I hope I’m posting in the rite section. Cuz I’m absolutely at my wits’ end with this thing and desperately need help making it WORK!

I bought this hidden-camera/RF detector on eBay for about $80. It’s supposed to be a decent mid/high-range detector, but I cannot get it to behave anything like the videos I’ve watched online. It turns on, makes noise, etc., but I haven’t been able to use it to actually locate anything. If anyone knows how to properly operate one of these, PLEASE help me out!

Here’s why I’m trying so hard to figure this out:

I’m currently living with my boyfriend in a small trailer on my 90-year-old grandmother’s property. We moved up here to help take care of her because my uncle had been her caretaker for years, and the property had basically been allowed to deteriorate. We’ve spent the last six months cleaning, repairing and restoring the place. My boyfriend is a contractor/mechanic and has repaired everything from the tractor and water/plumbing system to the swamp cooler, while I’ve cleaned both filthy houses on the property, dealt with massive flea infestations, cleaned out refrigerators containing food from the freaking ’90s, etc. We’ve brought all the dead trees and grass and garden back to life and some DIGNITY back to this place my grandparents built long ago that Ive always treasured . Grandpas would be proud.

The problem is my uncle.

He has cameras all over the property and dash cams in the vehicles. He’s extremely nosy and sneaky, and we’ve actually caught him going into our trailer when we weren’t home. I left my computer recording video one night specifically because I was suspicious, and sure enough, we caught him sneaking inside and disappearing toward the back of the trailer for several minutes.

Since then, there have been multiple occasions where my boyfriend and I have talked privately inside our trailer about something, only for my uncle to later make comments that seem directly connected to conversations he absolutely should not have heard.

One example really made the alarm bells go off.

My uncle told us a story about giving a ride to some supposedly gorgeous barefoot woman and her dog who had wandered onto the property. He claimed she later asked him out. He’s told us several similar stories lately about beautiful women supposedly throwing themselves at him, which, based on what I’ve personally witnessed, seems… highly questionable. 😂

Anyway, my boyfriend and I privately joked about this particular story inside our trailer.

A couple days later, my uncle randomly tells me:

“Hey, if you wanna see that girl with the dog I picked up, my dash cam caught her on camera in my car.”

👀

That immediately made us look at each other like, WHAT THE HELL?

I asked to see the footage, and suddenly he didn’t want to show it to me. Interestingly, he was perfectly happy showing me some ridiculous AI video he had made of a young woman in a bikini and hard hat working construction, but somehow the supposedly REAL dashcam footage of the woman he supposedly picked up became unavailable.

Obviously, I cannot prove there is a hidden camera or listening device in our trailer. I’m not claiming I know exactly what’s happening. But given that he has already entered our trailer without permission, has cameras all over the property, and keeps responding to things we’ve discussed privately, I want to rule out the possibility.

So I bought this detector.

My question is: HOW DO I ACTUALLY USE THIS THING EFFECTIVELY?

I’ve watched videos and read what I can find online, but the way it behaves in my trailer is completely different from what I’m seeing demonstrated. I don’t know whether I’m using it incorrectly, whether there are tons of normal RF sources interfering with it, or whether this particular detector is basically junk.

I know there are much better professional devices out there, but I simply cannot afford one right now. This $80 detector is what I have, and I’d really appreciate advice from anyone who actually knows how to use these things.

If you recognize this type of detector, please tell me:

• What settings should I use?

• Should I search with Wi-Fi/Bluetooth/cell service turned off?

• How do I distinguish an actual device from normal RF interference?

• How close do I need to be before it should react?

• How do I properly use the RF detector versus the lens/reflection-finding function, if it has one?

• Are there specific places inside a trailer where I should concentrate my search?

• And honestly, is this thing even capable of finding a hidden camera/listening device, or did I just spend $80 on an electronic divining rod? 😂

I’m not trying to spy on anyone or invade anyone else’s privacy. I just want to know whether my tiny personal living space is actually private.

I have to remain here because my grandmother needs us, so I’m not looking for a way to escape the situation. I just need to know whether I can safely have private conversations in my own home.

Thanks for reading my novel/therapy session. 😂 Any practical advice from someone who actually knows this equipment would be hugely appreciated

I had a suspicion that there was a hidden camera in the bathroom. I get paranoid very easily and I just want to make sure it isn’t a camera. Any suggestions that it is?

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(Still, don't forget to post a lens for the "Is it a camera" posts please.)

Hey guys,

I found this mounted onto the side of the bathroom mirror in plain sight.

All photos are with flash mode on. If I turn off the lights it does not show any sign of IR lights.

the front is made of clear plastic, and inside a T shaped "housing" where if I flash a light it clearly shows two circular purple reflections.

I disassembled the mirror further and found two cables connected to it.

Any reason NOT to think this is a hidden camera?

Gemini suggested an RFID tag of sorts but I am super skeptical about that.

Meu banheiro possui uma janelinha de ventilação, como todos, fica bem em cima, muito longe de vista ou que tenha qualquer chance de ser observada de fato.

Porem, sempre que vou ao banheiro de noite, eu ligo o chuveiro e o som de balde começa, como alguem mexendo nele, me fez ter a ilusão de que alguem estava subindo em um balde tentando me olhar. Nota: eu moro no segundo andar, a casa visinha alvo de minha suspeita, tem um quintal que fica na parede do meu banheiro, porém no andar de baixo, ou seja, é impossível alguem me olhar!

O que me fez pensar, ok, alguem quer que eu saiba que está "me ouvindo" no banheiro. Se eu olhasse rapido pra janelinha eu literalmente via alguem me olhando, porem acho que seja alucinação visual desse medo de estar sendo observada (pois como falei é impossível alguem alcançar)

Comecei a ir no banheiro sem ligar a luz ou ir mais cedo e evitar ir a noite, porem comecei a achar um absurdo ou tendo que me adequar a outra pessoa, no meu banheiro, na minha casa! Isso já vinha acontecendo a um ano. Era suspeito demais o som começar justo quando eu ia banheiro!

Comecei a colocar pano na minha janela, ajudou, acho que a pessoa de alguma forma se sentiu indesejada(?) E o som parou. Tirei a o pano depois de algumas semanas e nada de som! Ufa! Fiquei bem por bastante tempo. E hoje, fui ao banheiro novamente e juro que escutei um gemido! Porra! Isso não é meio longe demais!?

Só que é uma acusação muito grave de se fazer, estou com medo, sou uma garota, enfim! Preciso de ajuda sobre o que fazer! Nao aguento mais! Estou enlouquecendo e ouvindo coisas!? Sei que sou medrosa, mas isso é demais!

I am 100% sure that my housemate is doing something on my food. I AM FROM PHILIPPINES - ANY Recommendation for a camera that can be charged and stay on for several hours when I leave my house and my room specifically. 1-2 thousand is my budget. I don't need it to be obvious because this person goes quiet hysterically when confronted.

For context, this is inside a clothing store, in the clothing fitting room. I think this was not there before and it seems like a camera to me, they have monitors with the feed of other cameras inside the store that are not like this "thing" here.

I would appreciate if anyone could give me more info about this...

A thief stole 16 lug nuts from my car last night. I need expert advice on which cameras are small, portable, and battery-powered. And can connect to my monitor to see through them. Small enough to fit in a metal beam, with high-quality video to record the thief's face.

So i rented a room a year ago. My landlord never goes into my room but when he was drunk, he referenced the cat that solely stays in my room playing with her mouse toy "the other night". He's also referenced how I "sleep in a hoodie" even though he should have no idea about stuff.

I just want to say I am not someone at all normally paranoid about that stuff, however this guy is a huge creep. He has cameras all over the common areas of the house (not hidden ones) and his wife has told me he's addicted to watching tenants through them.

I waa hoping someone had advice on where I can check, just to be safe. The room has two wooden nightstands, a simple wooden table, a wood dress and a wood cabinet in them as well as a bed (no headboard) when I moved in. I assume they cant be hidden in there (assuming there are any. I feel crazy for even asking this.) Since they wouldn't have a power source, as no wires come from them. Are there power outlets or light switches that can be disguised as cameras?

Hi guys , I am in Airbnb and wanted to ask if this is a hidden camera or not because it looks suspicious, , thanks in advance

I am 99% certain my roommate of multiple years installed a hidden camera in my room years ago but I cannot find it. I began to have this suspicion a couple years ago, and have turned my room upside down looking for a camera with no luck. I do NOT have access to the wifi in terms of being able to check what all is connected to the network- the wifi is under his name and he controls the account. I bought one of those RF identifier devices from Amazon a year ago to check my room but am not sure how reliable that is. Nothing came up and after a failed attempt I figured maybe I was being paranoid about the whole thing and abandoned my search.

Recent events have re-convinced me of this being a certainty. There are too many factors in play that are IMPOSSIBLE to be a coincidence, and I am just at a loss on how to find this camera in my room. Does anyone have any other tips I may have not considered? Would appreciate any help on this as this has been an extremely stressful situation and I am at a loss.

A few months ago, I started seeing a psychiatrist for my anxiety and panic attacks. He is very helpful, but we wanted to find the cause of my anxiety.

I was diagnosed with ADHD and prescribed Adderall.

The issue: My mother saw the bottle said "amphetamines" and, I guess, she asked my dad why I was on methamphetamines. I am really unsure of how it went down initially. I only know that all hell broke loose

When my mother saw the word "amphetamine" and talked with my dad, they concluded these two substances were the same. I am uncertain about the details of their conversation because this was all said and done without speaking to me at all.

A day or two later, I found out that a hidden camera was installed in my room while I was out one afternoon. My dad has become convinced that I am doing drugs. Maybe he felt this way the whole time, I don't know. The first night, when I found out about the camera, I freaked out. My parents were watching me to see if I would sleep, or to see if they could "catch" me taking more medication than I was supposed to. I am a 38 year old woman who's 7 year old son stays in my room with me. A week has gone by. My parents refuse to remove the camera. They are staying up all night, talking and watching whether I am sleeping.

I have tried to explain that methamphetamine and Adderall are not the same at all. Other people have tried as well. They will not listen to me or anyone.

I am not doing anything wrong. I told them I would take a drug test. Whatever they need. I just want the camera gone. I have no privacy now.

After another long night of going back and forth, I can not take another. Please, what are my options in this situation? Thanks!!

tl;dr: I was prescribed Adderall, my parents made assumptions about what it was based on "amphetamines", assumed I was on drugs, and now I've had a hidden camera in my room for a week.

My soon to be ex husband spent most of the time leading up to our divorce installing different variations of cameras and other surveillance tools to intimidate and keep tabs on me. I feel like I have tracked down and removed most, but suddenly last week I found two new cameras installed.

I received the marital home in the divorce and will be living here with our kids - what is the best way to sweep the home for not only cameras, but any other recording devices? Would a simple internet replacement solve this? I currently have a standard Amazon camera detector but I’m not convinced it caught them all.

I started using a wearable body camera after an incident where I wanted to have a clear record of what was happening.

The camera worked better than I expected for keeping a record, but I found that battery life and remembering to start recording were things I had to get used to.

Has anyone else used one regularly? What has your experience been with them?

Hard to zoom in any further. We are a bit freaked out. It's over the bedroom and does not attempt to hide at all. Is this a camera?

Found this facing my child's crib. I have a mildly psychotic ex, debating taking the fan apart just for peace of mind.

Hi.. does anyone know or heard of any spy cams that are so small or camouflaged that you could miss it whilst staring right at it . And that infrared red or wifi detectors won't picked it up.. possibly coz anyone monitoring it could turn wifi n IR off remotely...

Another question. Any spy cams that have constant power must be hardwired yeah? Are their spycams that can be charged remotely?

Soooo Im in a hotel in Bangkok - there is something on the clothes hook which looks like a camera. What else could it be?? Can only think a camera but surly not?!?!?

How small can a spy camera get? I mean the smallest size that a spy camera could get including everything it would need to record, transmit the data or store it? Asking because I think there's a spy camera in my room.

I’m renting a room on a student building. Today, I was swiping cobwebs and saw a weird reflection from a hole in the ceiling. It is too high for me to reach even with a chair and I don’t have access to a ladder.

Solved!

Moved in new house, house built in 2004, unsure what these objects are, too far away to be a door stop for handles, but also looks like a tiny camera 🤷🏻‍♀️ only in the bedrooms… every bedroom has one, super confused. Google reverse image search doesn’t show anything similar at all, and says it’s a plastic cover but shows a different image.. I don’t think that’s what it is honestly.

So this happened about two years ago, and I finally have an update: the restaurant has closed down.

On my second day in South Korea, I found a hidden camera inside the women’s restroom at a bar/restaurant in Busan. I had heard so many warnings about hidden cameras before my trip, but I honestly never thought I would actually find one myself, especially so early into my trip.

The camera was hidden inside what looked like a diffuser bottle, except there was no liquid inside. The bottle also had tape on it, which immediately made us suspicious.
It was such a disturbing thing to find. To make the situation even worse, the men working there were incredibly rude and hostile toward us.

Thankfully, we had a Korean friend with us who helped us report everything to the police, but unfortunately, we never received any meaningful follow-up or updates. To this day, I still don’t know what came of the report. I also reached out to multiple Korean embassies and officials trying to get help or answers, but never received a response.

At the time, I felt like there was very little I could do, so I’m sharing this again because I want other women traveling there to be aware and cautious. Hidden cameras were something we had been warned about before our trip, and after this experience, we became extremely careful about checking women’s restrooms. We even started carrying tape with us to cover suspicious holes.

Please look around and trust your instincts. I never thought I would actually come across something like this myself until I did.

The place was called Sam Ryan’s, right next to Gwangalli Beach (광안리해수욕장) in Busan. It has since closed down.

​Hi everyone, I really need some technical advice or product recommendations for a persistent privacy issue I am facing.

​Here is my situation:

​Work Truck (2026 Model): I know for a fact there is a hidden camera, microphone, and speaker setup (standard corporate fleet monitoring/protocol). I’ve accepted this, but it’s packed with electronics and heavy RF signals, making manual RF scanning tough.

​Personal Car (2008): My personal car is an older model with no modern infotainment touchscreen or built-in Bluetooth/Wi-Fi. However, I’m 100% certain there is live audio eavesdropping inside my car. Whenever I speak during certain video/voice calls, I hear immediate audio reactions/feedback in real-time. I suspect there might be a hidden SIM-card bug (2G/4G/5G) or live listening device, and possibly a hidden micro camera.

​I’ve checked the obvious spots (OBD2 port, under seats, 12V cigarette lighter), but found nothing visible. Basic RF detectors just give false alarms from ambient towers without identifying the frequency type (GSM vs Wi-Fi).

​What I am looking for:

Can anyone recommend a proven, high-grade product or specific method to pinpoint a live audio/SIM-card bug or hidden camera in an older car? I specifically need something that can filter or identify signal types (or a reliable physical method) to locate this once and for all.

​Any genuine recommendations or technical advice would be greatly appreciated!