Maybe check with the tenants and if it’s not theirs, look and see what’s on it.
I can imagine two scenarios:
Whoever put it there was hoping to record someone else. I think that @PonyOfWar@pawb.social brings up a good point that if the battery life is as limited as Pony believes it to be, that seems like it’d seriously limit what one could hope to get. If someone did want more recording time, it’d be really easy to hook that up to a USB powerbank and let it run for far longer and I assume hide it better, which seems like it’d kinda argue against that. If OP is the landlord, maybe they were curious as to what he’d say when he was near the box if they knew that he was going to be in the house. Or maybe it was someone else who wanted to record the tenants, especially if the box is in a living area.
Whoever put it there was using it in the way one traditionally uses a voice recorder, to take notes hands-free. If that’s the case, I imagine that it may start with snippets from whoever put it there and forgot it. Like, say that you’re trying to figure out what the switches in the breaker box are linked to. I will admit that it seems odd that, if the battery life is so short, that someone would have left it and OP happened to find it before the battery ran out. But I don’t know why OP was looking at the box in the first place. If it was because there was some electrical problem and OP was coming out to look at it, could be a tenant trying to look into the situation themselves.
I’d note down something like that in text, but there are people who prefer to use devices like that or voice recorder apps on phones, and if it’s voice-activated, it’s hands-free, unlike jotting down text.
The house is being rented, so maybe one of the tenants put it there. Yes, it was recording when found
Maybe check with the tenants and if it’s not theirs, look and see what’s on it.
I can imagine two scenarios:
Whoever put it there was hoping to record someone else. I think that @PonyOfWar@pawb.social brings up a good point that if the battery life is as limited as Pony believes it to be, that seems like it’d seriously limit what one could hope to get. If someone did want more recording time, it’d be really easy to hook that up to a USB powerbank and let it run for far longer and I assume hide it better, which seems like it’d kinda argue against that. If OP is the landlord, maybe they were curious as to what he’d say when he was near the box if they knew that he was going to be in the house. Or maybe it was someone else who wanted to record the tenants, especially if the box is in a living area.
Whoever put it there was using it in the way one traditionally uses a voice recorder, to take notes hands-free. If that’s the case, I imagine that it may start with snippets from whoever put it there and forgot it. Like, say that you’re trying to figure out what the switches in the breaker box are linked to. I will admit that it seems odd that, if the battery life is so short, that someone would have left it and OP happened to find it before the battery ran out. But I don’t know why OP was looking at the box in the first place. If it was because there was some electrical problem and OP was coming out to look at it, could be a tenant trying to look into the situation themselves.
I’d note down something like that in text, but there are people who prefer to use devices like that or voice recorder apps on phones, and if it’s voice-activated, it’s hands-free, unlike jotting down text.