There are a few things which confused me or caught me out while installing and setting up my A129 Duo So I thought I would note them here so it may help others
The "mini USB" cable going to the rear camera is not a normal mini USB. To make my installation tidier I bought a mini USB elbow because it would have meant that I could mount the cam higher up the window, it did not work. in fact I damaged the supplied cable connector and had to buy another one. It would be better if the power cable was on the side of the unit IMHO, my rear window is resessed and the power connector gets in the way of the trim around the window.
The menus and screen do not work on the camera when you have wifi on, you are supposed to do all that stuff through your phone if you have that on.
The menus and screen do not work on the camera if you have the aux cable plugged into it, you are supposed to look at the screen that it is plugged into. I plugged mine into my head unit reverse/backup cam input, hoping it may be some use as a backup cam too, there is a setting to mirror the rear presumably for this reason. Its not really practical to use as a reversing cam though, the angle and height needed for a rear dashcam vs a reversing cam are different. The aux cable also should not be fully inserted into the dashcam, needs to be pulled out a bit to find the right contacts.
Other comments:
There is a bug where the picture in picture options are not saved, it always defaults to front cam with rear inlaid in the corner, I would prefer the opposite of that.
The picture quality is great, quite happy, though even with the viofo polarising filter I still get a reflection of my head unit from the windscreen, I may make a shield and stick it to the cam to stop that - the front cam is 195MB and rear 165MB for each 3 minute segment, not sure why rear is smaller I though they were the same settings. No corrupt files as yet, unlike my wifes A119S, I made some changes to try to cure that.
I have hard wire kit for parking mode, but have not used that much yet as the vehicle is usually parked in a garage, the one time I did turn it on it had been overwritten by the time I wanted to review it. Should be no issues with battery when I use it, its a camper van with a 300W solar panel on the roof!
The "mini USB" cable going to the rear camera is not a normal mini USB. To make my installation tidier I bought a mini USB elbow because it would have meant that I could mount the cam higher up the window, it did not work. in fact I damaged the supplied cable connector and had to buy another one. It would be better if the power cable was on the side of the unit IMHO, my rear window is resessed and the power connector gets in the way of the trim around the window.
The menus and screen do not work on the camera when you have wifi on, you are supposed to do all that stuff through your phone if you have that on.
The menus and screen do not work on the camera if you have the aux cable plugged into it, you are supposed to look at the screen that it is plugged into. I plugged mine into my head unit reverse/backup cam input, hoping it may be some use as a backup cam too, there is a setting to mirror the rear presumably for this reason. Its not really practical to use as a reversing cam though, the angle and height needed for a rear dashcam vs a reversing cam are different. The aux cable also should not be fully inserted into the dashcam, needs to be pulled out a bit to find the right contacts.
Other comments:
There is a bug where the picture in picture options are not saved, it always defaults to front cam with rear inlaid in the corner, I would prefer the opposite of that.
The picture quality is great, quite happy, though even with the viofo polarising filter I still get a reflection of my head unit from the windscreen, I may make a shield and stick it to the cam to stop that - the front cam is 195MB and rear 165MB for each 3 minute segment, not sure why rear is smaller I though they were the same settings. No corrupt files as yet, unlike my wifes A119S, I made some changes to try to cure that.
I have hard wire kit for parking mode, but have not used that much yet as the vehicle is usually parked in a garage, the one time I did turn it on it had been overwritten by the time I wanted to review it. Should be no issues with battery when I use it, its a camper van with a 300W solar panel on the roof!