Able to watch solocam live feed while camera is turned off!

Hi,

I just found out something I honestly find pretty strange and kind of disturbing on our Solocam C210, as it is possible to keep watching a live feed, even while the camera is off!

We basically only use it as a baby monitor when being somewhere else so I haven’t used it that often, but I just found out it actually does not shut down when turned off.

I already googled this and it’s apparently a known thing, because it needs to be in “standby” in order to be able to turned on when activating the camera in the app.
However, everywhere is mentioned the live stream should stop as soon as you turn off the camera, but it does not!

This evening the camera was on and we were watching the live feed on the iPad.

Later on I turned off the camera using the app on my phone. It showed the camera was offline and the red night lights on the camera also turned off. Accessing the live feed from the app is indeed not possible.

However by accident I noticed the iPad was still turned on, and the live feed on the iPad was still working!
The image was darker as the night vision was not working, however the live stream kept going, including sound.

When I returned to the main menu on the iPad, I was not able anymore to get into the camera anymore as it said it was turned off.

But I think it is very strange that, as long as you are watching, it is possible to keep watching a live feed while a camera is turned off!

This should be something that needs to be fixed asap.

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