Tactacam Reveal

Hi all, just a small post on my first experience s with the Reveal camera.

I have purchased 2 and have one up and running in Prince Edward County as of this afternoon. The other will be in 63a.

I have put 12 Lithium AA batteries in the unit. I'll try to monitor the life.

Downloading the app and setting it up the camera was incredibly easy. Once you have an account on the app. Power up the camera and there is an option to show a QR code. Put your phone with app over the image and it does the rest itself.

A really nice feature of the camera. While in setup mode. If you press ok before changing your screen options the camera will take one photo and immediately send to app. Nice to have confirmation before closing it up and walking away.

I set the camera to 24mp pictures. It does send lower quality to the app.

I will update when I get something wandering through

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Thanks curious to see how they work for you.


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Do they offer a 'free' plan like Spypoint does? I've been reading some reviews on these and people are finding they get better signal strength than with the Spypoint micros. Also, I see the regular price is actually lower than the Micros.

There is no free plan that I came across.

First image sent.Attachment 40683

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Image in app is not the most crisp picture I have ever seen.

Hopefully I will have some buck pictures to share at some point. Maybe this guy is still around.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...e9ae8a82e5.jpg

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Very first night image.

I'm more satisfied with the night image in terms of quality and sharpness.

Also the sensor did a good job picking up that doe. I have other cameras up that would not have triggered from a deer in that position.

Battery still reading 100 after about 12 images being senthttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...215e8b3fd7.jpg

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I see that I am losing image quality taking screenshots and then posting on the forum.

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Received a bunch of pics of these 2 this morning. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...b46f3c37d8.jpg

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I bought 2 of these and I am pretty happy with them so far. The signal strength seems to be better than the Spypoints and they have a lot of great features. I love the feature of putting in a password to limit access by thieves, especially as you cannot put a cable lock on these cameras. The app is not great though (yet) and needs improvement. Also I wish we could access the cameras on our computer as well as our phones like Spypoint and we cannot. Note that the monthly/yearly plans is in US dollars too.


I am quite concerned that these are not "No Glow" cameras. Those nice bright night time images come at a cost - they spook deer and this has been proven. Around where I am the deer are extremely wary and skittish, and if they are spooked they will go else where for good. I am putting the flash at the lowest setting and also locating the camera a bit more elevated position and lets see what happens.

Overall, a great alternative to the issue plagued spypoint cellular cameras IMO.

2 bucks passed through last night. Both great but this guy is a studhttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...6e432876f0.jpg

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He is a brute, good luck

how does the data work on it? I have a sim card for a data plan on a tablet, would that work or do you have to use a certain network? I was just looking at the reveal last night but need to understand how the plans work...how much are you paying a month and for how many pics or is it data driven? Curious if it will work with Fido data...

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Great buck, but it is obvious that he sees the flash as he is looking right at the camera. Hopefully he did not get spooked and will come back. He did not get that big by being stupid.

This is what worries me - this camera is far from invisible / low glow.

Ok I sucked it up and got one, cant wait to get it setup. Cabelas.ca was the only place I could find it. I gave trail cams up a couple years ago when I couldn't help myself from checking them all the time and probably blowing out my spots for no reason. Now Ill set it up and only touch it when it needs batteries replaced.

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Great buck, but it is obvious that he sees the flash as he is looking right at the camera. Hopefully he did not get spooked and will come back. He did not get that big by being stupid.

This is what worries me - this camera is far from invisible / low glow.

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I think you can turn the glow off, but yeah the bigger ones are weary of cameras for sure especially when they are right in their face. Put it up high out of eyesight pointing down on a trail if you can.

I just bough one today. I have gotten tired of the inconsistent spypoint. I have heard only amazing things regarding the reveal so I took the plunge. I am hoping the signal strength will be stronger then spypoint . I have a spot surrounded by ever greens and cedars that gives most cams a bit of issue so I'm hoping this is the answer. The stealth cam fusion gets good enough signal but picture quality is terrible. will probably return that within the 60 day grace period cabelas has.

I just bought the spypoint mini. I hope I made a good decision... lol

Did any of you compare the pictures the camera sent to the app versus what was stored on the SD card? After I checked the SD card, I found out the camera did not send me at least half the pictures taken - I really would have liked to see those. I have good signal, strong batteries and properly formatted Class 10 SD card - I did everything right! Disappointing.

The instructions stated it sends every other picture.



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The instructions stated it sends every other picture.



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Thanks - I was not aware of that or I would have not bought these cameras! What's the use in that policy? In my case, they did not send the most important pictures I would have liked to see!! How do I get the cameras to send 100% of the pictures?

My SPYPOINT cell cameras in comparison sent 100% of the pictures stored on the SD cards - I just assumed the Tactacams would do the same - stupid me.

I checked the manual. I could not find where it says it sends "every other picture" - where is that?

I did find in the multi shot mode this: "Multi-shot Programmable 1 to 5 photos per trigger (Camera transmits the second image of sequence and saves the rest to SD card.)"

If this is what you are referring to, this has nothing to do with the issue. I used single shot (not multi shot) mode and still did not get at least half the pictures.

These cameras are garbage in my opinion.

I am on 3 shot. I was expecting to get every 2nd picture.

I think you found the statement I was thinking about.

I had purchased 2 and returned one for a refund after using the first for a few weeks. Although for the price it is doing pretty good, seems to be transmitting pictures as it should, good on batteries. I had more issues with my last cellular spypoint

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Maybe it is capable of sending all the pictures with a firmware upgrade, but maybe they are intentionally throttling the # of pictures sent to save the data used on their end?

Anyways, mothballing these cameras and back to my SPYPOINT cell cameras. I know a lot of people have problems with the SPYPOINTs but for me they have been working as expected. You get what you pay for IMO.

End of rant. Cheers!