https://tomcooks.com/tags/diy/Recent content in Diy on Tom CooksHugoen-usThu, 29 Oct 2026 14:00:00 +0100https://tomcooks.com/posts/automate-dl001-chinese-hunting-camera/Thu, 29 Oct 2026 14:00:00 +0100https://tomcooks.com/posts/automate-dl001-chinese-hunting-camera/<p>I recently installed a cheap infrared hunting camera, one of the many clones of the DL001 hunting cameras you can find on AliExpress.</p> <p>It can be powered via 4 or 8 AA batteries or a 6V-2A DC charger, it features an OFF/TEST/ON switch, a tiny screen and a series of beeping buttons that allow you to setup the camera.</p> <p>I quickly discovered that the DL001 does not connect to wifi nor bluetooth; the only way to inspect if any animal passed by the trail is to go to the camera, open it, turn it off, extract the TF (microSD) card from the slot, open the microSD card on a computer, scan through a myriad of false alarms and hours of uninteresting videos, delete all the useless JPG and AVI crap, put the microSD card back in the camera, turn the camera back on.</p>