Victor M2 Smart-Kill Humane Wi-Fi Enabled Electronic Rat Trap Killer - 2 Traps

Absolutely worthless! Wifi range is next to nothing, kills batteries within 3-5days and have yet to get a single rodent. I originally bought them to put in the crawl space, but they don’t last more than 1 week before the batteries need to be replaced. And WiFi range was less than 30’ from the router and wouldn’t stay connected. I unfortunately missed the return window and am now stuck with expensive traps that do not work.

I purchased these 2019 and needed to repurchase them because I thought our issue was over. However, they found a new way into the house. I felt compelled to write a review after seeing all the recent negative reviews. We had tremendous success with these traps. So much so that I reordered the old model over the new, which would have been cheaper. As far as internet connectivity, some older devices have issues connecting to wifi because of 2g and 5g. If it works great if not, then check the traps. If you are within hearing distance of these, you will hear the zap and sometimes you will hear the rat/mouse do a very quick squeal. Next, the secret to these traps is to pre-bait it with peanut butter. When you notice the peanut butter gone for a few consecutive days, arm the trap. We caught 11 in one night after we did this. If you empty the trap quickly enough, you do not have to clean the plate after every catch. If you wait, the best way I found to clean it was hydrogen peroxide and let it air dry. I would imagine rubbing alcohol would work too. You just want the scent of "death" gone. This got rid of our issue. They work fantastic. They are fast and effective. No mess to clean and the humane.

I bought a two pack. One lost connection while the batteries were supposedly still at 70% the day before. Changed the batteries and it won’t turn on, the red light in the on switch just intermittently flashes, won’t stay on and won’t connect. The other one is supposedly connected and on, and there are rat droppings all around and you can see on the bait where they came in and ate what peanut butter they could get and and no dead rat in the trap and no message from the app that it had been triggered. Go figure, seemed too good to be true and it was. Going back to good old spring loaded rat traps because they actually work. Now I know why they only give a 30 day warranty on these things. I will never buy these again, complete waste of money.

The whole idea of an internet connected mouse trap seems kind of ridiculous. Is this an Onion parody turned into a real product? But I got a couple of these anyhow to put down in the garage to prevent a repeat of last winter’s “rodent invasion apocalypse” which cost a LOT of money to fix. They work and it turns out to be amazingly handy to get the alert to remind me to go on down and empty out the trap. I haven’t used them long enough to have a good idea of battery life but they are still over 75% after 3 weeks and 4 rodents zapped. Update - battery life has been fine - multiple months. One did lose connection and need to be completely reset. False trigger notices mean they need cleaning. So, I bought 2 more. The new ones, WR190808GVXXXXX and WR190811GVXXXXX (both on FW 1.3.3) were a royal pain to set up. Setup on an iPhone X running iOS 13.3.1 failed repeatedly. Connection to the trap’s own WiFi network failed multiple times. After successfully connecting to the trap’s WiFi network, set up failed with “there has been a network error” when attempting to retrieve the available WiFi networks so that I could select my home network. This failed 100% of the time on both units after multiple attempts. I was within 10 feet of the WiFi access point and I tried all the usual things - restarting the app, power cycling the traps and my phone. The older traps had been no problem to set up on the same phone a year ago (with an older version of iOS). I *was* able to complete setup of the 2 new traps after only a few retries using an iPhone SE running iOS 13.3. This suggests that there might be an incompatibility with the Victor app and the most recent iOS release. I reported it to Victor, so with luck a fix is coming.

Bought this two pack and although they both provisioned successfully I noticed the next day that one showed “connection lost” in the app. I caught a rodent in the other one, I reset it and then a day later noticed it went offline as well. Both traps now don’t work and just flash a red light. Replaced batteries but no change. After some googling it sounds like this is a known issue and it looks like I’m unlucky with two that basically were DOA.

I have used electric traps before and thought the addition of wifi to not have to check them would be perfect. The wifi would not stay on. It shutoff 30-45 seconds after startup. Could not even get through setup before it shut itself off. I called their troubleshooting line on the off chance their was something outside the instructions to try and registered a callback but they never called me back. Don't waste your time on these wifi models

Don't waste your money. Traps dropped off wifi within 3 days. Drained 15%of batteries in two days

Great product, very effective and efficient. Had a single trap and liked it so much I brought two more.