I update the firmware on our smarty cam and mychron 5 before the start of this season. We practiced yesterday, and the camera worked great!
We used it again today, and not only did it not record, there files from yesterday are gone and some weird file that I can’t open in there instead.
Tired of dealing with cameras and karting.
Can you post the files? Was it an FOF? What version of camera?
I’m not familiar with the smarty cam, but it could be a corrupted SD card. I’d try swapping it out with a new one to see if that fixes it.
I reformat the sd card after I download each session. I have never had a corrupted file. Might be why. Since you have to erase the files anyways, it seems like a good idea to reformat each time.
After a few weeks of great videos we had this issue again this week. I formatted 2 cards to have a backup. When the first one stopped working, I went to the backup. It recorded a few races, and on the final race it not only didn’t record, but it deleted all of the files again. So we we lost all of the heat races.
I guess I need to download the videos off the camera after each race from now on.
This is very weird. What version SmartyCam? What brand of card? Is it a full size or mSD card?
Not saying it’s the case but the micro sd marketplace has a counterfeit problem apparently. Have you tried a different card?
