rcg530
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I recently received a Blueskysea B4K 4K UHD dash camera and hardwiring kit from Blueskysea to perform a review of those products.
I did a bit of testing of the hardwiring kit's power monitoring feature to see how accurate it is (does it cutoff the power to the camera at the specified voltage level).
During my testing, Blueskysea released the V008 firmware, so I added the firmware update steps to my review video as well.
It turned out to be a long video, so I have time marks added to the video's YouTube description section to let you navigate to the section that interests you.
00:00 - Intro
00:29 - Overview
02:54 - Camera Unboxing
04:25 - Operation / Config / Power Up
16:47 - Hardwiring Kit - Voltage Testing
21:55 - WiFi & iOS Ucam App Testing
27:04 - Firmware Upgrade
31:02 - Sample Video Footage
33:18 - Final Thoughts
Note: At 11 mins 41 seconds in the video, I stated the "Time-lapse" firmware setting was to select the number of frames per second in parking mode when the time-lapse parking mode was selected in the "Parking Monitor" setting. That statement is incorrect. The "Time-lapse" setting should only be enabled if you want the B4K normal mode recordings to be time-lapse videos. If you want regular videos for normal mode, make sure the "Time-lapse" setting is set to "Off".
I did a bit of testing of the hardwiring kit's power monitoring feature to see how accurate it is (does it cutoff the power to the camera at the specified voltage level).
During my testing, Blueskysea released the V008 firmware, so I added the firmware update steps to my review video as well.
It turned out to be a long video, so I have time marks added to the video's YouTube description section to let you navigate to the section that interests you.
00:00 - Intro
00:29 - Overview
02:54 - Camera Unboxing
04:25 - Operation / Config / Power Up
16:47 - Hardwiring Kit - Voltage Testing
21:55 - WiFi & iOS Ucam App Testing
27:04 - Firmware Upgrade
31:02 - Sample Video Footage
33:18 - Final Thoughts
Note: At 11 mins 41 seconds in the video, I stated the "Time-lapse" firmware setting was to select the number of frames per second in parking mode when the time-lapse parking mode was selected in the "Parking Monitor" setting. That statement is incorrect. The "Time-lapse" setting should only be enabled if you want the B4K normal mode recordings to be time-lapse videos. If you want regular videos for normal mode, make sure the "Time-lapse" setting is set to "Off".
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