fluctuating speed

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Got myself a mini 0805 the other week and only today got the opportunity to try it out on the car

first off, compared to my late Blackview DR500GW, the image capture (in daylight) on this 0805 is light year ahead of the DR500GW, and considering when I got the DR500 over two years ago it was about 3 times the price of this 0805, I’m very pleased with image capture and the way it handles moving from dark to bright lighting, It was a very bright/sunny day today, it looks like the 0805 will need a CPL

Just a few questions and this maybe down to the screen the car I tried it in has

On play back it had recorded my coordinates from the GPS and time and speed I was traveling at.

Now here are the issues I’ve noticed

1, GPS coordinates show on the play back, but no map showing using Dashcam Viewer (from John Coggi)

2, The time was set to BST, but the time on the screen was showing 1 hour back (slower)

3, The speed showing on the screen was fluctuating between 9 mph to 96 mph and anywhere in between, I was doing a steady 40, in a 40 zone

now here is what might have caused these issues, the car has a heated front screen, which might have been the problem, but at this moment not sure so tomorrow I’ll try it out on one without a heated front screen, sadly the manual could of been better (informative) for one who has never owned a mini O8XX DVR
 
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1, tried Registrator Viewer/Datakam Viewer and compared results?
2, if you have daylight savings time now you need to set the timezone forward an hour to compensate
3, see how it looks in the other programs, if the embedded speed is fluctuating like this it normally means GPS signal is very weak, heated screen may be the cause
 
Thank you for these tips jokiin, I’ll try these other viewers later and see if that sorts the google map out, as for now it shows Im on the equator just of the west coast of Africa

As for the speed, after closer inspection, I have come to the conclusion that I should not be left alone to drive cars (only joking)

I took a closer look at the footage this morning and what I notices was that the speed wasn’t fluctuating as I thought

this image will show what I mean



I mistook the tenths of a mile for full miles, I didn’t realise the speed was also showing tenths of a mile and not just full miles, i.e. 30:58mph, I’ve been used to seeing only full miles (30mph)

so when I saw the high fluctuating I took it for granted it was full miles it was showing and they were all over the place, I (and maybe others) didn’t expect to see it showing tenths of a mile as well.

I didn’t see this mentioned in the manual, here is where manuals sometimes let these good DVR’s down, thank goodness there is this site (and helpful people like you joking) that one can ask questions to get the bottom of things
 
Just opened up the files with Datakam Player and everything is up and running, a very pleased man 🙂




so nothing to do with the heated front screen, thanks for pointing me to the Datakam Player jokiin
 
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Just opened up the files with Datakam Player and everything is up and running, a very pleased man 🙂




so nothing to do with the heated front screen, thanks for pointing me to the Datakam Player jokiin
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Looking at the screengrab, I think Registrator Viewer possibly has more functions?
 
Having a 13" Macbook (a bit on the small size for some things), I like the fact Datakam fill's the screen.

automatically goes to full screen with all info on the screen without any overlapping windows, or windows having to be pushed off screen, all the space on the screen is being put to good use,
 
Took a little trip to see my son play football this afternoon and had another opportunity to try out the 0805,

when I got back I opened up Datakam Player, I noticed the 0805 had not picked up any GPS signal,

the trip was around 10 minutes each way with no overhanging trees or buildings in the way for the GPS signal. so I was very surprised to see that no GPS signal both ways had been recorded/captured. is 10 minutes enough to lock on to a GPS? going by what longitude and latitude information was on screen from the 0805 it looksit might be the it was the 0805 that had not stored the information and not the two viewers the problem


here’s the screen information from the 0805, notice no GPS information:



the screen capture from Datakam viewer, it shows the gps signal on screen but no info:




this is the screen capture of dash cam viewer , and in red it states, there is no GPS information




has anyone any opinion what might be the issue?
 
took another trip this afternoon, and when I got back home, sure enough no GPS information, yes I had GPS to ON

called Amazon (who I got it from) they are sending me a return slip and I’ll return it,

not sure if I should replace it with another mini 0805 and hope the one I got was just a bad one or give them a miss?

see bottom right, no GPS information

 
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That appears to be well out of focus in the distance anyway... You could try the 0806 you were thinking of now that most of the quality issues have been sorted and see how they compare, you can always go back to an 0805 for the rear...

Don't see many MR2 these days! They don't seem to have lasted like the MGs.
 
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took another trip this afternoon, and when I got back home, sure enough no GPS information, yes I had GPS to ON

called Amazon (who I got it from) they are sending me a return slip and I’ll return it,

not sure if I should replace it with another mini 0805 and hope the one I got was just a bad one or give them a miss?

see bottom right, no GPS information

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I'd get another. My second unit is fantastic.

PS - it does sometimes take a little time to find the GPS signal.
 
Now you mention the out of focus, I’ve took a look at the footage with Quicktime to get it at full screen, and what I first thought was a dirty windscreen is as you say it’s also out of focus, as for the GPS, the trip took us about 30 minutes there and back, so the DVR was on for a good 30 to 40 minutes as we didn't stop/switch off the car (with the DVR) when we picked up the MR2



My plan was to get a mini 0806 for the front screen and a mini 0805 for the back screen both at the same time.

Hearing that a few (some) mini 0806 still had issues needing resolving, I thought I’d get the mini 0805 for now and get the mini 0806 when they sorted out the issues and if not then get another 0805 for the front,

I’ll be send this 0805 back once I get the return form from Amazon printed tomorrow, then order another 0805 from Amazon (E-Prance). I’m still holding off for the 0806, I do hear there is batch 3 coming out now/soon that should have sorted out some of the issues, I’ll have to wait and see how that goes

The MR2 (Red) is my wife’s, my son went out in it last night, and got a taxi home so we went to collect it this afternoon. it was an ex demo, we’ve had it since it was 8 months old in 2006

this was our line up of cars last year, MG TF, Lotus Elise and the Toyota MR2, all filling up with petrol



since then we aded a new (to us) Ford Fiesta to the collection, so we can take our dog out with us too 🙂
 
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this was our line up of cars last year, MG TF, Lotus Elise and the Toyota MR2, all filling up with petrol



since then we aded a new (to us) Ford Fiesta to the collection, so we can take our dog out with us too 🙂
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That must be a Toyota engined Elise not an MG engined one, maybe the dog should drive a Mazda MX5 to add to the sports car collection! 😀
 
No sadly it has a Rover 1.8K series engine, it’s an Elise S1, the Toyota 6-speedhad 2ZZ (around 140 ~ 156 bhp) engine went in the S2 around 2004/5, our MR2 came with a 6-speedhad 1ZZ engine (138 bhp), if we went for the MX5, I think we'd have had a full set of low(ish) cost sports cars
 
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Ahh, a proper lightweight Elise with some decent torque then, nice 🙂
 
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