Dashcams!

Cameras are discrete so people don’t steal them like they did say navs a few years ago.

A dash cam isn’t going to stop someone reversing into your car while parked or bashing it with a door. It might make them leave a note after the fact if they see it but the damage will be done.
 
jpaul said:
conversely if the cameras too discrete a preventative angle is lost .....
given some of the recent post oif roundabout abuses/near collisions I do wonder whether the dash cam will effectively capture them, or,
accurately show wing mirror clipping incidents, which are the only accidents I've had over past years.

witth recent thread on jump-start battery pack, wonder if one of those could dual-purpose as a parking dash came battery
https://www.amazon.co.uk/TACKLIFE-Portable-Car-Jump-Starter/dp/B075HBDN95/
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If you forget the jump start of it for a sec,

If you use it to leave on in the car overnight for your dashcam, how would you keep charging it up ?

My cellink charges when my engine is running, so I never have to take it out to charge it, also it switches the camera over automatically to parking mode, no buttons to press, install and forget which I like
 
I installed a dashcam into our 2014 Kia Sportage myself. I just got a hardwire kit and a double fuse adapter, plugged the adapter into the lighter socket fuse (Powered only when engine is on) and took the feed from that. It turns on and off with the ignition.

Took me about an hour and that mostly consisted of me taking the door frame pillar trim off and routing the cable so that it looks factory.
 
b0rn2sk8 said:
Cameras are discrete so people don’t steal them like they did say navs a few years ago.

A dash cam isn’t going to stop someone reversing into your car while parked or bashing it with a door. It might make them leave a note after the fact if they see it but the damage will be done.
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You will have the footage of the damage being done. My camera has caught two parking "accidents" so far and the one denied the incident even happened until I showed her a copy of the footage. Luckily it was the neighbours cars and not mine.
 
That isn't preventative though, its reactive and that was my point. It's irrelevant if the camera is discrete or obvious the damage is already done.

Preventative means damage isn't done in the first place and dash cams have never been about that.
 
ShiWarrior said:
If you use it to leave on in the car overnight for your dashcam, how would you keep charging it up ?
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I mean you recharge it as necessary at home, or in the office... like you would your phone..
I'm mean/ anti paying £200+ for a product/celink which is essentially some LiOn batteries
but the previouslly linked https://www.amazon.com/Yukuma-Power-Bank-Engineered-Certified/dp/B073PN843G is better 30min charging, in car


b0rn2sk8 said:
That isn't preventative though,
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preventative in respect of deterring vandalism - well, maybe - if the camera has a wide enough angle to catch the act ... my car has been keyed, the only thing that has happened when it has been left alone - maybe the criminals would not spot the camera though.
If someone bangs into a car and sees the camera they may post a note too, instead of just leaving , wiith the knowledge they could otherwise be prosecuted - no ?
so that's not preventative but facilitative.
 
jpaul said:
I mean you recharge it as necessary at home, or in the office... like you would your phone..
I'm mean/ anti paying £200+ for a product/celink which is essentially some LiOn batteries
but the previouslly linked https://www.amazon.com/Yukuma-Power-Bank-Engineered-Certified/dp/B073PN843G is better 30min charging, in car
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problem is, the thinkware cable is not usb (for use in parking mode)
if you can change the USB to thinkware , but i still cant see the camera switching over to parking mode, it will remain "on/continuous" ?
to be honest im sure if this will work
 
I have a Roadhawk HD dash cam - had it now for at least 6 years - in that time it's been fine until recently where the date on footage reverted back to 2008. After a lot of updating and faffing I found it was my Samsung Evo micro SD card giving up the ghost.
During my contact with Roadhawk they told me that a micro card in a Adapter isn't recommended due to the adapter not being UHS capable ??

Is this correct ?? I did wonder at one point when down loading footage to PC that it took longer than the old full size 32gig SD card.

I think I am now going to have a spare 64gig card going as I ordered one before I found out I need full size cards.

Roadhawk also sell their own SD cards saying they are designed for their cameras - Are SD cards all one and the same ?
 
The card I have been using is a Samsung EVO Plus HC-1 - The Orange card. It seems to match the spec listed in that link - I have just put the car in the garage and from switch on to switch off the dash cam had fired up and connected to GPS which it wasn't doing so quickly before. I am sure now it's fixed but just wanted to know more about the SD cards.
Thanks
 
Those with a Thinkware dashcam, specifically the F770. Does anyone know what the little jingle means when it turns on? I assumed it just meant it was powered on and recording however mine doesn't always do it. On the occasions it doesn't do it, It still seems to be recording?
 
Just tried it on the way home, didn't chime but recorded perfectly all the way home. Also seems to have recorded every other drive I remember.

Not too fussed if I know it's recording. Might have a play with the settings, see if I can make it do something or nothing rather than intermittent.
 
UnworthyBean said:
Those with a Thinkware dashcam, specifically the F770. Does anyone know what the little jingle means when it turns on? I assumed it just meant it was powered on and recording however mine doesn't always do it. On the occasions it doesn't do it, It still seems to be recording?
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Not a Thinkware but my Roadhawk tells me its on then slightly later it dings and tells me a GPS signal has been aquired. Does yours have map and speed shown ? Mine recoreds but without the map and speed data if no GPS.
 
Finglonga said:
Not had any problems with it, connected fine yesterday?
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Thinkware app has an issue with android 9, if it works perfectly for you, your lucky

You need to install the thinkware cloud app too
Log in and set it up through cloud app, then you can log in as normal on the other thinkware app

I have a samsung a70
 
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