After many months of looking for the correct DashCam, Robert was kind enough to send me a 9370 to test out and review. I've had the camera now for a little over 2 months and have included both my thoughts, experiences as well as some sample videos and screen shots from my phone.
I'm going to leave a lot of the specs out because of Sunny posting everything back in September on his review.
First the box, everything looked very professional and packaged very well. I requested additional mounting attachments so I could remove the camera from one vehicle and slide it into the mount in another (I have 3 vehicles between my wife and I). Until I purchase a 2nd camera, I wanted to be able to have it in every vehicle any time I wanted. I also purchased a cig adapter as well as an additional rear camera as the rear camera will not come off the window like the front does. The rear is pretty much sticky padded onto the rear directly where the front has a plastic clip that sticks to the windshield and then you can slide the camera in and out of the clip.
Installation went pretty smooth except for the front plastic mount. Once stuck and sliding the camera in, I found it the front mount falling off my windshield. Fortunately they give you more then one sticky pad so I redid that and all was well (maybe I didn't clean the windshield enough..). Having both a cig adapter as well as hard wiring, I chose the cig adapter at first. I have it plugged in to a source that supplies power even with key removed so the camera records 24 hours a day.
I set the camera battery voltage to turn off at 11.5v but have not run into a time yet for it to shut off. I have left the camera on for over a week straight sitting in my driveway so it does not pull much power at all while running. I also like the fact that there is a blue light on the front of it. It makes me feel that one will notice it and stay away knowing that it is powered on.
The rear camera was mounted on my sliding power window. Unfortunately I wasn't thinking and ran the cable on the wrong side of the cab so the cable is on the opposite side of the slider so I need to rerun it. My main purpose of the rear camera was to help with backing up to my 5th wheel.
What I LOVE about this camera is the fact of hooking it up via wifi to my cell phone and watching the video on a 5.1" screen instead of the 3.5" the camera has. Although a nice screen, when you have to back up very precise to the 5th wheel, it isn't big enough IMO.
As far as wifi streaming to your phone, there is approximately a 1 1/2 - 2 second delay between what you see on the camera screen and what you see on your phone or tablet. Although this isn't a big deal, I'm surprised to see a delay since it is streaming 2 feet away from the camera. I also noticed that at times the video stream to my phone would freeze up for about 2 seconds at a time. So if you are watching the time counter, you'd see. 1, 2, 3... 3.... 5, 6, 7.... 7.... 7.. 10, 11 seconds etc. It was very annoying to see it freezing and jumping to the current view when it unfreezes. This did not affect me much when backing up to my 5th wheel which is really why I wanted the live feed on my cell phone.
I did find that the video was very bright and definitely needed a lens filter which made a big improvement. I had to experience with a few filters.. at first I got a cheap one on Amazon for about $8 and I saw no improvement with it. I decided to cough up the $20 or so for the Lukas brand and noticed a much more balanced video.
Had to discuss with Robert several times regarding the Lukas viewer for MAC. Apparently Lukas doesn't like MAC very much and their player freezes a lot. It will play video for 5 seconds then freeze for a good 3-5 seconds then continue. I've tried several different Lukas players and most of the time I was experiencing this which was very frustrating. Not only that, but the player was very slow to react. I could hit "pause" and it would take 5-10 seconds to pause if it was frozen. I would click on another video and it would take 3-5 seconds for it to load on the screen. It is just a very painful viewer for MAC and hoping they will address this. To be clear, this is an issue with the viewer, not the camera itself.
I have had several triggers for the camera to record "events". Mainly this was due to going over speed bumps a little too fast. Besides that, I have not experienced any false alarms.
I've found the GPS to work very well and if I am using my truck on a daily basis, the GPS is found immediately upon powering up. If my truck has sat for several days at a time or I park it in the garage, I've seen it take a few minutes for it to find the GPS and start tracking speed.
I've chosen to shut the audio recording off due to state laws where we are not allowed to record without notifying the other person. Plus on top of that, I don't want my conversations always being recorded. This is easily changed through the Lukas app on my phone.
I'm going to leave a lot of the specs out because of Sunny posting everything back in September on his review.
First the box, everything looked very professional and packaged very well. I requested additional mounting attachments so I could remove the camera from one vehicle and slide it into the mount in another (I have 3 vehicles between my wife and I). Until I purchase a 2nd camera, I wanted to be able to have it in every vehicle any time I wanted. I also purchased a cig adapter as well as an additional rear camera as the rear camera will not come off the window like the front does. The rear is pretty much sticky padded onto the rear directly where the front has a plastic clip that sticks to the windshield and then you can slide the camera in and out of the clip.
Installation went pretty smooth except for the front plastic mount. Once stuck and sliding the camera in, I found it the front mount falling off my windshield. Fortunately they give you more then one sticky pad so I redid that and all was well (maybe I didn't clean the windshield enough..). Having both a cig adapter as well as hard wiring, I chose the cig adapter at first. I have it plugged in to a source that supplies power even with key removed so the camera records 24 hours a day.
I set the camera battery voltage to turn off at 11.5v but have not run into a time yet for it to shut off. I have left the camera on for over a week straight sitting in my driveway so it does not pull much power at all while running. I also like the fact that there is a blue light on the front of it. It makes me feel that one will notice it and stay away knowing that it is powered on.
The rear camera was mounted on my sliding power window. Unfortunately I wasn't thinking and ran the cable on the wrong side of the cab so the cable is on the opposite side of the slider so I need to rerun it. My main purpose of the rear camera was to help with backing up to my 5th wheel.
What I LOVE about this camera is the fact of hooking it up via wifi to my cell phone and watching the video on a 5.1" screen instead of the 3.5" the camera has. Although a nice screen, when you have to back up very precise to the 5th wheel, it isn't big enough IMO.
As far as wifi streaming to your phone, there is approximately a 1 1/2 - 2 second delay between what you see on the camera screen and what you see on your phone or tablet. Although this isn't a big deal, I'm surprised to see a delay since it is streaming 2 feet away from the camera. I also noticed that at times the video stream to my phone would freeze up for about 2 seconds at a time. So if you are watching the time counter, you'd see. 1, 2, 3... 3.... 5, 6, 7.... 7.... 7.. 10, 11 seconds etc. It was very annoying to see it freezing and jumping to the current view when it unfreezes. This did not affect me much when backing up to my 5th wheel which is really why I wanted the live feed on my cell phone.
I did find that the video was very bright and definitely needed a lens filter which made a big improvement. I had to experience with a few filters.. at first I got a cheap one on Amazon for about $8 and I saw no improvement with it. I decided to cough up the $20 or so for the Lukas brand and noticed a much more balanced video.
Had to discuss with Robert several times regarding the Lukas viewer for MAC. Apparently Lukas doesn't like MAC very much and their player freezes a lot. It will play video for 5 seconds then freeze for a good 3-5 seconds then continue. I've tried several different Lukas players and most of the time I was experiencing this which was very frustrating. Not only that, but the player was very slow to react. I could hit "pause" and it would take 5-10 seconds to pause if it was frozen. I would click on another video and it would take 3-5 seconds for it to load on the screen. It is just a very painful viewer for MAC and hoping they will address this. To be clear, this is an issue with the viewer, not the camera itself.
I have had several triggers for the camera to record "events". Mainly this was due to going over speed bumps a little too fast. Besides that, I have not experienced any false alarms.
I've found the GPS to work very well and if I am using my truck on a daily basis, the GPS is found immediately upon powering up. If my truck has sat for several days at a time or I park it in the garage, I've seen it take a few minutes for it to find the GPS and start tracking speed.
I've chosen to shut the audio recording off due to state laws where we are not allowed to record without notifying the other person. Plus on top of that, I don't want my conversations always being recorded. This is easily changed through the Lukas app on my phone.
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