GUNPOWER Advanced SMT Digital Target Display and Stand Unit (Size: 24 inch / Vertical / UC Helios Package)

"I love mine! I’ve had it for months now and no issues whatsoever. Absolutely love it! You can even zero your scope and laser with this which is really useful. So happy I love to be with my happy day.! Your face can go get one, because you love it, we all know that you love it!!

"Well this thing is great. Very much enjoy using it on a daily basis. Targets are a good verity. Though one game I don't understand at all. Lol. Great unit.

"Portable, functional, and worth the money
Delivery Was quick and The package was secure and intact.
The SMT system is an amazing “stay-at-home” target system with little clean up. Setting up was easy thanks to the tool provided. Electronics worked as advertised with no problems noted. I’ve probably shot around 5k or so BBs at 10-50ft. Away with 350-450 FPS and all shots have been counted.

**for those who plan to bring this out in the field for warehouse/camping—I’ve used a jackery 300 portable power supply while I went up the mountains for a weekend and this ran for a good 4.5 hours before the power supply while using the jackery’s solar panel to charge at the same time. Without solar panels this will run for about 2.5-3 hours.

I suggest buying a 24 inch rolling monitor case for ease of transport.

Other than that, the different games/apps are fun and actually helps with zeroing my guns. I’ve used C02, GBB, and AEG and the screen has had no problem registering each shot.

**shotgun/scattergun users beware that it will not registers multiple shots at a time. It will only could the first BB that comes in contact.

I’m planning on buying another one just bc I want more targets to shoot especially with the training 1 and 2 game mode utilizing multiple screens—be aware that you’ll need to connect these to an Ethernet cable.

"Just bought this today I and must this target is freaking awesome. I've already shot roughly 1000 rounds and there is no notice damage. I love it. Very easy to assemble and almost no setup required. I do recommend getting a cheap camera tripod for the arcade box. I do wish it came with more games especially games geared more toward comp shooting.

Pros
A lot of fun
Easy to assemble
No software setup required
Easy to use
All around amazing

Cons
Absolutely none

"We love it! Santa brought us one for Christmas 2020 and we are having a blast. Packaging was good. Came with the black metal stand (thankfully). Most of the screws for the pre-assembled parts were tight but a properly sized hex for my socket wrench got us through. Assembly was otherwise easy. Did not connect it to the internet ... just powered it up and went for it ... no problems ... it just worked. Seems accurate.

Good for firearms training - safe handling, trigger pull, sling/draw, etc. Good for having fun too. Was concerned that the 24" model wouldn't be big enough but it is actually perfectly fine for my 8-15' range (min is 3m).

Still not quite sure how the sensor tech works. The protective film seems to be held in place with Velcro. Holding-up fine after probably 1k or more rounds. The plastic controller box (it came with the small version) connects via a really long USB-B (like early USB printers) and the box feels empty ... if I ever crack it open, wouldn't be surprise to see little more than an Arduino and hook-up wires for the arcade-like buttons.

Only CONs so far:
- Button labels are a big "sticker" and mine is already peeling/bubbling up.
- Sensor stopped sensing once but came-back after power cycle.
- Questionable support for update/upgrades down the road ... Gunpower.com site (Korea) seems sketchy, possibly not being maintained well.
- I can hear fans whirring in the monitor ... wondering how long it will all last.
- No instructions on how the "games" work but thanks to Evike.com YouTube for quick walk through. Most of the games were self-explanatory. Hope to see better US support and other downloadable game options down the road.

"It does everything as advertised. Not only do I like it but, my wife, kids, and grand-kids like it.

Compared to the time and cost of going to the range it's a no brainer. No, it's not the same but, airsoft in general has improved my pistol shooting and this is a great addition.

Shame it'snot cheaper.

"I purchased this in September as a pre-buy with an ETA of December 2020. It arrived on 11/24/20 after an email from Evike the week prior telling me it shipped with a UPS tracking number that was spot-on for an arrival date.

The packaging was in great condition and packed beautifully. The box does say GunPower on it, so I wouldn't leave it on a doorstep for too long.

Assembly was simple but confusing (but not Ikea-level of confusing). My base was already pre-assembled unlike the instructions. My bracket on the monitor was also pre-assembled. The difficult part was that all of the pre-assembled screws for each pole segment were screwed in so tight, I had to use a socket wrench to loosen them. (My mechanical screwdriver started to strip the hex screws, so I was worried if I had to resort to a drill.) Also, they don't explain how to attach the side shields (magnetic) nor the catch tray (hook on with gravity).

Use was exactly as expected from the Evike and GunPower videos on YouTube. Accuracy is good for the first 500 BBs shot so far. Catch tray is good at catching all shots from mid screen and down. When I shoot the upper half with a carbine at 350fps (0.20g) from 20ft, I get some rebounds that can hit me in the face. The catch tray has a nice feature of a removable round plug that you can use to pour all of the BBs out when you want to dump the tray.

Registration and Updating were the only really negatives. To register or update manually, you need to attach a network cable from the monitor to your router. That required me to bring the system to another level of my home. Updates worked fine once I did that. Registration was another matter. The network cable worked, but the registration via SMT monitor gave an error message (102) and would not work. When I tried to register via web and create an account on the www.gunpower.com website as the SMT tells me to, I needed to learn Korean. Neither their USA/English website nor Chrome translate add-in was able to translate all of the field info, especially the error pop-ups. When I figured them all out, I hit a wall in that registration requires a physical address confirmation, and the website does not recognize any USA address. I emailed GunPower to see if they send me a work-around. If not, I'll contact Evike.

"I purchased the SMT24 in early August, of 2023 from Evike.com. It arrived a few days later, delivered in a hefty box. Upon opening it, and reviewing the contents, everything was nicely packed, and the equipment appeared to be in good order, and survived the transport without issue. There is a heavy tape used around the edges of the screen, I assume to help hold the screen cover in place. There was a small section of the tape on one side, that was a little bent up, a cosmetic issue, nothing to be concerned about.

The screen cover, is similar in design to a screen cover you would use on your phone, just much larger, thicker, and more of a rubber, than a thin film. But much like the film ones, on a phone, there was an area on mine where it seemed to be a bubble. And when looking at it, with the power off, it was very noticeable. But once you turn the screen one, and it's lit up, you can't even tell it's there, so again, not an issue.

The assembly was not difficult, they include a hex wrench, for the bolts on the back of the vesa style monitor mount for the tripod, but oddly, the screws on the side for the rubber siding that's supposed to trap/stop bbs's on the side, used phillips head screws instead of hex. Not sure why there wasn't a consistent screw type throughout.

Most likely the components were sourced separately, and came from different vendors, each supplied with different types of screws.  Not a big deal, you just need to use a regular phillips for this portion of the assembly, (screw driver is not included)

I will say, the documentation is horrid, even the gunpower2.com website is horrid, they really could use an E-commerce make over.  But worse than the appearance, is the terrible translations from the native Korean text, to English, on both the included (yet very basic instructions) as well as the web site.  The translations are bad, it's not intuitive, it's obvious whomever wrote any of the docs or even the web page text in general is not a native English speaker. Either that, or google translate did it's best, and no one took the time to actually proof read anything. This is probably the biggest failure of this product. It's a $600+ item. You would expect the documentation to at least be legible for the customer purchasing such an expensive item. So this may be a turn off for some people, as it does feel frustrating to not have clear instructions available. They do offer an online manual in video form, and it it helpful, but it doesn't cover everything, and I personally prefer a well written pdf over that.

Spending a little money to have a the site better designed and translations cleaned up, would make for a much better first impression, for sure.  To be honest I abandoned the included instructions, and just put the unit together based on the images of the finished product.  You have to do a little wiggling to get the bb catch tray to fit, and may need to tinker slightly with the rubber sides, to get them aligned correctly, but nothing that took more than a few minutes to accomplish.

It's not a complicated setup, and really, pretty intuitive, if you know how to field strip a Glock and reassemble it, then you are more then skilled in putting this unit together in a short period of time, without issue.

Once assembled, I test mounted it on the tripod stand, and connected the usb controller, ethernet cable and power cord, then turned on the system. It boots up, and plays a brief safety screen, and you need to press the red button on the controller to accept it.  Then it took a little while, but eventually the included content appeared on screen.  Using the four directional black controller buttons, allows you to navigate the interface and menus. The red button is generally used as the OK or Enter button, once a selection has been made. Over all the menu is decent, although I have not quite figured out how the "Favorites" work, I selected some content to be my "Favorite" yet other content I didn't still shows up when on the Favorites page...?

At this point, make sure you have already created an account on the gunpower2.com site, you want to make sure you go to gunpower2.com. If you don't use the "2" then you will end up on the Korean site, and if you probably don't want to register on that site. So once you are on the Gunpower2.com site and created an account, Register your device serial number. This process is not hard, but again the wording due to very poor English translation leaves a lot to be desired, if you are an English speaker. This process is shown in there Video version of the manual, and it seemed to be accurate enough to follow along with.

But honestly, you can figure it out, if you have any familiarity with registering any other software, or hardware devices online, its the same idea, just with poor translations along the way.  If you did not register yet, you should go back and do that, then reboot the system (power off/on with the ethernet cable connected) Give it several minutes and the included content should come up.

Once registered, you can now but more content, so I also purchased the $3 Vertical Can, content, and paid via paypal, I bought this cheap addon, more as a test to see how the purchased content gets loaded, and what that process was like, before purchasing more expensive, or additional addons. Apparently if you own multiple units, you will need to purchase the additional content for that device as well, if planning to use it in 'multi' mode. I only have a single unit, so this didn't apply.
  
Once registered and with the unit booted up, I went into the settings, and ran the updates.. but the version (mine came with 2.6.2.4) didn't seem to change... I tried multiple times to run the updates., and they appeared to actually install. Yet once I rebooted the version remained the same.  Also, after the updates, and manually rebooting it.. my purchased content still did not show up (ethernet attached of course).   

I searched for updates again.. and it appeared to download and install the same ones over again.  After another reboot, still the version number remained the same, and the purchased content did not show up. A note, when the unit is booting, or loading the initial content, or upgrading etc, the controls seems to become useless, so you can't do anything but wait till it's done, then you will get control back.

Mind you, I did use the unit, and played through a few of the pre-installed content, and it all appeared to work properly, so over all the unit was fully functional, but was running an older revision and was unable to see the additional purchased content, yet. 

One thing I noticed is that the .20 bb's I was shooting, from about 10ft away, bounced off the screen a lot.  Probably only half of them actually dropped into the catch tray, with the others bouncing off the screen, some even bounced all the way back, and past where I was standing, some 10ft away. 

The pistol I was testing with was a cheap Game Face GFAP13 AEG with the hop all the way down, and clocking about 180-190 fps using .20 bbs.   I have a second pistol, a Novritsch SSE18 AEG, but the bbs pretty much bounced off half the time when using the SSE18, as well. I used a small, but powerful rechargeable mini, car vacuum to clean up all the bbs that were not caught in the tray.

The tray design is pretty nice, when it does collect bbs, as long as they don't bounce off, and there is a small drain hole in one corner, with a small rubber stopped in it, simply pull out the stopper and sweep out the bbs, into a trash can below, for quick cleanup of the tray.

After shooting about 100 rounds, across several of the skill games and zeroing, targeting contents, I went back to address the version and purchased content issue.  To resolve this, I followed the manual update method.  I believe it may have been written somewhere in the docs, but I found the process online and followed it.  The gunpower2.com support page, doesn't have a traditional forum, where you can ask for help, it has some cumbersome forum-like page, where you can post, and home someone replies... I didn't see an option to subscribe to a message, to know when a reply comes in. Over all it's one of the poorest support interfaces I have come across. I did see some questions were answered by the vendor. But many of the replies, simple said that they emailed the information to the user.... So if an individual asked a question and the answer was emailed to them directly... someone else with the same question wouldn't be able to see the response. Now some of this may be due to account security, and the fact that they don't want to publicly post, anything that may compromise another users registration information etc.

As for the manual update process, you simply download the files, and place them on a usb stick.  Insert a mouse and the usb stick, into the usb ports, then following the instructions/images. I was easily able to copy the files to the necessary locations and run the update. The process is basically like side-loading an app onto an android phone, and as an Android user, and hobby developer, I have built my own Android apps, and was very comfortable with this process. If you are not experienced with this, the process was pretty well documented, and the docs did include multiple images along the way, showing you what to click and how to navigate within the android system.

This manual update worked, and my device was now loading up into the latest version, and after a short while I was able to see my purchased content.  I

Now on the latest version, and with my purchased content, all seems to be working well. Once I got everything working, I then went ahead and purchased a few more addons that interested me, and after connecting the ethernet cable and booting it up, the system told me it has updates for me, and simply let it install them. This worked as expected and the 4 additional addons I purchased, all showed up within the main menu screen.

I can't comment much on the tripod, because I am not using it any longer, I decided to set mine up as a wall mount. I purchased a cheap Vesa Mount. It fits perfectly on the back of the SMT24 in place of the included mounting hardware used to attach it to the tripod. You will not need to use the hex screws if using this mount, as the Vesa Mount included its own phillips screws, which is what I used to mount it on the unit.

Additional I used a combination of adhesive velcro and zip ties, to tuck the power cord cabling behind the unit, and the power brick underneath it. This allows me to simply run a single power cord from the wall outlet to the brick, and it looks much more tidy. And when removed, when not in use, there are no cords hanging. I keep the controller attached to the usb port, and simple coil up the cabling when done playing, and sit the controller on the bb collection tray and tuck the coiled cabling behind it. So no cabling is hanging on the ground, and it looks clean.

Adhesive Velecro https://tinyurl.com/4jfryu47
Vesa Mount https://tinyurl.com/yck7f4sm


I have several hours into it so far, and enjoying this unit quite a bit. For me it's great, I am a target shooting fan, and have always enjoyed this stuff, but the cost of going to the range is expensive, not to mention no range near me offers anything more then a typical static paper target to shoot at. Which gets pretty old, pretty quick.

I own a laser pistol and multiple interactive targets, but laser based guns just don't do it for me. There is something about an actual projectile... seeing you shot hit slightly high or low etc, and adjusting, steadying you aim etc, just feels so much better. And this system offers it.

If there is one thing I would like to see, would be either an api/dev kit, for those of us comfortable in Unity and creating for the android platform. Or even better would be a premade toolkit, either a windows desktop app, or a download directly to the SMT, where you can create your own customized target range. Placing targets, setting timers for when things pop out, adding randomization etc. The included content, and available addons offer a lot. But if this is going to be a long term thing, giving the players a chance to really get creative would be amazing, and extend the lifetime of this unit for sure.

"The problem with this is it can’t be updated. I have 3 of these one had the new version 2.2 OS . The other two have version 1.1 OS. When I hardwire to internet only the new version 2.2 will connect and add purchases. The other two will not . What’s also strange is I can browse the internet with them but when I click the update it says it’s not connected to the server. I downloaded the update files to the targets hard drive and opened them . But still they won’t run .make sure you buy the updated version it also has a better stand than the old version.the target works good . Just wish it was updated or could be updated