Reviews & Ratings for HCO Spartan GoCam IR Game Camera - Verizon — 1 review — Page 1

So why did I give it four stars and not five??? It was not because of the camera - the camera is terrific. It is the best game camera we have ever bought. Set it to send pictures and it sends them within seconds of being taken. Want a picture now - send a request and you get a picture now - real time. Battery life is pretty good to0, although when you have it sending every picture real time it does take a toll. We set it to record during peak times and turn it off during non peak. If we want a picture during non peak we tell it to take a single picture and send it along.
So why didn't I give it five stars??? Because it is a freakin nightmare to set up. They send it with the wrong firmware and with the wrong firmware it will NOT work. So I had to call manufacturer to get the right firmware and it would not download. With a real expert on the phone it took more than two hours to get it working - more than two hours. If I had known I would not have bought it and now that it works as it supposed to that would have been a terrible shame. All that said, if you are expert at these things or have the patience to work with the mfr to get the right firmware you won't regret it. Best game camera we have and we have a lot of them.