I work to design software every day. It’s my job to understand how software works and what’s expected of it. This game camera was one of the most complicated pieces of hardware/software I’ve ever tried to configure. It took me, and I am not exaggerating, roughly three hours to figure out how to connect it to the included SIM card, and configure it to the settings that I needed.My use case was to trigger at least one shot per day taken without use of the motion censor. My goal is to track water levels of a small creek on my land throughout the Winter/Spring. To do so required figuring out how to setup the timer duration and intervals. That was a bit of a nightmare. My goal was to take a picture every four hours around the clock.Instead, what I’m getting now is a picture at midnight, followed by a picture for the next eight hours, and then the occasional motion captures in that time period. The only usable pictures are at the end, around 7:00am. The night vision works, but it’s hardly sufficient for tracking water levels.My goal now is to go back down and try to mess with it some more, in hopes of having a few day pictures captured. My suspicion is that it is taking pictures around the clock, but only sending me texts for the first eight hours of the day. Again, I don’t know though, because it’s so hard to figure out.It’s been a frustrating experience, but the reason I gave it four stars is because it does accomplish the task I gave it. I needed 1 picture per day texted to my Verizon cellphone, showing me a specific shot on my land. It’s doing that, and it’s working well.One note, I bought Costco AA Kirkland batteries, and in the current climate of temperatures in the single and teen digits (Fahrenheit), I’m guessing the batteries will last me 2-3 weeks. Since it takes 12 batteries to stock the thing, that will start to add up over time, assuming $5/month in battery maintenance.With all that said, I’d probably still buy this again, since I couldn’t find anything better on the market. I just hope they put some time into figuring out how to have better software, or at least a better owners manual.