First timer on this camera, and 2 time total using parking mode.
#1 it seem like you have to connect to the camera and stop the always recording for the camera to go into parking mode ?
#2 to get out of parking mode again it seem like you either have to connect to camera and start regular recording, or unplug and power it up again.
I would never use G sensor when driving as i tried that with my lukas and only a couple of days or dialing in custom trigger values finally got the number of false recordings down to a few for a drive.
So for regular driving i would just rely on the camera always recording, and for minor things use the manual event button, and the camera always recording for a major crash where i would be knocked out ( rescue / bystanders should turn off car at once so really no chance of event getting overwritten i would say.
I refuse to believe that factory low - med - high settings can ever be dialed in to suit most drivers, the difference in peoples driving style / car and its setup and road conditions are simply too big to ever be useful.
I would only ever use G sensor for parking, motion detect are too flawed, but it would be nice of the camera itself like my lukas went into parking mode on its own, and out of it again.
Having to connect to the camera to start / stop parking mode, or use it always meaning it dont really record unless you have a event, which again are not that useful at least not for a camera with no pre-buffering of events.
The B1W do seam to start up recording fast when triggered, but that can never compare to capturing the trigger event as you can with buffered footage.
Up until now i have always set G sensor to off, so i never had a event folder with stuff in it before, i now have G sensor at high but the camera still boot into always recording as normal ( do note i have a newer firmware )
And that's just fine what i would like for my drives, but when i then arrive at my destination it seem like i have to connect to the camera stop recording, and then flicking the camera trigger a event recording and after 30 seconds or so it revert back to stand by, and that's just fine too.
Just the enter and exit parking mode now that bother me, as i understand it is anyways, having to do something to enter parking mode seem problematic, with a proper hard wire kit ( which i dont have ) you should just turn off car - leave it and then camera should go into parking mode on its own.
What i do now testing is arrive - stop car and camera - plug camera into USB power bank - camera start recording normally - connect to camera and stop recording - and then leave car, and now it will be in parking mode.
When i then return ( today my little USB power bank was out of juice so camera was stopped ) but otherwise i would unplug it to stop parking mode - then plug in regular power supply - start car and then camera would be regular recording.
At least thats my understanding of how it work for me now wit the v1.06.180307s firmware i am using.
The failure to get the camera going with low setting today was that i dident connect to the camera and stopped regular recording, I assumed that after pluggin into my USB power bank the camera would change to parking after a little while, but that was not the case, so it just recorded normal and was doing so when i looked at car a little while after parking.
I then connected to it with my phone stopped recording to get into settings, changed to high and then disconnected without starting recording, and sure enough when i slapped my windscreen the camera changed from steady LED to flashing LED.
