occamsrazor
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Hi,
Bought a BlueSkySea B1W as my first dashcam and am generally pleased with it. As my first dashcam I have nothing to compare it to, but I figured I'd write some observations and suggestions for improvement.....
Thoughts
Pros:
- Cheap price
- Small and discreet on the windscreen, this was quite important to me.
- Picture quality seems generally good
- Removeable from the windscreen attachment clip (I honestly didn't realize this at first)
Cons:
- Highlights of images sometimes a bit blown out, e.g. in bright sunlight.
- While the app is generally good, it misses some important functionality
![b1w photo.jpg b1w photo.jpg](https://dashcamtalk.com/forum/data/attachments/42/42894-25a3f0757072bd1acc69e467474f3cbf.jpg?hash=JaPwdXByvR)
[Image is a screenshot from video]
I do like this cam. I was always resistant against a dashcam as I didn't want something big visible in my windscreen from outside. This unit is small and discreet. I haven't mounted it properly yet but I can see once you hid the cable under the trim, it would be hard to see from outside. I am just using it plugged into the cigarette lighter, not hardwired, and not using parking mode. The picture quality I find generally fine, though sometimes in bright light it overblows the highlights and occasionally licence plates on white cars aren't totally readable. Not a huge deal though.
I didn't see myself viewing/reviewing footage on a tiny screen up in the window, so I was fine with buying a dashcam with no screen but with wifi app to use on my iPhone. I changed the wifi SSID and password, and the app connects reasonably reliably and quickly. Downloading of clips is not all that fast. My 1-minute clips are around 90mb, and I would have expected them to download quicker than they do to my iPhone 7. I'm not sure which flavour of WiFi the unit is using. The functions in the app seem to work as they should, but it is missing a number of critical features in my opinion.
Improvements
Deletion. In "Local File" there is the option to select more than once image, and also to delete those images. But when viewing the camera footage directly there is not. I'm kind of surprised that there seems no way at all to delete individual clips from the camera using the app... or am I missing something? It would seem the only clip deletion functionality is to erase the entire card. Really?
Ideally the app would add functionality that when viewing the camera clips you can:
- Choose/Select more than one clip at once
- Mark those files as "emergency" i.e. protected or normal, and vice versa.
- Delete file(s)
- Queue up more than one clip to download at once
Also, as some others have pointed out in this forum, it would be nice to have the option to set the date/time size to make it smaller. I'm still getting used to the device but am overrall happy with my purchase.
Thanks....
Bought a BlueSkySea B1W as my first dashcam and am generally pleased with it. As my first dashcam I have nothing to compare it to, but I figured I'd write some observations and suggestions for improvement.....
Thoughts
Pros:
- Cheap price
- Small and discreet on the windscreen, this was quite important to me.
- Picture quality seems generally good
- Removeable from the windscreen attachment clip (I honestly didn't realize this at first)
Cons:
- Highlights of images sometimes a bit blown out, e.g. in bright sunlight.
- While the app is generally good, it misses some important functionality
![b1w photo.jpg b1w photo.jpg](https://dashcamtalk.com/forum/data/attachments/42/42894-25a3f0757072bd1acc69e467474f3cbf.jpg?hash=JaPwdXByvR)
[Image is a screenshot from video]
I do like this cam. I was always resistant against a dashcam as I didn't want something big visible in my windscreen from outside. This unit is small and discreet. I haven't mounted it properly yet but I can see once you hid the cable under the trim, it would be hard to see from outside. I am just using it plugged into the cigarette lighter, not hardwired, and not using parking mode. The picture quality I find generally fine, though sometimes in bright light it overblows the highlights and occasionally licence plates on white cars aren't totally readable. Not a huge deal though.
I didn't see myself viewing/reviewing footage on a tiny screen up in the window, so I was fine with buying a dashcam with no screen but with wifi app to use on my iPhone. I changed the wifi SSID and password, and the app connects reasonably reliably and quickly. Downloading of clips is not all that fast. My 1-minute clips are around 90mb, and I would have expected them to download quicker than they do to my iPhone 7. I'm not sure which flavour of WiFi the unit is using. The functions in the app seem to work as they should, but it is missing a number of critical features in my opinion.
Improvements
Deletion. In "Local File" there is the option to select more than once image, and also to delete those images. But when viewing the camera footage directly there is not. I'm kind of surprised that there seems no way at all to delete individual clips from the camera using the app... or am I missing something? It would seem the only clip deletion functionality is to erase the entire card. Really?
Ideally the app would add functionality that when viewing the camera clips you can:
- Choose/Select more than one clip at once
- Mark those files as "emergency" i.e. protected or normal, and vice versa.
- Delete file(s)
- Queue up more than one clip to download at once
Also, as some others have pointed out in this forum, it would be nice to have the option to set the date/time size to make it smaller. I'm still getting used to the device but am overrall happy with my purchase.
Thanks....