TrailCam

I was desperate for an app like what this one promises. Promises but doesn't even work. The app starts nicely, you can calibrate how sensitive it should be, where to record images, 3 different ways to start motion detection. Yes, 3 ways, you should be able to start it by a schedule, by sending an SMS to the phone or sending an email to the phone. Don't really understand why can't you just have a a fricking 'Start' button, but hey, it is all fancy stuff. Except that NONE of the three fancy ways work!!! You can't turn the bloody functionality on!!!!! I have tried 3 different models of phone, tried the scheduler, the SMS, the email, nothing. I have read the log, emailed the developer. All I could get out of him was that he is busy, the app is retired, reboot the phone or reinstall the app. Or try an other app. Mate: if you can't get your piece of software work, TAKE IT OFF THE PLAY STORE. DON"T WASTE OTHER PEOPLE'S TIME!!!!!

Great app. You may have to reset phone for the app to create a trail cam gallery .

How do I start detection ?

Total waste of bandwidth downloading

Great app

You have to use this in a lit area! Wanted to use not only during the day but early morning when its still dark while I'm in my tree stand! Has NO flash! Deleting this app because its useless!

This app doesn't let me open it it says unfortunately this app has stopped

Looks good but it crashes as soon as I start the app.

Selecting any item from main menu causes it to crash = useless app.

This is a fantastic idea. Especially with the technology these days phones have. More apt to someone taking your phone BUT with the technology of remote locking your phone and a GPS lock. Epicccc. Going to test this out on my old galaxy phone. Battery sucks in it but whatevers. I will update ya with any bugs/ suggestions

There is one common problem with all of these surveillance style apps. None of them allow you to determine the time between each capture. Most of them are set to 10 or 20 seconds. This is way to close together for a trail camera. Since this app is intended to be used as a trail cam, giving users the option to choose the time between captures is essential. This app takes pictures every 10 seconds. If an animal stayed at a feeder for 10 minutes, that would mean this app would take around 60 pictures. I am testing this app on my Samsung Galaxy S2 and I have it set to capture Low Res pictures. The average size for the pictures is 280 kilobytes. So 4 pictures would be over one megabyte of data. That means that 60 pictures would be around 14 megabytes of data. I have several real trail cams deployed right now covering feeders set to take one picture every minute. I usually get between 150 to 200 pictures in a week on each of these cameras. If I had my cameras set to 10 second intervals, that would mean 800 to 1200 pictures a week. That equals 300 megabytes or more of data at low res for this app. Fix this problem and I will give it 5 stars.

Wow, I wont be buying $200 trail cameras anymore.

I have been looking for something like this for some time. I currently have 3 old Android phones with broken screens and I've been wanting to use them as motion detecting trail cameras. Haven't quite found the right now app though until now. I do have one suggestion however that would turn this into the holy grail of trail cameras. Would it be possible to create an on demand video feed from a smartphone or web browser to the trail cam? That would be epic! Can you please shoot me a link for the test app?

I can not get the pictures to come up on my phone or my email.......don't know what is up. ......

Keep it up you will get it right. Ive had this same idea my self or atlest similar. As for Joe the click is your phone and has nothing to do with the app. No sound at all on my epic 4G touch.

So let me get this right, u need to leave your phone in the woods? Is there a app out there that will send trail camera picture from a true trail camera to my email?

Pretty cool, except for the loud click when a pic is taken....nice one

One common problem. There is one common problem with all of these surveillance style apps. None of them allow you to determine the time between each capture. Most of them are set to 10 or 20 seconds. This is way to close together for a trail camera. Since this app is intended to be used as a trail cam, giving users the option to choose the time between captures is essential. This app takes pictures every 10 seconds. If an animal stayed at a feeder for 10 minutes, that would mean this app would take around 60 pictures. I am testing this app on my Samsung Galaxy S2 and I have it set to capture Low Res pictures. The average size for the pictures is 280 kilobytes. So 4 pictures would be over one megabyte of data. That means that 60 pictures would be around 14 megabytes of data. I have several real trail cams deployed right now covering feeders set to take one picture every minute. I usually get between 150 to 200 pictures in a week on each of these cameras. If I had my cameras set to 10 second intervals, that would mean 800 to 1200 pictures a week. That equals 300 megabytes or more of data at low res for this app. Fix this problem and I will give it 5 stars.

Great concept Wow, I wont be buying $200 trail cameras anymore.

Somewhat works. Keep it up you will get it right. Ive had this same idea my self or atlest similar. As for Joe the click is your phone and has nothing to do with the app. No sound at all on my epic 4G touch.

Pretty cool, except for the loud click when a pic is taken....nice one