My camera has been making grinding noises when the motor is operational from the day it was first plugged in. I installed it for the first time only very recently. are these noises normal?

When set to event recording only, if I switch to live view upon receipt of a notification, I find that the event clip gets truncated – for example it may only be a few seconds long, depending on what

It would make sense for the alarm not to be flagged as "on" in live view outside of its scheduled times.

I have been advised that the C520WS only tracks and records to the SD card while it is connected to a local network. Is this correct? What if the local network goes down - for example, if my camera is