Blackvue dr500gw-hd wifi Dashcam

[Aido Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Aido]

Hi Steve,
mine turned up an hour ago, once again thank you for organising the whole thing.

[derek11 Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close derek11]

have too wait for Monday, public holiday here today in Darwin for the Darwin show, post office is closed.

[JPM21 Member Find all posts View Profile Close JPM21]

Got mine also Steve Thanks

[Wagon Man Member Find all posts View Profile Close Wagon Man]

Picked up my Altitude yesterday,

Blackvue arrived today, Perfect timing.

Thanks again Steve.

Cheers

Bill

[Beach Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close Beach]

I picked mine up from the post office today.

Thanks again Steve.

Still trying to find time to get my new toy dirty.

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Get Cracking on you video's guys..make them short, show us what you got.

Here is a quick one I knocked up, with a little help from Imovie.

Cheers
Steve

Nice vid Steve, mine's waiting for me at the local post office

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Excellent..mount it in the DASH 8 and send us some video... that would be cool, especially landings.

Hope you enjoy it in the Prado.

Cheers
Steve

Yes, the speed readout would be interesting

Not in HD, but this is the only footage I could find of the Dash 8 find at short notice:

http://youtu.be/hTsdgn-atis

http://youtu.be/MZhr0mrHSq8

[Wagon Man Member Find all posts View Profile Close Wagon Man]

Steve any chance you could post a couple of pics of your Dash cam installed as SteveM has deleted his pics.

Cheers

Bill

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Thanks Steve,

btw what brand Dash mat is that?

Cheers

Bill

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Steve How do you turn the voice off that says blackvue turning on for your safety?

Do you know how many hours it records for on the 16gb card before it records over again?

Depends on your compression - according to the manual at normal compression: Full HD, 30Fps, 4hrs 37 mins, at high compression, full HD: 7 hr 02 min

Theres a link to the English manual here. Recording times are on page 41: http://www.slideshare.net/dashcamtal...fi-user-manual

Steve any chance you could post a couple of pics of your Dash cam installed as SteveM has deleted his pics.

Cheers

Bill

I copied SteveM's install (mostly) Let me know if you want some photos, not sure if yours is the same. Mine's a 120.? Run cable along roof lining, down behind drivers pillar trim (two bolts to remove it), pass cable through gap into footwell (unlike SteveM I didn't remove the footwell trim, I found if I doubled the cable over I could thread it through the gap and then pulled the cig adaptor through. ) I ran it behind the trim to the power outlet, and just cable tied the excess and hid it behind the drivers kick panel.
At some point I'll run it to the aux battery for permanent power so I've left the final section exposed - Steve ran his behind the trim.

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I copied SteveM's install (mostly) Let me know if you want some photos, not sure if yours is the same. Mine's a 120.? Run cable along roof lining, down behind drivers pillar trim (two bolts to remove it), pass cable through gap into footwell (unlike SteveM I didn't remove the footwell trim, I found if I doubled the cable over I could thread it through the gap and then pulled the cig adaptor through. ) I ran it behind the trim to the power outlet, and just cable tied the excess and hid it behind the drivers kick panel.
At some point I'll run it to the aux battery for permanent power so I've left the final section exposed - Steve ran his behind the trim.

r4ndll,

if you could post those pics of the install that would be great.

Cheers

Bill

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Would I be right in guessing the power lead is a standard 'small' USB connector and that you can plug the Blackvue directly into a PC with a USB lead? The reason I ask is that is what my current dashcam power supply is like. I have modified the one from my existing dashcam so that it is directly wired into power in my roof console - it's currently connected to the switched main battery power but all I have to do is move one wire and it will be connected to the permanent aux battery power. This will make installation even easier than I thought

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Oh well, it was worth a try. That raises another question though - I thought you were able to connect it to a PC and use the software they provide on the PC - is this not the case?

Another question, can you download the video through the WiFi or do you have to unplug the memory card and copy it direct from there (like I do on my existing one)?

[Aido Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Aido]

I have a 32 gb card in mine.

Steve, did you just use any 32gb card or do you need to grab a Pittasoft one with the program etc on it?

cheers

Adrian

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Oh well, it was worth a try. That raises another question though - I thought you were able to connect it to a PC and use the software they provide on the PC - is this not the case?

Another question, can you download the video through the WiFi or do you have to unplug the memory card and copy it direct from there (like I do on my existing one)?

You can't connect the camera directly to the PC. You use the microSD card. The software automatically points to the card location when connected but you can change the location if you want eg you've downloaded the files to another location.

You can connect via wifi, but it seems rather slow. Not sure what the range is either.
1. Connect to the Blackvue WiFi network.
2. Type "ftp://191.168.8.1/Blackvue/Record/" into your browser (It is ftp: not http You will see all the files there.

Apparently http://192.168.8.1/blackvue_live.cgi will give you the live feed, but I haven't tried it.