BP100 + A329S Paring Tutorial

[tenderloins_strigilator]

Okay. I have an Android, the BP100 and the A329s.

Android App version: 2.2.01 (com.viofo.dashcam) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.viofo.dashcam
A329s fw: V2.2_260815
BP100 fw: V35

Here's what I did so that it all works together.

Steps:

• The camera and the battery on the latest firmware.
• Power the camera off (long hold leftmost button after the screen is on)
• Press the Power button on BP100 battery 5 times in succession, it will beep (bluetooth stack reset? something like that)
• Turn the BP100 battery completely off by pressing and holding the Power button on it
• Disconnect the "input" from the BP100
• Turn off the car
• Wait for a minute with everything off and disconnected
• Connect the input back to the BP100
• Start the car

After starting the car everything beeped, booted and so on.
Then I fired up the new updated VIOFO Dashcam app and on the top right it had the button "+ Battery Pack". Clicked that. It scanned, huffed, puffed, detected my BP100.
Then I turned the Camera's WiFi ON, connected to it through the app, set the "Parking Recording -> Vehicle Battery Protection" to some percentage of the BP100 charge. Before this it didn't let me do it, now it did.

It took me another full camera-bp100-car OFF/ON cycle so that the camera finally said on its screen that it could see the battery shortly after it booted up.

It kinda all works together now.
I even can see the remaining charge in my VIOFO Dashcam app.

UPDATE: I can see the estimated runtime, Voltage/Current IN and OUT same as the older Battery app would've shown.

 

[joysleep]

So after setting this up. I'm assuming you can't access the battery settings on the viofo battery app right?

Okay. I have an Android, the BP100 and the A329s.

Android App version: 2.2.01 (com.viofo.dashcam) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.viofo.dashcam
A329s fw: V2.2_260815
BP100 fw: V35

Here's what I did so that it all works together.

Steps:

• The camera and the battery on the latest firmware.
• Power the camera off (long hold leftmost button after the screen is on)
• Press the Power button on BP100 battery 5 times in succession, it will beep (bluetooth stack reset? something like that)
• Turn the BP100 battery completely off by pressing and holding the Power button on it
• Disconnect the "input" from the BP100
• Turn off the car
• Wait for a minute with everything off and disconnected
• Connect the input back to the BP100
• Start the car

After starting the car everything beeped, booted and so on.
Then I fired up the new updated VIOFO Dashcam app and on the top right it had the button "+ Battery Pack". Clicked that. It scanned, huffed, puffed, detected my BP100.
Then I turned the Camera's WiFi ON, connected to it through the app, set the "Parking Recording -> Vehicle Battery Protection" to some percentage of the BP100 charge. Before this it didn't let me do it, now it did.

It took me another full camera-bp100-car OFF/ON cycle so that the camera finally said on its screen that it could see the battery shortly after it booted up.

It kinda all works together now.
I even can see the remaining charge in my VIOFO Dashcam app.

Still haven't found if I can see anywhere ingoing/outgoing voltage, current, estimated time, etc, similar to what I had in the VIOFO Battery app.

 

[tenderloins_strigilator]

So after setting this up. I'm assuming you can't access the battery settings on the viofo battery app right?

I've just edited my post above adding two screenshots.
See what's available there.

You can add the battery to the app.
It tells me it's married to both my phone and my camera.
You can see and change some settings (like buzzer).

The main feature is you can tell your camera to use hybrid parking recording based off of the BP100 remaining charge percentage.

 

[joysleep]

I've just edited my post above adding two screenshots.
See what's available there.

You can add the battery to the app.
It tells me it's married to both my phone and my camera.
You can see and change some settings (like buzzer).

The main feature is you can tell your camera to use hybrid parking recording based off of the BP100 remaining charge percentage.

Yes this is the feature that I wanted the most.
The issue before was that after paired the dashcam to the camera you could not access the battery settings anymore.
I guess I'll have to play around with it.
I didn't mind having two different apps
I liked I could access the battery settings when the car is off.
I need to see how it will work now.
Thanks

 

[joysleep]

Okay. I have an Android, the BP100 and the A329s.

Android App version: 2.2.01 (com.viofo.dashcam) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.viofo.dashcam
A329s fw: V2.2_260815
BP100 fw: V35

Here's what I did so that it all works together.

Steps:

• The camera and the battery on the latest firmware.
• Power the camera off (long hold leftmost button after the screen is on)
• Press the Power button on BP100 battery 5 times in succession, it will beep (bluetooth stack reset? something like that)
• Turn the BP100 battery completely off by pressing and holding the Power button on it
• Disconnect the "input" from the BP100
• Turn off the car
• Wait for a minute with everything off and disconnected
• Connect the input back to the BP100
• Start the car

After starting the car everything beeped, booted and so on.
Then I fired up the new updated VIOFO Dashcam app and on the top right it had the button "+ Battery Pack". Clicked that. It scanned, huffed, puffed, detected my BP100.
Then I turned the Camera's WiFi ON, connected to it through the app, set the "Parking Recording -> Vehicle Battery Protection" to some percentage of the BP100 charge. Before this it didn't let me do it, now it did.

It took me another full camera-bp100-car OFF/ON cycle so that the camera finally said on its screen that it could see the battery shortly after it booted up.

It kinda all works together now.
I even can see the remaining charge in my VIOFO Dashcam app.

Still haven't found if I can see anywhere ingoing/outgoing voltage, current, estimated time, etc, similar to what I had in the VIOFO Battery app.

So it tells you the status of the battery percentage but what about the extra information regarding current voltage eta time for charging and discharging etc?
Is that all available in the viofo dashcam app?

 

[joysleep]

As I said in the previous posts I cannot see it there so far.
No current/voltage in, out, no time estimations either way.

Right OK.
Guess we might just have to live without that information.
I guess it just tells you that it's charging or discharging right?

 

[joysleep]

Kool.
OK try have a play tonight or tomorrow.
Another potential problem I might have is that I've ordered the viofo extension battery.
There would be no way for me to tell if this has been calibrated properly without the full battery information.

That's why I was hoping the actual viofo battery app will work alongside the dashcam.
I'm not sure if viofo are going to try fix this issue

@viofo

 

[mikey94025]

So it tells you the status of the battery percentage but what about the extra information regarding current voltage eta time for charging and discharging etc?
Is that all available in the viofo dashcam app?

My iPhone Viofo Dashcam app shows everything the old battery app had (see this post). The Android app presumably will do the same (if not already). Perhaps wait to try it yourself before asking so many questions.

 

[mikey94025]

Steps:

• The camera and the battery on the latest firmware.
• Power the camera off (long hold leftmost button after the screen is on)
• Press the Power button on BP100 battery 5 times in succession, it will beep (bluetooth stack reset? something like that)
• Turn the BP100 battery completely off by pressing and holding the Power button on it
• Disconnect the "input" from the BP100
• Turn off the car
• Wait for a minute with everything off and disconnected
• Connect the input back to the BP100
• Start the car

For me, after installing the new iPhone Viofo Dashcam app, I only had to do the 5-times-power-press step to permit binding it to that app (it told me to do so after trying + Battery Pack when my BP100 was already bound to a "phone", i.e., the old Battery app). I didn't do any of the restart car, power off camera, or reconnect BP100 steps.

The 5-power-press thing seems to be their security precaution to prevent unauthorized phones from connecting to your BP100 via Bluetooth.

 

[tenderloins_strigilator]

The 5-power-press thing seems to be their security precaution to prevent unauthorized phones from connecting to your BP100 via Bluetooth.

Yeah, might be.

I didn't do any of the restart car, power off camera, or reconnect BP100 steps.

I just made sure nothing that could connect to each other was ON at the time I reset all of this. Then everything booted together and proceeded pairing from there.

 

[joysleep]

Now I'm getting this

 

[joysleep]

So I plugged my 1tb ssd back in and it's fine no error.

So something must be faulty with the 4tb one.
Doesn't make sense.
I need to find a 4tb one that's compatible

 

[joysleep]

Then as soon as I plug the 4tb I get memory card full with all lights flashing.

 

[Chuck McCoy]

Now I'm getting this

So something must be faulty with the 4tb one.

Then as soon as I plug the 4tb I get memory card full with all lights flashing.

The topic of this thread is “BP100 + A329S Paring Tutorial”.
Would you be so kind to move posts about “External SSD Storage Error” to a new thread?
Just tag @DashCamMan for assistance.
Post #11 - #13

 

[losang30]

Okay. I have an Android, the BP100 and the A329s.

Android App version: 2.2.01 (com.viofo.dashcam) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.viofo.dashcam
A329s fw: V2.2_260815
BP100 fw: V35

Here's what I did so that it all works together.

Steps:

• The camera and the battery on the latest firmware.
• Power the camera off (long hold leftmost button after the screen is on)
• Press the Power button on BP100 battery 5 times in succession, it will beep (bluetooth stack reset? something like that)
• Turn the BP100 battery completely off by pressing and holding the Power button on it
• Disconnect the "input" from the BP100
• Turn off the car
• Wait for a minute with everything off and disconnected
• Connect the input back to the BP100
• Start the car

After starting the car everything beeped, booted and so on.
Then I fired up the new updated VIOFO Dashcam app and on the top right it had the button "+ Battery Pack". Clicked that. It scanned, huffed, puffed, detected my BP100.
Then I turned the Camera's WiFi ON, connected to it through the app, set the "Parking Recording -> Vehicle Battery Protection" to some percentage of the BP100 charge. Before this it didn't let me do it, now it did.

It took me another full camera-bp100-car OFF/ON cycle so that the camera finally said on its screen that it could see the battery shortly after it booted up.

It kinda all works together now.
I even can see the remaining charge in my VIOFO Dashcam app.

UPDATE: I can see the estimated runtime, Voltage/Current IN and OUT same as the older Battery app would've shown.

Hello and Thank you for posting this roadmap.

I followed everything you suggested but I was unable to get it paired up. I was able to see it on the app in order to pair it. It even recognized my battery pack. I have a regular VIOFO battery pack and a extended battery pack. However, after it recognizes it, I asked it to pair and it just simply will not pair itself. It goes around and around but will not pair up. I even followed your suggestion buy opening the camera app and then going to the parking recording hybrid to turn on the percentage for the battery but it is greyed out. It will not do it. I repeated the process a couple of time with no success. I am sure, there is a step I am missing.

I turned off the camera. I pressed the battery pack 5 times. I turned off the battery pack. I took the input power out of the battery pack. I turned off the car for 3 minutes. Then i reversed everything. As I said, the app sees the battery pack but when i click it, it says its attempting to pair it but it will not do it.

Perhpas @viofo can help out as well.

Thank you

 

[Chuck McCoy]

I followed everything you suggested but I was unable to get it paired up.

I just got done swapping out two HK6 Hardwire Cables on both my A329S units with two included Hardwire Output Cable (Type-C) 4 Meter, (see attached photos).
Previously both HK6’s were connected to BP100 to operate both A32S units, but I wanted to test BP100’s Bluetooth functions.
Long story short, I somehow accidentally connected both A329S units to a single BP100.
We should have an official “Video Tutorial” from VIOFO how to pair BP100 with A329S soon.

 

[tenderloins_strigilator]

We should have an official “Video Tutorial” from VIOFO how to pair BP100 with A329S soon.

Tutorial in text would be fine by me.
Manuals for both the cam and the battery need to get updated.

And I also am curious. Since you managed to pair extra cams to the same battery, and since I know that I could connect to my BP100 while being outside the car.
So... what are the chances someone in a car nearby trying to pair/view the cam or the battery and pairing mine hardware instead?

Not saying it's definitely possible. But haven't seen anything that would disprove such a possibility.

 

[Chuck McCoy]

Since you managed to pair extra cams to the same battery

what are the chances someone in a car nearby trying to pair/view the cam or the battery and pairing mine hardware instead?

It's not possible due to the configuration steps.
BP100 needs to be "charging" as one of the Bluetooth handshake requirements.
If the car is off / BP100 discharging it's not throwing the "Bluetooth handshake signal".
I already reported to VIOFO, so I think they are going to fix it, so BP100 is "locked" to only one camera.

 

[Chuck McCoy]

Tutorial in text would be fine by me.

Text would also be nice too, but I like those fancy no talking video tutorials they make like this.

 

[VIOFO-Support]

Hello and Thank you for posting this roadmap.

I followed everything you suggested but I was unable to get it paired up. I was able to see it on the app in order to pair it. It even recognized my battery pack. I have a regular VIOFO battery pack and a extended battery pack. However, after it recognizes it, I asked it to pair and it just simply will not pair itself. It goes around and around but will not pair up. I even followed your suggestion buy opening the camera app and then going to the parking recording hybrid to turn on the percentage for the battery but it is greyed out. It will not do it. I repeated the process a couple of time with no success. I am sure, there is a step I am missing.

I turned off the camera. I pressed the battery pack 5 times. I turned off the battery pack. I took the input power out of the battery pack. I turned off the car for 3 minutes. Then i reversed everything. As I said, the app sees the battery pack but when i click it, it says its attempting to pair it but it will not do it.

Perhpas @viofo can help out as well.

Thank you

I just sent you a PM.