GardePro Mobile 4+

For the first month, the camera seemed to work fine, and recorded quite a number of videos for me. shortly there after it stopped recording videos of the deer that I am trying to capture, and even though everything was correctly set in the camera, it would never record any more wildlife. after many repeated attempts at readjustment of all of the features, and, including making sure the batteries were good, and the SD card was formatted, the only thing it would record is me walking in front of it. The infrared sensor had nothing to do with it, because it would record me at night, but none of the deer that I had seen out there and there are a lot. I wrote to the manufacturer in China and they gave me a number of suggestions on how to make it work, but I had already done those things about three times. They finally relented, And gave me a refund. I must say that their customer service stands behind their product. Unfortunately, I was looking for a camera that would work for more than one month, And now I have to start shopping again.

The Wi-Fi connections is general stable and it’s great to sit down near the cam and pull the footage.

The issues arise though when you try to mass delete or download images. The select all feature does seem to select all images but the app never deletes all the images it shows it has selected. It takes several attempts to do what should be a 2 button press operation.

Same for grabbing all the images, though this is more reliable and seems to work most times.

Setting the camera options and viewing the camera status with the app is solid. Only real complaint - and it’s substantial for the time wasted - is the apps inability to properly delete all the images selected.

This app is solid; intuitive to use and providing all necessary means to live-watch your trail cam and/or access photos remotely.

Two things that can be improved:

- the app crashes frequently when you try to scroll through lots of photos; it loads 30 at a time but often shuts down altogether and you have to reboot and reconnect it. Not ideal when you’re logging on live to have more control over what’s getting filmed (for example because you KNOW there’s an animal about to cross the camera); it takes 45 secs to a minute to log onto the app, which might close the window of opportunity for you to get your shot;

- the built-in WiFi connects ‘only’ to your phone, not your router. Unless your PHONE is within 10 ft of the trail cam (even if your router IS within 10 ft), you can not remote-access it. Not an issue for me as I use the trail cam for backyard birding, but might be useless to others.

A minor quibble: the ambient temperature sensor displays approx. 20F too high; unsure whether that’s a hard-or software issue, but even during the Great Freeze, the cam app cheerily insisted it was a balmy 10F when our pipes nearly froze. Again; not a real concern, just a note.

All in all, it’s not pretty or flashy - but crash issues aside, it lets me observe everything from the comfort of my home.