Audio recording started by itself

[Tanker]

Took a short trip yesterday and when I got home I viewed the dashcam video. Parked in a parking lot, left vehicle and after about 5 minutes or so the voice on dashcam said”starting audio recording”.
It recorded the rest of the trip unbeknownst to me until I returned and viewed the video. I could clearly hear it and I saw the “mic on” and then off in the bottom of video frame while I was nowhere near the near the vehicle.
I looked at the settings and it is off. Anyone know how and why this happened?

 

[bpsmicro]

The proximity switch (on the end of the camera opposite from all the connectors) is supposed to sense you waving your hand near it. By default it turns on/off audio. You can set it to do a manual recording instead (that's how I have mine set).
"Something" caused the sensor to detect what it thought was a hand wave. These types of sensors can be sensitive to certain interference. It may have been a glitch. Normally it goes to parking mode after 5 minutes, so curious about the timing.
Keep an eye on it and see if it happens again.

Brad.

 

[Tanker]

Thank you micro. Went and checked settings and it was on auto on/off. Put it on manual. Pretty sure that was the problem.
There were a lot of moving vehicles in the parking lot, could of set it off.