Tactacam Reveal X Review 

Lol I remember those as well! And end the end you really had know idea what tripped the timer. Sure have come a long way. Makes me wonder what's next!?

Still have one. Has 4 clocks that you set the time and they stop every time something triggers the sensor. Anyone want to buy it? Lol

Wow, thanks man! Really appreciate that!

? About the camera mine was recently stolen they turned it off any way to track it when it's turned off

Not this model unfortunately. Man I hate hear that. Burns me up

Yep, pretty easy

Mine wouldn't work from the beginning. Contacting support now. Let me register, then won't do anything. Like it's stuck

Dang....the one thing I can say is their tech support has been very good for me. Hope they can work it out for you!

Wow, appreciate that Sam! Thanks!

Appreciate that!

Yea, it's still pretty good! Just the recovery time is what kills me but hopefully that'll get better too. Thanks for watching!

Appreciate that! They now have the 2.0 version out! You'll probably want that one. It sends videos as well. I make those mounts. Just need to buy a few parts at the hardware store. I have a video on how to make those as well ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QjTPa-Jtunc.html

Thanks!

Thank you!

Yea I wasn't a fan of the Moultrie. Reveal X is really good for the price! Hope it works well for ya!

Moultrie Delta was one of the worst cameras I ever owned.

Hated my delta

Wow, interesting to hear. I think these take the best pics out there...maybe besides a $500 Spartan. Thanks for watching!

Yep!

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Hope they work well for ya!

Hello! Yes, they don't have a free option. Wish every company did that. WingHome also offers 100 free photos a month and SpyPoint. Not sure of any others

Hey John...I replied to you and now I don't see my response. Did you get it?

I wrote a whole long thing about them, but basically it comes down to budget. The Spartan is better in several ways, but the GoLive is $499. The Tactacam has performed really well for me except the recovery time is really slow. The Spartan is so much better in that category.

Thank you for your response

Yea it does sux that it takes so long to get the HD version, but at least now there's an option. And hopefully the lag time will improve! Spartan is definitely kick ass, but the price kicks mine. Hah

I know it saves for at least 4 months but it doesn't appear to save it longer than that. You have to save the specific photos separately and it'll save those

Good question....I believe you can. I have several of mine in the woods right now that are deactivated and when I go into the app it does allow me to change the settings. However, I have no idea if it's actually changing the camera settings. Hah, sorry... I'll have to keep that in mind to see if it actually made the changes or not.

I love these cams! The newer ones now send videos so u might want to look into those. Think it's called Reveal X 2.0. I don't think you'd be disappointed. Thanks for watching!

Yes. The new one they just came out with has a solar panel that mounts on the top of the cam. Can't wait to get my hands on that one!

I use it on timely. Recovery time could be different set to daily. Very interesting point and I will try that on my next review. Although, it still kind of stinks that it would take that long to send photos because the best part of these cell cams is getting the photos right away....especially for trespassers!

The more I think about it the more that would make sense. Since it's not sending the photo right away there should really be no recovery time. Never even thought about that. Can't wait to try it. Thanks for sharing that!

Correct. It won't take the next photo until the last one is sent and that can be up to a minute depending on the reception. That's my biggest gripe on cell cams. You can miss a lot in just 30 seconds. Spartan cams are really good with the recovery time, but it's a $500 cam. Thanks for watching!

@@JaseOutdoors Do you need the wifi to set it up?

@@montr6868 you can set it remotely from your phone but it's easier to just use wifi. You connect your phone directly to the cam and you can see what the cam sees so you know what you're looking at, then change whatever settings you'd like from there

@@JaseOutdoors at night can the flash be turned off?

You only have the option between high and low for night pics

I was using class 10 (U1) 120mb/sec, that I would think should be fast enough to write to the card. Not sure what happens after that but I do know the ones I have set in the woods with less reception take even longer. Whatever Spartan did to their cam has it figured out, but it's also a $500 cam

It is $13 unlimited a month. Get 2 sim cards. One is AT&T, and the other is Verizon. I never have been to any place where at&t had service but Verizon didn't..either way nice to have choices.

Not the greatest, but there is sound. Hah. I haven't seen too many cameras, if any, that has good audio

Think you might struggle with detecting motion from that high up because of the center line where it detects motion. 9 would be the most sensitive setting and 1 the least

@@JaseOutdoors Yeah I think I’ve learned that it can’t be that high. I’m gonna drop it a few feet and see if it helps. I didn’t know that trail cameras were meant to be mounted so low

Correct. I like the 10 foot high range. Seems to do a bit better but even then something can walk under it and never be detected.

Not really, if there is I can't find it. There is a "check-in" setting that you can turn on and it will take a photo everyday and send to you. But it doesn't even let u pick a time

Yep, it'll still function as a trail camera. I'd question why you'd want to do that, though. Hah. There are cheaper and good quality cams out there that aren't cellular. Maybe that'd work better for ya

@@JaseOutdoors I recently bought 3 cheaper cameras that had very good reviews and 2 of the 3 wouldn't turn on and one of them heated the batteries seconds after hitting the switch. I returned all 3. Most of my area has terrible reception and one spot with decent reception. If the reception is spotty, I want to make certain it will still take photos and save them to the sd card, or, if I decide to throw this particular camera on a different area for added intel on a specific buck, I want it to work no matter if I have service or not. I just don't want to buy a camera that only works if I have service, especially since I plan to move and I never know what sort of service I will have when I do.

Gotcha. These cams do take great pics

Bass Pro has them in stock as of yesterday. I purchased my first 2

Thanks for the tip!

Correct. If you have 3 cameras and buy a plan for 250 photos per camera you have 750 photos to share between all 3. Thanks for watching!

By the sounds of it, I'd say the XB. I haven't had the chance to try the XB yet but I hope to review it very soon

Thanks for watching!

Yep

No, it only takes a 16-32gb card, so it says anyway

The app has just updated a lil bit ago and I just searched through it and I don't see an option to take a photo now. Other cams that do have that always seem to take forever after you send the request so it's something I never use. If u need to see something right away, you might want to consider something like the ReoLink cams. I have 2 full reviews on those and they have been awesome! Live streaming video on your phone and also records clips when it detects motion. Hope that helps!

@@JaseOutdoors what’s the best deal you’ve found for the reolink service? I’ve seen Mint but it runs $20 a month. Would like a plan closer to $12 a month.

Hmm, interesting. I did not know that. Thanks for sharing

@@JaseOutdoors thanks for the video.

Hi Kelly! Hope I explained formatting well enough. Thanks for watching!

Well..I feel like it's not a fair comparison cause the Spartan is awesome but it's also $380 more. Pic quality on the Tactacam is really good though. My only beef with the Tactacam is the recovery time. Takes too long to take the next pic after the first one. Hope that kinda answers your question. Hah

@@JaseOutdoors hahaha yea I get it. Thanks for the information. On my cameras that have slow trigger speeds I run video and do like a 30sec per video so I can usually pic up whatever is going on. Of course you have to play around with the wait time for when it takes another video. But if it’s on a trail you can usually just do back to back triggers.

Battery life is pretty decent. I seem to get around 4 months on lithiums. Of course that'll vary

Yea, they're just as bad. The Spartan was really good but the price of the cam is a lot

Ok , thank you for the reply. Ya i saw your video on that looks like a great cam, but ouch on the price. Great channel you have. Do you still like your tactacams?

Nice, enjoy!

Really? Wow, someone else just said that. I didn't realize they are already hard to find. I was at Cabela's 2 weeks ago and they had a pile of them

@@JaseOutdoors which Cabellas? Online, they were out of stock.... I was thinking that these were discontinued and not worth investing into a company on the verge of bankruptcy..

Basspro as of yesterday

Yea, sure can. But there's probably better options out there for a security camera. Like ReoLink that sends you videos and you can look around in live time

@@JaseOutdoors thank you

No. The newest one apparently are no glow. Hoping to review one soon

@@JaseOutdoors I'm confused.. the newest ARE no glow? Or no?

Correct. This is no longer the newest version. The version in this video are low glow. New ones are no glow

I don't actually know since the wifi is used to see where the camera is pointed, so I only ever use it so I can adjust the camera accordingly....and change the settings

It's been out for a few months now, but I'm finally just getting around to testing it. Hah. I got mine at Cabela's so you shouldn't have trouble finding em, unless they're sold out already.

Every place I have tried say sold out.

Wow, that's crazy!

@@albertcuevas2913 People are buying them all up and causing a shortage then reselling them for ridiculous prices on eBay.

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No, there isn't. If there is i can't find it. There's a "check in" setting that will send you a photo every day just so u know the cam is working but not a live photo.

Spartan GoLive, but it comes with a big price tag

@@JaseOutdoors what's the affordable ones that are still good

The Tactacam Reveal X I'm enjoying so far. I'd avoid SpyPoint, but that's just me

@@JaseOutdoors I'm really leaning towards the reveal x

I can't find much wrong with it, but was sorta disappointed with the recovery time. Good cam for the price for sure

Hey! Good question that I don't know the answer to. I've never tried to upgrade my plan. I know with SpyPoint they hose you when you upgrade. You lose the amount of photo you already used for that month but they still charge you the full amount, which is another reason I hate SpyPoint. I'm really not sure about Tactacam. If you do this, please let me know what you learn. Appreciate it! Good Luck!

@@JaseOutdoors Just upgraded my plan and you do get credit for your prior plan unused $.

Good to know! Thanks for sharing!

I don't believe so. You'd just have to share login info with the username and password and then you can switch between accounts. I will be seeing people from Tactacam this weekend and I will see if there's a better answer for ya!

@@JaseOutdoors that would be awesome if you can get answers from them. Thank you.

I know other companies give you a share option but I don't see anything in Tactacam's app

So it's taking night photos but not day photos?

I guess if it did connect to the wifi, then upload to a free cloud service, wifi hard drive, free network share, then many people would not but the cell plan. However, for myself, I would still buy the cell service, since I need to see remotely with as little delay as practical (1min/15min/30min/60min/120min/3hr/4hr/6hr/8hr/12h/24hr needs to be an option for the cell upload period options. Longer periods means longer battery life but more blindness, with less of the cellular concept and advantage over a non cell trail camera..... I am totally happy with low resolution cell images, the high Def on the card, or at 10 cents each. Obviously, webp is 2x as efficient as jpg, which is why Google photos uses webp, and every image browser and web browser now supports webp.

Oh, that's pretty clever!

@@JaseOutdoors I started with spycam off the playstore,which worked great, except it overheated and drained the cheap phones that I tried. I then tried a bunch more apps, which all sucked. Then I realized that I could easily script my own time-lapse with tasker. I ended up doing a script with two 15 minute loops that I scheduled for every 31 minutes from 7 am to 9 pm. I read variables from the text messages, so I could set the upload every 15 or 30 minutes to Dropbox or Google. I used webp, not jog, because of the better quality and size of webp. I could text the phone and change the interval from 1 minute, 2min40 sec, 5 min, or 15 minutes, which were the intervals that I found useful. Of course, if no cell available, it would just keep the pictures on the SD. If it transferred, I had a variable to delete, or just move to another folder. Since I scripted it myself, I could grab 1 high definition photo every 15 or 30 minutes. Since I was using a $5 per month att plan or a $6 sprint plan, I would keep the data as low as possible, which also saves battery. I was interested in who, when, and what what they were doing. Not especially extreme details. Since android was so unstable, determined to kill protected apps, so power hungry, forced updates and reboots, data expensive, I felt like I was lucky to get the minimum information without a glitch. Since 2015, they did save my butt, probably more than I even realize. Cameras keep everyone honest.

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I don't live there but I was there. Guessing you seen my truck?

@@JaseOutdoors yes I did I live around there thought I'd ask

Awesome, thanks for looking me up! I'm up in the area a bunch. Today was nuts with all that traffic!

If you're on Facebook, look up @jasehunteroutdoors and shoot me a PM. I'll be back up in two weeks

Have to check out WingHome or Spartan GoCam

There is a setting that you can have the camera update one a day or instant. In instant the camera stays awake and drain more batteries. You can set it to time lapse mode but that burns batteries as well. Don't believe there's a way to connect it to your home wifi. I didn't even think to try.

Another reviewer of this camera claims that instant means it will check for updates “every time it takes and uploads a photo,” not necessarily “stays awake constantly checking for updates.” Either way it will burn up more battery, and not really sure which is correct. Staying awake constantly seeking updates seems way more expensive on battery.

Interesting. I'm not sure what you mean by $5 for 50 per session. I've only used the HD photos a couple of times cause the thumbnails have been so good, I haven't had to download HD versions. If you really want high quality, look into the Spartan Cams. Just reviewed that a few weeks ago and that thing is amazing.... except the cam is $500

Really? Wow. I've had good contact with them and they've been very helpful. Surprised to hear that. Thought you were talking about SpyPoint at first. Ha! Hope you get it resolved!

Interesting. What issues did u experience?

@@JaseOutdoors I can't use 2 different kind of batteries that pissed me off Can't change settings from my phone to camera unless attached by wifi when my hunting spot is half way across the state Doesn't get service in back country where most hunters are

Well, yea you need cell reception. All cell cams need cell reception. You can change the settings from the phone remotely. But the cam needs cell reception. And not sure why you'd wanna use two different kinds of batteries, but again, most trail cams are like that.

@@JaseOutdoors my hunting spot is very far from the nearest town on the way there I stopped and bought all of one kind of batteries that the store had and it was not enough so I had to buy two of another kind that is the type of stuff that happens all the time to low or middle income families that are trying to hunt