Stealth Cam Deceptor not responding for the past two days, since server went down.

West_Fork

5 year old buck +
Well, after the Stealth Cam server went down last weekend I have had issues with a Deceptor model that has not check in for two days now. Also seems that it is missing a lot of traffic right before it went unresponsive. Battery is full, signal is better than ever with the leaves off, card is 1/3 full. I tried performing an on demand photo which just hung.
I may have to do a reset on the camera.
The reactor model I have is working fine, more or less.

Anyone else have stealth cam issues?
 
Well, the Deceptor started working again for a week or so after clearing the card remotely, and then stopped syncing and sending photos again. I am pretty unhappy with stealth cam at this point. Customer service sucks, if you add another email to your account, you cannot remove it. Or at least I am unable to find a way. I cannot even tell who, if anyone, has access. I am going to have to drive three hours to remove, reset, and re-add the camera.
I think the on demand function is part of the culprit. I believe turning it on is what lead up to the camera to stop responding.
My other cellular stealth is a "Reactor" and it has been more stable, but the detection setting is atrocious, way too sensitive and I get a lot of photos of nothing, and it is not adjustable like the Deceptor. I will probably throw some blinders on it to reduce the field of view of the sensor.
 
The deceptor is dead. It may have been lightening, but not sure. It stopped responding. I checked it a couple weeks later. The solar pack was dead, but still functional. The camera and card smell burnt, but the card still works. The camera is completely unresponsive. I tore it apart and no burnt traces, but I suspect one of the big chips got smoked. It was a good camera with regards to sensors, adjustability, etc. Much better than the reactor that I used to replace it. Why is the reactor more money than the deceptor? It has less features and is way overly sensitive.

Now it will be a dummy cam for dummies.
 
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