I also have a Victure HC200 (without WiFi). It was a gift, so I didn’t have to do any research myself. I set it out in the evening, bring it in in the morning, transfer the videos (or photos) to my laptop then recharge the camera batteries. Two sets of batteries would be much better, as suggested, as they seem to take a while to recharge, but I’ve managed for a year with just one set. I’ve left it out for three nights without recharging, but I prefer the daily routine.
The lenses need cleaning every now and then, and I’ve also covered the LED lights with a thin layer of black plastic because the centre of the photo/video was whited out. I’m still experimenting with that.
The sound quality of the camera is excellent. You can hear every breath and every munch (I feed a mixture that includes dry cat biscuits). The video quality is sufficient for my needs; I can see what’s coming and going, what they’re eating and drinking, and how they interact (hedgehogs seem to be unfazed by cats and foxes, but the cats scarper when a fox approaches). So I use it for observation purposes rather than professional quality videos, although some of mine have been pretty good.
WiFi and real-time viewing would be great, and would save me time wading through scores of videos every morning (mainly of cats and birds, as I’m a late riser) and deleting unwanted ones before my cloud backup starts! But I find shopping research tediou,s so unless someone recommends a good one on here I’m going to stick with what I’ve got.
We leave a floodlight on until midnight, so we can watch a lot of hog behaviour in real time, but they’re coming and going until dawn at the moment so the camera provides extra information.
I do wish tom cats wouldn’t spray the camera every time they pass, and so perhaps need to set it up a bit higher.
