PIR motion detector, Bosch makes a nice simple one for under $20 good for a 40' x 40' area and trigger on external input instead of video motion detect. DSC is another reputable company that makes them. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wetteddy 0 Posted April 10, 2012 I will give the lower resolution idea a try. I know it is not a defective sd slot because (since I have 2 of these cams) I can use my older sdhc card and it will works and the problem follows the new card. My guess is there is some sort of compatibility issue. Although I have never heard of a compatibility issue between cards. The main reason I want to use the cams for motion dection is I have 4 analog cams and I am using Blue Iris for motion dection. With the addition of the 2 IP cams, the server running Blue Iris slows to a crawl. If I can get these ip cams to work independantly, my server and network will be much happier. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
buellwinkle 0 Posted April 10, 2012 BlueIris is a CPU pig. I love the software, but I gave up on it, actually my computer gave up on it. Some SD cards have a write protect switch. It could be that when you inserted it, you are tripprf the switch somehow. It's hard to see, heck a uSD card is hard to see in it of itself. Are you able to write to this card using a computer, camera or phone? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wetteddy 0 Posted April 14, 2012 I'm guess I have a compadibility problem. I am going to buy an old micro SD card and see what happens. I verified my SDHC card does not have write protection and I even went as far as downloading files from my working cam and placed them on the card. The cam doesnt see thoose files which leads me to believe, it doesnt like the newer SDHC cards. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
