I have my Time Lapses set at 24hr on my remotes (they’re all a little different times) but I don’t get the TL pics until it hits the Rate set on Home camera or daily report at 4-6am.
Cuddeback's Cuddelink
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I have my Time Lapses set at 24hr on my remotes (they’re all a little different times) but I don’t get the TL pics until it hits the Rate set on Home camera or daily report at 4-6am.
BuffaloBucks
A good 3 year old buck
Set the CC Rate in the Cell Menu to 12 hours
Thank you. I don’t have access to my cameras to scroll thru menus. I forgot where it was located.
12point
5 year old buck +
I use the home units as repeaters. They have lasted 60 plus days.
Peplin Creek
5 year old buck +
How does the overages exactly work. My cell home stop sending me pictures and I believe it’s because the dataplan had limited out. I was charged an extra 5 bucks for the overage but it’s stop sending reports and images after.
john volkman
5 year old buck +
if you check the overage box when you pick your plan , your service should go interrupted. if you were charged and you arent receiving images or reports after you should call cs with your info so they can look into it.
Peplin Creek
5 year old buck +
When I ran the test image it worked fine. So I grabbed the unit and brought it home. Once I got it home it sent the images. I’m guessing maybe this is a cell reception thing maybe.
I have a brand new J series camera that is only taking photos here and there. Right now I have it setup looking at my driveway for testing purposes. I can see vehicles leaving, but sometimes I never see them returning. 30 sec, single photo delay, and sometimes I'll walk to the shed and see that photo, but minutes later not see me returning. This single J series is cuddelinked to a brand new Cuddelink Cell Verizon, which is sending photos to my gmail. Any thoughts?
ormsbybrian
A good 3 year old buck
I’ve had a similar experience with a “driveway cam”…I would say the detection rate is around 75%, both with a vehicle and with foot/bike/four wheeler traffic. I have tried adjusting the elevation of the camera mount from 2 ft to 6ft in 6” intervals, adjusted the mounting post of the camera to control if the target is on coming at 5-10 degrees or passing by at a 90 degree angle (along with some other angles in between), and also adjusted the tilt/angle of view with slight improvements by aiming “higher” than I usually would at the target, but I have never found 100% (or even 90%) detection rates. I’ve even had the camera replaced/swapped twice, once with another G-series and once a J-series...even the new ones had a questionable detection rate. I have also noticed that none of my 15 cameras ever take any pictures in the rain regardless of ambient temp or target size (truck vs deer vs turkey)...the rain must also affect the detection abilities.
JLemon
5 year old buck +
I’ve noticed when it rains hard my G series start taking pictures of nothing over and over.
This is good to know. Any chance you can relate your experience to in the woods? You think you get 75% with deer/wildlife?
Been moving my cameras around. I have 2 remote cameras that are too not linked to home camera. They both have 30-40% signal but are not linked to home camera. I was thinking that the signal strength meter was remote to home, but apparently it is a remote to remote signal.
Does it stop taking pictures on it's own?
ormsbybrian
A good 3 year old buck
I fear that is the case, but I don’t have any solid proof. The only thing I can go by is tracks in the snow…sometimes after a fresh snow, I will get a picture that has multiple sets of tracks in its view but only one animal making one set of tracks in the capture…so in those cases, it missed something!
4wanderingeyes
5 year old buck +
I dont own Cuddebacks, but I do own other cell cams, and they will stop taking pictures while they are sending pictures. So if it takes a picture, and another animal, or whatever walks in front of the camera while it is trying to send the picture, it wont take another picture. I have tested mine with 2 mounted cameras side by side, and found that I will catch every single animal that walks by, but when there is multiple animals, I will sometimes miss the ones that walk by after the first one. My newer LTE cameras send the pictures much faster, and is less of an issue. Just a thought! You could shut the cell/link off, so it doesnt try to send the picture, and see if it picks up the missed pictures, and compare.
ormsbybrian
A good 3 year old buck
Agreed, that happens all the time with a string of animals, but my issue is that I walk or drive in front of the camera and I don’t get ANY pictures or it snows yesterday, no pictures taken for many hours/days then finally a picture is taken and there are multiple sets of tracks shown in the picture…they definitely miss some picture opportunities.
Exactly this! It's missing something!
I shot my bow out back last night and I walk in front of the camera to retrieve my arrows. This morning I was emailed only 3 photos from the camera in question. Which is also an issue I've been noticing lately. I only seem to be getting 3 photos from the camera each morning when cuddecell emails me. I called support this morning assuming the remote J unit was only sending 3 photos to the home unit. CS, who have been very helpful so far, had me change my CL delay from 1 hour to 30 seconds. Not sure why 1 hour vs 30 sec should matter, but hopefully this helps.
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FredG
5 year old buck +
You should pull the SD card and see what pics you have on it that never got transmitted because of the 1 hr CL delay. I leave mine set on 5 seconds. If CS didn't explain to you what the CL delay is... It sets a time window for pictures to be put into the transmission queue with only the first picture taken within that window sent to the queue to be transmitted back to the home camera. All following pics within the CL delay window will be written to the card but not transmitted home. So with a 1 hour CL delay only one pic per one hour period will get to the home camera... all others will just be written to the SD card but not transmitted. So if you want all pics to be transmitted to home you must set the CL delay equal to or less than your camera delay!
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JLemon
5 year old buck +
2 of them will stop. 1 I had to send in for a replacement. I don’t know what it is about heavy rain but it only affects my G cameras.
No, this was not explained, and I read all 4 manuals included with my camera. I was under the impression that it would wait 1 Hour before sending photos to the home unit. I figured the less talking the units had to do with each other, maybe the less power consumed. I don't need my photos RIGHT NOW.
I spoke with CS this morning and was informed a new firmware is available 7.7 . They have linked the camera delay and CL delay together to avoid this. I plan to update this evening.
