For all of you that love trail cameras and want to get the most out of the information, would you be willing to pay for a quality trail cam app? An app that has no limits on number of pictures, no extended options packages BS, and works? Also, what would you like to see in an app that you would be willing to pay for? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
What would be the point of the app? Just a place to store the pictures that you end up downloading off the SD card?
Theres already at least two companies that have sound management platforms up and running. Not including wireless cams like Spartan or Covert, which are currently or will be managed through the app itself.
I was thinking an app that you could use on an iPad or tablet to tag photos with buck names and locations and other options if wanted so then when you download them to the computer you can easily track the bucks your interested in and see interesting trends. From what I know of the existing programs they are expensive and have picture limits but I may be wrong Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
How about an app that allows you place pins on a map and when you touch the pin it brings up the photo. Basically a "photo tag" and an app like HuntStand.
I know the apps I've looked at are more expensive than I'd like to pay for that service. When you make an app, I'll test it for ya! Sent from my XT1080 using Tapatalk
I can't see the money being worth it for the current apps. I spent a few years working in the fishing industry and got to deal with some apps from that side. They can be really helpful with fishing but there are way too many outside pressures that could change a deers pattern on any given day for a trail cam app to do much good. That's just my $0.02.
And that's the problem that I want to fix, instead of $80 apps that aren't worth $40, id like to make a $40 app that's worth $80. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I guess the point I was trying to make was I honestly don't see any possible way to make an app for trail cams that would be worth even $5 to me or any of my friends that run a lot of cameras either. We all have our own system of managing pictures. If someone wanted to make some big time money the app would need to be in deer movement prediction and not in trail cam management. The one fishing app I worked on basically dissected a lake for the fisherman so they could go to a 100% new lake and have some key spots to zone in on already picked out. It worked pretty good but fish are far easier to predict then deer. From working on that I know the framework that would be needed for a "deer" version but the programming involved in the development would be massive. You would also have to have the user input a ton of data to get it as accurate as possible.
I feel like you could use the time stamps to predict where a buck is bedding and find patterns Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I had a system that I used too buck it takes so dang long to enter data into excel... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
The time stamp could help you but the amount of data you would need to even give yourself a 30% chance of being accurate would be very large. Things that would need to be considered would be: 1. wind direction 2. weather patterns 3. time of year 4. locations of all bedding areas within 1/4 mile 5. all potential trails leading from those bedding areas to your location Then you would need to determine what trail the deer has used every time he has came in up to that point. You would have to have some kind of a linear network set up in a GIS and Run some kind of a algorithm that factors in wind direction and weather to determine which trail would be used based off of each bedding area if he wanted to keep his nose into the wind. But even saying for him to keep his nose into the wind is a reach. The 3 bucks two buddies and myself killed in 2015 were 4.5, 6.5 and 10.5 years old and all came in from upwind. So the wind theory doesn't always work either.
