I was very happy with my cameras. I have 13 of them, a few in my house and the rest in my business. They were alerting me when I needed to be with the 12 seconds recording. But now I'm very disappointed that they are going to charge for this or I will only get screen shots. Main problem with this will be my outside cameras, can't have them record 24/7, battery will die even sooner, as they don't last as advertised. It wasn't a problem until now. Time to find a new system I guess.