Hi,
A bit of preamble, but please skip to my issue below if you don’t have time/want to read the introduction!
I’m new to the forum but have had lots of experience with discrete cameras portable DVR’s, mainly from a few years ago when I was looking for a good helmet cam solution on my MTB.
I settled on a Mini DV cam with AV input from my bullet camera before moving to my HQS II solution with LANC remote. These days I just use a Go Pro Hero 3, but that’s another story.
EDIT : RECORDING ISSUES FIXED - CAUSED BY SLOW/LOW STANDARD SD CARD
I’ve recently bought the K1S, I purchased it from JooVuu in the UK. For me it was a two horse race between the K1S and the Blackvue DR650GW-2CH. I prefer the discrete nature of the K1S and it looks like exactly what I need however I have encountered a couple of issues.
Currently it’s hooked it up in my car and currently running directly from a 12v accessory socketin the trunk. My car has intelligent battery monitoring (IBS) and the accessory socket is live only when the ignition is on or the car has been ‘woken up’ either by locking/unlocking from the keyfob, alarm trigger or over-the-air access to the vehicle (the vehicle has a comms module complete with cellular access for remotely connected services like locking and unlocking, vehicle search function, auxiliary heating etc).
In the near future the intention is to install something like a Cellink B with a couple of ‘add-a-fuse’ piggy back fuses from +12v Live and +12v ACC circuits. However I am exploring a USB cache battery option with pass through charging like I use on my bicycle powered dynamo phone charger (on a side note this is a great benefit of the K1S being powered by +5v but I still need to consider the positive and negatives of using the USB cache battery).
The unit is installed as follows: -
Unit is powered up when I approach the car and unlock it. At this stage I expect it to start recording.
Any assistance is appreciated, and also if anyone is interested I will report back with finding, pictures or test files etc.
Thanks,
Russell
A bit of preamble, but please skip to my issue below if you don’t have time/want to read the introduction!
I’m new to the forum but have had lots of experience with discrete cameras portable DVR’s, mainly from a few years ago when I was looking for a good helmet cam solution on my MTB.
I settled on a Mini DV cam with AV input from my bullet camera before moving to my HQS II solution with LANC remote. These days I just use a Go Pro Hero 3, but that’s another story.
EDIT : RECORDING ISSUES FIXED - CAUSED BY SLOW/LOW STANDARD SD CARD
I’ve recently bought the K1S, I purchased it from JooVuu in the UK. For me it was a two horse race between the K1S and the Blackvue DR650GW-2CH. I prefer the discrete nature of the K1S and it looks like exactly what I need however I have encountered a couple of issues.
Currently it’s hooked it up in my car and currently running directly from a 12v accessory socketin the trunk. My car has intelligent battery monitoring (IBS) and the accessory socket is live only when the ignition is on or the car has been ‘woken up’ either by locking/unlocking from the keyfob, alarm trigger or over-the-air access to the vehicle (the vehicle has a comms module complete with cellular access for remotely connected services like locking and unlocking, vehicle search function, auxiliary heating etc).
In the near future the intention is to install something like a Cellink B with a couple of ‘add-a-fuse’ piggy back fuses from +12v Live and +12v ACC circuits. However I am exploring a USB cache battery option with pass through charging like I use on my bicycle powered dynamo phone charger (on a side note this is a great benefit of the K1S being powered by +5v but I still need to consider the positive and negatives of using the USB cache battery).
The unit is installed as follows: -
- Front Camera is plugged into Rear camera port
- Rear Camera is plugged into front camera port
- Clip on Ferrite cores to help minimise DAB reception interference on front/rear Camera and GPS inputs (Online Auction Item #111712740594)
- No remote switch is installed.
- Software used Registrator Viewer v6.0.0.8.
- MPH firmware K1S:R158/20150417 HW_V3 came installed on unit (overlay shows MPH but Registrator Viewer can report speed in KPH).
Unit is powered up when I approach the car and unlock it. At this stage I expect it to start recording.
- I drive the car to my destination. Assumed that unit is recording during full journey.
- I stop the car, exit the vehicle and lock it. At this stage I expect the unit to continue recording (either continuously or activated by motion sensor) until the intelligent battery sensor powers down the 12v socket.
- Once the IBS shuts off the socket I expect the K1S to power down gracefully and close the last recording file.
- The K1S will then remain powered off drawing zero amps from vehicle until the 12v socket is powered up.
- I have confirmed that there is sufficient airflow around the unit and satisfied that the unit its not overheating. Outside ambient temperature is approx. 12 Dec C at the moment and as mentioned above the unit is currently set up for testing in my trunk.
- The first test journey resulted in front video gaps in the recording list, (on a separate issue I found it difficult to separate front video from rear – possibly because it took a while to realise there was video missing).
- After first journey I tried a different SD card, same issues except some (most) video files were corrupted, (displayed as INVALID on device and with yellow exclamation mark in Registrator Viewer v6.0.0.8.)
- I disabled motion record as I have read elsewhere that this can case issues with continuous recording.
- I replaced the SD card with the original card and am not longer able to record any forward facing video, its either corrupt files or missing.
- I need to confirm that SD cards I have available are suitable (all of them work flawlessly at high resolutions in my Go Pro HD3, but I will try a 3rd SD card of lower capacity, and report back with findings.
- Try another USB +5v PSU, incase the supplied PSU is causing issues.
- Check cable management, and remove any unnecessary coiling or bundling of camera , GPS or PSU cables.
- Ensure that DVR Unit is mounted horizontally and cables are secured so that there can be no movement at connection to DVR. I will fabricate a specific bracket for this.
- Could there be an issue caused by me swapping front and rear camera ports (i.e. the higher bit rate port being hooked up to a camera using via longer than suitable cable?
Any assistance is appreciated, and also if anyone is interested I will report back with finding, pictures or test files etc.
Thanks,
Russell
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