Cloud Recordings and Sikocam: What to Know

Owners ask about cloud recording for one honest reason: a card inside the camera leaves with the camera if the camera is taken. Through sikocam App, recording options depend on your camera setup; this page lays out how the two styles compare so you can choose with open eyes.

Card recording and cloud recording

Card recording keeps footage in the camera: private, free of ongoing cost, and limited by card size and by the camera's own safety. Cloud style options copy footage to remote storage as it happens, so the record survives the camera. The trade is ongoing cost and trust in a service, against footage that cannot be carried away.

Keep going with how card storage works once this part is done; the two steps belong together in practice.

Choosing for your home

For a nursery or pet camera, a card is plenty. For a gate or shop camera watching real value, remote copies earn their keep. Many owners mix: card recording everywhere, remote options only on the one camera that watches the door. Let the risk decide, not the sales page.

Related help: privacy settings worth setting covers the other half of this job.

Checking what your setup uses

Open each camera's recording settings in the app and read what is actually switched on. Owners often discover a camera recording less than they assumed: motion only where they expected continuous, or a trial option that lapsed. A two minute audit per camera, twice a year, keeps the system you think you have the system you actually have.