[EddieA]

Got everything squared away with hard wiring and its fully working! Wasn't too difficult to install and run wires through the car. This thing records front and back, so I feel somewhat better when I park the car or if sh*t* happens. Here are some pics.

Don't know about the 550, but on the 380, the motion sensor for the parking capture is really sensitive.

Also I find that the videos captured while driving are mostly "Event" videos, not "Normal" ones. I have a feeling that the software doesn't compensate for normal gravity in the up/down plane, and so exceeds 1G at the slightest bump.

Cheers.

 

[EddieA]

can you tune the sensor settings on the 380 ?

The DR550's settings are configured via the viewer with changes saved to a config file on the microSD card. The camera then reads this settings file at start-up.

Yes, the 380 is the same.

The second page of the viewer allows you to fine tune the sensitivity settings that trigger an event recording in normal mode and a recording in parking mode. Too sensitive a setting and every pothole triggers an event. Too insensitive and a real bump may not trigger it. Advanced configuration allows you to review an event file that triggered the sensor and adjust the thresholds accordingly

I have the G-Sensor for normal recording wound down to it's lowest setting:

But it still records nearly everything as an Event:

And here's why I think there is a bug in the software, which doesn't compensate for normal gravity:

Note that the Z-Axis is always around the 1G mark. Even at the lowest sensitivity, 1G is the trigger point.

The Parking mode G-Sensor is separate and I haven't really tried to calibrate that one.

Cheers.