OK a little review on the Experience of the Rear-Cam saga ..... (let’s all take it as read that it’s been a looooong time in coming)
The Good
I got a code/email from Tiffany on Tuesday (the 10th) and placed my order with nextbase directly
Notified it would take 7-10 workings days to deliver as I wasn’t in any real rush as issues would be indentified and hopefully fixed so I was ok and paid over my money.
Got a email from next base the next day (11th) saying delivery would be 3-5 working days - ooohh I got a little excited
Got a email today (12th) from Hermes saying it was being delivered today - I had today off and every time either of my dogs suddenly jumped up to look out of the window I got a little more excited
Finally at 1730 door bell rang and lo and behold 1 x rear-cam in my hands
Patching the 512 was easy as cake and installation of the rear cam was easy enough.
The Bad
The 6 metre cable is 2x the thickness of the 512 cable so I had to route other way around the car - wasn’t the tidiest of installs but as it’s only for teaching it’s ok
On first fire up I got the option what I wanted to see (which is a nice option but as I see the speed only it’s a moot point) then I checked/rest my usual settings and then went to test the WiFi option to which the 512 froze it wouldn’t turn off or be able to be forced to turn off. After trying all options to get the 512 to work I decided on the reset button on the bottom and prayed - thankfully that seemed to fix the WiFi access and I could use dash-cam app.
Now before I installed the rear cam the WiFi wasn’t the fastest in the world but you could watch any recording within a few seconds and be able to down load a 1440p 2 minute video (which was about 480megs) in about 5 mins but now it takes about 15 seconds for the video to even start playing then it’s stutter stutter stutter - I tried to download a rear video again two minutes long which was about 178megs after 2 mins the download circle had moved about 5% (imagine 1oclock on a clock face) and then at about 3 mins the download page crashed and went to the main camera screen and nothing was downloaded.
Now the question is there issues with the WiFi with the read cam installed, or does the dash cam app for iOS need a new update ? I am currently using the version that was updated for the 7th July which I believe after the rear cam was launched or could it be down to the fact I am currently using iOS 12.0 (16A5318d) I’ll drop a screen in from my settings panel at the bottom
I really need to WiFi issue to be fixed fairly quickly as I use my 512 and iPad as a teaching tool but bar those small niggles above I am happy with it and many thanks Tiffany for your assistance in the Rear-Cam Saga