@Silvio - I’ve placed many cell cams on public land but I always have them in a CamLockBox secured to the tree. I place them high enough that they’re out of reach without use of a climbing step or stick, and I haven’t had one stolen yet. (Of course, there are a lot of folks who say that the lock box just keeps HONEST people honest, and they may be right).
I’m curious - did the thief have to do any work to steal your cell cams? (i.e., climb a tree, or defeat a lock?)
Your placement of your replacement cams with an AirTag is really clever - it seems like you did everything right - it really stinks that the police won’t get a search warrant and do more to help you recover your stolen cams - you did all the investigative work and made their job easy! What a shame. Thanks for posting your story about this.
@BuffaloBill - When you activate the Reveal cell cams, they become associated with your Reveal user account. Unless you remove the cams from your account, a thief won’t be able to register them with a different account, so they’re effectively useless (as a cell cam) to anyone but the owner. I suppose the thief could still use them as a non-cell cam … pulling the SD card from time to time … but if the thief places them outdoors on public property, you can use the AirTag location data to retrieve the cams yourself.
@Silvio - I would report the serial numbers of the stolen cams as “STOLEN” to the Reveal Customer Support team and ask them to make sure that no one else will be able to register them to another user account, no matter what story they tell about how they came into possession of them and why they’re registered to another user account.
I’m curious - did the thief have to do any work to steal your cell cams? (i.e., climb a tree, or defeat a lock?)
Your placement of your replacement cams with an AirTag is really clever - it seems like you did everything right - it really stinks that the police won’t get a search warrant and do more to help you recover your stolen cams - you did all the investigative work and made their job easy! What a shame. Thanks for posting your story about this.
@BuffaloBill - When you activate the Reveal cell cams, they become associated with your Reveal user account. Unless you remove the cams from your account, a thief won’t be able to register them with a different account, so they’re effectively useless (as a cell cam) to anyone but the owner. I suppose the thief could still use them as a non-cell cam … pulling the SD card from time to time … but if the thief places them outdoors on public property, you can use the AirTag location data to retrieve the cams yourself.
@Silvio - I would report the serial numbers of the stolen cams as “STOLEN” to the Reveal Customer Support team and ask them to make sure that no one else will be able to register them to another user account, no matter what story they tell about how they came into possession of them and why they’re registered to another user account.