Preface

With the development of society, more and more families have cars. Some families even have more than one car. With the popularity of cars, road congestion, road rage, and porcelain bumps, it is increasingly important to ensure safe driving to avoid arbitrary congestion, malicious lane changes, porcelain bumps and other situations. But sometimes you can't say clearly without monitoring, video and other evidence, so you should equip your car with a high-definition driving recorder to prevent accidents, It is particularly important to restore the truth at a critical moment. 360 has been committed to complete the network, and has been involved in the automobile travel safety industry for several years. It has launched several versions of the DASH CAM Love to play computer games The rear-view mirror version of 360 DASH CAM is its latest product. Although I have not used 360 DASH CAM before, I believe that the rear-view mirror version of the DASH CAM will be greatly improved compared with the previous versions of the product. What is its performance? Is it worth buying? Let me explain in detail.

Unpacking

The outer packing box of the recorder is made of environment-friendly kraft paper, and the design is very simple. Only the product name is printed on the front, and there is a label with product model, design, manufacturer and other information on the back.

When you open the box, you will feel that it is clearly the rearview mirror, only there are five buttons below. Remember to remove the protective film from the mirror before use. In fact, a 5-inch LCD screen is embedded in the mirror, and there is an inductive switch on the upper left side of the mirror, which is used to take pictures with gestures at any time.

The lens of 360 DASH CAM is a 5P spherical glass lens set, F2.0 large aperture, 140 ° ultra wide angle and a piece of infrared filter. It is a high-definition camera capable of shooting full HD 1080p resolution video. Before use, remove the lens protective cover. The installation of the recorder does not need to remove the original rear-view mirror. It is directly bound to the original rear-view mirror through an adjustable soft rubber belt. A soft rubber pad is added to the place directly contacting the rear-view mirror surface, which can ensure that both of them can play a buffer role in bumping when sticking well. The design is very considerate. The RESET reset key is located on the back of the fuselage. I don't like this design very much. Although the trial probability of the RESET reset key is very low, it is still troublesome to operate when it really needs to be reset and the tachograph needs to be removed. It is recommended to design it on the front panel, which can adopt the style of invisible reset hole.

There are three interfaces on the top of 360 DASH CAM, namely power cable interface, TF card slot and expansion interface. The EXT expansion interface reserved in this place gives me a lot of ideas. Will the future upgrade support GPS or can it be connected to the rear camera? It's worth looking forward to.

360 DASH CAM rear-view mirror version is equipped with a 3.5m long Mirco USB power cable as standard, which can completely meet the requirements of hidden wiring along the corners of various models. In addition, a special wiring tool is also provided as a gift. The power supply of the recorder is 5V1.5A, which can be connected to the cigarette lighter interface through the vehicle USB power supply head. You can first look at the list of products and accessories: 360 DASH CAM * 1, power cord * 1, on-board USB power supply head * 1, special tools for wiring * 1, adjustable rubber strap * 2, instructions * 1 and simple installation instructions * 1 (the back can be used as a temporary parking phone number plate).

Installation

Through the above introduction, we have a preliminary understanding of the 360 DASH CAM rear-view mirror version. Next, we will install it in place. First, insert the TF card into the card slot, otherwise it will be difficult to install the TF card after the recorder is installed. Then connect the power cord plug to the Micro USB interface of the recorder, and finally fix the tachograph to the rearview mirror with two rubber straps.

Next, we are going to route the power cord, which requires you to have a good plan to hide the power cord as far as possible to achieve a practical and beautiful effect. This process will use the complimentary routing tools.

During the installation process, I found that there was a problem that needed to be improved. It was not easy to fix the line that was finally connected to the power supply interface. It was suggested that 3 or 4 fixing clips similar to the one below with 3M glue should be provided randomly to fix the line on the interior trim panel of the car, which would be more beautiful.

It can work normally after being connected to the power supply. Sometimes my car has more equipment connected to it, and the lines are messy. Please ignore it.

The following figure shows the effect after installation. It is perfectly integrated with the original rearview mirror without destroying the overall aesthetic feeling. Except that there is a section of power cord exposed on the back of the recorder, the others are very well hidden. I feel that the 360 DASH CAM is clearer than the original rearview mirror when it is used as a rearview mirror in the silent screen state. I don't know whether it is psychological or true. Anyway, the clarity is very high. Please ignore the effect of my rear windshield, because it is too dirty, and the rain has just stopped for a week.

Experience

A mule or a horse can only be known when it is pulled out. After all the installation and connection are completed, we will experience the true ability of the 360 DASH CAM rear-view mirror version. Personally, it is recommended to format the TF card with the DASH CAM for the first time. First, to prevent viruses. Second, the default directory stored by each device is different. Compatibility after formatting will better reduce the probability of failure. Select "Settings" in the main interface, and then select "Format TF Memory Card" to complete the TF card formatting task.

After the power is turned on, the DASH CAM will automatically start and start recording. The words "Recording in progress" will be displayed on the upper left of the screen. At the same time, there will be emergency, recording, album, settings and other menus at the lower part of the screen, which can be responded by the corresponding function keys below. You can view videos and take photos with gestures through the album menu. In the "Settings", you can mainly set the video resolution, speaker volume, gesture taking switch, WiFi password, parking monitoring switch, screen automatic closing time (with three options of closing, 30 seconds, and 1 minute), format TF card, etc. After simple settings, you can connect to the mobile phone APP through WiFi. The recorder screen can be turned off by gently pressing the power off key to view the rear-view mirror. The factory default is to turn off the screen without any operation for 30 seconds. In addition, there are two options: turning off the automatic screen off function to keep the screen displayed and turning off the automatic screen off function for 1 minute.

The camera of the DASH CAM has four-way adjustment and small angle rotation functions, which can be manually adjusted to ensure the best picture angle.

Speaking of the mobile app of 360 DASH CAM, I have to say a few words of praise. We can not only view and download videos and photos in the recorder through the app, but also share the videos we downloaded to the mobile phone on the network. On the main page, there are three sections: service, popularity and discovery. In the service section, there are service information such as product purchase, door-to-door installation, installation guide, and violation exposure. In the popularity and discovery section, we can see videos and photos shared by netizens, including accidents and beautiful scenery along the way.

Click the "+" at the bottom of the APP main interface to add a device, select the recorder model, and connect via WIFI. There is no password by default. It is recommended to set a password after connecting. After completing the above operations, you can view, download and share videos and photos in the recorder.

At the same time, we can view real-time images through mobile APP.

In addition, in addition to viewing and downloading videos or photos through APP, we can take video screenshots and simple video clips at any time. These two functions are very simple and practical, especially when we need to provide video or photo evidence.

The most important function of the DASH CAM is video recording. I want to give you an intuitive understanding of the performance of the 360 DASH CAM rear-view mirror version through several groups of videos. The 360 DASH CAM rear-view mirror version videos are stored in different periods of time, one video is stored every minute, and the capacity is about 80M. The daytime imaging effect is very good, and the color restoration is relatively good. With a wide angle of 140 °, the picture recording range is very wide, and can completely cover the left and right lanes. Pedestrians and road signs are very clear.

The performance effect in rainy days is also excellent.

In fact, it is not a problem for most tachographs to take a clear picture of the road conditions in bright days and relatively bright rainy days. The key is to see the definition of the night driving record video. The following video is the night shooting effect of the rearview mirror version of 360 DASH CAM. From the picture, we can see that the license plates of the front car and the left lane can be distinguished very well, and the road signs can also be seen very clearly, but the noise in the image is still very obvious.

The rearview mirror version of 360 DASH CAM supports the gesture photography function. As long as you wave your hand in the sensing area, you can complete the photography, and the photography process does not affect the video recording. When you encounter some pictures you want to record during driving, you can just wave your hand gently, and the driving safety will not be affected. I really want to kill him when I meet this guy. I'm joking. In fact, it's good to take a photo and expose it to him. It was raining when I took this photo. The light was not very good, and I can still see the license plate number clearly. I will give him a chance not to reveal the license plate number for the time being.

Another important function of the rearview mirror version of 360 DASH CAM is the parking monitoring function. When you lock the car and leave, the recorder will use the built-in battery to work, and the built-in gravity sensor of the recorder will automatically turn on the emergency recording function when the vehicle is hit or severe vibration, and save 1 minute of video recording. Select "Parking monitoring" from the "Setting" option on the main interface of the recorder to enable this function. The sensitivity can be selected in high and low gear. During the test, there is no special case during the parking process. Manual setting enables the recorder to enter the parking monitoring mode for testing. Closing the door can trigger the emergency recording function. In the actual test, it is found that the endurance ability of the built-in lithium battery is very ordinary, and it can work for half an hour at most. Of course, the parking emergency video will not be turned on generally, so this is not too important. Collision or severe turbulence during driving will also trigger the opening of emergency video recording function. Emergency videos will be stored separately and will not be overwritten or deleted by normal cycle videos. The earliest emergency video files will be overwritten automatically unless the emergency video reaches the TF card storage limit. Personally, I think this function is very practical, which can prevent collisions or videos in special circumstances from being repeatedly covered and cannot be found.

Summary

After a period of trial, I am very satisfied with the performance of this DASH CAM. The installation is very simple and will not damage the overall aesthetic feeling of the original vehicle; The starting speed is very fast, which can be said to be seconds; Both the appearance design and the basic video recording function are very good during the day, rain and night; At the same time, parking monitoring function and gesture photography function are also added; Good stability, no use failure occurred during the period. Of course, there is still room for improvement. The capacity of the built-in lithium battery is too small, and the battery powered endurance is slightly poor; The recording storage time is only 1 minute. If you can choose more options, for example, you can choose 1 minute or 3 minutes to store a video file; The expansion port of EXT has left a lot of room for imagination, and we look forward to expanding more functions in the future. At the price of 499 yuan, the comprehensive cost performance ratio of so many functions is very high, which is worth having.

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