Car dash cameras

There is a specified area of the windscreen that must be kept clear irrespective of an MOT. It is the same regulation that should stop you having the fluffy dice or the air freshener swinging from your rear view mirror on a piece of string.

Sun visors are allowed.

Do the police do anything other than stop people walking while drinking coffee these days?

All the ones I've seen are for left hand drive cars- although they tend not to point that out in the sales jargon. Why does it matter? The camera is mounted at a fixed angle to centralise the view.

Perhaps hidden from the driver's field of view would be more accurate. Mine is also behind the interior mirror and is not visible during normal driving.

I have the Nextbase 322GW, with the rear view camera, fixed behind the rear view mirror. The files are quite large and take a bit of time to down load to the phone and even then to see the rear view footage the file has to be downloaded to a desktop machine. I have found no way to transmit the footage on the phone to a PC other than by removing the card from the camera and putting it into a card reader. While the camera is held magnetically to the windscreen mount I find it difficult to remove it without upsetting its orientation and it can be a bit of a faff resetting it.

All in all I am pleased with it.

My Peugeot 308 has wipers that move in opposite directions (one moves clockwise from its horizontal rest position to its vertical end point; the other moves anti-clockwise) which leaves a V of uncleared screen behind the rear-view mirror. So that's the one place where I *can't* put a dashcam - because that bit of the screen is never wiped clear of rain.

I have a 522GW and it uploads to the Windows application from NexBase. Via the USB connector.

When connected to your desktop, does it just appear as an external drive? In which case one could just copy the files. What does the Windows app do?

Mine (not Nextbase) is tucked up at the top of the windscreen behind the rear view mirror. You'd only know it's there if you knew it was there.

It drops into carparking mode when the van isn't moving taking 1 picture every second for continuous recording but if it detects a knock it switches into video mode then back into carpark mode after a few minutes.

Makes for great CCTV but useless when the windscreen frosts over at night.

DDPai is the brand - bought from China and now quite a few years old.

Mount it where the tax disc used to go. ;-)

Same problem: outside the area that the wipers clear, with the added problem that the bonnet/wing partly obscures the field of view.

You can just copy the files. Both the high and low res files are there under /DCIM/VIDEO. They are .MOV files.

The Windows application allows playback, editing, sharing, prepare for insurance co., etc.

Nextbase 312GWs work well for us.

Righto, ta.

It is possible to upload the video via the Nextbase website the uploaded video doesn't include rear camera footage. Connect the phone to the PC doesn't work for me either. The only success I had was by extracting the card from the camera and inserting it into a card reader/ Then I get the full list of all video's.

Perhaps so that over zealous plod can't pull; you u for obstructing the view out the windscreen.

Good to know you think it is OK to drive with your vision obscured. ;-)

I just connected the camera to the PC via USB. It appeared as a drive and I copied the files.

Yes. It's what I do with my DSLR. Anything else seems to be an unecessary faff.