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

These work great except... the wifi feature. The app they have has good intentions to make it easy but well it just fails and flashes 10 times... I am in IT for work. I MUST SAY IT KILLS MICE WELL. Just the wifi feature needs work...

UPDATE 9/2025 I have used a case of C cell batteries and have not caught one rat. I even saw a rat scurrying past the trap with no interest at all. Original post 9/2024 I purchased one of these electronic traps a while back and it worked flawlessly so I bought two more in September. These I guess had been "improved" and the four "C" cell batteries lasted about 8 days and had to be replaced. "C" cell batteries are very expensive and I have to replace eight batteries for the two traps at a time. My older unit kept the batteries for months before needing to be replaced. I'm past the return time so I will have to eat the $90+ for the traps but I can warn future purchasers of what to expect when you have to replace these batteries every week. Plus I haven't caught one rat in the new traps. I would never have bought them had I known what the battery usage is. it's like purchasing a GEO metro expecting 50 mpg and finding that you are only getting 6 MPG.

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.

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.

Item kills mice but apparently the wifi function is practically non existent and victor has no intentions of fixing this problem. I have spent hours on the internet tried new batteries closer location to router , multiple different routers with no success the app isn't great and I never could get them online but they still function offline. So do not buy these if you are getting them for the wifi like I did I was having mice in the attic and thought oh if I buy these I won't have to go up into the attic to check them constantly it will send a notification to me, nope never worked on wifi.

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.

These traps have been prolific. I bait with nut butter. Snap traps do not compare. I have the larger rat version. My exclusion work has kept the big fellas out now, but these traps keep racking up mouse kills while I find and plug the tiny holes. The wi-fi feature for me is key. I can set it up in the crawlspace and forget it until it reports a kill...sort of...see below. THE GOOD - Easy wi-fi setup. I've set up a lot of smart devices on my Android. I've set up a few of these a few times. Easiest and most reliable set up of any wi-fi device. Victor did a nice job here where so many others have failed. - Easy rodent disposal. Pick it up, dump the dead critter, set it back, get the next kill. For me, the quickest turnaround has been about 15 minutes. I found the recommended reset post-kill unnecessary. I did it initially, but I think it might have caused problems actually. - Cleaning. I haven't needed to clean it post-kill very often. Since rodents are so scent-sensitive, logic told me that the scent of former...uh...occupants would be better than the recommended hydrogen peroxide. My kill rate seems to be proof of this theory. And, honestly, I would be cleaning them way too frequently. - Easy to bait. I use a tiny cocktail spoon to load the cup with nut butter (almond butter). The rodent rarely reaches it, so I don't have to reload very often. - Exceptional customer service. THE BAD (All this is why it's not five stars.) All the negatives are about the app during operation... - Kill alarms. I've had units miss kill alarms. The first was a disaster because the unit sat for 2-3 weeks in the crawlspace after the kill. The rodent moldered on the contact plates. I cleaned it according to instructions (hydrogen peroxide and a toothbrush...yep, gross as it sounds). After that, it failed to shock and became a feeder. The good news: I told customer support and they offered a one-time courtesy replacement! Very impressed. - Connectivity alarms. I've had a unit with the batteries out, cleaning it, and it still showed connected after a couple hours, with battery life. So I check them once a week no matter what. I also delete the trap and reconnect it like a new unit after battery replacement. - Offline reporting. On the flip-side, false "your trap has been offline for more than 24 hours" alarms happen to me sometimes. I say "false" because the traps show online and they check out ok upon inspection. - Activity reporting. The "last activity" reporting in the app is odd. Traps have activity pretty much every day (despite 24-hour disconnect alarms sometimes), but there's no indication of what the "activity" is. At first, this had me checking traps when I didn't need to. My guess is that it's an "I'm alive" signal? - Multiple traps are hard to manage. No alarm indicates which trap is the originator. So you have to look at each one. Most people will probably have just one, though, so maybe not a big deal. - No apparent way to check shock capability. Because of above issues, and occasional missing bait, I wish there were some way to test the shock capability with a volt meter in addition to wi-fi connectivity. I'm sure there is some way to do this, but I haven't seen instructions online. But I'm not sure how the plate circuits work, and haven't yet experimented. BOTTOM LINE - Spendy, but worth it. Most effective trap out there. Snap traps often have bait gone and no kill even with the most sensitive hair-trigger setup. If you need to control and want fairly reliable kill notifications, get this trap. But know that alarms and notifications are not trustworthy enough to get the full benefit of set and forget.

We recently purchased a cabin to use and rent as a vacation rental. We quickly realized we had a rodent problem when exploring the in's and out's of the new place. I first purchased two of the mouse sized units, but found one moved across the attic on my next visit and realized I was dealing with a rodent that was a bit bigger than I had thought. I ordered these, and after reading reviews took great care to ensure I wore gloves when handling the unit to avoid transferring my scent. They were easy to set up, and I put one in the utility room and the other in the attic. About two days later, sitting at home about 1.5 hours away, I got an alert that the attic trap had a kill. The next day, I went to the cabin and was a bit skeptical, but when I entered the attic I saw the back half of the largest rat I have ever seen sticking out the back of this device. Needless to say, money well spent. I emptied the trap by tilting it back and letting the rodent slide into a trash bag and then reset the trap. We got a mouse in the same trap the next day. As the rat size works on both, unless you are sure you only have a mouse problem I would suggest getting the rat size and cover all your bases. What I like about this trap is that I'll know when I get a kill so I can deal with it quickly as we are not always at the cabin to check the trap. I also like the idea that if a guest is at the house, I don't have to worry about a screaming rat with a spring trap caught on it's tail running around the attic. It's pretty likely that no one would ever know there was a kill, and if the guest was staying for a while I could at least come up with a plan to deal with the kill before hearing a complaint about a dead animal smell. For the wifi, it has a pretty good reach through floors and walls. I can confidently cover the whole cabin with these traps and plan to pick up a few more as I work my way through sealing the access points. This way, if I get a kill I know I have more work to do in the area.

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.