retaining time stamp when downloading from Kasa Spot
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I bought a couple of KC100 spot cams to track potential intruders to our house. As the recordings are only viewable via the app, I am finding it quite a circuitous task to save them to my computer. I download each relevant one to my iPad, then save to Dropbox. However I find that the time stamp disappears during this process. Is there any way to retain or view the time stamp and other metadata once the video is copied out of the app? This is obviously important for security purposes and when sending to police etc
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@johnct1234 I hang on the topic, same question :)
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Hi, the default file name of the video clip would show the exact time of the events, such as KC_kc100_02182021_1338.mov referred to February 18th,2021, 13:38 ;
As for the timestamp of the video, we would report to the senior engineers for further evaluation.
Thank you very much.
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@TP-Link Thanks for your reply. That may be while it is on your website, or in the app, but when I save it from there, the video recorded at 11:38 am on 17/2/2021 ends up with the filename "CFNetworkDownload_Mujaqf.tmp.MP4". I've tried opening the file in Irfanview to look at the metadata but all it tells me is
Filesize: 2.61 MB, Width: 1920 (org. 1920), Height: 875 (org. 1080), Bits per pixel: 24, Frames: Unknown (0.0 fps), and Length: 22.00 seconds. Nothing about original filename, time and date recorded etc.
Is there a better way to save the file from the website/app?
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Thank you for your further information, it looks like the file names are different on different phones, I tried iPhone and got a similar file name.
We realize this feature is pretty useful, thank you for your feedback, we’ve recorded your feedback and our team will evaluate this feature.
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Hi, I was just wondering if there was any update on the adding of a running date & timestamp feature as part of the video itself? I know that Google Nest cameras record the timestamp as a subtitle track to their video, whereas Ring has it always visible in the bottom-right corner. One of the main reasons of wanting to have the date & timestamp as part of the video is so a standalone copy of the video can be used as evidence in court - without the date & timestamp, it's not reliable as evidence.
Thanks in advance!
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