I was able to run one of these cameras for 6 months this year, over food plots gathering just over 1300 pictures. I have it running off of an HME 12v solar pack. Battery level never dropped. Below is my honest review of the camera.
Setup - frankly, it’s not very good. It’s cumbersome, not intuitive at all and the only way I was able to get the camera to reconnect to the app at the beginning of the season was to set it back to factory defaults. Once it’s setup however you can just take it to your spot and turn the camera on. Overall setup rating for me is D-
Images/detection- I really love the day images coming from these cameras set on the higher transmittable resolution. Probably the best cell images I’ve seen that aren’t Full Rez. Honestly there so good you probably don’t need to a have HI-Rez option. Which is good because this camera doesn’t have that option. Night images are subpar being a black flash camera. The range isn’t all that great but it handles motion blur very well. As for detection....Seems like it doesn’t detect quite as far at night and in extremely cold temps. It does however detect at decent distances during the day. The camera does trigger some before the animal is in frame. I was able to improve centering targets by adding electrical tape to each side of the sensor. Which resulted in almost zero false triggers there after. Overall cell Picture Quality B+ (Would have been an A in night images had more range.). Detection Rating: B (seems to perform in line with standard cams)
App - a solid app. Didn’t have any downtime. It keeps all images and numbers them. There are some analytical data provided. Number of pictures in month/day type thing. Can upload to google drive to share images. User friendly. Overall App rating: A-
Price: this camera was selling for $99 dollars at dicks over the holidays and it’s roughly $10/month to run. Price Rating: A+
Overall impression. This camera has its flaws. I do however enjoy this camera a lot. Setup is a bear, but once those pictures start rolling in, it’s so worth the struggle. At $99 it’s a very solid cell camera for anyone wanting to get into the cellular game. I’ve expanded my collection to now have 4 of them. I’ll probably replace my trusty Spartan gocams with these once they stop working. I can’t justify $300 Vs $99 for roughly comparable, if not better performance.
Attached are some images from the season. This should show the picture quality and detection range with IR.
