Dashcams!

nlel1975 · Sunday at 15:28

I've noticed with mine that the date and time were wrong when I made the recording above. According to Garmin support you need to charge the camera overnight at least once per month to maintain the supercapacitors clock...

https://support.garmin.com/en-US/?faq=Q4Z7UoHbmR9DZpkhHPkSSA

Thought it was going to be a hassle pulling it off the windscreen, but it quite easily pops out of its holder which is stuck to the screen. Then when I plugged into into my charger noticed the camera wanted to record all the time so I had to remove the microSDXC card to stop it.

I'll leave it on charge overnight tonight and hopefully that will solve the date/time issue.

happy_2008 · Monday at 23:36

sad099 said:
Thanks, any chance you could provide some feedback once you have installed it, looking for real world on night time use etc.
Also are you going to use parking mode or just when driving ?
Thanks

Just received it via the post today and looking to try and fit it later on this week. I'll be using it for driving only e.g. not hard wired.

tamzzy · Monday at 23:43

nlel1975 said:
I've uploaded some dark early morning footage for you. At the start of this video the sea is to the left. A bit grainy and not as good as daytime but OK...

started off with chicane...stayed for the rest of the tunes :cry:

tamzzy · Monday at 23:43

Firegod said:
Anyone tried the 70mai A810S? Some of the cameras on market are quite chunky. I have a 622GW so a nice size, but obviously things have progressed with night quality and STARVIS2 optics.

did you get one in the end?
spotted a nice deal on it and thinking if i should get one too (£92 delivered for the front cam + CPL filter)

Pipe & Slippers · 2026-03-24T19:17:38+0000

Pipe & Slippers said:
Finally got around to fitting my dashcam today (Miofive S1), and the seemingly incredibly useful usb-c port above the rear view mirror doesn’t deliver enough power to the dashcam…seems to be a common issue grrr

So options are, run a long cable and try and hide it; pay someone to do it properly; buy a £5.99 step down transformer that’s pre attached to a usb-c port that I attach to the wiring loom hidden in the housing above the rear view mirror

Anyone done the last option? I suppose I could always junk the cam and try and buy a less power hungry one

God knows why they deliberately choose to underpower the port. Who on earth is going to plug a phone in up there?

Just got mine fitted for £80…if I’d have done it myself I would have probably spent more on new interior trim parts

nlel1975 · 2026-03-24T19:43:06+0000

Pipe & Slippers said:
Just got mine fitted for £80…if I’d have done it myself I would have probably spent more on new interior trim parts

Yeah cost me £84 to have mine fitted. I'm well pleased that the one time use only, sticky pad is stuck firmly on the screen. It ain't coming off unless I want it to. It remains stuck even under the pressure of pulling the camera off its mount.

Didn't realise I'd have to remove the camera from the car and charge it overnight at least once a month, until I discovered about the supercapacitor which maintains the time/date. Hooked up my MacBook to it the other day while it was in the car and connected a 2M USB-C to USB-C data cable to it, to transfer some footage off the camera.

I discovered that it saves the footage in 1 minute pieces so once I had them on my MacBook I transferred them to my Windows PC and used Microsoft Clipchamp to join them all up. That took awhile but it takes ages to export them in the car with the engine on to my iPhone so its better this way.

Only took about 10 minutes to transfer from the camera to MacBook, about 7GB of data if I recall. Exporting a file that large would have taken about 55 minutes to transfer over WiFi to iPhone.

Pipe & Slippers · 2026-03-25T07:54:42+0000

nlel1975 said:
Yeah cost me £84 to have mine fitted. I'm well pleased that the one time use only, sticky pad is stuck firmly on the screen. It ain't coming off unless I want it to. It remains stuck even under the pressure of pulling the camera off its mount.

Didn't realise I'd have to remove the camera from the car and charge it overnight at least once a month, until I discovered about the supercapacitor which maintains the time/date. Hooked up my MacBook to it the other day while it was in the car and connected a 2M USB-C to USB-C data cable to it, to transfer some footage off the camera.

I discovered that it saves the footage in 1 minute pieces so once I had them on my MacBook I transferred them to my Windows PC and used Microsoft Clipchamp to join them all up. That took awhile but it takes ages to export them in the car with the engine on to my iPhone so its better this way.

Only took about 10 minutes to transfer from the camera to MacBook, about 7GB of data if I recall. Exporting a file that large would have taken about 55 minutes to transfer over WiFi to iPhone.

V useful. Thanks