iMars X5 car dash camera test

As for its operation, it does not run on a battery, but on a capacitor. There is absolutely no action in it, so a also records the date only via WiFi, but it also follows that it is much more resistant to cold/heat than battery-powered solutions, so it has a longer service life. It is important that you connect to the camera's WiFi network with your phone and that the camera uses the exact time during recording, because they are added to the bottom of the recordings as a date stamp and these can later be used for proof procedures with a good chance.

Another very important feature is the G-sensor, which is nothing more than an acceleration sensor. This locks – makes it read-only – the recordings in the event of a collision, and also marks them, which also comes in handy for dispute resolution. These are not deleted by the camera loop function neither, i.e. overwriting the old recordings.

As for the video, it really delivers FHD resolution and 140 degree viewing angle. Quality by day more than satisfactory, it's a little worse in the evening or at night, but I don't see any dramatic deterioration, we can't complain about it in the category under HUF 10. You can also increase the resolution in the GoLook application You can also change to 2304×1296 and between H264 and H265 codecs.

One of its best features is that it starts recording automatically as soon as we start the car, making it a reliable choice even for the forgetful, or a ACC cable – which is nothing but the abbreviation of accessory – help the device is continuous for parking supervision can also be used.

I don't know how other users will feel about it, but we turned off the sound notifications because the messages coming from the speaker they are almost incomprehensible, we thought it better not to disturb each other's circles. When turned on The device tells us 3 things: 1. Initialized the SD card, 2. started the recording, 3. set the time, i.e. connect to it with your phone. Here it is important to note that before first use it is format your card incorrectly in the application settings, otherwise it will not be detected. One thing I missed was the presence of GPS, but the low price compensates for that.

We had a problem with the wiring, but this could also be the fault of our car.

We wouldn't have cried if the manufacturer had given us a wiring guide, or at least we could find some usable video on the net, but unfortunately this was not the case with the Peugeot 307 SW. We finally added the In addition to a 128 GB SDXC memory card, a 2 meter long USB C cable is. There are three connection methods:

1. If we want the parking mode, then we have to connect the camera to the fuse panel. To do this, we had to fish out the small book of our car, which contains the drawing and description of the fuse plate, in order to find in the passenger side fuse plate the 12 V plug, the red The ACC cable must be attached to a fuse that provides power even after the car is stopped, but here you have to be careful not to pull out a diagnostic connector, internal computer, or ABS that would ruin your car, just put it in the place of a non-vital unit. There is one on the cable from the factory There is a 15 A fuse, so it is advisable to replace one. Do not plug in a fuse that by default has a current rating of less than 15 A! For example, our driving school, parking assistant fuse was also 15 A. The ground wire should usually be inserted under a screw next to the fuse panel. Our car already had a grounding cable under one of the screws, so we could have easily connected it there.
2. In the app, you must set the voltage at which the device should turn off, so that it does not accidentally drain the battery. Based on our description It can be connected in 20 minutes, but if you are completely blind, it takes about 1 hour, along with a lot of nervousness. Since in our car, the ACC cable should have been connected to the fuse panel in the engine compartment, for which we would have had to use the help of a mechanic, so we skipped this connection method.
3. Plugged into a cigarette lighter, however, for this they do not provide a charging unit, so you have to take care of it yourself. Another disadvantage of this method is that the cable cannot be routed properly, so it will swing in front of your radio and ACC cannot be used with it either.
4. What we chose, if you have a radio like ours, this is the easiest connection method. We have one Yunsun is our central unit, from which they come out USB connectors in the glove compartment, we finally connected it in about 20 minutes, with nicely hidden cables.

Here, I should note that, contrary to what is written on the data sheet, the device works without problems with a 5 V connection for us, 12 V was not necessary.

I encountered two disturbing factors during the trip:

• one is that the instruction manual is a bit writes misleadingly about the voice assistant, which this product is not capable of, so no matter how much you yell at him to "Take a photo!", nothing will happen,
• and the other is one for the cable coming out of the device I experienced a minimal contact error, if I accidentally moved it, it restarted immediately, so it's better not to mess with it and then it will work perfectly.