I really hope you're being sarcastic. Or perhaps you have the ability to make forward-thinking decisions in a split second. After all, it's a natural human response to react by avoiding the larger object. You must be super-human.

Ah so you were the Nissan driver then.

12 mile roundtrip commute to work on my bike and day in day out I see the same crap and dangerous driving like the plonker in the white Nissan. Police do nothing even if I supply video evidence from two cameras mounted on my bike.
Sod the terrioists the real killers are Mr/Mrs Plonker Car driver who don't give a damn about cyclists.

Driver should have maintained road position and let that w@@ker in the nissan go into the ditch. Don't end some innocent cyclists life for some reckless feckless **** in a car. Mr Nissan would think twice after hospital and a jail sentence to do that again, which is what he needs. The cyclist was doing nothing wrong.

Check ebay first. Theres lots of these on there from local sellers at £1-£2 more.

This will be from China so a 2 week wait plus a possible customs charge.

These SJCam clones are very good and for the price they work very well.

I use one as a dashcam.
This one looks like the "4K" wifi one that I bought last year for around the same price off eBay that claimed to do 4K at 30fps but hen I recorded something and checked the recording it was only 1920 x 1080 but it was at 30fps which means that unlike an earlier version I had that only did 1920 x 1080 at 15fps, when it was raining and the windscreen wipers were on I could see the wipers on the camera at the same time they were going across the screen whereas the earlier lower fps one was out of synch.

I contacted the seller I had bought it off and they refunded half the money I paid for it as it was not as described so it was definitely good value.
Night time quality is not good unless it is something lit by your own headlights but daytime is good for the price.

This is a clip I recorded with it in December last year.

Idiot in a white Nissan

Nice video! Is that Snake Pass?

Tempted to get this. I got the one Aldi were doing a couple of years back but that was pants.

What's the battery life like on this? Thinking of taking on holiday to record some footage of quad biking, water park, etc.

Price seems pretty good.

You were a few inches from killing that cyclist. Glad to see you worked so hard to preserve your no claims bonus by avoiding the car made of steel and swung towards the skin and bones on the bicycle instead.

Also glad to see you stopped to speak to the cyclist you almost killed to see how they felt about their near death experience. Oh no wait, you just drove on...

can you record whilst charging?

I really hope you're being sarcastic. Or perhaps you have the ability to make forward-thinking decisions in a split second. After all, it's a natural human response to react by avoiding the larger object. You must be super-human.

Ah so you were the Nissan driver then.

Driver should have maintained road position and let that w@@ker in the nissan go into the ditch. Don't end some innocent cyclists life for some reckless feckless **** in a car. Mr Nissan would think twice after hospital and a jail sentence to do that again, which is what he needs. The cyclist was doing nothing wrong.

12 mile roundtrip commute to work on my bike and day in day out I see the same crap and dangerous driving like the plonker in the white Nissan. Police do nothing even if I supply video evidence from two cameras mounted on my bike.
Sod the terrioists the real killers are Mr/Mrs Plonker Car driver who don't give a damn about cyclists.

Do you fancy selling me one for about £20 please? Thanks.

how easy is it to set up? does it connect to the cigarette lighter of hard wired? thanks

I think if BugBrain had watched the video more carefully I was already easing over to the right, preparing to overtake the cyclist and when the nutter came past I was braking heavily to avoid hitting the cyclist and did not swerve towards him as he assumed. I was in more danger from the white Nissan hitting me than the cyclist was from me hitting him.

Seems a good price but a pity with battery life! Heat added though

Cyclists have so much hate in them....

You took the right action. You avoided a collision with either the cyclist or the Nissan. Sounded like dewonderful would have deliberately driven into the Nissan to maintain a wide berth around the cyclist. In that instance, the Nissan could easily have swerved out of control and skidded round into the cyclist (killing them) or flipped either car onto the roof and rolling down the hillside.
Your action was a safer one!!

Im fully in favour of dash cams after I was pushed into the central reservation on the m62 by another car, which was avoiding a HGV doing a last second lane change.
It brought the eastbound carriageway at junction 20 to a halt. The lorry driver just carried on regardless.

I immediately went and bought a front and rear dash cam when the car was repaired. They're also recording 24/7 in case an idiot damages my car in a car park.

Sorry did I miss the bit explaining how to dash mount and keep them charged with a Cigarette charger?

I know the road well, that's heading up from Sabden towards the Wellsprings pub. I have just bought a place in Clitheroe actually, small World.

What an idiot, that's nearly a blind right hander!!!!

The battery life is always poor on these. I got a vivitar dvr 944hd and the battery is shocking on that too! Has wifi also but has to connect to app! Gonna look on ebay for one of these! https://youtu.be/nl-Ti_pjCsg

To be fair to him it wasn't his fault he found himself in that position and as he said it was a split second decision. There very easily could have been a head on collision. There and the cyclist would have been squashed.

I say that as a cyclist, I have seen a lot worse on the roads than what the poster did but the driver of the other car is near the worst I'™be seen for sure.

Where is kt getting shipped from?

To the few of you who have reviewed this camera, thanks. To the rest explaining to each other the virtues of car vs bike, leave your comments on the Top Gear website!

Anyone know if this is a true 4K sensor, or if its just interpolated?

Come to london.
Every day I see idiot cyclists knocking people over, riding on the pavement, thinking red lights are optional.....

Never been hit by another driver in london, but had my wing mirror smashed by a lycra wearing weirdo who just cycled off.... had a dashcam... what good was it? not like I can see a registration plate to take note of...

So you bought a piece of tat claiming to be 4K but it was better than the fake piece of tat before it? Makes me wonder when people ask about leaving these running when the car is parked, good luck claiming the money from your insurance when you nice car becomes a fire ball!

And how many cyclists are dead after being hit by vehicles in London? Too many.
How many pedestrian and car drivers dead after being hit by cyclists? Zero.

P.s. sorry about damage to your car. I personally would stop and pay up if I hit a car.

For this price you definitely wont be getting 4k

ACtually -- If you click the link here to check of the Allwinner V3 SoC brief There is nothing said about 4k only [email protected]

Even if you check out the sensor which is stated to be a Sony Exmor IMX179 The resolution it tells you in the product brief isnt a 4k resolution... Its CLOSE but not 4k

Total and absolute BS.

Ok - Thought as much, but if anyones looking for a true 4K cam how are they expected to know if its just an interpolated sensor if they dont bother to mention these 'details' in the specs?
I know I'm getting a true 4K if I spend a couple of hundred on a gopro, but does anyone know of any any sub £100 action cams that offer a true 4K?
Thanks

Do you walk with him every day ?

Even GoPro aren't that great so not much high hope for this

I cant get you a sub £100 4k camera but i can come close....

SJCAM SJ5000X

SJcam are a great alternative to GoPro, though there are a lot of Fake SJCam and knock off units about.

There should be a QR code or serial number either outside or inside of the box that you can check on SJcams website to find out if your camera is a fake or not.

Well if you were hit by a car you're much more likely to get killed or severely injured than I'd a bike hit you.

Cars kill a lot more people than bikes do, both the people driving then and the pedestrians and cyclists which get mowed down.

I believe the word is di_k

GoPro are pretty good. But there are competitors in the market now. I have a gopro Hero Session 3 and an SJCam M10+ and the gropro is a lot higher quality compared to the M10.

Xiaomi make a nice camera called 'Yi' or 'Yi 2'
Gitup - though their cameras only currently support 1080p
Dazzne - are another great chinese brand just like SJcam and Xiaomei. Though their cameras dont support 4k yet.

These 3 make a lot higher quality cameras then SJcam which just seems to be made of cheap plastic. But they are very very functional cameras and the components used to make them arent so bad.

I would have to disagree that no cyclist has killed a pedestrian... a simple google search says otherwise:

Police appeal over pedestrian killed in collision with cyclist in ...

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/police-appeal-over-pedestrian-killed-in-collision-with-cyclist-in-shepherds-bush-a3464391.html

This was just in february. A month before there was another one...

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/wonderful-woman-killed-after-being-ploughed-into-by-a-cyclist-at-old-street-a3198936.html


2013:

Among the most serious crashes was that involving Philip Benwell, who knocked down a schoolgirl and left her for dead after jumping a red light in 2013.

Another cyclist, Darryl Gittoes, was also jailed for a year in 2015 after knocking down a 73-year-old woman in Hereford while riding without brakes and a flat rear tyre. The victim died nine days later.


So can we admit there are cyclists that are just as bad as the evil car drivers ???

No. The statistics don't lie.

I was going to buy this from tescos today
https://www.tesco.com/direct/sports-cam-hd-action-camera-4k-at-30fps-20-screen-wi-fi-and-waterproof-case-30m-10-mountings-and-accessories/173-8418.prd?skuId=173-8418

Now this has me thinking

Tesco up to their old tricks- buying cheap crap from China and putting a huge mark up on it but then they all do it I guess.

Correct me if i'm wrong, I think its from a 3rd Party Seller called Cleverboxes. But I could be wrong :laughing:

I own a similar camera called the Eken H9, was posted a few times on hear and sold on GearBest. An amazing camera for the price, records 25fps in 4K but 1080p 60fps was more for me. Highly recommended :smiley:

I bought a camera that was advertised as being 4K @30fps in good faith. I had not bought a fake 4K one before but I had bought a similar shaped and designed camera that was 1080 but was only @15fps.
Where have I said that I leave it running when the car is parked ? I replied to someone asking how it was powered and I said I had it set to switch off a minute after the ignition is switched off. Even if I did leave it running then in the unlikely event of it causing the car to set on fire then giving the amount I have to pay to insure my car then I would expect the insurance company to pay out without any problem as that is one of the reasons you take out insurance for isn't it ?

You seem to have a lot to say about these type of cameras Graham, can you please tell us all which one you have got that is so superior to these types and which was not made by kids in a sweatshop in China or Taiwan or any of the other similar places where everything seems to be made these days ?

If it is the same specification as the similar one that I bought then this is what the program MediaInfo shows it as recording in when set to the highest resolution :
Codec ID : MJPG
Bit rate: 14.2 Mb/s
Width :1920 pixels
Height1080 pixels
Display aspect ratio: 16:9
Frame rate: 30.000 FPS
Colour space: YUV
Chroma subsampling 4:2:0
Bit depth :8 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame): 0.229

Cyclist are just as bad for not paying attention, plus they don't even pay road tax

Can you view the picture in real time on a phone? Is the screen always on? Can you extend battery life by switching it off?

same as pedestrians

Watched the other video with the Audi. Terrible 'overtake' forcing the Audi to either wait behind you for the ridiculous distance you thought you needed to overtake a car that far ahead and lane hog or undertake you.

Drivers don't pay road tax either.

Ordered for sons first camera. Thanks

Thankfully there's no such thing as road tax and bicycles are one less car on the road. Cyclists aren't actually as bad as insulated motorists as they have much greater awareness of what's happening around them :man:

What's the storage like on these things and can it be expanded?

I bought the Apeman A70 for £50 the other day, very good and comes with accessories and two batteries. Very well made. Can be bought on Amazon. Very highly rated. Also a A66 for £30 and 4k version £80 available

Do you live in London? I suspect not. I was hit by an idiot cyclist last week in the City, who was riding on the pavement to avoid the vehicles coming toward him as he was going the wrong way down a one-way street! All he did was to shout "Get out of my f@&king way!" A female colleague came into the office with with blood all over her. She'd be hit and knocked-over by a cyclist who didn't stop. Every single day, I see cyclist ignoring traffic lights, going the wrong way down one way streets and going down the near side of lorrys at traffic lights. Some cyclist are a bloody menice.

No night vision / infra red.

Anyone know whether the time lapse function on this would be any good?
I would like to get one or 2 for doing a time lapse at a wedding later this year, any suggestions appreciated.

Does anyone know which memory card this would take? The product listing is typically lacking in accurate information...

i didn't even see that well spotted :confused:

Does anyone have any examples of the 120fps? Wondering if this would be any good for analysing a golf swing?

Hi whats's the battery life like in this? I was also thinking using it as dash cam thanks.

Showing as £25.62 for me now

Do you know if the video playback has a date and time stamp?

This.

Ignorance is bliss for some it seems.

Cyclists are just as culpable as drivers, constantly cause and create accidents between themselves and pedestrians and other vehicles on the road. Love the ignorant cyclist mindset that they should be put up on a pedestal and prioritised because they decided to pick that mode of transport.

Yes



Nope, I use them all. Sometimes I mod them (remove IR filters and so on), and sometimes build them directly into models, etc.

Most of them can have if you want it, or turn it off. Beware that if you remove the battery, it will reset the timestamp and you have to set it again.

It is relatively easy to remove the IR filter if you want a day time IR camera.

You can also strap a load of IR LEDs to it if you want a poor man's night vision camera.

This is a good deal. Don't forget Quidco cashback is available!

Any idea if these come with the usual range off multi mounts normally supplied with these cams as looking to mount it on the windscreen off the car. Already ordered thanks for sharing.

so sorry to hear about your troubles mate. Was wondering which cam did you get in the end to do 24/7 recording?

Worked out £22.41 for me and 7.2% Quidco :smirk:

Cheers OP

anyone paid with paypal, when I try to it removes the discount code?

Yes you can, here it is on sale from EU warehouse for £79.56, flash sale

http://www.gearbest.com/action-cameras/pp_243426.html?wid=3

Another vote for Eken H9 (Gearbest)- it's got great specs for such a cheap action camera and comes with loads of extras - paid about £28. Does poor 4k (interpolated) but 1080p @ 60fps is perfect.
Easy to get if you hunt around in the main china outlets - and it takes SJ cam batteries too...

Just came to see what is up. I suddenly found my self buying God help people bank whom comes to hot uk deals very often like my self

Thinking of cancelling myself. The footage from this camera looks really bad...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znV0GbwQk-w

Coming from gearbest... theres a 50/50 chance its a fake.

Slightly off topic but would using a mobile be any better ? I have seen what I think are some good dash cam apps out there I have a note 4 if that helps

voted hot for price and spec :smiley: would vote hot again if i could for the banter its made :P

Did you report it to the police? That's clear evidence of driving without due care and attention and/or driving without reasonable consideration for other road users. Even without taking the cyclist into consideration, the driver had begun the overtaking manoeuvre while approaching a blind corner.

Offences
CD10 - Driving without due care and attention
CD20 - Driving without reasonable consideration for other road users
CD30 - Driving without due care and attention or without reasonable consideration for other road users

What type of memory card does it take? Micro sd?

I use autoboy sometimes. It's a simple and good app with street name encoding and loop recording. The only issue with using a phone is that you'd need a wide angle lens attachment which can easily be picked up for 2£ ish on eBay. The quality of the video depends on the quality of the lens attachment. My cheap lens attachment is ok at best.

Thanks OP ordered one

Initially i purchased the expensive Nextbase 512G and had it hardwired into the car.
However after approx 24-48 hrs recording it would lock up and freeze, and not give any indication it had done so (other than a frozen picture which i diddn't always notice). After 8 months it got stuck in a continuous reboot cycle so sent it back to manufacturer,

So i bought 2 Mobius actioncams instead, and these have been far better. They support upto 128GB memory and are perfectly happy recording 24/7. They dont have a screen, but that doesn't bother me. They have gone up in price though from when i bought mine (Paid £45 for them).

Mobius Actioncam on Amazon £59.99

Mine has but I am not sure if it is exactly the same as the one in this deal, most do have them.

Don't cancel it. You can expect decent quality footage, but majority of the content you find in youtube are affected due to poor quality mounts that transfers road vibrations to camera. If you give a closer attention to the link, you hear the vibration noise transferred to camera.

None of these sub £100 Action Cameras supports 4K, but worth to keep an eye on ThiEYE T5e or similar spec'd cameras for better quality video

Got to be the most ridiculous thing I've read on here in years.

I really wouldnt go by the claims these Chinese clones make of being HD/4K etc. I bough an HD one a year or so ago and it was awful and nowhere near HD. The lens was awful too. So I just gave it to my son who makes great underwater vids by mounting it on a selfie stick and dunking it in the pond.

If I ever get one again it will be a genuine GoPro or not at all.

Yeah, it p**d me off too, how could he waste such an opportunity!?

Would like a cheap wireless actuated spycam with these abilities (1080 @30fps or 60fps) but not wide lens,plus with the ability for +/- EV.. Any suggestions?

Thanks bought 2 . Sure it will be better than that Aldi rubbish I bought last year

I have a similar one. Recording is ok, but battery life is terrible, which defeats the point. Watch out.

I did - it looks like it has but the amount debited is after the discount, confirms this once you get redirected to the website and also on your paypal receipt

thanks for this, been after a dashcam and never heard of autoboy so going to give this a try tonight on a long drive home. I always have my phone mounted whenever I drive whether it's for TomTom or just for setting up podcasts to stream over BT, so an app to record and manage clips would be better for me than either a dedicated cam or clogging up my phones gallery. hopefully it still performs in the background :smiley:

Got to love HUKD, only 4 posts actually answering any useful questions regarding the camera e.g battery life, which memory device it takes, how to mount on dash, if it is waterproof, what quality is like etc.....

I've just payed with PP, you're right, the price changes back $31.99 when it navigates away from the discount code page. I just went ahead anyway and ordered as the original price was cheap anyway. When the final order went through, PP was charged with the discount applied, just over £22. So all's good.

Does anybody know if a kit like this will fit?
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Accessory-Ultimate-Combo-accessories-Cameras/dp/B00JBT6F3W

code not working for me...

Or just not buy crap in the first place

TCB 7.35% for online purchases.

Sandra needs reporting to the police looking at her other video. Needlessly hogging the outside lane is pretty annoying.

How difficult/expensive is it to get batteries for these?

Dammit I was going to order but saw this for 10$ more
http://www.tomtop.com/digital-cameras-280/p-d4619b.html#reviewsDetail

I dont see anything you did wrong, out of curiosity do you remember if you indicated? and do you remember ever seeing the nissan behind u?

something similar happened to me, guy was tailgating me, but I just slowed down and didn't overtake the cyclist, he then proceeded to overtake and go through a red light. >.<

Is this an actual dash cam as how can this be set up in the car?

Actually not sure on ;
How many pedestrian and car drivers dead after being hit by cyclists? Zero.
as there have been a few from reports.

Hats off to people who cycle in London as to me its not a nice or easy environment in which to cycle.

However I am going to be very blunt; I am cyclist where I live (outside London) but I do work in London and there a number of speed freaks doing 20mph+ (some are hitting circa 25mph I reckon) near junctions with lots of pedestrians around. If a pedestrian lost concentration they would be toast if one of the speed freaks were to hit them... these speed freaks need to slow down when are near large numbers of people - you can't stop quickly on very thin tyres when doing 20mph+

very good specs for the price

Ha ha ha, and the accelerating hard while a Nissan starts to overtakes to line her up with a cyclist taking everyone involved into dangerous, engineered, situation.

Interesting point... but you've not even mentioned the Highway Code..... MADNESS!

Yeah the person driving in the middle of the road around blind corner couldn't possibly be at fault.

Yes it does record in the background. The ad free paid version has a shortcut to start recording instantly.

Thanks op, Got one for £22.41!!!! Now I have to arm myself with a bit of patience, will keep you up to date :wink:

Thanks for pointing this one out, I just ordered it. The remote control function appeals to me. I forgot to put in the discount code so that may work as well. I've been thinking about getting something like this for ages, it's a good way to judge how much I'm going to use it before splashing out on something more professional.

Cheers again for recommend - I used it yesterday and again for a long drive today. Its a packed with options, to say its free and so I'll likely buy the full version to see what else I can do with it and to remove the ad banner - its pretty customizable as is and couldn't recommend enough to someone who wants a cheap dashcam solution.

At least pedestrians tend to be on the pavement and not in the road. As someone who has to drive round Cambridge regularly, I can say many cyclists do their best to kill themselves.

All sorts of ridiculous behavior - swinging out their cycle lanes to overtake, no regard to traffic behind. About 15% bothering to fit lights to their bike at night. Only slightly more bothering with helmets.

Anyone any idea if there is a car mode within the menu off this one ? Obviously want to to have the cam recording when ignition switched on . poss to leave switched on for say an extra 30 mins for say a parking mode? What is the android apk that will work with camera?
Cheers.
John

Can anyone comment on the ability of the camera at night?

Ladies and gentlemen that already own one. Two questions please:
- Does it work from mains without battery?
- Can someone check if camera boots up automatically when plugged to mains (with no battery in)?

Would like to use it as a rear camera in the car.

THANKS!

I think it has a car mode, I spotted in the description. I don't really know but I've ordered the next model up. You can forget about getting any questions answered here, people would rather have their shout about irrelevant off topic nonsense than supply any useful or helpful information.

Just received my shipping email.

I should get an award

any good for CAM4???

That's good driving to avoid both car and cyclist.

Does this camera come with a windscreen mount. If not where can i get one to fit. I would prefer a stick on mount.

Thanks OP - ordered. Can't go wrong for under £22...I hope!

My goodness, initial impression is that it is pretty rubbish. Mine is so flaky, 30% of the time the button cease working and I have to pull the battery. The sound is awful. But on the other hand the accessories are amazing.. And the Wi-Fi does just about work sometimes. It's a definite novelty the problem is the picture quality is not that great, it's all purple outdoors. It's much better indoors. Basically it's a fun novelty to see if you might use an action cam. I'm going to try and upgrade the firmware when I figure out how and that might help.

This now seems to be reduced even further as long as you are happy with a black body.

https://www.tomtop.com/sport-cameras-282/p-d4640b.html?mid=10000004550&utm_source=EDM&utm_medium=Normal+EDM&utm_campaign=D4640B&utm_design=2867&utm_content=2958&aid=TTEDM170614

Email just in adds a new code PJCMR10 which saves $10 off the list price of $32.99. Just ordered one, paid via PayPal and even allowing for their conversion rate it will cost me £18.58.

Code didn't work when I tried it with a silver body.

Hope this helps anyone else thinking about buying one of these. Less than £20 - Can't be bad to that!

I got mine today, seems to be microSD up to 64GB - on the box referred to as TF Card which is the same as (and interchangable with) microSD.

Yes MicroSD

What video quality you guys using on this camera ? tried 1080p 60fps recording and playback on my home PC and have to say the quality was very grainy and nothing near as good as my similar styled Sjcam actioncam . is there a FW update available over the supplied FW and if so how do I update ?

I'm in the dark myself I don't think there is a firmware update specifically for this camera. There is a chance that one of the other firmware from the same but different brand of camera, may work. I'm looking for answers myself. I have to say though, it's a shame Prince is dead because the output from this is seriously purple.

Just double checking with someone but how long does it take to receive your order ? Never ever used them before

Sure it was about 10 days for delivery. be interested to hear from others to find if there is a favoured setting that will give decent results as again 1080p 60FPS was rubbish ( very grainey) compared to my few year old non 4K genuine sjcam model which was bought at around £40. the audio quality was also as pointed out above pretty muffled.. find it strange to hear Jimbo123 say " the accessories are amazing " theres virtually nothing there ?! every other cam off this type comes with more mounting combination accs that you know what to do with !!

I have a gitup git2 which was £99 and that definitely does 'real' 4k, and 60fps at 1080. It's a damn good camera and just as good as picture quality wise as some of the previous gen gopros.

I made the mistake of buying one of these bargain basement '4K' cams and basically threw it in the bin after about 5 minutes. They're crap and you get what you pay for at this end of the market.

The git2 is great... no comparison to the cheap rubbish pedalled by these Chinese resellers. Yes, it's around £100 but you're getting something that seriously competes with a proper GoPro. The only snag I've found with the git2 is the supplied waterproof enclosure is not waterproof! Ok to use around splash water, but definitely no good for diving or any submersion really.

I have got mine today. Tested it.. 6/10.

Not real 4K or 1080p60fps. Even those the 4K recorded with 22Mb/s.

Only good for dash cam, not worth it for sport activities or holiday snaps.

Well.. you get what you pay for..

Forgot to say mine came in white (even I've ordered silver) with 900mAh battery and not the 1050mAh Battery stated in the description!!!

Just ordered one. Thanks.

What website did you get the discount from?

Got mine yesterday.
Build quality is impressive. Once you get past the poor manual, navigation through the options is easy.

1080p @ 30fps, quality is pretty good to be honest.
720 @ 120fps, grainy, blurry, unusable in most situations.
The time lapse works well too.
Battery life is woeful, max of 30 mins out the box. Currently on a full charge so will update when I know more, but I don't expect to get more than an hour out of the small mah battery.
Would I buy again, probably not, but I'll use this as a dash cam.

Got mine today. Want to use it as a dashcam in my car but how to make it auto recording when I will start the engine? My current dashcam is connected to 5v usb charger in to cigarette 12v lighter socket and when start engine it switch on automaticly and start recording. Want same on this one. Is it possible?

Got mine today. Want to use it as a dashcam in my car but how to make it auto recording when I will start the engine? My current dashcam is connected to 5v usb charger in to cigarette 12v lighter socket and when start engine it switch on automaticly and start recording. Want same on this one. Is it possible?

Received yesterday to use a dash cam.

It will start fine when I supply power and use driving mode but it won't complete the video and shutdown when the ignition is turned off.

Anyone else had any luck?

Anyone managed to connect this to the xdv app

No, connected to wifi but not the app.

Its complete the recording but its recording until battery will die. I tested and when battery will die and when its connected again to charger its start recording again. What we need its just to stop recording when charging is disconnected.

As well as being complete crap mine is actually faulty as well I've emailed the company to enquire about a firmware update to solve the problems of the buttons locking out, but no reply. How does one deal with faulty items? Just send it back to the UK address and do a PayPal refund if they don't respond? By the way there was a question about accessories. I got the one which is the same camera that has a remote control and it had loads of different types of camera shoes and tripod mounts, tethers, all sorts, handlebar adapters, webbing clip on Mount..

mine arrived with door of camera housing broken. where do I return to?

Last time I ever trust anything rated hot on this website, clearly people have never owned this this product or used it. You live and learn.

same here any joy in connection to the app I'm also after a remote control if anyone knows of a compatible one.

I cannot get the camera to charge whilst being used, so seems useless as a dash cam as well.
1 hour use max.

Bought this camera. It was working great for about 2 hours then as soon as I charged it up the wifi and microsd card stopped working! Waste of money :disappointed:

Delivered today but it isn't connecting to the xdv app. Has anyone had any luck with streaming over wifi please?

This cam not connecting by wifi with suggested xdv app but its working fine with GoAction app. To be honest for me its not bad device for that price, quality of recorded video is ok very good for dash cam only the problem for me is bug why its not stoping recording after power is off in driving mode.

Got mine today tbh its not bad video could do with stabilizing ,only problem i have is zoom in while video recording
when it gets to max zoom it switches wifi on and stops recording.
now £16.39 free post in flash sale no code needed.
To get WIFI streaming scan code on box download sportlook app worked for me.

Well, it arrived just 9 days after ordering, posted from a UK re-shipping address.

So far, I'm actually really impressed for £18. In fact, I now notice that it's only £16 on the site, so I think I'm going to order a second one.

I got this.. but I dont know how to fix it to a helmet. do I need to buy extra accessories for that?

Hello mate, I've just bought one! How did you mount yours in the car? Do you have to get a special adaptor?

cheers, Andy

I bought a Holder from ebay with magnetic clip and is really ok. But as said in driving mode it start recording when its start charging (start engine) but did not stop recording when charging is off. Its recording until battery will die and then next time when start engine its just switch on for few seconds and then show on screen battery low and its switching off and just keep charging without recording.
I seen there is a chance to change firmware, mayby I will try it and it will resolve my problem. I dont want to press every time stop recording when finish driving.

I bought a suction mount that screwed into the cage that the camera clipped into when not in the waterproof case.
Similar to this one :

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Spy-Tec-Suction-Standard-Cameras/dp/B00DW9UBDM/ref=pd_ys_c_rfy_461182031_0?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B00DW9UBDM&pd_rd_r=XTGVCNSDQX8X3VX6HWWX&pd_rd_w=OHbYy&pd_rd_wg=OfisE&psc=1&refRID=DZBG145A3Q6Q3FWQ2B5T

Can anyone recommend a cheap kit to expand this please - body harness, helmet mount etc

Quite a few posts in this thread asking similar:

https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/31293796https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/31178248https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/31300186https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/31119250https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/31117608
A few here, but does anyone have any recommendations? Also after bike handlebar mount http://www.ebay.co.uk/bhp/helmet-camera-mount

Just ordered for £16.39. Kind of wish I hadn't after reading some of the comments but I'll stop reading after reading that last positive one from digitaltoast who's going to order another :smile:

Hoping it's going to be fun whilst swimming/snorkelling on holiday next month but will probably find a use for it anyway as I cant' see how to cancel it on the site!

Well, I've just cycled the school run with it, and looking at the footage I'd say it was perfectly adequate.
I could see all number plates clearly. I've not updated any firmware, it was it's first "proper" outing in the real world.

I had it on full resolution, and the display was on, so the battery died after 30 minutes. Just be aware of that. I'll try it on a lower res with the screen off next time and see how it goes.

It survived 30 minutes at the bottom of a full rainwater butt without leaking, so that bit seems OK.

As long as you manage expectations about image quality (and be careful when first opening the waterproof case - ask me if you can't figure it out!) then I think you'll be quite pleased for under £17.

Ordered one, thanks. Already have the ThiEYE T5e but wanted another cheap one.