Spent $800 on a 'smart' job site camera that barely worked in the rain

I bought this fancy cloud camera for a project in Seattle, thinking it would save me drive time. It fogged up after the first drizzle and the app kept crashing. Anyone else wasted money on tech that just can't handle real construction conditions?

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wade25011d ago

Picked up one of those "rugged" wifi cameras last spring for a framing job and had the same exact problem. The lens kept fogging up every morning and the app would just spin forever trying to load. Ended up just pointing my old phone at the site with a weatherproof case and it worked better than that $800 paperweight. Construction tech is such a joke sometimes, they make all this stuff for perfect conditions in a lab somewhere. Meanwhile we're out here trying to keep mud off the sensors.

claire_davis3111d ago

Exactly this @wade250. I learned the hard way too. Little anti-fog wipes on the lens before sunrise helps, and I taped a hand warmer to the housing one winter. Still a bandaid fix though.

shane_hayes10d ago

Had an old GoPro once that fogged up so bad it looked like I was filming inside a cloud, drove me insane.