In car vehicle recorder

[Adrianli]

Qn for Xavier: I parked my car while I am on holiday last week. Asked my bro to ran the engine very two days cos I am worried that my car wouldn't start if I leave it idle for the whole week (I have the Fine Vu installed). However, my bro only tried to start it on day 3 and it was totally dead. So I wonder how long will the remaining battery power last if Magix actually cut the power to the camera? I only have alarm that is active.

 

U would have to determine how much current ur stock setup is drawing. Cos Finevu cut off at 11.6V. Then ur alarm n other stuff will continue to draw until it is beyond its ability to start the car.

 

So best is to disconnect if u are parking for a few days. Otherwise use external battery packs.

[Cormie]

Shochong has been helpful in answering his customers enquiries.

 

And mostly very helpful to me too which I appreciate greatly :) Just thought I repost the questions for anyone who can help ensure I never make such a mistake again!

[Dankoo]

Try to ans your qns to the best of my knowledge:

 

1) Is there absolutely any chance of recovering the footage even thought it was replaced with newer footage? Would a recovery specialist of recovery software help even though the card is full with new video? chances are low but if you keep writing on the same card, high chance it is not possible

2) How can I ensure, even with a small card, this never happens again? As others has pointed out, swap cards..

3) Is there an "Emergency" button anywhere on the ITB-100HD as there was on the DRS1100 where if an incident occurs, even if there's no shock to your car (imagine you see somebody else hit into a cyclist for example) you can press the button and it will save that segment and not record back over it? NO

4) What do I choose to ensure that shocks, emergencies etc are not recorded over ever, and the space they take up on the card can only be freed if I manually connect the card to the computer and delete the files? I think this is not possible

5) On the file tree list, there are the letters N, E or P beside each file. I guess N = Normal, E = Emergency and P = Parking. I have about 10 consecutive E files but no shock or emergency happened in any of the footage. How are these showing as E so and if they are showing as E, then the sensitivity must be too high, but even though they are saved as Emergency files, then if the sensitivity was too high, then it must have saved the incident where I crashed as an E file, but then recorded over it! I need to have it set so the E files are not recorded over, is this possible?

From my exp, the threshold is pretty low (and you cannot change it) for Event, it triggers quite easily, you can set to insensitive

[Dankoo]

I also remember the "format from unit" function being cited as a great feature, how can I be sure I don't do this by mistake?

 

You need to hold the button down for a couple of secs...so its unlikely this will happen....

[Cormie]

Thanks a lot for the information. That's quite unfortunate. I guess I assumed again that these would be basic functions of a car DVR so didn't even think to look into such functionality before buying. Guess I'll have to get a few spare cards and do much more regular back ups to PC!

[Aventador]

Thanks a lot for the information. That's quite unfortunate. I guess I assumed again that these would be basic functions of a car DVR so didn't even think to look into such functionality before buying. Guess I'll have to get a few spare cards and do much more regular back ups to PC!

 

I have been reading this thread since it started, and have learnt alot from it

 

you have come into the thread suddenly with an ulterior motive

 

every sentence you write is barbed and meant to criticise the itronics instead of really wanting more information.

 

The basic function of a car DVR is to record the clearest possible image

 

and for parking surveillance and night recording, the Itronics is the clearest in the market at this time

 

 

[Chuppychup]

Boss,

 

Itronics use SD card not microSD.

 

 

Wahaha, thanks for the link bros ! But it seems like if buy micro sd they dun give the adapter huh ... if got adapter den can buy liao .... can use on Itronics and my note. hahaha

[Cormie]

Why in the world would I do such a thing? I came into this thread looking for an upgrade to my DRS1100. The iTronics was said to be the absolute best available in car DVR so I bought 4 of them for my transport business! I then have an incident and find out by default, the emergency events are overwritten just as regular footage was overwritten on my DRS1100. I think it's fair to accept I'm a little disappointed that such an important function isn't available after spending so much money on a newer, more advanced device.

 

I recorded an incident at night time with my DRS1100 in one of the vans and although it's only VGA quality, was dark and low quality, it was still enough to prove to the police a bus driver wasn't to blame for an incident which resulted in a cyclist being hit. This was only an observation from my van, I wasn't involved, only a witness with the video as evidence. As soon as it happened, I was able to press the emergency button which saved and locked this segment of video so it couldn't be recorded over, no matter what new footage was recorded to the card from that point on. With the iTronics ITB100HD, it seems that if you were involved in a serious collision and were for example, knocked unconscious and taken to hospital by ambulance, but yet the camera still happened to be recording, and with high sensitivity level, with the car put on the back of a bumpy recovery truck driving the car to a storage facility, could record over the incident after an hour on the back of the truck! This to me is a pretty big flaw and this would not be the case with the unit I had before.

 

Hopefully something that can be resolved with a firmware upgrade?

Edited June 18, 2012 by Cormie

[Kiario]

Thanks a lot for the information. That's quite unfortunate. I guess I assumed again that these would be basic functions of a car DVR so didn't even think to look into such functionality before buying. Guess I'll have to get a few spare cards and do much more regular back ups to PC!

 

 

actually, unless an accident happens or something worth stomping happens, why would you need to backup the data to the PC?

 

 

[Adrianli]

Why in the world would I do such a thing? I came into this thread looking for an upgrade to my DRS1100. The iTronics was said to be the absolute best available in car DVR so I bought 4 of them for my transport business! I then have an incident and find out by default, the emergency events are overwritten just as regular footage was overwritten on my DRS1100. I think it's fair to accept I'm a little disappointed that such an important function isn't available after spending so much money on a newer, more advanced device.

 

If u like the DRS1100 so much, I still have my DRS1100PRO with me. I can sell it to you, u pay for shipment.

 

It is complete with original Toshiba 4G SD card. How does 100pounds sounds???

[Cormie]

@Kiario, even just to look over a small incident. I do regular long distance journeys, on a tight time schedule around the country and could be driving for 12 hours at a time. If I record an incident in the first hour or two, with the DRS1100 I knew I could leave it record for days and weeks after and that segment of footage would still be there locked on the card. If it was really important, I'd hook it up to the PC after the 12 hour drive.

 

With the iTronics, I'd need to either turn off the camera, use a back up card or get to a PC within say 2 hours (depending on card size), which is hassle!

 

@Adrianli, thanks for the offer, but I have 5 already!! :)

[Cormie]

Also, I edited my above post with this which may have been missed but I feel it's an important point:

 

I recorded an incident at night time with my DRS1100 in one of the vans and although it's only VGA quality, was dark and low quality, it was still enough to prove to the police a bus driver wasn't to blame for an incident which resulted in a cyclist being hit. This was only an observation from my van, I wasn't involved, only a witness with the video as evidence. As soon as it happened, I was able to press the emergency button which saved and locked this segment of video so it couldn't be recorded over, no matter what new footage was recorded to the card from that point on. With the iTronics ITB100HD, it seems that if you were involved in a serious collision and were for example, knocked unconscious and taken to hospital by ambulance, but yet the camera still happened to be recording, and with high sensitivity level, with the car put on the back of a bumpy recovery truck driving the car to a storage facility, could record over the incident after an hour on the back of the truck! This to me is a pretty big flaw and this would not be the case with the unit I had before.

[Adrianli]

@Adrianli, thanks for the offer, but I have 5 already!! :)

 

But urs not working, mine 100% working.

[Cormie]

Hehe, I had to replace 3 of them, but still have 2 working, thanks anyway! :) iTronics is certainly a better unit in terms of quality etc, but I'm hoping the flaw of not locking such important events can be rectified with a firmware upgrade?

[Aventador]

I recorded an incident at night time with my DRS1100 in one of the vans and although it's only VGA quality, was dark and low quality, it was still enough to prove to the police a bus driver wasn't to blame for an incident which resulted in a cyclist being hit.

 

With the iTronics ITB100HD, it seems that if you were involved in a serious collision and were for example, knocked unconscious and taken to hospital by ambulance, This to me is a pretty big flaw and this would not be the case with the unit I had before.

 

some more veiled barbs from you

 

well I can tell you as a car dvr user, it is much more important to me to have clear night recording, than a feature that will help me when I am "knocked unconscious"

 

anyway, why not lets put a stop to this once and for all, instead of you messing up this thread any further

 

you have 4 units IT100 that you bought 'in Ireland' from an overseas supplier

 

since you are so unhappy, I will buy them all from you and you can go back to your VGA quality car cams. provide your receipt and I will buy them for you for the full price you paid. we can make the necessary arrangements. I have friends staying in Ireland or my freight forwarders will do me a favor

 

 

[Cormie]

I'm sorry but I haven't messed this thread up at all. I'm an iTronics user who has questions about the product and is disappointed to find out it doesn't have what I deem to be a pretty essential feature in a product that is advertised as being a "black box", black boxes traditionally being used for airline crashes. Genuine questions and concerns about the product and I'm being accused of all sorts.

 

Thanks for the offer but I'll hold on to them for now and keep my fingers crossed for a firmware upgrade which allows segments to be locked.

[Aventador]

I'm sorry but I haven't messed this thread up at all. I'm an iTronics user who has questions about the product and is disappointed to find out it doesn't have what I deem to be a pretty essential feature in a product that is advertised as being a "black box", black boxes traditionally being used for airline crashes. Genuine questions and concerns about the product and I'm being accused of all sorts.

 

Thanks for the offer but I'll hold on to them for now and keep my fingers crossed for a firmware upgrade which allows segments to be locked.

 

Let the forummers make their own judgement about you

[Cormie]

As they please :)

 

Does anyone know if such a feature could be implemented via a firmware upgrade? Also, is the firmware built into the software itself? I notice the firmware version is stated when you open the software, before putting an SD card in even. On the DRS1100, you had to download a file and put it in the root directory of the SD card, then update the unit. It's a lot handier if the firmware is indeed built into the software :) I see the date on the software I have is from January, I didn't realise the ITB100HD was out so long, maybe due an upgrade soon?