can't add golive cameras to AT&T plan
do I have to do anything else besides adding the SIM/ICCID of my camera to my AT&T plan to get it to connect?
I have also tried adding them to the spartan portal but it's asking me for a registration code, which I can't get off the device. I seem to remember seeing this in a setup dialog when I first started the device, but I can't figure out how to restart that process if that's the fix.
I've already spent an hour on the phone with AT&T and they say I'm good.
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The Ghosts and GoLives ship with SIMs that are not compatible with AT&T Buy-A-Session, but I don’t know about regular phone plans. You can use the ICCID to get a BAS plan but the camera won’t actually work with it.
Have you priced the Spartan plans recently? You can get 2G of data for 1 month for $36 and add that second camera for $5, for a total of $41. On your AT&T account, you’re paying $40 + at least $6 for premium, and there are probably some taxes and fees thrown in.
You may be able to work with less data and spend even less a month with the Spartan plans. -
Here are the Spartan data plans. Unless you get a ton of pics and are going to do hours of live streaming, you may very well come out ahead with the Spartan plans. I’d try one of the one-month plans first to get a feel for how much data you’ll use, maybe do that for a couple or three months.
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Name any other camera brand that allows you to put their AT&T model on your cell phone plan. All brands that I know of, you have to buy your data plan from the camera company.
With GoCams (but not Ghosts or GoLives), you can use AT&T plans, but you need a different SIM than the one that ships with the camera. It costs a lot less to use Buy-A-Session than it does to add them to your existing plan. With BAS, if you run your cameras all year, you can get 4G data/1 year/$75, then pay Spartan $36 for premium, or $111/camera/year.
You’ve said that it costs you $20/month to add to your AT&T plan, but is that for one camera or for both? That doesn’t include taxes/fees/surcharges, and there probably are those additional fees. If that’s for one camera, then you are paying $276 (or more, TFS) per camera. If it’s $20 for both cameras, then it’s $240 (plus TFS) and $72 to Spartan, or $312.
You may not even need that much data. It’s possible the 1G/3month/$36 plan would work. You’d pay $51 for two cameras for three months, so just a little over $200/year.
You may be able to use that 12 month/12 G/$200 plan and add a camera to it for a total of $260 and it includes premium. That’s less than you’d pay AT&T. -
Yes, you should be able to. If you are getting your data from AT&T, you'll need to get new SIMs for those cameras. On the portal, you'll log in, choose Camera Management, then Account, Shop, Data Services. You should have the option to add each camera to a plan.
If you need new SIMs, here's the link you can use to order them.
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