Parking mode?

[Skylar132]

I was recently sent an E1 from vantrue to review, initially I wasn't fussed on hardwiring it for parking mode. But last week when I popped into the shops, in the 2 minutes I was gone a crash happened directly in front of my car, although I helped out and the victim had a dash cam I was slightly annoyed that I hadn't caught it so I bought the hardwire kit. I hardwired it into a constant 12V fuse and initially trialed motion detection. It seemed fine until I noticed about half the time even say 10 minutes into my journey the camera hadn't left parking mode and wasnt recording properly. While I am waiting for a fix i switched to low bitrate parking mode to eliminate risk of the camera now recording but would anyone have any idea why the camera isn't coming out of parking mode? Note: the hardwire kit is 2 wire and the way it goes into parking mode operates sort of like the old blackvue cameras where it switches into parking mode after 5 minutes of no motion. Any help would be appreciated!

 

[rcg530]

I've been testing the E1 dash camera for the past several months. At first, the E1 would not enter parking mode (remained in normal mode). After a series of firmware updates, the motion based entry/exit to/from parking mode started working. The first version of the E1 firmware that had a functional entry/exit to/from parking mode was EBH161. Just yesterday Vantrue released EBJ131 firmware for the E1. My testing shows that once the motion based entry into parking mode (vehicle stationary for 5 minutes) started reliably working, the exit from parking mode and the return to normal mode worked when the vehicle started moving over 5 MPH.

I would first make sure your E1's firmware version is up to date to help get rid of many/all of the motion based parking mode entry/exit bugs. There is a Vantrue 3-wire hardwire kit as well that will allow the E1 to enter/exit parking mode based on your vehicle accessory power status (on/off).

 

[Vantrue Dash Cam]

I was recently sent an E1 from vantrue to review, initially I wasn't fussed on hardwiring it for parking mode. But last week when I popped into the shops, in the 2 minutes I was gone a crash happened directly in front of my car, although I helped out and the victim had a dash cam I was slightly annoyed that I hadn't caught it so I bought the hardwire kit. I hardwired it into a constant 12V fuse and initially trialed motion detection. It seemed fine until I noticed about half the time even say 10 minutes into my journey the camera hadn't left parking mode and wasnt recording properly. While I am waiting for a fix i switched to low bitrate parking mode to eliminate risk of the camera now recording but would anyone have any idea why the camera isn't coming out of parking mode? Note: the hardwire kit is 2 wire and the way it goes into parking mode operates sort of like the old blackvue cameras where it switches into parking mode after 5 minutes of no motion. Any help would be appreciated!

E1 parking mode is mainly dependent on Gsensor, if the vibration is relatively small when the customer gets on the car, it will not exit the parking mode. You can touch the dash cam after ignition or go some distance to exit parking mode. Meanwhile, it's best for you to update the dascam firmware to the latest version.

 

[Skylar132]

Ill be sure to update the firmware and coMe back with my findings, thanks!

 

[checkmate]

Hi all, I'm new to the forum and recently purchased two Vantrue E1 dashcams, which I mounted separately for the front and rear cameras in my car. I updated both to the latest VT-EDK201 firmware.

I didn't connect any hardwire kits to provide continuous power to the cameras, but I did enable the "collision detection" parking mode in the menu to ensure that even a brief stop is covered.

For both cameras, I had set the normal loop recording to 3 minutes in the menu. Then I noticed that during parking mode, as specified in the manual, the loop recording automatically sets to 1 minute. If the car starts moving again, the camera reactivates and resumes normal recording. At this point, however, I noticed something odd: on one of the cameras, specifically the rear one, when normal recording resumes, the loop recording doesn't automatically return to 3 minutes as I would expect, but remains set to 1 minute unless I manually change it in the settings menu. So from that point on, even after turning it on and off several times, and without any menu intervention, the cam continues to record in a 1-minute loop.

Should I assume this is a glitch with my cam? Or is there some reason I'm missing? Thanks in advance to anyone who can give me a tip.

 

[Jeff_Vantrue]

Hi all, I'm new to the forum and recently purchased two Vantrue E1 dashcams, which I mounted separately for the front and rear cameras in my car. I updated both to the latest VT-EDK201 firmware.

I didn't connect any hardwire kits to provide continuous power to the cameras, but I did enable the "collision detection" parking mode in the menu to ensure that even a brief stop is covered.

For both cameras, I had set the normal loop recording to 3 minutes in the menu. Then I noticed that during parking mode, as specified in the manual, the loop recording automatically sets to 1 minute. If the car starts moving again, the camera reactivates and resumes normal recording. At this point, however, I noticed something odd: on one of the cameras, specifically the rear one, when normal recording resumes, the loop recording doesn't automatically return to 3 minutes as I would expect, but remains set to 1 minute unless I manually change it in the settings menu. So from that point on, even after turning it on and off several times, and without any menu intervention, the cam continues to record in a 1-minute loop.

Should I assume this is a glitch with my cam? Or is there some reason I'm missing? Thanks in advance to anyone who can give me a tip.

Thanks for sharing the details of your setup!
Could you please take a photo of the screen showing the icons and send it to us?
If you haven’t connected a hardwire kit (i.e., the camera isn’t receiving a continuous power supply), there’s no need to enable the collision detection feature.
In your case, it’s possible that the camera is starting up in collision detection recording mode, which automatically switches the loop recording to 1 minute. You can try gently tapping the camera to exit this mode.
We don’t recommend enabling parking mode features when the camera isn’t connected to a continuous power source.