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Not really, those are using PIR motion sensors to wake up, so you'd need to be able to capture the burst of activity when the camera actually wakes up and takes
by 05 2y ago
Not really, those are using PIR motion sensors to wake up, so you'd need to be able to capture the burst of activity when the camera actually wakes up and takes a picture. PIR circuit is very low power, so not much RF energy to detect while it's sleeping..
- potato3732842 2y agoThe unshielded electronics are still going to be highly RF reflective the same way that a car headlight is still reflective when not powered. Pretty much all bug sweeping works on this premise. Finding a game cam in the woods with basic bug sweeping equipment is like finding a headlight housing on the ground in the woods at night using a flashlight.
- 05 2y ago> highly RF reflective What do you mean, exactly? Most of what you can find in the forest is 'RF reflective' because of the water contents - the trees, the grass, the ground. What's the proposed detection method that is going to discern a reflection from a small PCB from a reflection from a large tree trunk? edit: first, the camera isn't a retroreflector so you can't just light it up from any direction and get a strong reflection. Second, the kind of equipment that would give you good directionality with a static target is some next generation beam steering radar, that stuff is so expensive you're better off walking around with a 4K camera and then processing the footage with an image detector to find possible matches with images of trail cameras.