Hi all.
I bought a SGZC12RC about 3 months ago. I bought it along with the PANOBDP. I connected GND, BAT, and ACC. I disabled the timer on the BDP, and set the voltage cutoff quite low (don't remember what now). I've enabled motion detection on the Cam so that it will record while parked, if there's motion.
I'm currently keeping dashcam footage on my nas incase it's needed for later, eg red light cameras, etc. Every day I use the car I swap memory cards by pulling the power plug to let the cam properly power down with it's supercap. Then I pull the old card, and insert a fresh one. Plugging the cam back it gets it to power up and go into motion detect mode again.
Today when I went to swap cards, before I got to pulling the power for clean shutdown, I noticed the blue light wasn't flashing. At first I thought the BDP had somehow failed. I hadn't even shut off the car at this point yet. I pulled the power anyway, and waited a few seconds incase it was actually still powered up. (The blue light wasn't on, or flashing) Changed cards, and plugged power back in. This booted the cam back up, and it went back into normal operation. To me this indicated that the BDP was working properly, and that it simply needed a power cycle to start back up.
I got the card back to my computer to see what was on it, and if it had actually recorded anything since the card change yesterday. There is video from 5:30pm yesterday (card change), until 10:30am today. I park at work at about 7:30 am. There's a motion activated video "20160408_102755.MP4" that's 55 seconds long. So it stopped recording at 10:28:50. The next file is "20160408_102934.MP4", but it's ZERO bytes. Nothing was recorded after this, including my 30 minute drive home from work at 5pm. The card was nowhere near full, as it's a 64GB card, and had only 19GB of video on it.
I doubt the card is worn out already, as I have 5 of them, and each day results in about a 1/2 full card. So each card sees half a write per week. Over 3 months (12 weeks), each card has only had about 6 'drive writes' to steal a term from ssd's.
This is kind of concerning, as if I had not been swapping cards regularly and noticed the cam wasn't recording, I could have driven a long time without any video. The cam is located in the glovebox, so it's not readily visible. However, even if it was visible to the driver, they might not notice right away that the blue led isn't flashing.
Is there anything I can do to mitigate the risks of this happening again?
I bought a SGZC12RC about 3 months ago. I bought it along with the PANOBDP. I connected GND, BAT, and ACC. I disabled the timer on the BDP, and set the voltage cutoff quite low (don't remember what now). I've enabled motion detection on the Cam so that it will record while parked, if there's motion.
I'm currently keeping dashcam footage on my nas incase it's needed for later, eg red light cameras, etc. Every day I use the car I swap memory cards by pulling the power plug to let the cam properly power down with it's supercap. Then I pull the old card, and insert a fresh one. Plugging the cam back it gets it to power up and go into motion detect mode again.
Today when I went to swap cards, before I got to pulling the power for clean shutdown, I noticed the blue light wasn't flashing. At first I thought the BDP had somehow failed. I hadn't even shut off the car at this point yet. I pulled the power anyway, and waited a few seconds incase it was actually still powered up. (The blue light wasn't on, or flashing) Changed cards, and plugged power back in. This booted the cam back up, and it went back into normal operation. To me this indicated that the BDP was working properly, and that it simply needed a power cycle to start back up.
I got the card back to my computer to see what was on it, and if it had actually recorded anything since the card change yesterday. There is video from 5:30pm yesterday (card change), until 10:30am today. I park at work at about 7:30 am. There's a motion activated video "20160408_102755.MP4" that's 55 seconds long. So it stopped recording at 10:28:50. The next file is "20160408_102934.MP4", but it's ZERO bytes. Nothing was recorded after this, including my 30 minute drive home from work at 5pm. The card was nowhere near full, as it's a 64GB card, and had only 19GB of video on it.
I doubt the card is worn out already, as I have 5 of them, and each day results in about a 1/2 full card. So each card sees half a write per week. Over 3 months (12 weeks), each card has only had about 6 'drive writes' to steal a term from ssd's.
This is kind of concerning, as if I had not been swapping cards regularly and noticed the cam wasn't recording, I could have driven a long time without any video. The cam is located in the glovebox, so it's not readily visible. However, even if it was visible to the driver, they might not notice right away that the blue led isn't flashing.
Is there anything I can do to mitigate the risks of this happening again?