Dashcam for use when you don't drive often

[evlo]

Hi,

I do not drive car that often, so dashcam does reset and recordings becomes a mess as time reset, because of that I'm looking for dashcam that would
- automatically get time from gps
- lock button on cam that saves even 30seconds or so back
- should have VOICE prompts about what is going on - recording started, issue with card etc.

- ideally wedge form factor or something like that - discreet
- ideally remote lock button

- ideally, but i know, must likely unreal - wifi client, not server


Should be in the price range of about 130eur or so

 

[kamkar]

You might consider one that is easy to remove and then put it on a charger at home untill your next drive ( not recording ), that way it should keep the time i think.
How long cameras keep the time i cant recall anyone testing or mentioning, i think a week are reasonable to expect at least from good cameras in this regard.
Some do seem to be worse in this regard, so say getting a battery camera will not solve the issue i think, the time keeping are still maintained by a tiny button cell battery on the PCB, independent of battery or capacitors.

How the manual event button work are a bit different, some only have a short buffer so you have to be quick pressing that button, others like my street guardian cameras deal in video segments ( 3 minute video segments in my case )
So since i have a dual camera i get 2 X 3 minutes saved from each camera, so with a system setup like that you do not have to hurry pressing the button to get the actual event locked in a read only state.

many cameras have wifi today, just to do settings and maybe DL a file now and them, many files and it will be much faster to take the memory card to a computer and put it in a card reader ( often you get little USB card reader with dashcam )

 

[jokiin]

no RTC battery you get about a week for a capacitor camera, several weeks on a battery camera, if it has an RTC cell it will keep a lot longer, depends on the spec, at least a month is typical, we rate ours for one month, in reality though they typically hold the time for around nine months before the RTC cell needs recharging

 

[evlo]

Interesting, si 70mai pro has rtc, because b40 resets time in a week after losing power, maybe sooner.

 

[jokiin]

Some versions of B40 have no RTC battery