I would like to record during a morning time period and an evening time period so I have created two time recordings periods (6:00 - 11:00, 15:00 - 23:30). However, the Audiomoth will only record during the morning time period no matter when I switch the recorder to CUSTOM (before the 1st time period starts, before the 2nd time period starts, during one of the time periods) or the duration of time for sleep and recording (I have tried 300 sec ON, 600 sec OFF; 60 sec ON, 60 sec OFF; 600 sec ON, 1200 sec OFF). I have tried these settings on multiple Audiomoth recorders and none will record during the 15:00 - 23:30 time period. I have tried changing the starting time of the second time period earlier or later, but this does not help either. Below is an example of what I would like to accomplish. I have updated the firmware to the newest version (1.2.0), downloaded the newest AudioMoth Configuration App (1.2.1) and Time Configuration Apps (1.0.3). Any help with what I'm doing wrong would be greatly appreciated.
I was reading through the post by Trent Roussin on Feb 11 and realized I am having similar problems. Was his problem solved? I am getting no recordings for the afternoon time period.
No, we didn’t hear back. I’ll try to reproduce this issue.
Yes. This is our bug. The workaround is to switch back to UTC before actually configuring the device. Unfortunately you lose the local timestamps in doing so. We'll push out the update next week to fix this properly. Alex
Thanks Alex. I will try setting the recorders with UTC time today to see if it works. This will allow me to deploy recorders until the update comes out. Thank you for your help.
Using UTC time worked!
Great. Adding the local time support was quite complex and we probably didn’t do enough testing. I’m really glad that we got to the bottom of this now though as a few people seemed to report issues but we weren’t able to follow them up. We should be able to release the fix, which also provides protection to the SD card if the batteries run low at the end of this week.
I can confirm that switching the app back to UTC before pressing "Configure AudioMoth" will solve the issue. If you wish to enter a schedule using your local time zone, be sure to switch back to UTC before configuring.
An update to the config app which fixes this issue will be released today.
https://www.openacousticdevices.info/support/configuration-support/audiomoth-configuration-app-1-2-2-firmware-1-2-1-1