I received my A119 v3 for a few weeks ago and have now obtained some experience on the various parking modes available in the camera. Curiously enough, it seems that none of the parking modes behave according to my expectations... ![Smile :) :)](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png)
It may well be that my expectations were not correct, but I'd like to get a confirmation if the behaviors I have seen are really expected.
My camera has a GPS mount and it is powered via the GPS mount. I do not have the 3-wire hardwire kit but instead I use the Lukas LK-350 hardware kit which I have used for some years already along with my old Mobius camera that now got replaced with A119 v3. I have experienced with different cut-off voltages (11.8-12.4V) but have not noticed any difference. My car has a fresh AGM battery that is in good condition and the voltage very rarely goes below 12V (I can monitor the battery voltage in real time with my cellphone).
A119v3 Firmware V2.1 Build 20201113.
Then about my first impressions on some of the various parking modes:
1) Low Bitrate Recording & Time Lapse recording:
The car enters in the Parking Mode as expected, but I assumed the recording to continue in the parking mode until the GPS module detects a speed above 8 km/h. What happens instead, is that whenever motion is detected while in Parking Mode, the camera enters full recording mode for about 45 seconds. And what's worse, entering from Parking Mode to normal recording mode stops the recording for about 5-10 seconds that may be just the critical moments in the event detected!
Is it really expected that Low Bitrate and Time lapse recording should behave like this? I tried to find a way to switch off the motion detection while in these Parking Modes but have not found a way to do it.
I was under the impression that these parking modes do exist to enable a longer recording history while the car is parked e.g. on the street while working in the office. However, if the street is not quiet, the camera records practically continuously at full quality, effectively nullifying the Low Bitrate & Time Lapse recording mode advantages... And the recording breaks just after detecting motion (=when the camera switches from LBR / TL recording to full quality recording) is definitely not something I desire.
2) Auto Event Detection Parking Mode
This mode should record about 15 seconds before the event and 30 seconds after the event at full quality. It seems to do that, but when I start driving, the parking mode does not usually switch off when the GPS speed exceeds 8 km/h - which I expected based on what I read in the forum... Instead it may continue in parking mode for e.g. about 10 minutes or even the whole trip (maybe tens of kilometers driving at 100 km/h). And when the camera stays in this mode while driving, after every 45 seconds there is a pause of about 15 seconds in the recording (obviously flushing the event detection buffer into the memory card and restarting the event detection take that time). Not something I desired or was expecting...
3) Parking mode with Parking Recording Duration set to nonzero value
I also have experimented with setting the Parking Recording Duration timer to 4 hours. It seems that the parking recording stops as expected, but when I start the car after that, it occasionally (quite often but not every time!) happens that the first trip after that will not get recorded at all, i.e. the camera does not wake up and start recording. Instead the camera wakes up only during the next car startup.
I wonder if anyone has any ideas on how to get this to word as expected, too - or were my expectations just incorrect or too ambitious...?
![Smile :) :)](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png)
It may well be that my expectations were not correct, but I'd like to get a confirmation if the behaviors I have seen are really expected.
My camera has a GPS mount and it is powered via the GPS mount. I do not have the 3-wire hardwire kit but instead I use the Lukas LK-350 hardware kit which I have used for some years already along with my old Mobius camera that now got replaced with A119 v3. I have experienced with different cut-off voltages (11.8-12.4V) but have not noticed any difference. My car has a fresh AGM battery that is in good condition and the voltage very rarely goes below 12V (I can monitor the battery voltage in real time with my cellphone).
A119v3 Firmware V2.1 Build 20201113.
Then about my first impressions on some of the various parking modes:
1) Low Bitrate Recording & Time Lapse recording:
The car enters in the Parking Mode as expected, but I assumed the recording to continue in the parking mode until the GPS module detects a speed above 8 km/h. What happens instead, is that whenever motion is detected while in Parking Mode, the camera enters full recording mode for about 45 seconds. And what's worse, entering from Parking Mode to normal recording mode stops the recording for about 5-10 seconds that may be just the critical moments in the event detected!
Is it really expected that Low Bitrate and Time lapse recording should behave like this? I tried to find a way to switch off the motion detection while in these Parking Modes but have not found a way to do it.
I was under the impression that these parking modes do exist to enable a longer recording history while the car is parked e.g. on the street while working in the office. However, if the street is not quiet, the camera records practically continuously at full quality, effectively nullifying the Low Bitrate & Time Lapse recording mode advantages... And the recording breaks just after detecting motion (=when the camera switches from LBR / TL recording to full quality recording) is definitely not something I desire.
2) Auto Event Detection Parking Mode
This mode should record about 15 seconds before the event and 30 seconds after the event at full quality. It seems to do that, but when I start driving, the parking mode does not usually switch off when the GPS speed exceeds 8 km/h - which I expected based on what I read in the forum... Instead it may continue in parking mode for e.g. about 10 minutes or even the whole trip (maybe tens of kilometers driving at 100 km/h). And when the camera stays in this mode while driving, after every 45 seconds there is a pause of about 15 seconds in the recording (obviously flushing the event detection buffer into the memory card and restarting the event detection take that time). Not something I desired or was expecting...
3) Parking mode with Parking Recording Duration set to nonzero value
I also have experimented with setting the Parking Recording Duration timer to 4 hours. It seems that the parking recording stops as expected, but when I start the car after that, it occasionally (quite often but not every time!) happens that the first trip after that will not get recorded at all, i.e. the camera does not wake up and start recording. Instead the camera wakes up only during the next car startup.
I wonder if anyone has any ideas on how to get this to word as expected, too - or were my expectations just incorrect or too ambitious...?
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