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IROCZman15 · 12-23-2020, 02:02 PM

Cool, thanks for the reply. Your concept of it turning on and recording in a loop once the car is started is exactly what i want also. I'm not concerned with the parking monitoring, but I understand that you could benefit from it. I have read about the sensitivity being too much for some dash cams, and in racing or aggressive street driving, that would be a nuisance for me. I agree that the law enforcement style setup is probably what I am gravitating towards. Something with an onboard DVR box and hardwired. Recording in a loop that over-writes itself if nothing is told to be saved... and with a 30 second pre-record to save footage 30 seconds prior to being activated. We used the watchguard program at work. Prior to that we used Arbitrator.

I've emailed a few dash-cam companies recently, and the response I get is that they typically only cater to companies/customers who have large fleets of vehicles. I basically wasn't going to be their customer, so they just gave me the generic reply of " sorry we can't help, try searching online". I get it.

I started looking online on https://dashcamtalk.com/ and started a forum post (exactly the same text as I wrote above) hoping to get some guidance. We'll see... maybe. I am not a tech guy, so some of the tech jargon is way over my head. I know what i am hoping to find, but I don't know if it exists.

I'm kinda thinking that I might wind up having to sacrifice some of my wants/needs and get something like this: https://freemanscarstereo.com/produc...BoCjbEQAvD_BwE
which I can hard-wire with a setup like this: https://www.amazon.com/Hardwire-Dash...a-845157931625

12-23-2020, 02:02 PM	#4
IROCZman15 10 Second Club / Meet Coordinator Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Roxbury, NJ Posts: 2,101 iTrader: (8)	Cool, thanks for the reply. Your concept of it turning on and recording in a loop once the car is started is exactly what i want also. I'm not concerned with the parking monitoring, but I understand that you could benefit from it. I have read about the sensitivity being too much for some dash cams, and in racing or aggressive street driving, that would be a nuisance for me. I agree that the law enforcement style setup is probably what I am gravitating towards. Something with an onboard DVR box and hardwired. Recording in a loop that over-writes itself if nothing is told to be saved... and with a 30 second pre-record to save footage 30 seconds prior to being activated. We used the watchguard program at work. Prior to that we used Arbitrator. I've emailed a few dash-cam companies recently, and the response I get is that they typically only cater to companies/customers who have large fleets of vehicles. I basically wasn't going to be their customer, so they just gave me the generic reply of " sorry we can't help, try searching online". I get it. I started looking online on https://dashcamtalk.com/ and started a forum post (exactly the same text as I wrote above) hoping to get some guidance. We'll see... maybe. I am not a tech guy, so some of the tech jargon is way over my head. I know what i am hoping to find, but I don't know if it exists. I'm kinda thinking that I might wind up having to sacrifice some of my wants/needs and get something like this: https://freemanscarstereo.com/produc...BoCjbEQAvD_BwE which I can hard-wire with a setup like this: https://www.amazon.com/Hardwire-Dash...a-845157931625 __________________ 1987 IROC-Z - modified Last edited by IROCZman15; 12-23-2020 at 02:49 PM.