minibbb
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I had two Garmin Mini 2's installed today on my 2019 Mercedes GLC by Halfords in the UK. Cameras were £99 each and to fit front and rear cams only £53 .
I purchased 2X Garmin parking mode cables from Halfords for £20 each (£30 from Garmin). I wasn't aware of the new OBD constant power cable they now do- this may have been an easier install. The chap actually tried to sell me a blackvue instead as that uses the OBD port!!
Both are wired via a fuse box in the boot and seem to work well. A little fiddly to set up the app but got there in the end. Need to work out how to get videos into the vault so I can download them.
I set parking mode up on both. I did 4 hrs at high sensitivity with the pre record function on (not sure how this works with a G shock sensor?!) Hopefully this won't cause too heavy a drain on the battery.
On trying to test parking mode I rocked the car pretty hard via it's roof bars which failed to activate the G shock sensor on either camera- not sure how fair a test this is? Only by lightly flicking the front camera itself did it start recording.
This therefore has me concerned that if someone bumps my car in the carpark it will highly likely fail to activate. We need a youtube review from someone with a couple of scrap cars to test it!!
I'm sure Garmin removed the motion detection due to the over heating issue.
I wonder if motion detection has been removed via hardware or was a software set up.
Can anyone offer any further advice re the usability of the parking mode function and whether it'll likely respond to an actual low speed crash etc?
I purchased 2X Garmin parking mode cables from Halfords for £20 each (£30 from Garmin). I wasn't aware of the new OBD constant power cable they now do- this may have been an easier install. The chap actually tried to sell me a blackvue instead as that uses the OBD port!!
Both are wired via a fuse box in the boot and seem to work well. A little fiddly to set up the app but got there in the end. Need to work out how to get videos into the vault so I can download them.
I set parking mode up on both. I did 4 hrs at high sensitivity with the pre record function on (not sure how this works with a G shock sensor?!) Hopefully this won't cause too heavy a drain on the battery.
On trying to test parking mode I rocked the car pretty hard via it's roof bars which failed to activate the G shock sensor on either camera- not sure how fair a test this is? Only by lightly flicking the front camera itself did it start recording.
This therefore has me concerned that if someone bumps my car in the carpark it will highly likely fail to activate. We need a youtube review from someone with a couple of scrap cars to test it!!
I'm sure Garmin removed the motion detection due to the over heating issue.
I wonder if motion detection has been removed via hardware or was a software set up.
Can anyone offer any further advice re the usability of the parking mode function and whether it'll likely respond to an actual low speed crash etc?