Vantrue E1 Pro testing

jsmith said:
Does it need modem connected? I moved modem back to the N2X. I'm guessing it doesn't use the cell phone's internet then to push an OTA Update?
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It doesn't need a modem. I performed all OTA updates via LTE on my phone then it pushes it to the dashcam to update.
 
kamkar said:
BTW in regard to the E1 pro i have, i am pretty sure if i get rear ended forcefully the camera will slide out of the mount, i will have to DIY a little to have more friction in the mounting system.
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It is supposed to have a magnet in there to prevent it sliding out on impact...

Mine does seem to be getting steadily looser every time it is removed/replaced, at first it was impossible to tell that there was a magnet in the mount, now it is quite obvious, maybe soon it will also need some DIY?

Of course it will not be recording the rear impact anyway, since it is always facing forwards and is single channel... although I also wonder if it will end up recording the sky on a front impact?

kamkar said:
VS the 27 food pound of the 13 grain i mostly shoot.
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I tried asking google's AI about "food pounds", now I'm even more confused!
At least it could tell me how heavy a grain is, "One grain equals 64.8 mg", and amazingly it appears that US grains are the same weight as British grains, so I should be able to work out the speed that would equal 27 food pounds... might help if I asked google about foot pounds instead!
 
Hehe foot pound 😀

Shooting 13 grain around 980 feet / second give me the 27 or so foot pound of smacking power, plenty when you see UK people drop rabbits in the fields with just 12 foot pounds.

The speed around there seem to be the golden speed for slugs no matter the caliber and weight.
 
Augustus said:
It doesn't need a modem. I performed all OTA updates via LTE on my phone then it pushes it to the dashcam to update.
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Weird. I wonder what I did wrong? It never gave me an OTA option so I loaded the firmware an SD card to manually update.

Did the prompt automatically appear for you guys to update? Or is there a setting I need to check off?
 
Vortex Radar said:
I did some testing with this and am not seeing collision notifications with low bitrate mode.
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Hmm. Maybe my memory is failing. I'd go with your recent findings.
 
jsmith said:
Weird. I wonder what I did wrong? It never gave me an OTA option so I loaded the firmware an SD card to manually update.

Did the prompt automatically appear for you guys to update? Or is there a setting I need to check off?
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Luck of the drawer sometimes whether it sees it from the server or not. Or could have been like what happens with firmware update rollouts on phones where it's a staged rollout.

No setting is required. I wouldn't lose sleep over it, sometimes it's turned up for me with newer updates and sometimes it hasn't. 70mai is the only one that has had it shown up with consistency.
 
Augustus said:
Luck of the drawer sometimes whether it sees it from the server or not. Or could have been like what happens with firmware update rollouts on phones where it's a staged rollout.

No setting is required. I wouldn't lose sleep over it, sometimes it's turned up for me with newer updates and sometimes it hasn't. 70mai is the only one that has had it shown up with consistency.
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Thanks. I need to pull videos off it to compare before and after the update. Others said (and update listed) it resolved the duplicate frame issue. So that's why I wanted to get this loaded.
 
jsmith said:
Thanks. I need to pull videos off it to compare before and after the update. Others said (and update listed) it resolved the duplicate frame issue. So that's why I wanted to get this loaded.
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No dramas, I think from what others have reported it appears it's been resolved. To my eyes it looks like it's been solved too. But definitely a necessary update because it was jarring to look at the footage
 
Augustus said:
No dramas, I think from what others have reported it appears it's been resolved. To my eyes it looks like it's been solved too. But definitely a necessary update because it was jarring to look at the footage
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Exactly. I believe it's also resolved from everyone else's feedback. I'm just curious to compare the before and after myself.
 
Jeff_Vantrue said:
Regarding the data usage notifications, you can go to LTE Settings and turn off Data Flow Control. Once you do that, you won’t receive any more notifications.
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So I disabled it in the E1 Pro, but I'm still seeing this popup. Is there another way to get rid of it?

vantrue data popup.webp


On another note, I just tried the E360 with the LTE module and that dashcam only has one port for power which is in the doublestick tape GPS mount. Its USB C port in the dashcam body is for the rear cam, not for power. Plugging the LTE module into the E360's GPS mount works just fine, unlike the E1 Pro.
 
Just finished up a video testing out the Vantrue cloud features with the E1 Pro.


I'd like to continue on and do a full test and review of the E1 Pro since it seems like a pretty solid pick overall, but my A329S and A329T arrive later this week so I'm gonna switch gears for a bit to work on a series of videos of those dashcams first.
 
Vortex Radar said:
Just finished up a video testing out the Vantrue cloud features with the E1 Pro.


I'd like to continue on and do a full test and review of the E1 Pro since it seems like a pretty solid pick overall, but my A329S and A329T arrive later this week so I'm gonna switch gears for a bit to work on a series of videos of those dashcams first.
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Very nice, the E1 Pro is probably the best one channel dashcam of 2025 for sure.

However competition is heating up and we have two channel solutions that are doing imx678 at the rear now as an integrated solution (Vantrue S1 Pro Max, 70mai T800 etc), so will be interesting to see how the rest of the year pans out...
 
Vortex Radar said:
I did some testing with this and am not seeing collision notifications with low bitrate mode.
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I remember now - I did get a collision notification when my parked car was hit whilst I was running the E360 in low bitrate mode.

TonyM

Thread 'Vantrue E360 & LTE Parking Impact'

My car was hit whilst parked yesterday. The incident was recorded on the E360 that I'm testing, and I received an impact notification on my phone via the Vantrue 4G LTE module that I'm also testing.

The video below is a compilation of a few clips from the E360:
- Driver pulls out of adjacent parking space and clips the front right corner of my car
- Driver stops, reverses, and appears to notice my dashcams (E360 and A139) before driving away to find another parking spot.
- Driver returns on foot to inspect my car, and sees the dashcams again
- Driver returns again with phone to take notes...
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Vortex Radar said:
So I disabled it in the E1 Pro, but I'm still seeing this popup. Is there another way to get rid of it?

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On another note, I just tried the E360 with the LTE module and that dashcam only has one port for power which is in the doublestick tape GPS mount. Its USB C port in the dashcam body is for the rear cam, not for power. Plugging the LTE module into the E360's GPS mount works just fine, unlike the E1 Pro.
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Sorry about that. I just checked with our technical team. Currently, there isn’t an option to disable the reminder. However, we’ll consider adding a “don’t remind again” option in a future update.
 
TonyM said:
I remember now - I did get a collision notification when my parked car was hit whilst I was running the E360 in low bitrate mode.
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Ah awesome. I wonder why the behavior is different. Maybe something about the E360 vs E1 Pro perhaps?

I did notice that sometimes the dashcam wouldn’t switch to parking mode when I expected, especially if I connected first via LTE. It would then be in driving mode and so I’d have to turn the engine on and off again to retrigger parking mode on the E1 Pro. There’s little quirks like that that make me doubt what I saw on my end, even though I made sure it was in parking mode when doing the impact testing. I dunno.
 
Jeff_Vantrue said:
Sorry about that. I just checked with our technical team. Currently, there isn’t an option to disable the reminder. However, we’ll consider adding a “don’t remind again” option in a future update.
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It serves a purpose to remind users of the data about to be used. But I agree, having an option to turn on and off would be great.
 
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