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Outdoor Camera non-event history view

I’ve had my Simplisafe for about a month now with the wireless outdoor camera. Coming from a NEST cam, I’m still trying to sort out the different operations. One nagging question I can’t seem to figure out is how to view “non-event” video history? For example, if a neighbors house across the street gets broken into overnight, can I manually scroll back through the night’s video to find it if it didn’t trigger an event since it would have been outside the range of my cam? So far I can only seem to view past “triggered events.” My NEST cam let me scroll back the last 5 days and watch any point in time. Is that not possible with SimpliSafe’s cams?

Also, I just installed the power cable for the outdoor cam so I never have to recharge it. The cord is durable and perfect length, but the end that plugs into the camera is at a right-angle that forces the cord downward (which makes sense if you’re running the line down the wall to an outlet), but since I rang the cord up into the soffit, it was extremely difficult to maneuver and then get the camera’s desired angle right-side-up. So I highly recommend the simplisafe team consider changing the right-angle plug into a standard straight plug to allow homeowners to run the cord any direction.  Not the end of the world, but frustrating since it limits the vertical angle I can set the cam at now because it pushes on the brick and moves the magnetic connection down.  

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