How to schedule Go cams to only send pics at certain times

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Is there a way to change the setting on a Ghost or Go-Cam to only send the pictures it takes during certain time intervals.  For example not sending pics it takes from 11 pm - 5 am as an example?

Thanks in advance

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  • Phil Bancroft

    There is a setting where you can start and stop the trigger time.  Which I think means no pics taken during that time vs not sent. 

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  • Elizabeth Swoope

    Phil is correct. Here’s an article with the instructions.

    https://support.spartancamera.com/hc/en-us/articles/360043361994-How-to-use-Start-Stop-times

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  • John Lockburner

    The Ghost and GoLive have a batch sending feature where you can set up specific times that the pictures are sent to you. You can set up to 9 different times throughout the day.

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  • Permanently deleted user

    Where do you find that setting to be able to change it?

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  • Phil Bancroft

    I saw that on my ghosts but couldn’t figure how why I’d want to send them in batches since it would take a while. 

    would be interested in what the OP was trying to solve for.   I know some guys that don’t want to take pics at night because they want to save power.   I know another who does it because his phone blows up with notices and his wife yells at him.  Just turn the notice sound off 🤪.  

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  • John Lockburner

    The batch sending is in the scheduled events where you set up your scheduled pics and status reports.

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  • Permanently deleted user

    If you are on 24x7 call and you have to be able to answer the phone you cant put your phone on silent.

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  • Ross Baker

    Phil, I was the one who pushed for the addition of batch delivery. My use for batch delivery is in that it makes a cell camera more of a true “trail” camera. You don’t have to deal with the camera being unable to trigger for 30-60 seconds while it is transmitting a picture. As far as the camera taking longer to transmit a group of pictures in batch, most of the time used in the process is establishing the connection/starting the process. Proportionally it doesn’t take a great deal longer to transmit several pictures than it does just one.

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  • Elizabeth Swoope

    If you just want to turn the sound off, do that in the phone settings for the app (not the app settings).

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  • Phil Bancroft
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    I guess the batch settings makes sense if you have intervals set short and it can’t process the next pic because its processing another.   Mine are set to 3-5 min so hasn’t been an issue. Also like the “real time” effect , it’s like you’re there. But good option for short intervals.   On the notifications , I’ve just turned them off so the ap doesn’t send a notification with new pic when I don’t want to get pinged all day.  

    while we’re on new features ....I really like the bar code scan on new cams, makes setting up a new cam a breeze.  

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  • Ross Baker

    Yeah, if you use a delay of a minute or two or more there’s not much need for using batch delivery in my mind. It’s probably more power efficient to send pictures in batches than one at a time, but how much I have no idea. For me I just like it because I feel like on zero delay and batch I’m unlikely to miss any critters in areas where they are just passing through. Really good for scrapes as well.

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