GardePro E6 WiFi Trail Camera (Non-Cellular), Stable WiFi with External Antenna, On-Site App Viewing, 64MP 1296P HD, No-Glow Night Vision, Motion Activated Waterproof Game Camera

This is a great cam. I am impressed with not only the hardware, but with the software to use it. Many devices are pretty good but they fall short on software, not GardePro. Instructions are easy and the cam is easy to setup. They also state to use LiOn or solar power but you can use rechargeable NiCad, which I use, and I get about a week of use since the cameras are set mostly to record only at night. Of course, if you use the camera 24/7, it will be shorter, and LiOn batteries are recommended. Videos are 1080p and night videos are good with the IR light. During the full moon the videos are like daytime indicating the camera lens is excellent (aperture of f/1.6). The recorded videos are crisp and clear. And using the right memory card allows rapid delete or save as needed with the software. I use a 64Gb card, which with 10 second video intervals never fills up. Only time I go to the cam is to change batteries. Otherwise, I do everything on my phone with the software. I had one cam that malfunctioned and Gardepro replaced it in a few days and responded to my emails with quick, good, and complete help. So support is as good as their cams. Also, I use 1 cam inside the house to monitor what's going on in another area, and when I'm away. So they have many uses other than just watching wildlife. YES, I can and do recommend GardePro cams. I have 3 of them and will continue to buy from them in future. Good Job, Gardepro!

Very clear video, day or night. Easy to set up and use. Battery life seems good.

We have been enjoying the menagerie in our backyard. We have seen birds, squirrels, deer, coyotes, fox, raccoons, a skunk, possum (and an occasional cable technician). I have put the camera various places in the yard, but the place that has the most traffic is the birdbath. Of course the birds like it, but the other wildlife also stops by for drinks. We live in an area without dogs and kids, so the wildlife feels safe here. The wifi is only good if you are very near the camera, but it is useful for checking the aim. I had the camera turned up to the highest sensitivity for a while, but that generated too many false alarms. I set it back to the default settings and that seems to give me good results. The photos seem a little over sharpened so that they seem to have a bit of a false outline around them. This helps the resolution when the animal is moving or otherwise blurred, but when the animal is close, if you try to zoom in the picture, it takes away from the quality. After being in use for a couple of months, the preview screen developed lines in it. I contacted Amazon and in spite of it being beyond the return period (30 days), it was covered under the 1 year warranty and they issued a full refund so that I could replace it. Waiting for the new one now!

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 (which behaved the same). 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 at night. The photo I've included is of several deer in my front yard taken by the E6. 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. The E8 has side sensors which should help detect activity from something out of view and get the camera "turned on" so it's ready to capture motion, but in my basic testing I didn't see any superior triggering from the E8. The E8 also boasts a higher photo resolution, of 32MP vs 24MP, but the images I saw were about the same. Once you start zooming in both cameras get blurry. Again, these are budget cameras. I was more interested in video, and they both max out at 1296p. If I could get both cameras at Black Friday prices again I'd probably go with the E8, otherwise I just don't see the extra $20 (current price) as making it worthwhile. Wosport G6oo: Honestly, these were so cheap I bought them to use as decoys, so I was truly surprised at how great they are. 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 if 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.