You don't want the sunlight reflecting on to your dashcam. I shove my sun shade in between the dashcam and windshield. It's a little awkward but it worked in the recent northesst US heatwave.
Just make sure to adjust the camera angle as it might get knocked out of alignment.
When I turned on my car I noticed my dash cam was black but noticed it was a huge hot spot I thought the lcd screen had messed up, it was quite hot in the car before I turned it on and when I did I noticed the hot spot going away, I was able to take a picture before it cleared so I had some proof, just picture what you but on the entire screen I was only able to see the date/time/SD/and both left and right side icon and the rest was black…not sure if that’s normal but it was pretty weird I thought it was messed up…so if anyone has had this issue and/or if it’s normal let me know.
Hello, Looking to buy a A329S and found a deal that seems to be too good to be true.
Can anyone give their feedback if I should pull the trigger or if this is a scam
I’ve had this dashcam for a couple years and bought it from Amazon, but I recently hardwired the A229 Plus to my 2024 Kia and it was working perfectly fine for two weeks and then we are currently experiencing a massive heatwave in New York that reached up to 102 degrees and when I checked the dashcam today, this is what the screen looks like.
It still records and records in parking mode, I checked that and there was still footage from last night, but I’m just worried because my screen looks like that. I heard that these dashcams were meant to be durable and last in the extreme summer temperatures and extreme winter temperatures. Is there anything I can do? Like get a warranty or anything like that?
I'm having a hard time with my interior camera, it keeps falling off with the heat and it is very frustrating. The sticker that comes with the camera is useless and I'm having a hard time find a strong one to replace. Any tape recommendations that will hold the camera with the heat? TIA!
Hello,
Recently bought it and install it in my toyota corolla. I have hardwired it using HK4.
I have some questions about this dashcam.
Voice command always got disabled without any reason. Does Voice command turns off during parking mode or it stays on all the time?
What parking mode do you use or recommend? I have now switched to Auto event detection. Does it work even with just motion detection and lock the screen or does it have to detect some vibration to lock the video.
How often do you format your memory card?
I have found the viofo app is kind of garbage, except to extract the video/ watch videos..
£/$350 for a 7650mAh Capacity back up battery?
That’s only a little more than a high end smart phones battery. You can get a 10,000mAh power bank for £/$30.
I can guarantee they use the same 18650 cells, same as almost every device like this does. Same as my drill battery etc.
Yes they require some extra circuitry for the dash cam connection and power management. But I’ve bought laptops, which use the same cells, for less money which had more battery capacity. Yes this is a niche product, but still, how can they possibly justify these prices?
I have a A329S hardwired in my car and since last week it started repeating "recording 3 channel started" all the the time! I already reset the camera and formated the card without any success. I decided to post here before opening a ticket with Viofo. The current firmware version is on the pic for reference.TIA!
Hello.
I believe Viofo has space to grow to unlock full potential of these two devices.
Here is my list:
A329S
If you choose SSD for main storage for driving videos and enable backup for parking videos all your parking videos are saved only to ssd. No redundancy.
If you have NVME or some other ssd type than Viofo recommends it is not supported. I believe if A329S has ssd option this should be for any ssd that meets writing speed.
I never saw a laptop manufacturer recommending which SSD to use.
If output power is not enough to run other ssd brands try to increase A329S output power.
Wifi station mode, please make sim card router for cloud support as other competitors.
Add driving videos filters in saved videos. We have parking, impact and all videos. Driving videos category is missing and it is very difficult to find an incidendt.
Add fast fwd/backward playback speed for videos. Scrolling with finger isn't convenient. You can't see whats happening unless you stop your finger and you skip the incident. Useless. Give option from 1x to 4 or 8x playback speed.
Add voice recording only in parking mode option. If we have this option for interior camera what's the problem with mic recording?
Add custom timer cutoff time and cutoff voltage with 0.1V increments for example 11.8,11.9....12.4V/24.8V. We need custom timer where we can choose any time we like.
BP100:
Custom charging cutoff voltage. 11.8V is too low. This is for people not having ACC fuse active ONLY when the engine is running which could kill car battery. BP100 pulls more than 8A of current while charging.
SoC cutoff parking custom mode option. Timer cutoff is not enough unless your battery is every time fully charged. If cutoff time kills the BP100 before timer cutoff expires the dashcam won't enter LPID. Without this option is better to stick just with HK6 and your car battery.
For example i want to have LPID activated by SoC 10,20,30% or any battery percentage I want. Implement it either in Viofo battery app or dashcam app.
I think this options would be a huge game change for Viofo.
Without these features A329S and BP100 I think are limited big time.
If anyone else has options which they think should be added please write, I believe someone else has good ideas.
Thsnk you.
When I got home from work today, I was shocked to discover that someone had crashed into my car while it was parked on the street. There are some pretty significant scratches on the left rear side.
After the first few frustrating minutes, I suddenly remembered—with great excitement—that about a year and a half ago I bought a VIOFO A119 Mini 2 dash cam. Until now, I had never really needed it, and apart from occasionally hearing it announce that it had saved a video after hitting a particularly large pothole, I had honestly almost forgotten that I even had it. Back then, I set it up and figured it would eventually come in handy one day. Of course, I also enabled the automatic parking collision detection with the highest sensitivity. Today, I thought that day had finally come.
After connecting to the camera through the app and browsing through the parking recordings, I noticed that almost every evening after I parked my car, it had recorded the street for several hours and marked all those videos as "locked," apparently assuming that something had happened to my car.
Even on the evening when the accident must have happened, there are around 30 locked videos showing nothing more than pedestrians casually walking along the sidewalk. After meticulously reviewing every single video from the time period during which the accident could have occurred, I had to admit, to my disappointment, that it wasn't captured at all.
I was already a bit suspicious because all the recordings were made between 5:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m., and I found it hard to believe that someone would commit a hit-and-run at such a busy time of day with so many people around. But throughout the entire night, there isn't a single recording. And considering how large the scratches and dents are, I simply can't imagine that my car wouldn't have moved even slightly during the impact.
I'm genuinely sad and disappointed.
Hi, I'm looking to replace a Viofo A129 Plus Duo dashcam in my car. I've had issues with it loosing connection/resetting while driving. I got a warranty replacement once already and my current one is starting to act up again.
My car is very stiffly spring and I think the vibration is causing issues with the power connection.
What replacement should I get?
Thanks
Hello.
I believe Viofo has space to grow to unlock full potential of these two devices.
Here is my list:
A329S
If you choose SSD for main storage for driving videos and enable backup for parking videos all your parking videos are saved only to ssd. No redundancy.
If you have NVME or some other ssd type than Viofo recommends it is not supported. I believe if A329S has ssd option this should be for any ssd that meets writing speed.
I never saw a laptop manufacturer recommending which SSD to use.
If output power is not enough to run other ssd brands try to increase A329S output power.
Wifi station mode, please make sim card router for cloud support as other competitors.
Add driving videos filters in saved videos. We have parking, impact and all videos. Driving videos category is missing and it is very difficult to find an incidendt.
Add fast fwd/backward playback speed for videos. Scrolling with finger isn't convenient. You can't see whats happening unless you stop your finger and you skip the incident. Useless. Give option from 1x to 4 or 8x playback speed.
Add voice recording only in parking mode option. If we have this option for interior camera what's the problem with mic recording?
Add custom timer cutoff time and cutoff voltage with 0.1V increments for example 11.8,11.9....12.4V/24.8V. We need custom timer where we can choose any time we like.
BP100:
Custom charging cutoff voltage. 11.8V is too low. This is for people not having ACC fuse active ONLY when the engine is running which could kill car battery. BP100 pulls more than 8A of current while charging.
SoC cutoff parking custom mode option. Timer cutoff is not enough unless your battery is every time fully charged. If cutoff time kills the BP100 before timer cutoff expires the dashcam won't enter LPID. Without this option is better to stick just with HK6 and your car battery.
For example i want to have LPID activated by SoC 10,20,30% or any battery percentage I want. Implement it either in Viofo battery app or dashcam app.
I think this options would be a huge game change for Viofo.
Without these features A329S and BP100 I think are limited big time.
If anyone else has options which they think should be added please write, I believe someone else has good ideas.
Thsnk you.
I recently bought (Prime day) and installed the A229 Pro, along with the H6 hardwire kit so I can have parking monitoring.
I upgraded the dashcam to the latest firmware available from the Viofo download area.
I can see on my video timestamps that the Viofo is properly receiving and recording the battery voltage from the H6. (It's also nice but a bit scary that the voltage is also displayed on the Vifo iPhone app without having to connect to any camera first.)
But when I go into the parking mode selection of the app, it doesn't show "Hybrid" as an option. :-(
Am I missing something, or does the A229 Pro not support Hybrid Parking?
And, assuming the answer is "no", then WHY NOT? It would just need another small firmware update, right? I mean it has all the necessary hardware, same as the A329. Maybe they just want to force us to upgrade to get this new useful feature? :-(
Just mounted the A229Pro this afternoon. Upon checking the video, I feel like this looks a bit far right as my engine hood isn't centered. I did what the user's manual said, which is mounting it to the right side of the rearview mirror electrical box. Should I move it a bit left(as in towards the center) so it's more centered?
My current setup is front and rear.
Also, I put on the polarized lens, but I am still getting reflections (shown in the indoor garage pic). And because I have ceramic tint, it is also showing a rainbow effect.
Viofo A119 Mini Pro. The Silver 2010-2013 Mazda 3 with the roof rack clipped my wife. The video caught the impact clearly, other driver pulled over, however due to safety reasons, she did not get out on the freeway to exchange info. Young children in the car, and its hard to tell but the shoulder lane becomes narrow and lots of aggressive traffic/known accidents in this particular freeway interchange. My wife exited first available exit and pulled over into the first available parking lot and the other driver did not follow. I went frame by frame on VLC media player and the best I got was "8ZLY?38". I can PM someone the raw file if they have advanced software. ChatGBT couldn't get help. Tips welcome on how to navigate this with insurance? Claim already filed.
https://reddit.com/link/1ul89ns/video/6v7slxgdrqah1/player
I've actually been happy with the Viofo camera, but the first of these two issues is a deal breaker, if it can't stay up then I can't use it.
Note: each time it was installed we used alcohol to clean the surfaces. In between the old adhesive and the new one, we had to scrape the old one off and were as thorough as we could be, used alcohol to finish. Let it dry. We also let the mount sit for 2 hours before putting the camera in.
Looking for solutions, others I'll have to find a different product that works 😕
UPDATE: I would like to thank everyone for their responses, including VIOFO Support. Hopefully with the combined information and resources I will be able to get this set up properly.
I had a defective cpl on the rear camera of my A229 Pro and had to remove it. It left a lot of the adhesive behind. What’s the best thing to use to remove it as to not damage the camera itself? I’ve not even had the setup a month and considering replacing the rear camera itself because of the frustration this has caused. Also, I will not be replacing the cpl as the difference was not worth all of this hassle. Thanks
I’ve had my dad came for about a week and I have successfully been able to connect to the app and view the live feed, but no videos are being saved in the app. All files show is empty. When I look on the dash cam under saved trips, I see my saved trips there. What am I missing?
I just picked up the a229 ultra and had it hard wired (hk4). what are the parking mode settings to use so it only records on impact?
