![]() I think maybe they need to hire some better programmers for both the app and the website, as they are both poorly designed and seem primarily designed to get you to sign up for a subscription plan. If I go to the Devices page, nothing shows up and there is no way to add a device. I was hoping that maybe there were some more advanced settings I could access on the website, but no luck there since my camera doesn’t even show up. The website also doesn’t seem to realize I have a camera, even though I logged in with the same account I used for the app. Plus, we don’t get a whole lot of direct sunlight in our backyard, so not sure how well that will work anyway. I have not tried to hook up the solar panel that came with it yet, as I haven’t decided if I’m going to permanently mount this, or just give it away to someone else. So, either it uses very little battery power, or the power level indicator is not working right. On the positive side, it’s been running for a few days now, and the battery still says 100%. Although, the 10 second limitation makes it pretty useless to watch those clips. Not sure why it took that long, but at least that’s working now. It took about 2 days before it started pushing notifications to my phone of detected motion. It comes up with all sorts of different birds (not hummingbirds) that it thinks they are, but all those birds are much bigger and not even close to looking like the Annas hummingbirds we have here. No matter how many times I send feedback, it has not once yet detected the bird as any kind of hummingbird at all. I find myself repeatedly stabbing at something several times before it finally responds.ĪI bird detection is a complete joke for hummingbirds. Overall, the app is poorly designed and unresponsive half the time, forcing me to refresh or reload it to do anything. That item does absolutely nothing! It’s right next to the motion detection settings that you can select to update those settings, but trying to press the SD Card Video item does nothing at all… so, I don’t even know what the purpose of that is. So, again, even with a large SD card, they want you to pay a monthly fee to be able to record and view more than 10 seconds at a time.Īlso, with the SD card installed (when it is actually recognized), there is a little item in the settings for your camera that says “SD Card Video” with an icon of an SD card. Once I finally got it working, it seems all the SD card is good for is the horribly designed timeline review, where, again, you can only see 10 second clips. It’s next to impossible to get the card fully secure in the slot, and, even after I did, it seems that every other time I launch the app, the SD card is not detected. ![]() I bought a micro-SD card, hoping I could use it to record longer videos, but that was a huge ordeal in itself. This seems to be just a false limitation they put in place to force you to subscribe to one of their cloud recording plans. You only get 10 seconds of event recording time. Again, better luck putting some hand feeders in the bird seed area and for the ones on the side, the hummingbird could perch on the edge of the seed tray and feed. The hummingbird attachment is too big, and the holes are too far away from the perches, so the small hummingbirds can’t sit on the perch to feed. Even then, the video isn’t very good and is quite warped by the lens distortion of the ultra-wide angle lens. I had a bit more luck putting some hand feeders in the bird seed tray to get the hummingbirds a bit closer. The lens is an ultra-wide angle lens, and it’s just too wide for small hummingbirds, especially since the hummingbird attachment connects to the front edge of the feeder, putting the hummingbirds even further away. Here’s what I don’t like and what I think should be improved: Admittedly, I’m a semi-professional photographer, with very expensive gear and over 40 years of photography experience, but I was hoping for at least decent results with this device. ![]() Not a good device for getting good videos of hummingbirds. I was excited to get it, but sorry to report that I’m very disappointed with it. I have a popular IG hummingbird account, so I was sent one of these with the hummingbird feeder attachment to try out.
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