Similar to a video camera, you can use the Manual Recording Mode to capture events that occur in front of your vehicle whether or not it is in motion. Open the unzipped Speed Cam Data file, and copy the “Smartguidepoint.dx2” file onto the driveinfo folder. If the driveinfo folder doesn’t exist in the root directory of your MicroSD card, please create one. After researching over 30 dash cams and testing a few I felt that the Thinkware F800 Pro would be the best choice. tugging on it to remove it, then we’ll have enough of a gap to continue threading the cable through the “B”

Motion blur could be a bit better as it is not always easy to see licence plates, although it is clearer if you pause the video sometimes. A CPL filter would be very useful, but given CPL support for dash-cams as a whole it might be a long time (if at all) coming. I tried a supplier who had one for the F770, and "in August" they did not have a F800 let alone a CPL filter.

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If a second or third impact is detected, an additional push notification alert of the impact is sent to the user’s smartphone.

Using the battery, and the spliced cabling for the F800, the camera has functioned as its supposed to.

Various autonomous recording modes

Note: This review is part of our roundup of the best dash cams. Go there for details about competing products and how we tested them. Features and design to make sure you get a nice complete crimp here so you don’t have any intermittent power issues later. Then

The Thinkware F800 Pro can’t compete for sheer detail against the 4K-enabled Nextbase 612GW, but with compression that isn’t too aggressive, video quality is still very good. There’s enough detail to read identifying text such as number plates, and the F800 Pro copes well with high contrast, which is one of the features Thinkware claims in its marketing materials. The most unique capabilities of the F800 Pro come from its cloud services, however. These include the ability to geofence an area, so you can be notified when your car containing the F800 Pro leaves this area. It can also provide notification when an impact occurs to your vehicle, as well as the ability to locate your vehicle when parked. On you night cam, try looking at the ones that are marketed to Uber and taxi drivers. I have seen some, and the provided video looks good. But as we know a real hands on is the only true test. outlet, or direct-wire harness. This box happens to have the car charger cable in it, but we won’t be using thatTIME LAPSE MODE in the F800 PRO records 2 frames per second reducing the size of the video file. This allows video recordings in parking mode to continue up to 10 times longer than the motion detection recording. My question is: doesn't any owner of F800 Pro get the front collision function work? Is it a software issue which might get fixed with a future software update? Or do I have to accurately align my dash cam with the guidelines in live view?