DASHCAM FITTED!
It doesn't work properly.
What it's supposed to do is record 120 second clips back-to-back ad infinitum, and every time it fills up the MicroSD card it returns to the start and starts overwriting the oldest ones.
What it's actually doing is sort of 'resetting' itself every so often, seemingly at random after 45 seconds or 60 seconds or 90 seconds or whatever.
For some reason it misbehaved terribly on the way to work this morning, you can see all the little tiddly files when it simply stopped recording and then started again, which also leaves a gap of about 5-6 seconds whilst it resets and starts recording again.
However on the way home it was mostly OK, all the files of about 343MB are where it worked properly and rolled over cleanly into the next one, but it still crapped out a couple of times.
It has motion sensor activation which stops the recording after 5 seconds if no movement is detected, and then starts again when movement is detected, which is what happened for the last two clips, which is fine, but for all the crap outs it did this morning I was driving over the mountain in heavy rain, so no way it wasn't detecting movement.
It's clearly not working properly, so I'll pop back down to the place where it was fitted. I've checked the Blaukpunkt website and there are no software updates for it, and I've gone through all the various settings and nothing in there explains what it's doing.
The fitting itself is a really nice job though, he's mounted it to the left of the rear view mirror/sensor cluster, and there's a really short wire run that disappears into the roof panel out of sight - the guy is well known here for doing splendidly tidy wiring jobs.
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