The dashcam indicator light is not visible from the driver's side.

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my dashcam is viofo a119m pro，The dashcam indicator light is almost invisible from the driver's side，The indicator light is only clearly visible directly in front of the recorder.
Has anyone else encountered a similar problem? Is there any way to solve it?
 
What side of car does the driver sit on in your car?
 
mentadent said:
What side of car does the driver sit on in your car?
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The driver's seat is on the left, and the indicator light gradually becomes more visible as I slowly lean over.
So now I can only see the indicator light and know if the dashcam is working properly by leaning over while waiting at a red light.
 
Have you considered getting a right-hand drive car? This would solve your issue with the dashcam.
 
lufa6977 said:
Have you considered getting a right-hand drive car? This would solve your issue with the dashcam.
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All the cars here are left-hand drive, so I plan to use aluminum foil tape to reflect the LEDs, or a smaller reflective mirror, to solve this problem.
 
I think this system will also give a audio warning if it is not able to record, say due to a broken memory card. at least today most modern systems would do that.

In the old days a dashcam would sit there and do everything you expected it to do, including LED lighting up / flashing and so on, but it would not be recording.
Hence why in the old days we argued for regular inspections of the memory cards, to make sure everything was fine.

I have lost count how many times people have come here saying " so i got this cheap dashcam 3 years ago and now i had a accident and i just found out it have not recorded anything for 3 months "

I remember me looking over a memory card in the card reader on the computer would not take many minutes for a 128 Gb memory card, focusing on start and stop places of drive sessions was in accepted places and not just suddenly in the middle of some random road.
You can of course not inspect every recorded file as that would take as long as it took to record them, and it would be very boring, so after sampling start / stop session files i just did a few random files just to see if they would play in a regular software player on the computer, only playing seconds of each file.
 
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@ndswj I've have found that the A119M pro lights are hard to view regardless of which side they are viewed from.

I think it is a design error as their other models don't have this problem.

Regarding audio warning for memory card not writing I find it isn't annoying enough or often enough in the way it warns you.

Memory card error is a critical error and it needs to make the users very aware that it is no longer recording.

I've raised this with Viofo in the A329 model.

Edit- fixed the stupid phone prediction edits
 
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The first picture was taken when the outside light was quite bright, making the LEDs difficult to see.
The second picture shows a mirror sticker applied to reflect the light, temporarily alleviating the problem of not being able to see the LEDs.
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Have you considered getting a right-hand drive car?
 
Lahti202 said:
Have you considered getting a right-hand drive car?
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When the weather is good, I can't see the indicator lights clearly even when I'm sitting in the passenger seat; I can only see the bright indicator lights directly in front of the dashcam. I believe this is a design flaw in the A119M PRO.
 
Well at least back in the day, there was some dashcams with way too strong LED lights on them, but there also soon was DIY ways to dampen those.

I suppose asking for dimmable LED lights in a dashcam is too much to ask for.
 
kamkar said:
Well at least back in the day, there was some dashcams with way too strong LED lights on them, but there also soon was DIY ways to dampen those.

I suppose asking for dimmable LED lights in a dashcam is too much to ask for.
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Yep, for years, people complained that the lights were on, too bright, too dim, couldn't be turned off, wrong color, or were in the wrong place.
 
lufa6977 said:
Yep, for years, people complained that the lights were on, too bright, too dim, couldn't be turned off, wrong color, or were in the wrong place.
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There were particularly numerous complaints about the brightness of the LEDs when Viofo released the A229 model—specifically because early firmware versions offered no option to turn them off.
Compared to the "candles" on the A119 V3, the A229 had veritable "floodlights."
 
I am amazed i have never been annoyed by dashcams myself, CUZ coming from the case modding scene way back in the day, i was hugely turned off by the back then ever presence of large amounts of blue LED light.
Actually to this day blue LED light still give me gag reflexes, but i assume one little blue LED i can handle after all.

It could also be, for years in the old car, well i could have 3 systems in front of the mirror and so not really visible at all from the driver seat.

IMO the best feature of modern dashcams is the audio alert if something go wrong in regard to storing footage, CUZ in the old days your LEDs ASO would indicate everything good, and your system had not recorded for months.
 
I made an improvement today. After folding the mirror reflective sticker at a 45-degree angle, the indicator light will have the same brightness as when viewed from the front, even in bright outdoor light.
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kamkar said:
IMO the best feature of modern dashcams is the audio alert if something go wrong in regard to storing footage, CUZ in the old days your LEDs ASO would indicate everything good, and your system had not recorded for months.
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When my SG9665GC V2 stops recording my wife can hear the audio alert, she reckons it sounds like breaking glass. But it is not audible to me with my hearing loss.
 
It would be nice if like on phones you could choose your " ring" tones, but just add a new layer of complexity i am afraid.
 
kamkar said:
It would be nice if like on phones you could choose your " ring" tones, but just add a new layer of complexity i am afraid.
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Yeah the complexity would risk reliability which is more important on a dashcam.
 
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