WiFi Hunting Camera 17+

I wanted one that had WiFi so I didn’t have to keep checking my memory card to see if I got anything. Well the WiFi won’t stay connected so it hasn’t done me much good. I have to keep going down, open the camera get my card out, go back and put it in my computer, upload pictures, go back out put the card back in the trail cam, format the card or the camera won’t work, turn it on, close it up and hope I am aiming in the right spot. The old trail cams I had do the same thing. I was hoping this would skip those 10 steps and I could just look the pics up on my phone. Nope! how lazy of me to think it would be that easy! The night pics are just an outline of an animal so I changed a few settings and see if that helps. I got the back half of a fox, guess the camera just wasn’t quick enough to get the front half. Day time pics are great! I have a ton of squirrels that are curious about the camera. The two side sensor zones look all messed up like something was rubbing on them. I took my camera lens cloth and tried to clean them up it didn’t help. Maybe that’s why I only got half a fox.

Even with WiFi connected (and at full strength) the app seems to only allow me to download still images and at times it won’t even allow that. At first I thought something was wrong with the camera, but come to find out the actual issue is This app. I missed some cool video because I formatted the card after getting the stills not realizing the video had been recorded. I only discovered the camera was recording video after taking the SD card out after several resets and plugging it in to my phone directly. I now have to remove the SD card if I want to get all of the data the trail cam captures. Pretty annoying.

Downloaded despite the poor reviews. I managed to get it to connect and downloaded a few images from the camera. You have to go into the WiFi settings of your smartphone first and connect to the camera from there. THEN you can connect to the app. I guess you have to do this anytime you connect. Once connected, I could see the images, and separately, the videos. You can download these to the app, though it seems buggy. After that, you can download the images to your photos or a different app. However I was only able to download a single image to my photos. After that, the download icon vanished. Apparently you have to open the camera to turn its WiFi on whenever you want to connect, and that defeats the purpose. Might as well just fish the SD card out and plug it into your computer. To the developer I would say this app’s worth fixing because it has some features that would be helpful. However, as implemented, t’s just too cumbersome and buggy. Deleting the app.