Thanks for the quick reply.
FWIW, another person has kindly told me that the Panorama 2 has the 5 second rewind feature on Parking Mode too.
Think I may have seen a review... think it had very wide Letterbox type video format that looked a bit odd I thought.
I just played techmoans review again, and the Mio 358 does seem okay, I agree with his comments regarding the mount if used in a car, but that applies to all suction mounts. Less of an issue in a upstairs window perhaps. EDIT: I've since looked at the mio 388, and it seems very good, not cheap at almost £200, Halfords stock them so may gently drop hints for Birthday coming up soon, or xmas perhaps.
What I would like to know is if that motion detection can be run all the time while powered and not just upto 1hr on battery, and the other thing I'm thinking is, as it's able to go back the previous 5 seconds whenever it detects movement suggests to me thats it has to be recording all the time into tiny onboard memory buffer continually , otherwise it would not be possible ? and if thats the case you may as just continually write to a card. would also have been better if you could adjust the sensitivity of the motion sensor.
My previous home on a private estate, tended to get more problems, mainly due to its open plan driveway at the front (no gates to secure yourself away..lol) and I had a brand new car keyed down the side, I used a cheap camera plugged into a crappy old notebook, the software I used was called 'Gotcha' and I recall it's motion detection was based on differences in the picture frame it see's which is probably how these camera's do it, but being PC software you could easily drag a circle say around a group of tree's or anything else on the picture, so it was excluded from the detection zone area IOW to reduce false detections, it actually worked quite well.
Luckily since retiring we bought a property right out in the sticks, 17 miles from nearest main town, only problem we have is the odd gypsy prowling around, but it's isolation can also make it vulnerable if you know what I mean hence the reason for a camera picking up anyone entering the driveway, Maplins have some dedicated camera security kits but it's the hassle of wiring them in properly.
The idea of using one of these cheap cams, tiny, self contained, mount in a second, and you can just switch on when you go out, or just leave it running. I've also used dummy cameras outside in the past..lol
As this is a Dashcam forum and not a home security forum I'll end there as this is turning into a book..lol
