I'm in the same boat with AMD. Auto recording does not work, FW 1.20.
I received my Mobius from JooVuu recently, and verified with a PC that it was mostly working. Video looked ok, no glitches. It even seemed to work with the 8" extension cord. Then I configured it for the car, to automatically start recording, and installed it with the hardwire car power source which I also got from JooVuu. Then I tested it, and to my great disappointment, the camera was working like crap.
If I managed to get it recording, it produced glitches in the video stream every ten seconds or so, sometimes more frequent than that, sometimes less frequent. In practice it looks like a purple frame is recorded with a bit of a shift in horizontal position as well. Audio does not have any glitches so I presume this is some sort of a camera signal transmission error, that could be related to the 8" extension maybe picking up some induced interference from the dimming mirror, or possibly radio interference, or possibly just a bad contact somewhere which fails when the car is driven in these bumpy roads of ours. In any case, a big disappointment in terms of the end of the day video quality. Not that I would have expected adding 8" of cable to improve the video quality, but I never anticipated it to produce such jumps as it now does.
The auto-start then, that is a really sad story. Initially I hooked the power source to the car dome light +12v, which turns on when the door locks are opened remotely (irrespective of the dome light switch position, those can be off as well, as the lights are ground-switched). I grounded the hardwire kit to car chassis, and the +12v is relay-switched by the car computers. Which was kind of nice; if it started, it started to record already before I sat into the car. However starting the car produces a bit of a flicker in the dome lights (if they are forced on) and these tiny gaps in the power were enough to make the Mobius shut down after a while. And it just about never turns on automatically after that. I don't know who was the engineering genius behind the FW, but not adding any filtering for the auto-shutdown is rather moronic. A simple double-check for the power with a configurable time delay before the double-check of "is the power really off, still?" would be enough to fix that - a couple of lines of code. But when these things are done cheaply in a hurry.. you get what you pay for, I suppose.
Frustrated with that, I went ahead and did the tedious drill of adding a wire from the fuse box to really get power only when the key is applied to start the car. Being a diesel, my car requires using the glow plugs also, plus mine has an electric steering wheel lock which is better to be waited for finishing its sequence, so starting can only be done "a moment" after giving the Mobius power. Which produces a failed Mobius start situation, pretty much 100% of the time. Adding the wire was just wasted time. This was a bit surprising, as I verified with a T10 5W bulb that while the voltage does drop a bit while starting the engine, the test bulb which I hooked to my hot-wire, does not go overly dim. But I suppose, it still went too low for the Mobius power source, anyway.
And the above scenario, if the Mobius decides to try to auto-start at all, which it usually doesn't. Meaning, if I apply the power only, and just sit there watching the Mobius, without starting the car, the best situation is usually a green light. And that's all. Pushing the power button a couple of times.. sometimes starts the recording. I have that auto-start in the "both" radio-button.
End result: camera which requires to press the power button several times to start recording, and produces glitchy videos. Audio quality seems quite ok though, haha. What a waste of time and money.
If I somehow manage to get that thing to actually reliably at least TRY to auto-start, I suppose I will next have to add some sort of a super-capacitor to the *external* power circuit, to overcome that shutdown engineering brainfart in the FW. But as long as the camera isn't reliably even trying to start recording, there's really no point.
