Bird Buddy: ID & Collect Birds

The camera is excellent! The things that I wish it had like Birdfy is time and date stamp with a calendar of my bird visits. A squirrel proof feeder with a camera would be appreciated too!

The batteries are charged and recharged at work for one day and disconnect it from the Wi-Fi and after many attempts and reinstalling the app and Wi-Fi it still does not connect When it worked, it was fantastic

When i first got this app i love the cute cartoons when I wanted to know more about the birds but then it got an update and it is so much more boring and i hate to be rude but please just tell me are you going to change it back

Daily enjoyment seeing up close the beauty of Gods creation

I loved this app until I added another person to the camera, losing my access to livestream. When I tried to reclaim it, I was never able to reconnect. I get to the point of entering a WiFi password which is not accepted. There are no resources to troubleshoot this problem.

This must be the most-improved app I have experienced, and it keeps getting better. There is effective in-app help; it is generally much more communicative. The change that helped most was replacing my old router. Now, it just works…. 👍👍👍 -——————- Where to begin? This product was developed for enthusiasts who suffered through their product development, and so might have learned what it was supposed to do, and maybe even what it would take to get it up and running. But anyone new to it has yet to discover the potentially complicated router setup revision - or even replacement - according to their [non-existent] up-front guidance and requirements. For example, they contradict Apple guidance to use the same SSID for two bands, saying the SSID can’t be the same for both 2.4 and 5 GHz bands. They had no good answer when I asked ‘Why? It’s 2.4 GHz only, so can’t see what the 5 GHz band is doing’. They seem to think you’ll be ok mucking about with your router settings just “because they say so”, without regard to what else on your home network could get messed up in the process. Neither do they have an overview of product setup, or explain that it has two different phases, each of which could well take hours. Or what to do when it gets stuck attempting a firmware update, which it might attempt when first turned on. I found myself stuck, told strongly to touch nothing until it finishes. How long are you willing to wait before concluding it really is stuck, quitting, and preparing to repeat installation again from scratch? Problems? Oh, just call us at 1-800-we-won’t-answer. (I waited 45 minutes on hold until I gave up.). Not keen to do that again. I submitted a support request via their webform, providing the detailed info it required, only to get form-letter e-mail ‘we haven’t forgotten you’ for 7 days, then being advised to do everything I had already done -twice, (except for the part about mucking around with the router, which has worked perfectly for several years). The support is a web form submission, so there’s no copy of what you sent. They have no overview of what this thing is supposed to do, as if its behavior were intuitively obvious to the casual observer. Nothing even basic. Everything you can find in the phone app FAQs is scattered like buckshot. Their home webpage only sells, it has nothing like an overview of how you should treat it. Turn it off? Turn it on? How? Why? Why not? God only knows! And he’s scratching his head, wondering, too. Perhaps this criticality stems from its use of an iPhone, with limited capacity to provide readable documentation. But there is absolutely no excuse for the lack of this on their website. It’s reasonable to wonder why I bought it. I didn’t, It was a gift from my daughter, so I’m trying real hard not to disappoint her, or make her feel bad about the wrenching experience with it thus far.

It was working well and now since 3-4 days ago the hummingbird feeder is not syncing well with the app, it says out of the feeder or when is charging it does show it in the app. I noticed too that it miss several visits of the hummingbirds lately too! I don’t know what they did lately on this app but it brought a lot of bugs!

Enjoying the heck out of this thing…Thank You…

Just takes a little practice, but I’m enjoying it! The bird ID is off as well; confusing house and purple finches as well as lesser and American goldfinches.

It is so much fun watching my cardinal family. I got my Bird Buddy when they had a fledgling. With the app, I’m able to watch him as he changes colors, something you could never witness.