Dash Cameras

[giblet]

kinabalu said:

Ashleyman, or anyone if you catch this please, a quick question from your above comments.

Just bought a Mini 0906 which has separate front & rear cameras, is a 32GB card going to be adequate for the 2 cameras?

Based on the techmoan review for the Aukey dual camera I’d go with a 64GB card.

Does anyone know if the Aukey DR02D can be hardwired to have a parking mode?

[thetapeworm]

I forgot to buy the Aukey when it came back in stock and missed it, contacted them today for stock news, they say it will be back on Amazon "soon" and that's the only place they sell them in the UK. Annoying, I wanted to fit it this week.

Noticed someone on there selling one for £150, I think I'll wait

[Heidfirst]

giblet said:

Does anyone know if the Aukey DR02D can be hardwired to have a parking mode?

yes but apparently it isn't great.

[giblet]

Heidfirst said:

yes but apparently it isn't great.

Damn. Guess I need to decide if it’s worth spending over 2 times as much on a Thinkware F770 or 3 times as much on the F800 Pro. Hmmm

[M4cruiser]

kinabalu said:

Ashleyman, or anyone if you catch this please, a quick question from your above comments.

Just bought a Mini 0906 which has separate front & rear cameras, is a 32GB card going to be adequate for the 2 cameras?

My experience says buy the biggest card the camera supports.
I've just doubled the card in my daughter's car, because 16Gb was saving 1 day of her ordinary driving, i.e. less than 2 hours.
I reckon 32 Gb for each lens should be the minimum, whether being recorded on to 1 card or 2.

[Kinky]

kapiteinlangzaam said:

I'm now running an F800Pro dual channel, hardwired, with a 128gb card. So far seems v. Good and most importantly, reliable!

How are the safety cameras alerts? Does it give you decent notice, or is it not until you've gone past it? And how up to date is it?

[thetapeworm]

My wife has just picked up a Citroen Cactus, it has the airbags in the roof to make the "fuss free" dashboard even cheaper for Citroen to make - normally I'd happily route cables up there but now I'm thinking that in the event of an accident the cable might become a whip as the airbag fires or hinder them in some way. Am I being daft?

[Horsey McHorseface]

Heidfirst said:

giblet said:

Does anyone know if the Aukey DR02D can be hardwired to have a parking mode?

yes but apparently it isn't great.

What's parking mode? I want mine to work when it's parked up in a layby, left unattended for about 90 mins. Was looking at this model.

[h0b0]

My BlackVue has parking mode. It stays on for a set period of time or until the battery is drained to a set level. It detects impacts and records whatever it can see

[LocoBlade]

Thinkware also have a good parking mode, my F770 will run all night in parking mode detecting motion and/or impacts without draining the car battery sufficiently to trigger the 12.1v cut-off I've set for it to power down.

[Heidfirst]

Horsey McHorseface said:

What's parking mode? I want mine to work when it's parked up in a layby, left unattended for about 90 mins. Was looking at this model.

Thinkware have probably the best/most versatile parking modes. It's buffered so that if it detects an impact the recorded clip includes something like 10 seconds before the impact as well as during & post (& the F800 Pro will inform you when you start up if you have had incidents). Blackvue are close behind.
Thinkware configures voltage protection (not that you will need it for 90 minutes) via the the camera unit, with Blackvue it is an extra unit (Power Magic Pro) at additional cost. If parking mode is important (& it was for me) with that & the 12% discount code that I posted the Thinkware can work out cheaper than Blackvue but they will both be considerably dearer than the Aukey.

The Aukey I believe doesn't do buffering & the parking hardwire kit doesn't get very good reviews. https://www.amazon.co.uk/AUKEY-Low-Voltage-Protect...

[ashleyman]

kinabalu said:

Ashleyman, or anyone if you catch this please, a quick question from your above comments.

Just bought a Mini 0906 which has separate front & rear cameras, is a 32GB card going to be adequate for the 2 cameras?

Sorry for late reply.

I’ve had a quick look at the camera specs and you’re better off buying a larger car. The spec sheet says it’ll support 128GB so get one.

If you’re recording 1080P front and back along with parking mode 32GB will give you a maybe 6-8 hours of continuous recording. So if you park up for work at 9am and someone hits your car at 10 and you come back at 5 the likelihood is unless the clip has been write protected (which some cameras don’t do) you’d have recorded over the footage showing the damage being done.

I’ve got a 128GB card in mine and I find it writes over every 18 hours. Mix of driving and living on a moderately busy backroad with parking mode activated. At least with a larger card you can be gone longer and know if anything happens it won’t overwrite. Even my year old £350 BlackVue didn’t write protect ‘event clips’. Only the newer cameras do that.

Edited by ashleyman on Monday 28th May 00:02

[kinabalu]

Ashleyman,

Many thanks for getting back to me, much appreciated.

Bitten the bullet & ordered a Samsung Pro 128gb card, yikes, not cheap.

Took me 3 reads to get the bigger car joke, tee hee, I have a 350z which I guess interior wise is as big as mini.

Regards

Kinabalu

[The Mad Monk]

untakenname said:

Covertly fitted a rear dashcam

How did you do that?

Made sure all the neighbours were out? Did the work inside a locked garage?

Or what?

[ashleyman]

kinabalu said:

Ashleyman,

Many thanks for getting back to me, much appreciated.

Bitten the bullet & ordered a Samsung Pro 128gb card, yikes, not cheap.

Took me 3 reads to get the bigger car joke, tee hee, I have a 350z which I guess interior wise is as big as mini.

Regards

Kinabalu

lol. sorry. It was supposed to say card.

I think you've done the right thing by buying a larger card. Better to be safe.

[Terzo123]

Just ordered a Nextbase 512 from Halfords. They have a deal on at the moment which is meant to end tomorrow. 119 quid for the dashcam.

I've also ordered a hardwire kit and 64gb memory card from Amazon. Hopefully the card should be big enough for my needs, or should I say the wife's.

[vkcs22]

Very good thread guys.

I'm after a "mid range" 2 channel (front and rear) dash cam and not sure which one to go for. Blackvue DR590W or Thinkware F770. Budget is about £200/£250.

I haven't seen many dash cams in this price range, it's either you get the "budget/entry level" ones for under £100 or the "premium" ones at over £300.

Any recommendations?

Any reliable and reputable installers around (I'm in Bromley but happy to drive up to 4/5 hours for the right installer)?

[divetheworld]

I’ve just bought a cheapo dashcam for a relative. A few good enough reviews and opinions to make it worth a punt.
Blueskysea B1W. https://dashcamtalk.com/blueskysea-b1w/#Latest_Fir...

Hey, I’ve got to say, it’s a pretty good piece of kit. Not many in this small form other than the BlackVue and Qvia stuff. It’s tiny and works great.
No GPS but other than that, well topped up with features.
Just thought I’d mention it on here. I like it.

[ericmcn]

I have a mini 0906 rigged up (front and rear) and get over 24 hours continuous parking footage - I use an external battery pack that I have wired up and switch between this and the car battery when I need to, use a 128GB card.

[Ranger 6]

Has anyone got experience of the Nextbase 380gw? It looks like a decent design without the horrendous wobbly sucker mount.