everybody Brandon Mason here with Eastman's and today in this review we're
gonna show you how you can turn your non transmitting non-cellular trail camera
of virtually any brand into a transmitting camera with the help of the
spy point selling cell link I had the opportunity to use two of spy points
trail camera systems one was one of their non transmitting trail cameras
which is the solar dark and the other one was a transmitting link micro that
they offered a very compact transmitting trail camera and the thing was fantastic
I was getting regular updates throughout the day after I established the settings
with their free app that's on my phone kind of getting a little Christmas
present we were in an area very similar to this hunting antelope and I set up on a
fence crossing like we're gonna do today to get pictures and/or footage of
antelope that I know are going by there but I wanted to see the trophy quality
of the animals I want to see how big they are I want to see the volume of
animals that are going through there so I did a little scouting found a crossing
and that's we're gonna do today is set this up but today what we're going to
use is the new cell link from spy point now what this fancy little gadget does
is it attaches to a tree or a fence post like we're going to use today right
above your non transmitting trail camera again a virtually any brand that it can
be attached to and through the use of the free Spy point app I can customize
the settings how many photos I want sent to me how many times a day what time of
the day I want it sent but it's very very user friendly the key to these two
devices talking to each other is this included cable that comes with the cell
link and now you see this this electronic cable has a kind of a mock SD
card and this plugs in to the non transmitting trail camera and then on
the other end you have a watertight USB plug that goes into the base of the of
the cell link plugs in and then screws shut for a watertight seal so there's no
electronic failure possibilities this is where you load your batteries you can
use a rechargeable lithium battery pack that spying offers
or you can use eight double-a batteries same as a lot of their trail cameras
take and then we turn on the button once we have the batteries loaded in the
light indicators will be showing the device searching for cell phone service
and it'll be blinking blinking blinking and then once it acquires a signal it'll
show the signal health it'll stay on there for 30 seconds and then the lights
will go out once the lights will go out the adapter is ready to use this device
takes a micro SD card and like all the spy point trail cameras they take up to
a 32 gig card now video footage which you can set this up to take will eat
that up pretty quickly but for photos I ran off a one card
oh man for I think two months last year taking a lot of pictures I had no
problem with being overloaded with too many too many photos so we open up the
trail camera and we take our cable and the SD card adapter and it simply plugs
in and clicks and then we feed this over our sensor and down through the bottom
of the trail camera attach that to the cell link this device is going to
transmit images to my smart device I use a smart phone for that and you ready to
start taking photos it's just that simple we're gonna strap these around
the tree or around the fence post in this particular instance and show you
how it looks when it's all set up we ran into this at the trade shows this past
year at shot show and also at ata we're blown away by this technology by
far one of the coolest products we saw at the shows and I was excited to put it
into action which we're going to do right now okay now we got the trail
camera set up we're gonna show how to set up and monitor the trail cameras
with the settings on the app and it's really quick and easy to do before I go
there though I want to mention that if you're in an area where you want to set
up a trail camera in the cell link where there aren't any trees or there isn't a
convenient fence post like we're using today they are actually all equipped
with tripod mounts under the device making it really handy you
can put it almost anywhere so now you may be asking yourself how in the world
can this particular device communicate with my particular smart device when I'm
potentially hours away for sure miles away how am I not picking up some of
their devices out there it's all account driven all password-protected and I have
to connect my device through my app on my phone which is free like I mentioned
I have to pair it with this not like a bluetooth pairing where it's a proximity
thing but it's an account driven thing and so this is on a cell phone Network
this is on a cell phone network and it's account driven and so these two
communicate through spy points Network and as long as you have cell phone
service you're covered on the app we can see what kind of signal strength we're
getting with the cell link the battery status like how much better we have left
we can see how full our SD card is temperature reading that you're getting
from the area and then we go to settings and if we just look at cellular setup
there's a first time transfer time or a first transfer time and then also the
transfer frequency and so I have mine set up to do six times a day just
because I like getting the images off and it's kind of cool it's fun to get
one of the things I love about the spy point app they have an identification
system that is really cool and so you can set it to filter only antlered
animals or only turkeys or only hogs basically it filters out to the type of
animal that you want to select while the app in your account caches your images
on here depending on the plan you have there is a limitation to how many images
but you can download those images to save them so that's handy for two
different reasons and we're in cattle country here and what if a cow comes by
and just rubs up against us and trashes it well I've saved my images everything
saved in my account and my images are secure another benefit that I really
love about a transmitting system like this we live out west and our hunting
locations oftentimes are a long ways away from where we live it's just not
possible to go out and check trail cameras and in our cards and everything
several times a day or several times a week even last year when I was used
to monitor my antelope area I was two hours away from my hunting spot and
that's actually one of my closest hunting spots in the state of Wyoming
and so the amount of time and fuel money and everything else headache that it
saves me is just it's really priceless and it makes that $10 a month plan if I
choose to go with the top plan that they offer pretty darn affordable pretty fast
so far I've had no problems transmitting in fact the transmitting trail camera
from spy point the link micro that I used last year it was in some real
sketchy cell phone service in fact I didn't even know if it was gonna work
but I was able to get one or two bars and it was enough to transmit the photos
to me pretty cool device and this just helps me in my busy life streamline my
time streamline my scouting so that I can be more efficient in the field and
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