Cell Trail Cameras

You choose and set up the communication times between the camera and your phone. As frequently as every photo taken or less frequently to conserve camera battery. Any changes to the camera that you want to make will occur after you’ve made them through the app at the next communication time. You can set the camera to take a picture and send it at the next communication time. But not poke the camera at any time to instantly send a live feed or pic.
Unless they have upgraded the system this is how my few years old SPYPOINT operates.
 
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but you basically want a trail cam that works like a video doorbell, where you can open an app on your phone or whatever and see a live feed, regardless of whether the motion sensor was tripped?

Can't say I've heard of such a product, but sounds like a decent idea.
 
Suther said:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but you basically want a trail cam that works like a video doorbell, where you can open an app on your phone or whatever and see a live feed, regardless of whether the motion sensor was tripped?

Can't say I've heard of such a product, but sounds like a decent idea.
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I want to be able to ask the camera to send me a live picture of what I have it pointed at.
 
I've done Spypoint but much prefer Stealth Cam. I have the Deceptor and Deceptor Max models. They just launched some models that are able to stream live. Mine have picture on demand which I like and overall have been very reliable. I had one that was 3 years old crap the bed and they replaced it without question. In fact they sent me a much newer model and as a bonus threw in a second camera lol. They do not have a free plan though like Spypoint which gives you 100 pics.
 
Fox said:
I want to be able to ask the camera to send me a live picture of what I have it pointed at.
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Communication times (sync) are adjustable down to every 2 hours. So the SPYPOINT can be set to send you a pic or video at sync times, as frequently as every 2 hours without being triggered by motion. But you can’t command the camera to take a picture on demand from your phone at random times.
It’s set up so the camera looks for new instructions from the app at sync times.
 
Ridgetec does exactly this - the app has a "take picture now" option.
Click the button - takes the pic and you have it about 2 mins later
New cams are pretty nice too - I get 3 bars of service on the cam in places where my Iphone has no service. So far - quite impressed
 
Scamaniac said:
Communication times (sync) are adjustable down to every 2 hours. So the SPYPOINT can be set to send you a pic or video at sync times, as frequently as every 2 hours without being triggered by motion. But you can’t command the camera to take a picture on demand from your phone at random times.
It’s set up so the camera looks for new instructions from the app at sync times.
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Battery life is drastically reduced doing this.
 
I’ve had at least two spypoint replacements, may even 3 under warranty.

First cam was the budget micro link which had the best battery life and the picture quality was just fine. It had to be reset multiple times, which could only be done with the cam in hand which involved hours to retrieve the cam, hours to call in, then hours to put the cam back.

It failed and I think I got another as a replacement. Then that one failed and they claimed it was backordered and tried to upsell me. I got a flex “upgrade” for free.

The flex had better picture quality, but the battery life was horrendous. Went from months with the micro link, to days with the flex. I had to strap a aux battery to the tree along with the cam. What a pita.

It failed. The wife called in, I warned her about the upsell tactic. Somehow they got her to pay the difference on the new “upgrade”. A solar flex. Cam was put out 05/05, delay is set to 10min, and battery life is down to 74%. My experience is below 50% they stop responding.

The solar flex is now out of warranty. My first spypoint to achieve such a feat. If it fails it won’t be replaced with a spypoint product.

Subscription is due before fall hunting season, I’m actually thinking about letting it finish the spring bear season and just run it as a backup cam in the fall. Find a better brand to replace it with, and let the subscription go.

Interesting that out of season is 9 months a year, hunting season is 3 months, yet somehow I think every failure and reset occurred during hunting season..
 
Jimbobob08 said:
I’ve had at least two spypoint replacements, may even 3 under warranty.

First cam was the budget micro link which had the best battery life and the picture quality was just fine. It had to be reset multiple times, which could only be done with the cam in hand which involved hours to retrieve the cam, hours to call in, then hours to put the cam back.

It failed and I think I got another as a replacement. Then that one failed and they claimed it was backordered and tried to upsell me. I got a flex “upgrade” for free.

The flex had better picture quality, but the battery life was horrendous. Went from months with the micro link, to days with the flex. I had to strap a aux battery to the tree along with the cam. What a pita.

It failed. The wife called in, I warned her about the upsell tactic. Somehow they got her to pay the difference on the new “upgrade”. A solar flex. Cam was put out 05/05, delay is set to 10min, and battery life is down to 74%. My experience is below 50% they stop responding.

The solar flex is now out of warranty. My first spypoint to achieve such a feat. If it fails it won’t be replaced with a spypoint product.

Subscription is due before fall hunting season, I’m actually thinking about letting it finish the spring bear season and just run it as a backup cam in the fall. Find a better brand to replace it with, and let the subscription go.

Interesting that out of season is 9 months a year, hunting season is 3 months, yet somehow I think every failure and reset occurred during hunting season..
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I'm finding the micro lte to be the best for reliability and battery life.
My Flex is currently kaput, cell signal strength won't go higher than 25% and seems destined for the landfill.
Switching to tactical shortly.
 
Jimbobob08 said:
I’ve had at least two spypoint replacements, may even 3 under warranty.

First cam was the budget micro link which had the best battery life and the picture quality was just fine. It had to be reset multiple times, which could only be done with the cam in hand which involved hours to retrieve the cam, hours to call in, then hours to put the cam back.

It failed and I think I got another as a replacement. Then that one failed
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Exactly my experience. They replaced my defective ones with refurbs that eventually failed. Not to mention calling customer support was an exercise in total frustration. Stealth Cam on the other hand, takes a support call within 1 - 2 minutes. Perhaps things will improve but for me, 3 strikes and I'm out.
 
FatCatsDad said:
I'm finding the micro lte to be the best for reliability and battery life.
My Flex is currently kaput, cell signal strength won't go higher than 25% and seems destined for the landfill.
Switching to tactical shortly.
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Broken antenna?

Ive had the same problem, tried my brothers antenna and it worked. Ordered an off brand antenna from Amazon that claimed to work with spypoint, no good. Had to get the actual spypoint antenna.
 
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