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Okay, so I got my eufy 4G LTE S330 cam and set it up at our Tin Camp a little over a week and while it seems to work well, have a good picture, very nice zoom and can rotate 360 around... it's AI seems to be a bit stupid :rolleyes:

While I have no doubts it'll pick up humans or vehicles moving around, it completely disregards big ass elk walking right in front of it. And, I know this only because I have our Tactacam game cam still setup there and it sees and records them just fine.
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What's really annoying is that the cam will send me all kind of alerts and record trees in the far distance moving in the wind :rolleyes:
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Anyway, I know this eufy cam is a 'security camera' and not a 'game camera' and the AI exists to prevent hits it determines to be unnecessary but I sure hope I can find a way to get the AI to alert and record more stuff. I know there are adjustments I can make to it and I'm hoping to find a solution. Anyway, just thought I'd share my experiences up until now.
 
wayoflife said:
Okay, so I got my eufy 4G LTE S330 cam and set it up at our Tin Camp a little over a week and while it seems to work well, have a good picture, very nice zoom and can rotate 360 around... it's AI seems to be a bit stupid :rolleyes:

While I have no doubts it'll pick up humans or vehicles moving around, it completely disregards big ass elk walking right in front of it. And, I know this only because I have our Tactacam game cam still setup there and it sees and records them just fine.
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What's really annoying is that the cam will send me all kind of alerts and record trees in the far distance moving in the wind :rolleyes:
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Anyway, I know this eufy cam is a 'security camera' and not a 'game camera' and the AI exists to prevent hits it determines to be unnecessary but I sure hope I can find a way to get the AI to alert and record more stuff. I know there are adjustments I can make to it and I'm hoping to find a solution. Anyway, just thought I'd share my experiences up until now.
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Note to self, dress as an elk when you break into tin camp.
 
wayoflife said:
Okay, so I got my eufy 4G LTE S330 cam and set it up at our Tin Camp a little over a week and while it seems to work well, have a good picture, very nice zoom and can rotate 360 around... it's AI seems to be a bit stupid :rolleyes:

While I have no doubts it'll pick up humans or vehicles moving around, it completely disregards big ass elk walking right in front of it. And, I know this only because I have our Tactacam game cam still setup there and it sees and records them just fine.
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What's really annoying is that the cam will send me all kind of alerts and record trees in the far distance moving in the wind :rolleyes:
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Anyway, I know this eufy cam is a 'security camera' and not a 'game camera' and the AI exists to prevent hits it determines to be unnecessary but I sure hope I can find a way to get the AI to alert and record more stuff. I know there are adjustments I can make to it and I'm hoping to find a solution. Anyway, just thought I'd share my experiences up until now.
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Having overlapping systems is never a bad thing. This happens at my house, one camera system will pick up something and another camera will not.

I share your frustration with moving vegetation, animals, and insects. There are hours of video of trees swaying. I have a deer that likes to lick the cameras at night. I had a bug land on a camera, then a moment later a bird swooped in and ate the bug, pretty entertaining at times.
 
AZVAJKU said:
Having overlapping systems is never a bad thing. This happens at my house, one camera system will pick up something and another camera will not.

I share your frustration with moving vegetation, animals, and insects. There are hours of video of trees swaying. I have a deer that likes to lick the cameras at night. I had a bug land on a camera, then a moment later a bird swooped in and ate the bug, pretty entertaining at times.
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I was so hopeful that the eufy cam was going to be so much better that I could retire the game cam but now I'm glad I decided to keep it going. Even with it, I get the hours of nothing that gets recorded but at least it doesn't have an AI that decides what worth recording and it WILL record everything.
 
wayoflife said:
I was so hopeful that the eufy cam was going to be so much better that I could retire the game cam but now I'm glad I decided to keep it going. Even with it, I get the hours of nothing that gets recorded but at least it doesn't have an AI that decides what worth recording and it WILL record everything.
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Bummer to hear. I've been eyeing this one since the thread started.
 
WJCO said:
Bummer to hear. I've been eyeing this one since the thread started.
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Well, I would still say you should consider it but not to replace your game cam. I still like it enough that I bought another one for our Pizen property. There, I'll just be using it as a security cam.
 
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