NatureSpy 4+

Menu system is archaic and not intuitive, with no help, trying to figure out settings regarding motion detection and video recording is a bind. Last software update meant schedule settings could not cross over days and when queried I was told it would be fixed in 2 to 3 weeks, that was 3 months ago. SD card also corrupted after less than a year. It’s good value when you can get the thing to do what you want it to.

Recording a whole clip is impossible as you cannot press ‘record’ before the video starts playing so you have to miss the first few seconds. There should be a record whole clip button! Also the recording is basically a screen capture of the motion, so if the video is interrupted for buffering the recording with have that interruption too. Very poor quality, there should be an option to buffer the whole clip and record it.

It’s also baffling that the notifications don’t link you to the video for playback, so you have to use the archaic menu system to get back from the notification back to the camera, then to playback, then scroll the timeline to find the clip. Why doesn’t the notification take you straight there?!

This seems a great little camera and by and large the app works well once you get used to it.
It seems to me that when you get an alert and from the alert message (within me section) it opens the camera and not the playback. I only seem to be able to get play back mode if I open the camera first, then open the features area underneath the camera windows, click messages and then click all. Any other journey doesn’t seem to open the playback. Is this a defect? I would have expected that any time you click view option you should go to playback mode.
Cheers
Julie