E8 Trail Camera WiFi 32MP

I have an old barn on my property that I put this at for security. People like to trespass, litter, and vandalize it in their spare time. I, who am attempting to begin renovations on said old barn, like to have clear pictures of faces and license plates to give to the sherif when such passtimes are engaged by the neighbors. On highest resolution, pictures are crisp and clear and I can get license plate numbers nearly 30 feet away. Could probably go more, but that's what I have it set at. Camera was a breeze to set up. Batteries last several months; more if it's not triggered very often. Sensitivity options are great! At highest, I will catch squirrels and rabbits running around. On the low side, I only get big things like cars, people, deer, and dogs. Only thing is, when connected wireless(ly)?, the pictures can take a long time to load and download. Small price to pay, though. Fantastic little camera!

I'm very impressed, and I have bought three different models. I love being able to view my videos from inside my house; these also never drop the connection to my Wi-Fi when viewing videos; the camera has the option to require a password to connect; records sounds and temperature; sensitive enough to detect a mouse (not kidding); you can view a live shot, but it's dark at night; and all three take great videos and have excellent Wi-Fi connectivity. I do have strong Wi-Fi coverage at my house, so I can connect around 150 feet away from router. You have to keep in mind that it does take a little less than a minute to connect to your network, then you can view your photos and videos, which may have a bit of lag to load but not bad. I had another company's Wi-Fi camera, and it constantly dropped the connection. Once you make a connection with the Garde Pro, you keep it. I think it's because these cameras each have an external antenna. Definitely recommend these, and I also recommend buying these with the solar panel. One camera does not have a solar panel and it goes through batteries very fast - as I would expect because it is taking pictures, videos, and broadcasts them back. I use rechargeable Enloop batteries, so I can live with it, but if you use throwaway batteries, you'd go broke. The two cameras with the solar panels never dip below 90% battery power. To me, it was worth the extra money for the solar panel.My one request to the company would be to add an alert push to your phone.

Overall a good trail camera, but after 6 months of use. The screen become damaged somehow, although it was never dropped. The screen show all kinds of lines.Try to contact GardePro, never answered, nothing. Just too bad, the camera is good, the rest of it ...stinks. The support is nonexistent. So beware!UPDATE:Garden pro finally got back to me, and had send a replacement. So far so good.

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 are1) GardePro E62) Gardepro E83) 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. 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.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, unless getting a slightly higher resolution (32MP vs 24MP) is super important to you. I was more interested in video, and they both record at 1296p. If they were within $10 I’d buy the E8, but at the time of this writing there’s a $20 gap that I don’t think is justified, unless there is some other feature I just haven’t noticed yet. If I discover some other benefit in the next year I’ll come back and edit. If they both go for the Black Friday prices again I’ll get the E8.Wosport G6oo: Honestly, these were so cheap I bought them to use as decoys. 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 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.

The batteries don't last long and are not rechargeable. So I guess we spend the $ on rechargeable.Everytime you go to log it it takes forever.You can't see what's happening on camera unless you are home and with wifi.Not user friendly even for techie people. Which wasn't us but we had 2 very techie people trying.We have it connected to a iPhone and android. Problems connecting with both.Don't buy this one. Too much $ for the product.I bought in Oct as a Christmas present. Had 1 techie person try at New Years. It sat in box until June then next techie visitor was doing everything to get us hooked up.Easy connect 1 time and 10 mins later you want to throw the phone.Way past return window.

I’ve been using trailcams for about a year now to monitor my hog trap. One of my cameras just died, so I was shopping for a replacement. After trying two different cameras, which I returned because I did not like them, I decided to try the GardePro E8 Trail Camera. I like being able to connect the trailcam to my phone to download photos and videos so I do not have to open or even touch the trailcam once it is positioned, which is why I decided to try the GardePro E8.I am happy to report that, so far, this is an excellent trailcam for the price. The setup was easy and the phone app worked great (it does not have very good reviews on Google Play Store, but I think that is because of user error rather than a problem with the app - some folks just don’t like to read instructions). The photo and video quality is very good. I have attached a short video showing both daytime and nighttime video quality (photo quality is very good as well). The video setting was at 1080P, which is not the highest setting, so the quality could be even better if I had it set to 1296P. I was especially impressed with the nighttime video quality. The lighting is excellent and far reaching – much better than any other trailcam I have used. The only downside to the camera is the field of view, which is not as wide-angle as my other trailcam, but by moving the camera a little further back I was able to get the field of view that I wanted. Time will tell how well it holds up to the hot humid rainy Florida summer weather. I’ll post an update if anything changes, but so far I highly recommend this trail camera.

My primary use of a game camera is understanding local varmint damage like deer-eaten plants, disappearing tomatoes, chewed-on electrical harnesses, and most recently, chewed-on and punctured plastic sprinkler tubing and fittings in our orchards. About 10 years ago I bought a Bushnell Trophy Camera, and it has served me well over the years. However, its big weakness for me was the difficulty of knowing exactly what field-of-view was included in the capture area. In general, I found that opening the camera to turn it on and then check the SD card for a test image was a major issue and often led to incorrect aiming in the final positioning. I bought the new GardePro E8 and an E6 primarily to address the aiming issue, as these GardePro cameras have the ability to confirm the final field-of-view on a smart phone prior to walking away from the setup. This Wi-Fi capability also allows for periodic checking of the taken images without having to disturb the camera setup. Below are my impressions after using both the E6 and E8 and running them through a number of detailed tests.FIRST IMPRESSIONS: The GardePro E8 and E6 are mechanically and electrically similar cameras, but differ in two important ways: (1) the E6 has a wide-angle lens with roughly twice the angle coverage of the E8, and (2) the E8 has three IPR motion sensors (a center and two side sensors) whereas the E6 just has a single center sensor. I found them essentially the same with respect to battery and Wi-Fi performance, but they varied substantially in terms of optical and animal-capture performance. I don't know if this is a real difference between the models, or a unit-to-unit variability caused by poor quality control. The E6 turned out to be substantially better both optically and with respect to animal capture...the E8 was unacceptable for my needs and got returned.BATTERY POWER: In response to a number of reviewer and YouTube comments, I ran an extensive number of current-draw tests on the E8 and E6 at a variety of supplied voltage levels and imaging scenarios (still photos, movies, daylight, Wi-Fi on and off, and at night). These greatly clarified the cameras' current/voltage demands and battery use limitations. In general, I was impressed with the cameras' electrical power performance. Typical current draw with the internal LCD screen illuminated was around 100 mA, and this current drops to near zero (100 microA with Wi-Fi on and 70 microA with Wi-Fi off) once the screen is turned off in surveillance mode. During daylight movies the current rises again to around 100 mA during the actual video-taking period...about 12 seconds for a 10 second video clip. During a night shot with the IR LEDs providing illumination, the current fluctuates from 100 mA to around 500 mA as the LEDs are cycled to achieve the needed scene brightness...for distant night views the LEDs remain at the 500 mA level for the duration of each video. Using the phone to view scenes via Wi-Fi results in a constant camera current draw of around 125 mA (day or night) during the live-view session; this is because the camera live-views on the phone don't use the IR LEDs to illuminate the scene (more on this later). To return to the camera's normal motion-sensing capability one must disconnect the camera in the Wi-Fi app; the power demands then return to the numbers described above for normal picture taking. To understand the ability of the cameras to work over a range of supply voltages, I used a variable-voltage 8-amp external power supply to vary the input voltage from 12 volts down to 7 volts...equivalent to each AA battery (while under load) going from 1.5 volts all the way down to 0.875 volts. Under these tests the camera continued to operate in the daylight mode throughout the entire 12-volt to 7-volt range...very impressive. However, in the night picture-taking mode requiring the IR LEDs to operate, the IR LEDs quit illuminating at voltages below about 9 volts (equivalent to a AA at-load voltage of 1.13 volts; this agrees with the Manufacturer's advice in the user manual...still quite good. However, as a caution, note that these are the actual voltage delivered to the camera while under load (e.g. IR LEDs operating at 500 mA), and can't be directly compared to battery no-load voltages measured in a typical room-temperature tabletop battery test. To get a feeling for the actual battery voltage drop under load I measured a top quality Duracell Alkaline AA battery under various currents from 0 mA to 800 mA to assess the internal battery voltage drop with increasing current level. As shown in the attached plot, these data suggest that the camera will fail to operate in the night IR camera mode when the AA open-circuit battery voltage drops below about 1.35 volts. Unfortunately, at 1.35 volts, AA Alkaline batteries have only yielded about 35% of their total amp-hr discharge capability. Thus, typical Alkaline AA batteries can be expected to be short lived if used for night videos, and this situation can be substantially worse at low in-field battery temperatures. But there are good rechargeable Li-ion battery alternatives that really save the day. For most of my testing, I substituted a 12-volt (three 18650 cell) Li-ion battery pack (TalentCell 12V 3000 mAh) using the GardePro's option of a 12V DC external supply with 5.5-2.1mm connector plug. This is an industry-standard plug and is consistent with many available 12V power options. The TalentCell 12V battery has minimal voltage drop (<0.5V) under the camera's 500 mA max load and thus can provide its full 3000 mAh to the camera without any limitations on the camera's night-vision operation. It's a shame that GardePro didn't incorporate rechargeable Li-ion batteries into this camera, but at least one can purchase a TalentCell battery for ~$25 and recover the performance. Another option is to use the rechargeable 1.5 volt Li-ion AA batteries that provide a regulated 1.5 volts independent of the state of discharge. ELB makes a set of eight with a charger (EBL 8 Pack Rechargeable Lithium AA Batteries, 1.5V AA Li-ion Batteries with 8 Slots Smart Lithium Rechargeable Battery Charger) at a price of around $37; these have the advantage of fitting inside the GardePro's case and have a similar 3000 amp-hr capacity to three 18650 Li-ion batteries. I hate to use non-rechargeable batteries in this kind of application, and NiCd and Ni-MH rechargeable batteries with max voltages less than 1.3 volts don't supply enough voltage to run the GardePro's IR LEDs. One thing that I checked is what happens if one fails to disconnect the camera from the phone... Will the higher current continue on indefinitely and quickly discharge the batteries? To its credit, the camera automatically returns to its minimal-power surveillance mode after five minutes of no activity, even if the app is turned off with the camera still connected. After five minutes, the camera switches to surveillance mode also if one fails to switch on surveillance mode before closing the case, or if the internal screen is tripped on by a momentary power outage. These are important safety feature to catch high-likelihood user errors that would lead to rapid battery drain and no taken pictures. Another important plus is that the camera quickly notifies you if you switch into picture-taking mode and have failed to install an SD card...I've been disappointed more than once upon finding no SD card in my SLR camera after a day's shooting.OPTICAL PERFORMANCE. This, was an area where the E8 and E6 varied widely. The cameras advertise resolutions up to 24 and 32 MPx, but as we all know, the images cannot be any better than the focal plane detector, the lens, and its focus allow. For my voltage-current measurements I was set up on my work bench and focused on the nearest wall about 3.5 feet away. At this distance, things were very out of focus with the E8, and writing on the wall was impossible to read in the camera's images...much worse than with my 10-year-old Bushnell game camera. In contrast, the close-up views with the E6 were quite sharp. To quantify the issue, I incorporated a professional lens resolution test target in the field-of-view and took pictures at 24MP (32MP), 16 MP, 8 MP, 4 MP, 2 MP, and 1080 Video. What I determined was that the cameras are basically 2 MP cameras...the 2 MP photo setting gave the best resolution of the test target, and the 1080 Video was similar if not a little better, as it appeared to incorporate a bit more sharpening in the video compression. The various jpg image resolutions up to 24 and 32 MB are just finer grain versions of the same 2MP image...offering more pixels, but no increased resolution over the 2 MB video resolution. The two camera's resolutions were compared directly with one another and with images taken with my Samsung Galaxy S20 and my Pentax SLR, for comparison. To provide a proper comparison, the distance to the target was adjusted to make the test target size the same fraction of the width of each camera's field-of-view; for a full 1920x1080 image, the test target was ~150 px wide. Bottom line, the E6 was more than twice as sharp as the E8, although not as sharp as a high grade cell phone or SLR. The key takeaway is that the E6 captures twice the field-of-view of the E8, but captures the same detail in the scene...a huge improvement (see attached test targets).ANIMAL-CAPTURE PERFORMANCE. Given the comments by reviewers on this topic, I also spent a great deal of time experimenting with the camera's trip-parameter settings. For my tests, the PIR sensitivity was set at high on both cameras, and I walked back and forth through the field of view to trigger the camera. In general, triggering was not an issue...triggered every time. However, most of my E8 images failed to capture me in them, thus the timing of the E8 image-capture was a real issue...my motion had come and gone before the photo was taken or the video-clip started...both with side sensors on and off. In contrast, every image in the E6 had me in it...worked perfectly. After considerable experimenting, I concluded that there was no reliable control of the PIR-trip-to-picture-taking delay with the GardePro E8 camera...image capture was totally hit or miss, and unacceptable for my uses.Wi-Fi PERFORMANCE. The Wi-Fi capability, for me, was a performance breakthrough!...a real game changer! The GardePro app installed quickly on my Samsung Galaxy S20 phone, and the phone connected quickly and worked flawlessly with both the E8 and E6 at up to 50 feet or even more. This allowed me to set up the cameras at various positions in our yard, adjust the exact positioning via the image on my phone, and then watch the action on my phone's screen in the house 50 ft away. There are four major new functions enabled by the camera's Wi-Fi:1) First in importance to me is the ability to precisely aim the camera after the case is closed up using the full-screen view on my phone. Poor pointing has always been a problem for me and being able to view and adjust the exact scene is a real game changer. Generally, I mount the camera on a small ball joint that allows infinite adjustability to exclude unwanted items like blowing branches and sky and maximize the areas of importance.2) An extension of the camera's live-view function is the ability to use the phone in conjunction with the camera as a sort of spotting scope, for the camera's daylight and night-vision imaging is superb. Interesting, the night vision viewing through the phone is far better than the night vision photos the camera takes, as the camera's live-viewing mode uses natural moonlight and skylight as the illumination source and provides gorgeous high-definition evenly-illuminated night scenes. The view on the phone's screen also offers a "take photo" button to allow one to take a photo or video of the real-time view; but interestingly, this turns on the IR LEDs, which leads to a contrasty image that is not nearly as viewable as the naturally-lite one. It's a shame that the camera can't capture these live-view IR images. However, one can capture the phone's naturally-lite live-view image using the phone's screen-grab function (see attached photo). The main downside of the live-view is that it consumes a modest amount to battery current. During this phone live-viewing the camera is continuously drawing around 125 mA, just a bit more than when viewing using the camera's internal screen. For my live-viewing I used the TalentCell (3000 mAh) battery to provide around 24 hours of continuous phone viewing between charges. Recall that the camera's own picture taking mode is turned off whenever the app is operational...and turns back on only when you close the app.3) Another great function of the phone app is the ability to check on the number of pictures and videos that have been taken, and to examine them is detail on the phone's big screen. I found this a very useful and valuable quality control function when setting up the camera and viewing the first few pictures. Once the number of photos gets to over a few hundred, the viewing becomes labored. That's when I move the SD card onto my computer, which allows the images to be viewed with more effective software. For a few selected pictures, the app can quickly download them to the phone where they can be accessed without having to directly access the camera's SD card.4) A fourth great function of the Wi-Fi app is the ability to access the camera's status, such as battery level and presence and status of the SD card remaining capacity; one can also view and adjust any of the camera's many programming parameters. This is especially handy for a camera mounted in a awkward-to-reach position. After viewing some previously shot images one can, for example, extend or shorten the movie run time or add more still photos to the sequence without having to access and open up the camera.MECHANICAL CASE. The case on the GardePros is nearly identical to the one on my 10-year-old Bushnell, nothing new, but quite functional. Nice waterproof latching case with available 1/4-20 tripod mount (which I generally use to improve aiming reliability and accuracy) and the ability to use a strap around a small tree (which I don't use). For remote applications where I don't want to leave an expensive tripod, I use a 3" long 1/4" lag screw with a 1/4-20 threaded end that I thread into a fence post or convenient tree...then attach the camera using a small adjustable ball mount (see attached photo). As one nit, my Bushnell lens is recessed 1/2" to minimize the chance of its being touched or scratched and perhaps to shield it from bright side lights; the GardePro lens has no such protection. Another nit is that the 5.5-2.1mm external power plug is so close to the tripod mount that one can't mount on a typical tripod when an external power plug is plugged in...one must use a very narrow ball head or equivalent.SUMMARY CONCLUSIONS. Both cameras have a number of good points, and the E8 has some important weaknesses. Most of both cameras' features are pretty standard for a game camera. However, I view the E8's optical performance as marginal for many applications where one is trying to capture sharp images, not just see if a deer is there. The E8's close-up imaging is particularly weak for those interested in such applications. In contrast, the sharpness and close-focus ability of the E6 are excellent. Another problem I had with my E8 was unreliable subject-capture performance...I just couldn't rely on it to capture the subject that tripped the shutter. Again, my E6 worked very reliably in this regard. For both, their winning feature is their Wi-Fi functionality, which seems like a great addition for folks that can use this feature to advantage. From a battery point of view, the two cameras are nearly identical and do a good job of minimizing the current drain. However, if used for night filming, typical AA Alkaline batteries are likely to lead to rapid battery draining and unacceptable night-filming performance because of their marginal ability to support the 500 mA load and 9-volt cuttoff limit of the IR LEDs; rechargeable NiCd or Ni-MH batteries have the same problem because of their lower voltages. Luckily, several Li-ion battery options are available to provide reliable long-term IR LED powering of the E6 and E8...even under cold weather conditions. For field operation, I have my E6 loaded with eight ELB 1.5V rechargeable Li-ion batteries...works like a champ...highly recommended! I returned the E8...it was unsatisfactory for my needs.

I bought this camera and another WiFi camera...this one is blowing the other one out of the water! Pics are great resolution. I can look at images in full size on my phone, the other camera I got only lets u look at tiny pics unless you download. Bluetooth range on this is ok, not great, but ok. I think I'm getting about 15ft away...but there is a wall of a brick house in my way too since I bought this so I wouldnt have to go outside to check camera. A feature I didnt even know about...you can watch thru the camera live! So that is totally awesome too if I just want to see if deer are setting off my motion lights or the dogs without getting up. So far so good, if things change, I will update, but think I will send back my d brand and get another one of these!😃

Snaps pictures and videos in absolute darkness. I set the camera up in my attic to find out where critters were entering and exiting. You need to purchase the recommended batteries Energizer lithium AA to get the best out of the device. Other batteries will drain very quickly.

Since there is a big construction project going on right opposite to my balcony, I decided to take a time lapse from start to finish. I set my GardePro E7 to the shortest time lapse interval and bought two SanDisk 512 GB micro-SD's (not at Amazon but at Best Buy because I wanted to make sure I won't get a fake).I set it from 5:30 am to 10:30 pm (June and July 4:30 am to 10:30 pm), put in a freshly charged set of eneloop rechargeable batteries, and used a 12 Volt power adapter which I had lying around to plug the camera into an outside outlet on my balcony. In order to get it on my tripod, I bought at Amazon a Neewer 200mm Professional Rail Nodal Slide Metal Quick Release Clamp for Camera, and mounted the GardePro camera as far back as I could so that there was still room to plug in the power adapter, and that I could see the small green leveling bubble on the slide in front of the camera.I also bought two 5TB passport ultra external drives, and to connect them to my computer two 3 feet long Anker USB-C to USB 3.0 cables (all at Amazon). Every Sunday I switched out the SD card and checked whether the batteries were still full. I wrote a simple emacs program (I am working on Linux, and this can also be done in python, but i am more familiar with emacs), which copies the directories in the SD cards, which have names 100MEDIA, 101MEDIA, etc, to consecutively numbered directories on the external drives which have by now numbers 000000MEDIA to 00182MEDIA, which have photos taken every 6 seconds starting 5:30 am on March 15 until now. Even the photos taken at night, which are illuminated not by the camera's infrared but by street lights, are very clear.Unfortunately, every directory has file numbers from 001 to 999, and some of the directories end earlier. In order to convert all this into a sequence of consecutively numbered files, it would have been much more convenient if they started at 000. I hope GardePro makes this change maybe with the next firm ware update?Recently I bought a GardePro E8 for wildlife photos. On the first day of operation, it stopped taking pictures ot 7:30 am. Therefore I returned it. The E7 never did this, as far as I know. But I noticed that the battery compartment of the E8 is a much better fit than that of the E7. The E7 was too tight, it was difficult to get the batteries out. The trick is to start pulling them out between the two batteries, not at either end.I wish GardePro would add a new menu item which turns off the infrared blast. Friends of mine living in a condo have a Nest surveillance camera which has been vandalized. Mounting a GardePro camera behind a window would probably solve that, but right now the glare from the infrared blast makes this impossible.