Event recording in parking mode with dr550 custom v1.3

[RichC]

I am using the Dr550 custom firmware 1.3

When the camera is in parking mode it doesn't record events at all
It does record motion triggered events but not g sensor triggered events at all - if I tap the camera to force an event to record nothing happens!

Has this function been removed from the firmware for some reason?

RichC

[welder]

Hi, sensitivity of g-sensor was decrease by half in firmware 1.3

[RichC]

I have the parking mode gsensor sensitivity set to 100% and even tapping the camera fairly hard won't get it to trigger a recording so it looks as though it's not working in this version

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[RichC]

Just a quick update after using the firmware for a while..

The gsensor does trigger a recording in parking mode, but I have it set to 100% sensitivity and it takes a really hard knock to get it to record .. slamming a door will do it but it really needs to be more sensitive .. can this be increased in the next version?

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[Siewert308SW]

Posted the text below also in the custom firmware thread.
But my experience is just the other way around.
I know it's double cross post but seems not a lot of users are reading the original Custom Firmware thread.

As far as i know setting motion detection to 0 in the stock and older firmware didn't disable it but instead it recorded all the time.

Last night i was testing my new setup on my drive way.
The DR550 is just 7 months old but the power Magic Pro i installed is new.
At the moment i have DR550GW_2.002_1.3 Custom firmware running.
And the Power Magic Pro is set to shutdown at 11.8volt or 12hr as i want for a typical working day.
I set the Motion Detection sensitivity to 1 according my knowledge about the 0 setting bug in stock firmware.
At work my car is parked in a busy street and don't want to record everything.

So this test was on my drive way and the car is parked approx 20meters from the road and the nose of my car is pointing on a 90 degrees angle to the road.
Left side of the car is the wall of my house and right side my neighbors car and their house.
Behind the car only my 2meters high fence
This morning i checked the sdcard and noticed it was recording a lot (almost continues).
Only time it didn't record a lot was when it got dark but then it was triggered by passing cars.
The distance from my car to the road is 20meters so even then setting it to 1 triggered the motion detector.
In light and dawn conditions the camera was continues recording in park mode due to over flying birds and passing cats.
It even triggered on the light bulb in the living room of my neighbor across which is approx 30 meters.

Setting it to 1 will mean that it triggers on birds and cats walking by at a distance of approx 20 meters.
So the first test didn't work well and the Power Magic Pro shut it self down after 10hr parking mode as my battery went below 11.8 volts.
In my opinion the motion detector is way to sensitive and the due to the almost continues recording my battery went empty way to fast.
Which makes the parking mode for a day at work useless.
The battery is new and in the summer my car (diesel) will start with just 11.8volts but in colder conditions as today (5 °C / 41 ºF
) it has difficulties so i hold my breath for the winter. ;-)

So to make a long story short.
Does the latest custom firmware have the motion detection fixed meaning setting it to 0 it only records when the g-sensors are triggered.
Or is it still recording continues.


Added/Добавлено: 28 Сентября 2014, 23:18:18Have to come back on your problem.
Seems my DR550 with the latest firmware is also affected.
But first i want to say setting the motion detection to 0 is indeed 0.
Meaning the motion detection isn't working as i expected.
But now another bug.
The g-sensor isn't triggered in parking mode.
It doesn't matter which sensitivity you set it to it won't trigger.
It only triggers if i give my camera a really strong slap.
I set it to 100% sensitivity meaning it is set to really sensitive.
So temporally disabled my Power Magic Pro and Parking mode as it is useless now.

[Siewert308SW]

Сообщение от RichC

Just a quick update after using the firmware for a while..

The gsensor does trigger a recording in parking mode, but I have it set to 100% sensitivity and it takes a really hard knock to get it to record .. slamming a door will do it but it really needs to be more sensitive .. can this be increased in the next version?

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Talked to Alex last night.
Explained him what is going on and what and how to reproduce the issue.
Seems like we are on our own as he he said he doesn't have the issue.
So don't expect a fix for this issue.
Going to try the latest stock firmware to test again if the issue is reproducible on stock...

[K2mil]

Having same problem with sensitivity in PARKING MODE event will not trigger at all. Did anyone found the fix ? 

[DenisSharifulin]

K2mil,
in progress.