4K dashcam

Looks good, what size card do you have in it?

I installed one this summer and it is voice activated. I normally don't like voice activated stuff but with a short list of voice commands I can operate it without taking my eyes off the road.

 

Awesome! I'm hanging a blackvue 4k unit in our c later today.

Any chance you were able to tap power at the mirror mount location? I haven't worked out how to get into that safety computer box yet, though I'm certain ignition-switched power is available in it.

 

Power ports used to be hot back in the day when they were called cigarette lighters. Some of the dash cams have features to show GPS and motion while the car is parked but they need power all the time.
Mine came with a long usb cable too and I ran it in behind the passengers seat and plugged it into the power port on the back of the center console. I never have rear seat passengers.

 

I thought about that. It would be nice to have eyes on the car for when we're away from it, but it's just not practical for us. The car is routinely left in a lot for 3-4 days at a time, and nobody makes a camera with a big enough battery to last that long.

The camera I bought went the other way in their design- no battery at all. It's got a big capacitor to manage momentary blackouts and handle graceful media recording at car shutdown, but deliberately no battery that could become a fire risk in a hot car.

Many people add a battery to enable recording while parked, but I think it's smart for the camera maker to separate that into another accessory.

 

That's some of the best playback resolution I've seen..... congrats on your purchase.

If you upgrade to another card, skip the U1 class 10 cards & buy a U3 class 10 card. It's also good to have a brand new spare card in the glove box because the constant "loop" recording seems to kill cards after awhile.


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I see they have some rear view cameras as well. And of course you can't get the front/rear package in Canada.

 

Thanks, it does a great job at night and very impressive.
Are you able to download footage with your phone?

 

Looks like the camera shifts around a bit. I can't tell if that's actual motion on its mount, or an artifact from a motion stabilization system or something else entirely.

Either way it doesn't look like you needed to spend much time blurring out plates for privacy. Thanks for sharing!

 

I didn't get to installing our camera yet, but the new kitchen faucet works great, no drip. Sometimes Saturday projects go like that, right?

I help push rectangular pictures through round wires for a living, got a fair idea of what you started with vs. what made it to my eyeballs over here. Have you experimented with cut-ins on the source footage?

I'm about to do some test recordings and figure out the phone app and cloudy stuff for ours.

 

I checked Rexing site. It seems 4K resolution camera is available for single channel only,
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Dash cam is something that catches my interest every so often, then I get cold feet. Guess I'm waiting for an auto manufacturer to at least pre-wire, have a system offered as an accessory. Might be a long wait.

 

If manufacture put the dash cam as an option, I would have to worry about data privacy, just like any other monitoring devices in modern vehicles.