Car Cameras - Dashcams

[calnorth]

I am using a Mobius camera which has its origins with the model heli flyers. I have no commercial links to Mobius

www.mobius-actioncam.com/

Mobius is pretty good (£45 @ max 1080p) if you like messing with them and they have very good support in forums and configuration/firmware. 

They are extremely useful ...if you remember to have them switched on!

Out of interest what do people use and what would be the PROs and CONs of their investment?

For instance has anybody experienced battery overheat with a camera mounted on a w/screen in the sunny days?

[yahoo2u2]

I am going to fit some front and rear, they are great and will support any insurance claim.

They can also provide a youtube income if your lucky or should that be unlucky

[calnorth]

Feb 27, 2016 13:17:28 GMT yahoo2u2 said:

I am going to fit some front and rear, they are great and will support any insurance claim.

They can also provide a youtube income if your lucky or should that be unlucky

What you going to fit yahoo2u2

I was going to fit a rear camera....suddenly got fed up with it as an incident on the M6 showed that I needed to swivel a camera. I did swivel the camera and it pulled the power supply plug out. I didn't have a battery in the camera cos of the sun heat problem. Think I need a camera on my head really?

Still thinking on it all.

[yahoo2u2]

I too am still thinking, but for the rear something like this
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HD-Car-DVR-camera-Car-Dash-Cam-Video-Recorder-G-sensor-170-wide-angle-Wifi-hidde-/231764136127?hash=item35f63810bf:g:pRIAAOSwAKxWVRvb

170 degrees angle should get everything at the rear.

[decoy]

used to fit the roadhawk,s a lot for a place I used to work at
they are very good for none fault accidents and of course not plugged in when its a fault accident lol
the best ones have 2 camras built in ,one built in to the front and one built in to the rear(the rear one will then record the passenger aria and show most of whats going on outside the car)
gps is also a good option to have as it shows speed,time and location
g sensors are handy as they show how hard you were hit

hope that helps

[calnorth]

Feb 27, 2016 16:22:23 GMT decoy said:

used to fit the roadhawk,s a lot for a place I used to work at
they are very good for none fault accidents and of course not plugged in when its a fault accident lol
the best ones have 2 camras built in ,one built in to the front and one built in to the rear(the rear one will then record the passenger aria and show most of whats going on outside the car)
gps is also a good option to have as it shows speed,time and location
g sensors are handy as they show how hard you were hit

hope that helps

never saw that one decoy. We want to protect a Merc C63 AMG, but don't want to go anywhere near Merc or related.

Thx

[decoy]

Feb 27, 2016 16:26:03 GMT calnorth said:

Feb 27, 2016 16:22:23 GMT decoy said:

used to fit the roadhawk,s a lot for a place I used to work at
they are very good for none fault accidents and of course not plugged in when its a fault accident lol
the best ones have 2 camras built in ,one built in to the front and one built in to the rear(the rear one will then record the passenger aria and show most of whats going on outside the car)
gps is also a good option to have as it shows speed,time and location
g sensors are handy as they show how hard you were hit

hope that helps

never saw that one decoy . We want to protect a Merc C63 AMG, but don't want to go anywhere near Merc or related.

Thx

I forgot depending on model they can be motion activated as well which is handy when your away from the car

as most of these things have a built in batt the neatest and easiest way to wire them up is hardwired off the interior light (norm only work when ignition is on) as there is norm only about 3 inch of wire on show
if you don't want to fit it yourself you could try ringing vision techniques in Blackburn as they do fit nation wide and do a good job but they aint cheap

[calnorth]

Feb 27, 2016 16:58:50 GMT decoy said:

Feb 27, 2016 16:26:03 GMT calnorth said:

never saw that one decoy . We want to protect a Merc C63 AMG, but don't want to go anywhere near Merc or related.

Thx

I forgot depending on model they can be motion activated as well which is handy when your away from the car

as most of these things have a built in batt the neatest and easiest way to wire them up is hardwired off the interior light (norm only work when ignition is on) as there is norm only about 3 inch of wire on show
if you don't want to fit it yourself you could try ringing vision techniques in Blackburn as they do fit nation wide and do a good job but they aint cheap

I have fitted a Mobius heli cam to my wifes Focus which I can configure for motion detection. When it wasn't configured for that I left it on in the car for 2 days and it took the car batt down. We'll fix it somehow...the internal batt and temperature is the one thats a bother. The Fords camera has a high capacity slab capacitor in it instead of a battery and largely to keep the realtime clock going. No GPS or G sensor though.

[decoy]

Feb 27, 2016 17:13:42 GMT calnorth said:

Feb 27, 2016 16:58:50 GMT decoy said:

I have fitted a Mobius heli cam to my wifes Focus which I can configure for motion detection. When it wasn't configured for that I left it on in the car for 2 days and it took the car batt down. We'll fix it somehow...the internal batt and temperature is the one thats a bother. The Fords camera has a high capacity slab capacitor in it instead of a battery and largely to keep the realtime clock going. No GPS or G sensor though.

I worked for vision for 12 years and never had a dash cam go thermal but understand why the concern
could you not fit a separate batt pack for the Mobius and have the car charge that when its running and the cam only take power from the batt pack so your not left with a flat car batt

[calnorth]

Feb 27, 2016 17:56:13 GMT decoy said:

Feb 27, 2016 17:13:42 GMT calnorth said:

I have fitted a Mobius heli cam to my wifes Focus which I can configure for motion detection. When it wasn't configured for that I left it on in the car for 2 days and it took the car batt down. We'll fix it somehow...the internal batt and temperature is the one thats a bother. The Fords camera has a high capacity slab capacitor in it instead of a battery and largely to keep the realtime clock going. No GPS or G sensor though.

I worked for vision for 12 years and never had a dash cam go thermal but understand why the concern
could you not fit a separate batt pack for the Mobius and have the car charge that when its running and the cam only take power from the batt pack so your not left with a flat car batt

it goes along those lines and the concern covers places that seriously hot for cars. In uk I lay a towel over the steering wheel and part dash in summer. Thats a habit from the M. East where the steering wheels would burn yr hands and fry the plastic dash...in slow-ish time

Trouble is with this stuff, the requirements keep expanding. The motion detect has relieved the problem to some extent...I've left it on about half a day and main batt has not suffered....enough? Think in the cam configuration it needs a timeout select, say after an hour, which likely needs me to signal the designers for a change. New camera spec!

Anyway thx for your interest and advice decoy

[MrDJ]

ive been tempted to get a cam for a while but ive been looking for a front/rear camera set up without cables so i guess running on wifi or bluetooth.
ive only found one out there about a month ago which was £400 which i dont mind paying but there were a lot of complaints on review sites so i held off.

that gps version posted by decoy does look good but i want the camera on the back window as ive looked at so many videos of night time driving and the rear cameras recording the cabin as well dont see much outside the back.

[calnorth]

Feb 27, 2016 18:51:49 GMT MrDJ said:

ive been tempted to get a cam for a while but ive been looking for a front/rear camera set up without cables so i guess running on wifi or bluetooth.
ive only found one out there about a month ago which was £400 which i dont mind paying but there were a lot of complaints on review sites so i held off.

that gps version posted by decoy does look good but i want the camera on the back window as ive looked at so many videos of night time driving and the rear cameras recording the cabin as well dont see much outside the back.

I haven't taken my cam out at night and which is forward only. I suspect a camera looking rearwards at night is going to see very little and a car following it won't be too good. Wireless (BT) to a dash display I would never trust from what I've seen on eBay (China). Hardwired is likely the only way and I've seen that done on a Ford forum. He took a lot of the internal stuff off to hide cables...I think that was for a reversing camera? I've spent £60 on forward view and limiting at £100 -ish for anything else.

Its early days really for this stuff.  I followed this bloke for demos of various cams...likely a bit out of date now..Techmoan

www.youtube.com/channel/UC5I2hjZYiW9gZPVkvzM8_Cw

[decoy]

www.fasttech.com/products/1230/10014446/2441701-zs68-4-3-lcd-1080p-full-hd-car-dvr-camcorder
doubles as a reversing cam but you need to run the wires

[djs]

Hmm. Interesting stuff.

I actually visited some Dash Cam places/stalls/shops in China.

In the end, I bottled it and bought the Which Best Buy in the UK.

As with e-cigs, beware of Affiliate Bull Sh** sites. Yes... there are lots of them. Stupid internet.

[MrDJ]

thanks for the replies. my bmw is a motability car so it has to go back so cant dismantle anything in it. oh well, will keep searching.
cheers.