Only if someone else is streaming from the camera. If no one is, it goes to sleep and it takes noticably longer to connect. When I looked at the site some mont

Only if someone else is streaming from the camera. If no one is, it goes to sleep and it takes noticably longer to connect. When I looked at the site some months ago, I noticed during Chinese nighttime, a sleeping feeder would turn on its lights right after I connected (darkness for a second then a flash of light). So maybe it's a cost-saving measure for the hardware?