Hi all,
Sharing my experience with new parking mode firmwares
I was among the users who found the default parking mode activation behavior (double tap) inconvenient and requested a g-sensor based activation.
Thanks to excellent support from manufacturer, this was addressed really fast.
First beta released in April had some flaws in the logic, it was too sensitive which resulted in fact that dash cam was running in continuous recording most of the time, even while parked.
In other aspects it was fine.
Recently I have upgraded to 20180614 beta and after running it for 3 days, I must admit it is nearly perfect (for me)
Recording stops when fully idle (I.e. in the night when parked, etc.)and resumes automatically when you start driving.
During driving it continues recording without issues, even when driving slow or waiting on the traffic light.
For the last 3 days I have got only one occurrence, when camera has stopped recording by sensor idle event while I was in the traffic jam. This resulted in a video loss for about 30 seconds.
So, I would maybe recommend to increase the idle timeout setting used for switching to parking mode from current 3 minutes??? to 4-6 minutes or make this setting adjustable from the app (along with sensitivity).
Unfortunately, parking mode will never be ideal in b1w, as the dashcam returns to normal recording in reactive mode, after sensor is being triggered.
So, in case of an incident while idle in parking mode, moment of accident will probably be lost on the recording.
More advanced dash cams have a large memory buffer and they are practically running recording continuously, even when in parking mode, but they just don’t save it to memory card. But thanks to buffer, in case of event, they can save 30-60 seconds of buffered video before the actual event.
On the other hand, these dash cams cost a fortune (comparing to B1w) and often offer an indecent video quality, so I am fully happy with b1w as my rear dashcam companion.
One last note, you should consider using a good hardwiring kit for parking mode which will prevent battery from drain when parked for a long time.
I am very happy with blackvue powermagic pro, 1 unit is enough to power both my front cam DR650S and rear cam B1W.
PMP has an option to control cutoff by timer 12-24-72-inf hours and by battery voltage 12/12.5V so you could be sure it will not allow you to drain the battery to zero.
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