I'm very impressed, and I have bought three different models. I love being able to view my videos from inside my house; these also never drop the connection to my Wi-Fi when viewing videos; the camera has the option to require a password to connect; records sounds and temperature; sensitive enough to detect a mouse (not kidding); you can view a live shot, but it's dark at night; and all three take great videos and have excellent Wi-Fi connectivity. I do have strong Wi-Fi coverage at my house, so I can connect around 150 feet away from router. You have to keep in mind that it does take a little less than a minute to connect to your network, then you can view your photos and videos, which may have a bit of lag to load but not bad. I had another company's Wi-Fi camera, and it constantly dropped the connection. Once you make a connection with the Garde Pro, you keep it. I think it's because these cameras each have an external antenna. Definitely recommend these, and I also recommend buying these with the solar panel. One camera does not have a solar panel and it goes through batteries very fast - as I would expect because it is taking pictures, videos, and broadcasts them back. I use rechargeable Enloop batteries, so I can live with it, but if you use throwaway batteries, you'd go broke. The two cameras with the solar panels never dip below 90% battery power. To me, it was worth the extra money for the solar panel. My one request to the company would be to add an alert push to your phone. Read more

I expected for the price and the images on amazon that this was an above average camera and photos would be almost good enough to display (i realize this is not the intended function, but i had higher expectations). for the price and the specs it seems the pics are actually pretty grainy, but the real issues are the overly sensitive sensors. the first night it captured 79 videos and photos and there was not a single thing in the photos. by day 2 there were upwards of 700 clips. the slightest breeze or movement of a leaf seems to trigger sensor and as far as i can tell the sensors can't be made less sensitive. the other issue is that deleting requires clicking on each individual item and you can't delete groups of selected items. i try to do it on my phone but the amount of time it takes to load photos for viewing on my phone is as far as i can tell, impossible to wait for. the wifi is virtually useless because there is little need to use it if just 45 feet away and that's the distance it says (even if i am mistaken and it says 45 yards that still isn't far enough to reach from my porch to the camera which is within sight. all that said, the price and the advertising are the main issues for me. lower the price and remove wifi and false images for ads and its and its a pretty cool camera Read more

We started having minor issues with trespassers this summer. When Black Friday 2021 rolled around I decided to buy a bunch of budget cameras to test them out and keep the best six. I compared: (3) GardePro E5 ($53.99) (3) GardePro E5S ($57.99) (1) GardePro E6 ($83.99) (1) GardePro E8 ($97.99) (2) Wosport G6oo ($41.99) (1) Usogood WIFI trail camera 4K (Gifted to me, currently lists for $113.99) (1) my one year old Victure ($84.22) (Black Friday 2021 Prices except for the Victure, which was Black Friday of 2020) So my winners and keepers in order are 1) GardePro E6 2) Gardepro E8 3) Wosport G6oo. Everything else (Except the Victure) got sent back. That about sums it up, but if you want the details and why I made those choices then read on. I initially set up a test in the forest behind my house and put all the cameras side by side on a board about four feet off the ground. I set it up so that I could walk into view at a right angle 90 feet away from the cameras then walk directly in towards the lens. I let the cameras run for 24 hours and made several trips down to the board midday, evening and in pitch black darkness. For physical design the GardePro cams are all awful. The screen is on the inside lid behind the camera, so it’s only visible when you have the camera pointed in the wrong direction. Figuring out where to mount the camera so that it’s pointed at the precise right spot is a real chore. The battery compartment lid is crazy tight. I had to use a flat screwdriver to get to the batteries and for some reason none of my rechargeable batteries fit. Finally, the memory card slot pops out the bottom and it’s not always obvious when you have it “locked” in. I envision SD cards getting lost in leaves in my future. The E6 and E8 had some redeeming qualities though: The Winner: GardePro E6: It worked perfectly right out of the box with very little configuration. The poor physical design is overridden by the WiFi feature, which allows me to get the cam pointed using the screen on my phone. I could review the images and videos on the cam without pulling the card so dropping it out the bottom is a smaller concern. The sensitivity isn’t perfect but it works better than anything else in the group I tested, except the slightly more expensive E8. The images and video were not as good as my phone. They aren’t even as good the phone I stopped using eight years ago. But compared to all the other cameras in the test they are exceptional. I was easily visible in the night time video at 90 feet, and could almost start to recognize myself at about 50 feet away. My face was easily recognizable when I got to somewhere between 25 and 20 feet from the camera. GardePro E8: This performed almost exactly as the E6. The only reason I put the E6 at the top of my list is that I don’t really see any extra value for the price, unless getting a slightly higher resolution (32MP vs 24MP) is super important to you. I was more interested in video, and they both record at 1296p. If they were within $10 I’d buy the E8, but at the time of this writing there’s a $20 gap that I don’t think is justified, unless there is some other feature I just haven’t noticed yet. If I discover some other benefit in the next year I’ll come back and edit. If they both go for the Black Friday prices again I’ll get the E8. Wosport G6oo: Honestly, these were so cheap I bought them to use as decoys. These don’t have the invisible IR so when they trigger you will see a red light. I intended to set these up as a deterrent, with a second (and better) camera watching the same area but out of sight. Someone approaching the camera would hopefully see it and turn around, but they decide to trespass anyway and steal one of these cameras to cover their tracks, I would get proof from the better hidden camera. I was really surprised at how good the sensitivity was right out of the box, the quality of the videos and audio, and how intelligently the physical case is put together. After sending back the E5 and E5S cameras, I decided to just mount these up out of reach with a ladder where a trespasser can’t get to them easily. UsoGood: As far as usability and sensitivity goes this is a great camera. Unfortunately I was not impressed with the images or video. The images I got were all grainy both night and day, and had a serious fisheye distortion without adding any noticeable field of vision over the other cameras. I had put this on my wishlist after drooling over the feature list and the reviews, but as badly as I wanted to love this camera I had to send it back using the gift receipt. Hopefully my in-laws won’t be upset. GardeE5 cameras: Great images for the price, but the sensitivity and audio was not good. They never stopped triggering. In 24 hours I ended up with 990 images on each camera. I retested these by putting the sensitivity down to medium, and then they wouldn’t trigger until I was within 25 feet. Another deal breaker was that the audio on all three was horribly muffled. If a trespasser is talking I want to be able to hear everything they are saying. If a deer suddenly turns to look somewhere I want to know what sound made it jumpy. GardePro E5S cameras: Like the E5, great images for the price, but the sensitivity and audio was not good. They triggered nonstop and in 24 hours I ended up with 1391 images on each camera. I retested these by putting the sensitivity down to medium. They improved but I still ended up with about 20 pictures and videos of a dead still forest with no clue as to what triggered them. I think I could have gotten the sensitivity to work as needed but the biggest problem I ran into was that the audio on all three had a consistent clicking sound in addition to being muffled. I tried downloading the newest firmware but that didn’t seem to make any difference. Victure: I don’t see these on Amazon anymore so it’s probably not worth mentioning, though these had rave reviews in 2020. The sensitivity on this is a little low but overall it works as expected, and I’ve gotten some great clear videos of deer and racoon. The biggest issue I have with my Victure is that the IR range at night seems to be weak. Any movement beyond 25 feet at night is so poorly lit that you can’t tell what you’re looking at. It’s the perfect camera for tracking Bigfoot, as you’ll get all the blurry ghostly night images you could hope for. Read more

Through the years I have purchased several models from this company. I own 20 now. I have started to switch over to there wifi cameras. I find it very gratifying to get seated in my deer stand and then check the activity since the last time I was there wirelessly. I can usually do this if I keep the cameras within 30 yards. The day time pictures are great. The night time pictures are more than adequate. I find it best to try and capture your subject in the center of the camera frame at night. I am in Vermont so I don't get hundreds of photos a day. I find with good AA batteries I get about 3 months out of it. I add 7ah external batteries to all my cameras and I get about 9 months to a year out of it. So far I prefer the E6 model from this company over their E8. I don't find much of a difference and the price is better. Read more

I’ve been using trailcams for about a year now to monitor my hog trap. One of my cameras just died, so I was shopping for a replacement. After trying two different cameras, which I returned because I did not like them, I decided to try the GardePro E8 Trail Camera. I like being able to connect the trailcam to my phone to download photos and videos so I do not have to open or even touch the trailcam once it is positioned, which is why I decided to try the GardePro E8. I am happy to report that, so far, this is an excellent trailcam for the price. The setup was easy and the phone app worked great (it does not have very good reviews on Google Play Store, but I think that is because of user error rather than a problem with the app - some folks just don’t like to read instructions). The photo and video quality is very good. I have attached a short video showing both daytime and nighttime video quality (photo quality is very good as well). The video setting was at 1080P, which is not the highest setting, so the quality could be even better if I had it set to 1296P. I was especially impressed with the nighttime video quality. The lighting is excellent and far reaching – much better than any other trailcam I have used. The only downside to the camera is the field of view, which is not as wide-angle as my other trailcam, but by moving the camera a little further back I was able to get the field of view that I wanted. Time will tell how well it holds up to the hot humid rainy Florida summer weather. I’ll post an update if anything changes, but so far I highly recommend this trail camera. Read more