My only problem with it is that when I do the 192.168.1.1 thing I get constant, intermittent disconnection, so that if I’m in the middle of something, I am constantly interrupted. When not in admin mode, normal operation is perfect, no intermittent disconnections.
Not something I've ever experienced. When I wanna change the Jetpack settings, I pull it out of the car and bring it inside. Set it on my desk next to my phone, connect my phone to it, and go to the website on my phone. No issues for me.
Could be interference from other 2.4 GHz networks on your same channel. You could also try setting the cam and the device you connect to it with to use 5 GHz and see if that helps.
Also, I can find a way to change the admin password, but no way to change the user access password…? There must be a way, but I can’t find it.
When on the device website's home page: Menu (triple hash icon, upper left) > Wi-Fi > Primary Network. Password box is under the SSID and Security items.
Now, I cannot find a way to change the ADMIN password. The instructions in the manual and on the Verizon website do not line up with the device admin website's menu and don't work. Far as I can tell, there's no way to change that. If you've figured out how to change the device admin password, please clue me in!
As an aside, any particular settings on the Blackvue do you think are important, in order to give the most information with the least aggravation?
Only recording quality, really. The recording length is set to one minute and can't be changed, and I keep it on the highest quality setting in case I need to ever pull something from the video. Far as I'm concerned everything else is personal preference.
I use a 128GB card and swap it out every 90 days so I always know it's good. I also turn off all the cloud upload options except for driving impact and parking events. I plan to pull the card if something happens on the road and pop in a new one immediately (I keep 4 in the car on a constant rotation), but I'm afraid I'll forget in the heat of the moment and the crash vid I need will get overwritten. Probably saves me a good bit of upload bandwidth but I've never cared enough to test it.
As far as the Jetpack, I am impressed that it has a lot of the functionality of the average wi-fi router. I have security enabled and a user password set on mine, but I don't really bother with anything else, since it's only for use in the car and its range is limited.
One thing that is mildly aggravating to me is that I have notifications set up, and every time I get out of the car, open the back door to get something before leaving the area, close the back door, I get an impact event on my watch. I turned down the G-sensitivity, but still get it. Don’t know how far I can turn it down before I lose actual events.
Yeah, I get the same thing, it's one of the common complaints about this cam. Unfortunately, that's something you have to work out with trial and error since it'll be different between vehicles. Took me awhile to get my parking mode sensitivity where I want it, but I still get false alarms too. Park too close to the road, passing buses or cars with loud exhaust will set it off. Someone parking next to me and slamming their car door hard is sometimes enough. It's a crapshoot. Wish I had better news for ya.
They way I adjusted mine was to note the time whenever I got a false alarm notification and then use the BV viewer to find the corresponding parking event video to watch that one minute clip. The BV Viewer has a g-Meter display for all three axes and will show the spikes that set off your alert. Each of those 3 axes are configurable for sensitivity on a scale of 1 - 10 in the BV firmware, and there are 5 lines above neutral and 5 below neutral in the BV Viewer display.
My monkey brain says each of those lines is worth 2 Gs (units, or whatever they actually represent...), so five lines equals the threshold of 10 that you can set in the firmware. Look at it and you'll see what I mean. Bus drove by at time XX:XX and gave me an alarm? Pull up the video from that time, find the spike, see what the level was, adjust that axis that registered it in the firmware accordingly.
That's the best place to start that's not just a stab in the dark. Remember, though, it's just a starting point: You don't wanna detune it so much that all the bus-driveby false alarms go away but the sensitivity is now too low to register that door ding.
BV did make a firmware change not too long ago where they inserted a 5 second delay for parking mode notifications to stop them right when you get outta the car and close doors. I think they should make it user-configurable, because I usually fart around for more than 5 seconds before I get out of my car... So do make sure you have the most recent firmware in your cam.
Also, Parking Mode and Driving Mode sensitivity are configured separately, so make sure you're tweaking the right one when you dig into the settings.
About the only thing I wish the 8800L would do that it won't right now (besides being able to change the #*%$*^admin PW...) is to turn on automatically when it's plugged into a USB port, but turned off, when I apply power to start the car.