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Originally Posted by steeloyangster
Sounds excellent. I'd love to see some footage and a picture of how discreet this camera looks in the twins!!
Another point that I'm concerned about is the 'bump save' feature or when the camera automatically saves and locks a video clip because of the 'G-Sensor'. It's a feature that I definitely want to use but I fear that the twins' stiff ride will set it off constantly and before I know it the memory card will be full. Is this an issue that you've come across? Does changing the sensitivity help any??
BTW, I'm really aiming for a discreet camera because I've already had two cars stolen from me within a 6 month period. (Don't drive a Honda and live in Saint Paul, MN.) Even though newer cars, such as ours, has theft immobilizer features it sure as hell doesn't stop them from breaking a window because they see something attached to a suction cup on the windshield. Does the Scion FRS have a car alarm if someone were to break a window and open the door from the inside?
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I have the single video version (DR500GW). You can change the g-sensor trigger threshold in the computer viewer software and in the app. It's a sliding scale from 0 to 1 G. You are correct, the stiff suspension does trigger it over most bumps, but I have it at 1G and it's not too bad.
The memory card will fill up normally while you drive - the video files are either "normal" recordings, "g sensor triggered / event" recordings, or "parking/motion detected" videos <= only available if you hardwire your dashcam to the battery so it runs when your car is off.
You can also set a different g-sensor threshold when the car is parked - for giggles, I set it to 2%, and it was triggered when my friend's STI drove past it (dat low bass boxer rumble!)
By default, the video files are overwritten in this order: earliest recorded, erased first. You can use the computer viewer software to change that, so that event videos have storage priority, etc.
I am very happy with how discreet my dashcam is - in the previous post's picture you will notice that silver band? I just used electrical tape to cover it. That silver ring around the lense? some more electrical tape, or you can even plastidip it.
It doesn't use a suction cup for mounting, it's 3M double sided tape - so its a very small "footprint" on your windshield (just don't mount it too close to your rearview mirror....otherwise it's kinda hard to remove it from it's mount because it slides to the left, out of the silver mount ring, silly me).
As for the alarm, and your history of having cars stolen...I would highly suggest you invest in a LoJack system over a dashcam if you must choose between the two.
Hope the info helps!