Solar Wildlife Camera 4K 68MP 30fps, WiFi Trail Camera with TF Card

This is a superb and innovative trail camera which works very well and I'm sure will help cut down on wasteful battery usage. The solar panel does appear to keep the internal rechargeable battery topped up even if not fully in direct sunlight - but do make sure to fully charge the camera first. As far as backup batteries go (which will kick in when the rechargeable battery is almost depleted - think long dark days....) I'd recommend using rechargeable Eneloop Pro AA's as these work well even at low temperatures and have extremely low self discharge characteristics. Image (still and video) quality is really good both during the day and at night when the pair of powerful 850nm IR emitters come into play. Bear in mind that these emitters do produce a slight deep red glow when looking directly at them which may or may not be a concern but the images produced are certainly full of detail and relatively noise free - excellent! (Compared to another camera of mine which uses 940nm zero glow emitters I suspect that the 850nm emitters used in the CY95 are a better match for the image sensor and optics so produce clearer more detailed images). Possibly the motion detection system could be made slightly more sensitive as I do feel that my other cameras are a little bit more sensitive. This could very well be a necessary design compromise but with careful positioning and a little bit of trial and error I've had some very good results. The built in Bluetooth and WiFi works well over short (<10m and preferably line of sight) distances and is more than adequate when it comes to downloading images or changing certain settings. All in all the CY95 is a cracking trail camera - definitely recommended!! Btw it's worth mentioning that if you do need to contact Ceyomur with any issues they stand by their products, are extremely helpful and will do all they can to help.

TL;DR - For the price, great video clarity with very little motion blur, effectively indefinite battery life with the lithium + solar panel combo, and acceptable IR illumination and motion activation. An excellent back garden trail camera. I bought this camera in April 2024 to capture night time video footage of animals in my garden at night (which is mostly foxes and cats). I have previously used security cameras and cheap trail cameras powered by AA batteries, and this CY95 was better than expected and I am pleased with my purchase. The build quality of the camera is solid, and after nightly use for four months through heavy rain and heatwaves and sun, it shows almost no signs of use at all. The plastic has not degraded at all, and overall I have no concerns about the material build of the camera. The video quality is excellent for the price (about ~£80 with discounts) and I have absolutely no complaints. I note particularly that there is very little motion blur or ghosting- something that I have seen on other cams in this price range. The IR LEDs were suitably bright, and illuminate the image directly in front of the camera quite well up to about 15m or so. The image exposure was also generally good, with perhaps the slight tendency to overexpose at ranges of less than 1m (which is unavoidable really). This may depend on the angle and height of the camera. The battery is great (*see below). I've had problems with AA powered cameras because they often only use about 10% of the AA batteries before the voltage is not high enough to power them anymore. This is not an issue with this camera with the onboard lithium, and with the solar panel you could put this thing out effectively indefinitely as long as you place it in the sun. I usually remove the cameras during the daytime, but even still I only had to charge the camera once in four months. The motion activation is acceptable. It's not the most sensitive thing in the world, and the claimed 0.1s trigger time might be true but is let down by the minimum 5s PIR period. Treat it as if anywhere up to 5 seconds to activate - be sure to change this setting in the menu. It does quite well capturing sideways motion, but sometimes fails to capture motion towards or away from the camera. The activation zone is within about 8m in my garden, and can be fiddly to set up correctly - make sure not to aim the camera too high as animals can and will travel under the motion detection zone. Once properly set up, the camera caught most of the action in the garden unless it was too far away or too fast (sprinting animals were not caught). My previous experiences with low to mid range trail cameras leads me to believe this is normal for these types of sensors so I was not not disappointed. As for downsides, the wireless connectivity is not the greatest and is OK for transferring a few clips here and there, but for mass transfer of footage I recommend plugging the camera in via USB or removing the SD card. Potential buyers should note that there is a slight red glow to the IR LEDs and there is a very quiet click when the camera activates (this might be the IR filter?). For me, this was expected and the garden animals didn't care so it was not a problem, but exceptionally wary wildlife may notice these things. All in all, this camera hit all the points I desired in a trail cam: it has great night time video footage with no blur, and an onboard lithium battery with a solar panel that doesn't require AA batteries and can be used for extended periods. I own two of these now, and I can wholeheartedly recommend them for anyone looking for a reasonably priced garden trail camera! * After three months, my camera developed a battery issue. Thankfully, when I contacted customer support they were helpful and professional, and after confirming the issue and trying a firmware update, they issued me a replacement camera with no fuss. Thumbs up for the customer support from me.

Bought this to replace an old one that succumbed to the weather after a few years of use. Was lured to this because of the nice to have features and the promise of 4k video. WellI thought at first that the 4k video file had a problem and just couldnt get it to play. I wrote an initial review as I was unhappy with this then ate humble pie as I discovered the PC couldnt process the H265 codec quick enough. The file worked fine on my smartphone. Because of this newer codec the files are smaller than my more expensive Browning SpecOps Elite but the difference is that the latter seems to be able to capture moving objects so much better and this one blurs when things move unless they are doing so slowly. The photo quality is good unless at dusk or dawn when the IR hasn't kicked in. The Inbuilt battery lasts well it appears and hasn't shifted from 100% since it has been out for the last week. I suspect that it is the wireless feature that eats the battery. There is an option to change the shutter speed but for wildlife you need the fastest so that is 1/30. I checked the metadata and some of the shots are faster than this so a bit unsure what it does. It might be that it means it wont take it any slower than that. As regards to the wireless part I downloaded the app and went through the instructions. You need to give it permission to access photos and location which tbh is unsurprising. If the trailcam is within a few feet and turned on you can fire up the app. It will ask you if it can turn on bluetooth then try and pair with the trailcam. Once done it will ask you to connect via wifi. A bit clunky but technically this is probably the only way to enable it without having wifi on all the time and draining the battery. I couldnt remember the wifi password (in the manual) so abandoned it first time and checked what it was on the trailcam. After that the darned thing wouldnt connect again via bluetooth. I ended up finding the app on my android phone, forcing a stop and clearing the data (easy to do). Then when through the setup again with the right password and it actually worked! I can no sit in the allotment greenhouse at dusk and wait for the badgers to appear. In reality I would wire up a more robust system but I guess a nice feature to have. Lastly, is the solar feature useful? Really not sure. Most trailcams are in woods out of sunlight so wont charge but it is actually a good raincover for the lens!!! Cant quite give 5* but tbh it is way better than previous cheapish trailcameras and I am now happy with the result.

I've only had this camera for a few days, but the results are stunning. I'm no cameraman but it is relatively easy to set up and incredibly sensitive visually and audibly. The bracket is better than the strap for my requirements as I screwed it to a very portable and very stable stone stand, I can now move it anywhere in the garden. I don't use the wifi as I don't use a mobile phone but it's so easy to download the results onto my laptop. The first night I used it in camera/video mode, it took over 150 pictures and 30-odd 15-second videos. It requires patience to trawl through the results but it really is worth it as you have no idea what will turn up. The daytime clarity is also brilliant and I was going to attach a daytime video of a rook that just turned up to look but the website only let me attach the one nighttime video. (That was in total darkness). After all that, it still didn't use the 4 x AA backup batteries and it took hardly any time to recharge the rechargables. Very highly recommended Phil Lester

great camera

Pros: Excellent value for the money. Great video image quality. Very good motion detection. Audio seems ok. In my view it's the best in class for applications requiring a wide viewing/lens angle (spec’d at 89 degrees, most manufacturers not saying what the viewing angle is but seem to be around the 60 degree mark). Very easy to setup. Cons: The illumination glows and when it turns on frightens some of the critters away. Also the WiFi is slow to connect and the range of the WiFi isn't that great. Also whilst the supplied mounting brackets initially seemed to work well, they very quickly started showing signs of rust. Fortunately in my application the cameras are mounted quite high, so the con of the glowing illumination is somewhat negated.

Important to note this is for filming wildlife, it's not a CCTV camera! That's what I got it for, to see what the foxes who visit our garden were up to. It takes great footage, I set it to film 90 seconds and at the moment it's literally pitch dark outside at night. The infrared filming works magically. Connecting to the laptop to both charge and download footage worked great initially, but the USB socket has - after a few months of daily use - started to fail, as USB sockets so often do. Connecting with a phone via Bluetooh and wifi is super-clumsy. I have no idea why it's set up this way, there must be a reason, but if you're getting this for a relative who is not a digital professional, forget it! This is a shame as it's super-useful to check if it's set up, change the settings (sensitivity and length of footage you want to film when motion is detected) I don't have a card reader handy, but think this would be the best way to get footage from the camera and manage the space on the included memory card. For me, this seems to not hold a charge for longer than a few hours now. Note my earlier comment about the USB socket, it's not helping keep it charged. I'm not sure what the 4 x AA batteries do, but it appears the solar cell is pretty useless at helping keep any charge, but - to be fair - I haven't got one without a solar cell, so can't compare. Update: put 4 AA batteries in and your charge goes up to 100 per cent. However, one set of these just died in 24 hours. Looks like my camera is draining power thanks to a fault of some sort. If you're looking for one to see what's going on wildlife-wise in your garden, I recommend saving a few quid and getting the none-solar one and one that you just put batteries in. Also try and have a handy card reader so the weak USB input becomes irrelevant. Definitely don't get this for your mum because - depsite the quality of its output - it's not too user-friendly. What with the now completely failed usb, lack of ability to charge and failure of a set of new AA batteries in 24 hours, mine is going back for a refund or replacement. Thanks!

This is a well made trail camera. The picture and video quality is excellent, but even at 4K this is not a film makers camera. It may take a little perseverance to get the video or picture that you want as trail cameras are not motion detection, they detect a change in the ambient infra-red heat of the scene and so the activation time is slower than advertised. Some animals are weary of the red lights on the front and the camera makes a noise as the infra-red filter is moved in and out of place - this is the same for about 99.9% of all trail cameras. The solar panel is excellent and works well, you are unlikely to need the back-up batteries. I knew the down sides to this camera before I bought it, the slower than advertised trigger speed and that you can only see the live camera view via the app. There is also one other down side which I have passed on the the manufacturer via the UK agent, it does not effect the workings, price, specification or quality of the camera in any way and I will not mention what it is, but if the manufacturer or UK agent reads this, I feel that the point made in my e-mail would be of benefit, then it would be 5 stars. While reviewers say they were sent the camera for free, the one thing that people who review these cameras on YouTube don't mention is that many trail cameras, including this one, are available within a large price range under different manufactures badges. I opted to buy the Ceyomur CY95 for my own reasons and am very happy with the camera as it does what I want it to do and I would buy it again. The only thing I would buy to replace this is a dual lens trail camera with a fixed moulded solar panel - for life outside these things need to be completely sealed against the elements, and this model, the Ceyomur CY95, is. You may have to update you video playing software to watch the recordings on a PC, which should be nothing to put you off this camera. I have not had any problems on a Mac. This camera is worth buying but as with anything, you need a bit of patience and practice to get the best out of it.

I have had two of these cameras for the past couple years. They are absolutely fantastic. I have them mounted in some pretty thick woodlands, and despite that, their batteries can last at least 6 months over winter, despite major efficiency losses in the solar recharging. I pull them once per year and give them a full recharge via plug-in. I've captured everything from bird feeders, to bears and mountain lions. The app is Ok, though a bit slow; I find it best to just pop the sd cards and transfer - app is mostly used to properly position the camera angle. As far as robustness goes, I have to give them a strong 5 stars. I wasn't expecting much for such a cheap plastic case. But I actually had a large black bear find and play with/chew on one of the cameras for several minutes; and while there are tooth indents in the solar panel and the casing, it has continued to function well for a year since then. One of the cameras had one of its closing-snap break off just last month, so that's clearly a longer-term point of failure. Would be nice if those were a bit more robust. It's still working with only one closing snap; but it'll be a pain once that one goes, too. Would be nice to be able to get replacements of those. I've found it has decent video quality both day and night; though the quickness of capture can be a tad slow sometimes if something is moving quickly past the camera. Occasionally some of the video files record corrupted, but out of thousands of videos, that has only happened a handful of times. I liked the first two so much after these several years of constant use, that I just decided to buy 5 more to increase coverage.

Ceyomur CY95 camera. Installation and set up went ok, but beware of issues setting up the Wifi for use with a Smartphone app (Android in my case). I read many other reviews and used the knowledge there to avoid issues. Inside on my table, I got it to work properly. But in the field once the camera was installed, I had difficulty connecting with my phone. But after a couple of days, I got a reliable scenario to connect. For me, once in the field, on my phone I enable Wifi, then enable Bluetooth (having successfully paired it during initial install). I start the smartphone app, then click to Connect. I do this from a short distance to the camera of one or two feet (less than one meter). I have not tried from farther distances (no need to in my case). The connection to the camera occurs in two phases. The first phase takes about 25 seconds. When that completes the camera issues an audible beep to let you know. The second phase takes an additional 15 seconds. Then you are in and can view the photos captured. You can delete the ones you don't want easily, and download the ones you want to your local phone storage. You can see what the camera sees and make adjustments to the camera position if you like. Once in my local phone storage I tag them and copy them using the Google File Manager and copy them to my Google Photos directory so I can view them with all the other photos I take. Until you download the photos off of the camera, you can't zoom in on them if you need to see tight details or find the critter that triggered the photo. I have not taken videos so cannot comment on that. The solar powered aspect has been awesome. Although I have backup AA batteries installed, I don't think they have ever been used. The solar recharging has been perfect and always shows 100% charged. My camera is in an area with a bit of open canopy. It does not get direct sunlight but a fair bit of indirect light I guess. I have gone about 4-5 months through winter and spring. No issues even when the solar panel is covered in snow. Of course I brush the snow off each time I visit the camera. I have had issues with the camera not triggering and snapping photos. I changed the sensitivity to high, and shortened the interval to 5 seconds, with 3 photos taken for each trigger. I was miffed early on when I saw clear evidence of a coyote walking right by the camera and no photos captured. But for the most part, it seems to capture things. But it is like it needs to wait for that initial 5 seconds interval before shooting? That doesn't seem right. However, I get enough good photos that I am satisfied. Note that I emailed Ceyomur support about this and they never responded.

I'm just in early acquaintance mode with the camera but believe it to be of excellent quality and value for the money. A key feature was its ability to communicate with a mobile phone. The operating instructions covered off all the features but could have benefitted from some examples of what parameters each of the features might be set to for certain planned photo shoots. Experimentation and excellent client support helped me work through this and my contact committed to refining the operating instructions accordingly. Although we are in a suburban area, we are visited by a surprising number of different birds and mammals. The camera handled itself commendably. Its field of view equates to a very wide angle lens on a normal camera, so one must understand that images further away will be small. This may not be a problem, as the camera has very high resolution and one can pick amongst choices of higher resolution. I used the lowest resolution for my application but choosing a higher resolution would allow one to crop the picture afterwards, probably still retaining good resolution of the final edited photo. For night shooting, the motion detection feature seemed to work flawlessly. As for illuminating nighttime subjects, the camera's infrared strength can be set amongst a number of choices of intensity. I've only used it for a subject distance of 20 feet but there are at least 2 more brighter choices for much more distant subjects. The camera unit itself seemed quite sturdy and weatherproof and had 2 modes of attachment, namely, built in loops for employing straps to tie it to objects plus a small camera tripod-like bracket for screwing to trees or manmade objects. One can view the photos saved on the camera's SIM card, using a mobile phone and delete unwanted ones. Actual downloading of the photos requires retrieving the SIM card and using a USB connection to your computer device to either mass download or selectively. I tried that and it worked fine. The only real issue that I had was that the App for the phone can only communicate with the camera, through the camera's built in Wi-Fi when the Wi-Fi is operating. Given that one would normally program the camera to shoot at certain times of the day, when that period is over the camera switches to "Off" and the Wi-Fi connection is cut. If you were using the mobile phone during the live Wi-Fi and did not exit from the App before the Wi-Fi closed, the next time you tried to access the camera through your phone, the App opens to the last page used and will not navigate back to the opening page where you would reconnect to the camera's Wi-Fi. This is easily overcome by ensuring that you use the App's "Exit" selection. This way, the connection screen on the App will be displayed the next time you open it for connecting to the camera. I've shared these observations with the Ceyomur support staff and they sound sincere in reviewing this issue - likely through adding more elaboration in the operating instructions. Regarding battery power, the unit is equipped with a solar powered rechargeable lithium battery. It can be charged initially using a USB connection and then maintain a charge if placed in a sunny area. My chosen location was in partial shade but the lithium batteries seemed to hold up well. Nonetheless, the unit has 4 AA batteries as backup for when the lithium battery is nearly drained. Overall, despite some angst in dealing with the communications issue, I believe the CY95 to be of excellent quality and value.

It is a little overwhelming finding a camera to buy and suit your needs, but with a little research and review reading, I ended up buying this Ceyomur 95 unit. I have had it for about 2 weeks now in the Yukon forest and so far I have been very happy with the quality of the photos! The build quality seems rugged enough, the solar power has kept at 100% over the 2 weeks, with weather between 5 and -5 degrees Celsius. I am new to the trail camera world, not a hunter but use the camera for strictly viewing beautiful animals for play and environmental work that requires wildlife data. The connectivity is awesome with my iphone, retrieving the data 20m away and not disturbing the unit and leaving any additional scent. I will leave the camera running while I enjoy my two weeks of days off, and hopefully return with some more spectacular photos and or video. Since this is my first camera purchase and have nothing to compare it to, I purchases another camera as I am very impressed with the price, quality and ease of use of the 95 unit. I will buy some screw type camera holders so I can mount them into the tree itself, using no straps to mess around with. Looks like I have a new hobby to add to the list! Thank you Ceyomur for the amazing camera you provide to folks like me, I have already recommended this camera to my hunting friends and photographers alike!

So here is the thing. While the Camera photos and video are fine and work as expected the problems all start with the manufactures misrepresentation regarding the functionality of the remote WiFi ability. Contrary to the manufactures stated connection distance from your cell phone to the Camera being within 10 meters (33 feet) it is actually under 1 meter (3 feet), and then may still require numerous attempts to connect. This means that you need to be right next to the camera with your cell phone in order connect to and view the images or control the Camera settings, making the WiFi connectability completely redundant! You are better off to open the Camera, remove the Micro SD Card and use a computer to view the Camera's content. Don't be fooled by the WiFi claims of the manufacture. If remote connection is what you are looking for, even within 10 meters from the Camera, purchase a Camera that uses a cellular connections. As stated previously, the Camera photos, video, and solar charging work as described by the manufacture. The problem is with the ability to connect at any reasonable distance away from the Camera to its Wifi or Bluetooth !!!!