Cellular Game Cam Question

[TxMedic]

Looking at my first cellular trail cam. Ok, but not great service. Functionality is most important, followed by durability. Thanks in advance.

[bbqfan5909]

covert LTE has worked great for 2 years.

[Fishndude]

Covert or Spartan. I personally have 8 Covert Code Blacks. Service should be better than with your phone. Just don’t fall for the new $99 cheap asz crap. They’re gonna crap out sooner than later.

[dawgkllr]

Covert or Spartan. I personally have 8 Covert Code Blacks. Service should be better than with your phone. Just don’t fall for the new $99 cheap asz crap. They’re gonna crap out sooner than later.

They ALL die sooner or later but until they start there's no data available on life span yet. More is not necessarily always better.

[Smart]

Cellular Game Cam Question

7 Coverts Code Blacks here... 4 run 365, 2 I use for spot duty like in our favorite turkey areas right before turkey season and one is a LTE spare . Pretty much trouble free as long as I do the updates and I do my part to ensure the service is good. I’m still working on one area that can be 80% percent one minute and 0% the next like the cell tower is spinning around like a boat radar. [emoji848][emoji3061]

Like FND said, your camera antenna will be much stronger than your cell phone antenna so keep that in mind.

2 of those cameras are 2016s, one 2017s, 3 2018 LTEs and 1 2019 LTE.

[knighttime]

Just don’t fall for the new $99 cheap asz crap. They’re gonna crap out sooner than later.

Let me say this if money was no option I'd buy a spartan. If you're on a budget these "99$ cheap asz crap" cameras are serving me pretty darn well. Great functionality, easy setup, good price for the plan, great trigger speed, night and day pictures are great, and I'm sure I'm forgetting some other things. Here's my only knock on these cameras, the image sent to your app is compressed so it's grainy, but you can still make out if it's a buck and relative horn detail. I prefer to view my photos on my iPad. One other thing is the field of view isn't spectacular so you have to play with positioning. But anywho I have a Tactacam Reveal and I'm very happy with it.

It was struggling to get really good service so I put a cheap bingfu antenna on it with a 10' pole and wal-la great service. One thing to note is that if you don't have good service where you are but your phone somewhat gets service your camera will likely say "no service" in the setup mode. However I found that if I just turned the camera to "on" and just left it, it would send me pictures just fine.

[Fishndude]

They ALL die sooner or later but until they start there's no data available on life span yet. More is not necessarily always better.

In general, when it comes to electronics, I’d disagree.

You must be a $99 guy. Hope they last forever. I really do but don’t see it happening.

[LeanMachine]

I have 3 moultries and one cheap spypoint. You do get what you pay for. I am very happy with the moultries. They do not miss anything. The cheap spypoint does miss stuff. Doesn't always flash when it should. I'm gonna move the spypoint off a trail and onto a feeder so that fast trigger speed is not critical. This is my 2nd year with the moultries and I just bought 2 more. First year with the spypoint.

[bowhuntz]

I bought my first one 2 weeks ago. I bought the spypoint for 99 bucks. So far it has worked fine. I have noticed that deer seem to notice it more when it activates than they do my browning cameras set to video or photo.

[deerplanter]

I've been using a Bigfoot camera for 3 years now and haven't had an issue with the camera. The few issues I had with setting it up I called the customer service and they were great. They even called me back a few day's later to see if it worked. https://www.bigfootcameras.com/

[BowSlayer]

In general, when it comes to electronics, I’d disagree.

You must be a $99 guy. Hope they last forever. I really do but don’t see it happening.

Having Covert and Spartan for years (still running them) and recently buying some $100 ones I have to say I'm impressed with the cheap ones. The moultrie ones have a 2 year warranty and customer service is great. If it'll last 2 years I would think that's pretty good for $99. I like the cheap one so much I went back and bought another one the next weekend.

[BowSlayer]

Here’s a picture from a “cheap azz” one. It’s as good as what comes from the others. As far as how long it will last, nobody knows. As they say, time will tell.

[BOZ]

I've really had great results from my Covert Code Black. I was a bit hesitant to spend the money on the camera and setup, but after reading many reviews here and elsewhere, I bit the bullet and I have to say that I've been very impressed- no hiccups whatsoever, excellent picture quality and trigger speeds. Love the app and overall ease of use. Using the solar panel and rechargeable battery setup with T-mate and T-shade and I expect to get several years of use of out of it without having to touch it whatsoever. I do plan to buy several more.

My thought on the lesser expensive makes/models is that competition between the various manufacturers is increasing, the tech is improving, and as a result quality and prices are improving. These things have been around for a little while now. That trend should continue.

[ccbrown50]

Coverts are the best luxury camera as I call them. Tactacam Reveal is best budget camera IMO.

[Gunnyart]

Don't forget to add a solar panel. Most need lots of juice.