Trail
A Trail camera is left outdoors, often far from Wi-Fi and mains power, to watch wildlife. It is the product line with the most camera-side extras: a hunting (embargo) mode with a daily schedule, a GPS position, timelapse capture, and — on cellular models — a SIM drawing on a data pool shared by the space. DeviceProductType.TRAIL ("Trail") is the product id used by Subscriptions; EventType.TRAIL marks its events.
Device carries the state of all of them: embargo (device.isInEmbargo()), gpsLocation and simCardDetail (iccId, imei, operator, provider).
In this section
| Page | Covers |
|---|---|
| Hunting / Embargo Mode | Switching the mode and setting its daily window |
| GPS Location | Recording where the camera is |
| Cellular / 4G | SIM validation, the data pool, data passes, auto top-up, network operators |
Events and notifications
A Trail camera raises EventTag.WILDLIFE. Event.species is the same field on every event; whether wildlife events populate it is unconfirmed — see Species Identification. Switch detection with AiDetection(wildlife = …) — see Device Cloud Settings.
Battery and data
Trail cameras are battery cameras (device.hasBattery() — PowerSource.Battery or ACAndBattery). An unattended live stream drains both the battery and the data pool — set autoDisconnectAfter on the stream client.