Suzie's Instructions (From long long ago)

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How to use your Devine Eagle device

Your device has a 64GB microSD card in it which will allow it to record up to 12 hours of video (no sound). It is set to only record when it detects motion so that 12 hours could cover many days. It will record over the oldest video files once the card is full, so you can just leave it plugged in and know you could go back at least 12 hours (continuous motion) but probably much further back assuming there was intermittent motion.

For example:

You set it up in a bedroom which you use, but mostly for sleeping. It might record several hours each night if it picks up your tossing and turning in bed (assuming the bed is in the field of view), but less than 12 hours. You go out for most of the day and when you come back home you want to check it to see if someone entered your room while you were gone. You would unplug the device from the outlet, take it over to your computer and plug it in via the USB-A to USB-A cord. This will connect the device as a card reader for the microSD card. Open it and then open the Video folder. Look at the files date and time to see if it was activated while you were gone. These would be your videos of interest. The files are .avi files (which is an older format) so you might have to install VLC player to watch them.

If you don’t want to change from motion activated to continuous loop or install a different microSD card, you won’t have to peel off the sticker from the back and you will be able to do everything you need to do just by plugging the device into your computer via the USB cable.

Plug it in via the USB-A to USB-A cord. This will connect the device as a card reader for the microSD card.

The microSD card will pop up on your desktop

You will see a folder for the videos and a file named TIME.txt

Open the Video folder. Look at videos of interest. The files are .avi files (which is an older format) so you mighthe file dates and time to see if it was activated while you were gone. These would be your vit have to install VLC player to watch them. You can also copy ones of interest to your computer.

Every time the device is plugged into the outlet, it reads the date and time from TIME.txt and will use that as the start time from then until it is unplugged again. Unfortunately, when it is unplugged it writes over that file again and sets the date and time to 2017-01-01 23:59:59 Y.

So every time, before you plug it back in to the outlet to let it do its work, you should modify the TIME.txt file to reflect the current date and time, setting the time a few minutes in the future and saving the file.

After saving, un-mount the device and take it over to the outlet, wait until the time you specified and plug it in. It will correctly time and date stamp the video files it writes until it is unplugged again.

This is an example of a video file with the correct date and time

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Each time it detects motion it will come on and record video for 3 to 5 minutes, creating a file for each time period. Unfortunately, you cannot plug your computer into it while it is plugged into the outlet, so the only way to check the video files is to unplug it from the outlet and then plug it into your computer via the USB cable. This then necessitates re-writing the TIME.txt file before you plug it back into the outlet. You don’t need to delete files from it as it will just overwrite the older files once the card is full. If you see a video you want to keep, just copy the file to your computer. Correct orientation for your video is accomplished when you plug it in such that the USB port is below the camera.