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New Gear · Camping

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AYANICA Heavy-Duty BBQ Kitchen Scissors

These save me a cutting board and a knife at camp. Instead of pulling meat off the barbecue to slice it up, I just pick it up with a pair of tongs and cut it straight into strips with these — cleaner and quicker, and I use them to dice up other stuff too. Currently unavailable, but they'll show you exactly what to look for if you want to find a similar pair. I love them.

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New Gear · Adventure Truck

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AYANICA Heavy-Duty BBQ Kitchen Scissors

I keep these in the adventure truck. Instead of pulling meat off the barbecue, taking it to a cutting board, and dirtying up a cutting board and knife, I just pick it up with a pair of tongs and cut it straight into strips with these — a lot cleaner and quicker. I use them to dice up other stuff too. Currently unavailable, but they'll show you exactly what to look for if you want to find a similar pair. I love them.

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New Gear · Sewing

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Kai 5210 8-Inch Dressmaking Shears

These are really good shears for cutting fabric or pretty much anything else. Very sharp — I can't say enough good things about them. At this price, they're a steal.

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New Gear · Sewing

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9-Inch Pinking Shears

These are just for cutting fabric that tends to fray really badly or come apart on you. The zig-zag blade cuts a serrated edge instead of a straight one, which keeps that kind of fabric from unraveling on you after it's cut.

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New Gear · Security Cameras

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REOLINK RLC-520A PoE Security Camera, 2-Pack

This is the exact camera pack I'm running at home — hardwired PoE, no battery to worry about. One covers the front door, and the other just went up in the backyard pointed at my bird and critter feeding area. Once that one catches some good footage, I'll post it here on the blog.

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New Gear · Security Cameras

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SanDisk Ultra microSD Card, 64GB

This is what I use to log video locally on the camera itself, so I can pull footage straight from the Reolink app without needing a separate NVR. 140MB/s, and 64GB is plenty of buffer for a camera recording on motion.

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New Gear · Security Cameras

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REOLINK RLC-820A 4K PoE Security Camera

This is the one we use for the front door entry at my business partner's house. Higher quality than my home setup because it's mounted farther away, and we may have to use it to identify somebody someday — worth paying up for the resolution on a camera like that.

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New Gear · Security Cameras

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REOLINK RLK8-520D4-5MP 8-Channel NVR Kit

This is the complete kit we picked for my business partner Gene's house — 4 wired PoE cameras plus an 8-channel NVR with a 2TB hard drive, so everything records centrally instead of relying on individual microSD cards. He's got most of our equipment stored at his house, so getting the coverage right there matters a little more. We added the RLC-820A above onto the same NVR for the front door specifically, since that spot needed sharper resolution than the cameras that come in this kit.

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New Gear · Security Cameras

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REOLINK RLC-842A 4K PoE Camera

This is the one that watches my driveway. I ordered it June 3, 2022, and it's been working well ever since — going on 4+ years now. 4K with 5X optical zoom, so it can pick out detail across the whole driveway instead of just covering the area right under the camera, and IK10 vandal-proof housing for anything mounted at ground level where it's reachable.

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New Gear · Security Cameras

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REOLINK RLC-843A 4K PoE Camera

This looks like the newer version of the driveway camera above — same 4K resolution, 5X optical zoom, and IK10 vandal-proof housing, plus it adds spotlights, color night vision, and two-way talk. Haven't run this exact model myself, but it's the one Amazon points to now that my current driveway camera is unavailable.

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New Gear · Camping

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Warmco D4 Battery Powered Camping Fan

What I really like about this one is the huge battery — it runs a long time, and the LED light can stay on low all night as a nightlight in the tent if you need that. I originally bought it for the adventure truck, to go alongside two USB-C fans I modified with a magnetic base so I could stick them to the inside wall of my ARE truck shell. But I like this one so much I keep grabbing it out of the truck and bringing it into the house — just last night I used it to create a breeze to help keep the mosquitoes away, so it's earned a spot doing more than just camping duty. Aside from the battery and how quiet it is, the flat design has a swing-out leg built in, which also doubles as a small hook if you want to hang it instead.

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New Gear · Camping

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FARADAY USB Desk Fan

I used JB Weld to glue magnets onto the base of this fan so I can stick it to the inside wall of my ARE truck shell. I actually bought two of these — one with the USB cable built in, and one where you supply your own USB-C cable — and I like the built-in cable version better, since I'm not hunting for a cable and I don't have to spend extra buying a longer one just to reach a power source. These barely draw any power, so a small USB power bank runs it easily. Thanks to the magnetic mod, I'll sometimes stick it upside-down on the tailgate when it's down, blowing air on me while I'm sitting nearby — keeps the tailgate itself free for camping gear instead of taken up by a fan stand. Mine's actually black; this listing defaults to blue, but it's the same fan.

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New Gear · Starlink

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Pilestone Starlink Mini UPS

Haven't tried this one myself, but it looks promising — you wire it in using the original Starlink power adapter and cable, so it can charge normally and also act as a battery backup if the power drops, without rewiring anything. 220Wh (22V/10Ah), rated for up to 10 hours of runtime, and at 3 lbs it's light enough to toss in a bag. Only a single review on Amazon so far, so treat it as an interesting option rather than a proven one.

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New Gear · Starlink

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Anker 25,000mAh Laptop Power Bank

I made the mistake of cheaping out and buying a no-name brand of this same type of USB-C battery for my Starlink — it lasted about a month and then died. What it did prove out, though: it got me 3.5 to 4 hours running the Starlink, and I could recharge it with a small solar panel that has a USB-C output. This Anker is the legit version of that same idea — 25,000mAh and 165W total across three 100W USB-C ports — so you get the same battery-plus-solar setup without it dying on you a month in.

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New Gear · Gardening

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FOGWOWO Drip Irrigation Emitters, 30-Pack

I'm an avid gardener, and if there's one thing I've learned, it's that at the garden you're either watering, weeding, or BS-ing with other gardeners. I like this style over a plain drip emitter because you can swap the heads between a fine spray and a straight drip. I think it matters to water the top of the soil in a dispersed pattern rather than concentrating it right at the root — it's better for the soil's microbiology and the worms, and it makes the roots extend out searching for water instead of staying lazy right where a dripper feeds them. The one downside: watering this way sprouts more weeds too. Worth knowing on the product itself: reviews are mixed (3.7 stars) — some people get a full working set, others have had a few emitters DOA out of the bag, so test each one before committing it to a spot in the garden.

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New Gear · Gardening

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Dramm One Touch Fan Nozzle

I really like this handheld watering nozzle for its fan pattern. My community garden plots are laid out in large rectangular beds, so I can pivot the nozzle to lay down a nice flat sheet of water and just drag it across the length of the bed instead of trying to cover it with a round spray. Thumb-controlled flow, all-metal construction, and it's corrosion-proof so it holds up outside season after season.

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New Gear · Adventure Truck

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Abangdun 700W Round Mini Induction Cooktop

I keep this in the pull-out drawer in my adventure truck. I've got a 1,000-watt inverter wired in, so I just push a button and I've got AC power available — and when I'm traveling or just want a quick meal, I don't want to fire up a gas stove for it. This is the round version, which matters to me because it nests right inside my 8-inch fry pan for storage, so the two travel as one unit instead of taking up separate space in the drawer. It's compact, only pulls up to 700W, and I enjoy it enough that I should probably buy a second one just to keep as a spare.

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New Gear · Adventure Truck

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Liberty Premium Collapsible Electric Kettle

I picked this up for the adventure truck to make coffee when I want to use electricity instead of firing up a stove. The silicone body collapses down for storage, and it's got separate presets for coffee/tea, eggs, and plain boiling water — I use the coffee setting for pour-over while camping, and I've actually hard-boiled eggs in it on the egg setting and had it work out well. My one early gripe was losing track of the separate power cord if I hadn't used it in a month or two, so I laser-cut a wooden storage box for it — a box within a box, with the cord living in the lower section and the kettle in the upper one, so now everything stays together.

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New Gear · Adventure Truck

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AeroPress Original Coffee Press

I love the AeroPress. It's very compact, and I keep a little pill bottle of ground coffee tucked inside the push handle so it's always ready to go. It also nests inside the GSI mug below, which nests inside a titanium pot, so the whole coffee setup packs down into one container instead of taking up separate space in the truck.

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New Gear · Adventure Truck

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GSI Outdoors Infinity Backpacker Mug

This is the cup my AeroPress nests inside for storage in the truck. It's a 17oz backpacker mug, and this cup in turn nests inside the titanium pot below, so the AeroPress, this mug, and the pot all pack down into a single unit.

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New Gear · Adventure Truck

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Lixada Titanium Camping Pot

This is the outer piece of the nesting stack — the AeroPress and GSI mug above both pack inside this 750ml titanium pot, so the whole coffee setup collapses down into one container for the truck. It's 99.9% pure titanium with foldable handles and a recessed lid, and it doubles as its own cook pot or cup on top of holding the rest of the stack.

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New Gear · Sewing

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SLC Double Sided Basting Tape

This basting tape helps hold parts together while you sew — a seam, a zipper, whatever needs to stay put. Some people use clamps, some use pins, but I like this better: it holds things nicely in place, and you just sew right through it, no big deal. It costs more than pins or other methods, but I like it a lot.

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New Gear · Camping

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TrixHub Rechargeable Flashlight, 2-Pack

This is a cheap light, don't get me wrong — but a guy camping next to me showed it to me, and it won me over. It zooms, so you can go from a wide floodlight to a narrow, focused beam that'll actually reach out and find whatever's making noise out past the fire. It's rechargeable over USB-C, so no scrambling for the right batteries, with an LCD screen that shows the actual charge level instead of guessing, plus 5 modes including strobe and SOS. Aircraft-grade aluminum, waterproof, drop-resistant, and it comes as a 2-pack — good, because one always seems to wander off to someone else's tent.

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New Gear · Camping

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Assark Solar Trail Camera

A camping neighbor talked me into this one after his caught a black bear so big it dwarfed the bike parked next to it — that was enough to convince me. Bluetooth wakes the camera and it switches to WiFi for a longer range, it charges over USB-C, and the battery lasts long enough that I've never bothered hooking up the included solar panel. I run it two ways at the campsite: watching for critters at night, or repositioned to quietly cover the entrance — if anything ever went missing, I could just review the footage. One annoyance: the power switch sits under a rubber cover on the bottom, right next to the tripod mount, so if it's tripod-mounted you have to unscrew it just to turn it on or off — not an issue when it's strapped to a tree. Like any trail camera, be ready to sort through a pile of false triggers.

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New Gear · Camping

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MCGOR Magnetic Motion-Sensor Light

These are magnetic, rechargeable motion-sensor lights I stick to the inside of the aluminum camper shell walls on my adventure truck. If I'm mingling around camp and walk by, or if anyone else does, it lights up — a cheap security light that takes up almost no storage space. The key thing with this one: it only triggers in the dark or low light, not during the day. I've had pricier motion lights before that also go off in broad daylight, which drains the battery and means taking them down every morning. These stay charged and mounted for the whole weekend since they're not firing off constantly in daylight — I just leave them stuck to the wall and forget about them until it's time to pack up.

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New Gear · PCP Airgun Stuff

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STIKMAN — SCBA PCP Fill System

This is one of our staple products at AirTanksPlus — a purpose-built fill system for adapting a 4500 PSI SCBA tank down to airgun fill pressure. It's compact and lightweight, with a stainless-steel gauge marked in bar and psi, and a 48-inch microbore hose (we make these in-house) with your choice of quick-connect fitting depending on your gun's fill port. It vents safely away from you, supports cascade filling, and ships with a soft carry case. It's one of our best sellers — 18 customer reviews, still sitting at 5 stars.

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New Gear · PCP Airgun Stuff

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BoreMan — Pull Through Barrel Cleaning Kit

A pull-through bore cleaner with a rugged aluminum handle and braided Spectra cord — the 36-inch standard length fits most barrels, with a 40-inch option for guns like the Air Force Texan with a shroud. Fits .177 and up, works on airguns or firearms. Comes with a zip-up carry case, made in the USA. We stopped shipping the cleaning strings since most people weren't using them — you get more cleaning patches instead.

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New Gear · PCP Airgun Stuff

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GX PUMP CS4-I PCP Air Compressor

This one's made in China, and no, we don't sell it on AirTanksPlus — we can't compete with Amazon's pricing, warranty, or free/overnight shipping on it. But it's the compressor I actually recommend, because a lot of the people who call me already own one and are happy with it, unlike a lot of the other cheap Chinese compressors out there. GX has been building compressors a long time — a lot of the compressors sold under other brand names are actually built by them, and they've made steady improvements to the design over the years. What sets this one apart is that it's water-cooled instead of air-cooled — an air-cooled compressor can usually only fill in about 12-minute intervals before it needs to cool down, and this one runs a lot longer than that. It's not just for topping off airgun reservoirs either — it'll fill large PCP tanks and bottles too. It's also low-maintenance: there's a grease pot with a knob you turn every so often to redeliver grease to the pump, so it's about as close to maintenance-free as these get. It's also got an internally mounted 120V converter built in, so you're not lugging around a separate AC-to-DC power supply — plug it straight into 120V household power or a 12V source and it just works. If you pick one up, I'd also recommend the external filter.

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New Gear · PCP Airgun Stuff

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GX-PUMP Professional-Grade PCP Compressor Filter

This is the filter I mentioned above — if you're running the CS4-I (or pretty much any GX pump, CS1 through 5K), I recommend picking this up alongside it. It's an oil/water separator with a pressure-maintaining valve, so it doesn't start passing air to your tank until the line's up to pressure, which helps the filtration actually do its job. Mounts magnetically or with screws, and it's rated for the same 5800 PSI the compressor can put out.

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New Gear · PCP Airgun Stuff

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TOPTACTICAL Scope Mounted Engineering Level

A scope leveling tool I use when mounting optics. It levels the scope to the receiver instead of just the top of the base, which matters more than people think — a canted scope throws your shots off to the side the farther out you go. Aluminum construction, quick to set up, and it's the kind of thing you don't think about until your groups are drifting for no obvious reason.

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New Gear · PCP Airgun Stuff

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Acecare 9L CE Carbon Fiber Air Tank

Acecare's been making tanks a long time, and that's the only reason I'm listing this one — but keep this in mind: this tank is NOT DOT approved. No reputable shop is going to fill it without DOT certification, and nobody's going to hydrotest it every 5 years like they would a DOT tank. As I understand it, a non-DOT tank technically can't be pressurized and transported on the highway either — please double-check that for yourself before you rely on it. A lot of people buy tanks like this purely on budget, and there are even cheaper CE options out there, like the Iron Man tanks — but if I'm looking at CE-only tanks at all, I trust the Acecare brand more than those. Plenty of people show me the Amazon tank they bought and tell me they fill it themselves with their own Amazon compressor. I just tell them okay. Personally, I'd rather buy a used SCBA tank off eBay and pay to have it hydrotested. You've been warned.

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New Gear · PCP Airgun Stuff

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Owfeel DIN Valve Scuba Adapter

This is the cheapest fill valve I've seen for PCP tanks — comes in M18x1.5 threads (for the Chinese-made tanks) or 5/8-18UNF. It's probably going to be hit or miss on quality, and we don't sell it on AirTanksPlus. Honestly, I'm not really recommending this one — but some customers buy it anyway, especially if they're filling tanks at home with their own compressor, since most compressors already have a female quick-disconnect that clicks right onto this valve's male fitting. The brass female quick-connect it ships with is pretty rough — tolerances are often off, so it may not mate cleanly with every quick-connect you run into. If budget means this is the valve you end up with, I'd swap the included hose for one of our microbore fill whip hoses instead — just know you'll still need a separate female quick-connect fitting with male BSPP or metric threads to adapt to this valve's fill port, since I'm not sure what thread it uses on that end.

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New Gear · Starlink

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Obeaming Starlink Mini Wall Pass-Through Socket

This is what I used in my battery box build to power the Starlink. It takes 12V straight from the battery bank and steps it up to 30V DC — Starlink Mini's native voltage — so you skip the inefficient round trip of inverting to 120V AC for the stock Starlink plug and then converting that back down to DC again. Since it boosts up to 30V instead of running at 12V, it also supports a longer cable run, so you can mount the Starlink Mini farther from the battery box and still use the original Starlink Mini power cable.

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New Gear · Starlink

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USB-C to DC Power Adapter Kit

This is the USB-C to barrel-connector cable I used to power my Starlink Mini off any 65W-or-larger USB-C port instead of the stock adapter. It came in handy once when I plugged this into a cigarette lighter USB-C adapter and into my Starlink Mini, and had it serving up internet while I was driving down a bumpy road in the middle of nowhere — the Starlink antenna worked through the whole drive with no problems.

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New Gear · Starlink

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UGREEN 130W USB-C Car Charger

This is the cigarette lighter adapter I pair with the USB-C to DC cable above to power my Starlink Mini off my vehicle's 12V outlet. It puts out 130W total across three ports (2 USB-C, 1 USB-A), which is plenty — just make sure whatever port you're using can put out at least 65W, since that's the minimum the Starlink Mini needs to run reliably.

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New Gear · Coin Collecting

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Elikliv Coin Microscope

If you're going to get into coin collecting, you'll get tired fast of holding a coin up to the light with a magnifying glass trying to catch the details. This is a much better way to actually see what you've got — 1000x magnification on a 4.3-inch screen instead of squinting. Before you cash in any old stash of coins, it's worth doing a quick rough sort first: stack up your quarters and dimes and look at the edges — no copper stripe means it's silver, so set those aside. Then go through your pennies for wheat pennies (1958 and earlier, wheat stalks on the back) — those are worth keeping too. It only takes a few minutes before you'd otherwise dump everything into the bank's counting machine, and it's the only chance you get to catch something worth more than face value.

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New Gear · Backyard Adventures

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Assark Solar Trail Camera

Same camera as my camping pick, doing double duty in the backyard. I've had it pointed at the back lawn at night just to see what wanders through, and it's caught everything from a fox to more raccoons than I expected in Orangevale. Bluetooth wakes it and it switches over to WiFi so I can pull footage from inside the house without walking out to grab the card. Only real downside for yard use: sprinklers count as motion too, so be ready to scroll past a bunch of clips of your own lawn getting watered.

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