AKEEYO NV-X Super Night Vision

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I have bought two of these units back to back, one for the girlfriend's car. One for my own car. The girlfriend's car using the lighter socket. Hardwired for my car. Both have a tendency to shut down on their own, overheating issue? Do love the fact the rear camera can be mounted inside the vehicle, inside the sweep radius of the back wiper. The only really bad issue so far is the Unexplained shutdowns.

If you’re planning on hiding everything under the panels, the cable for the front camera might be a little short. It might be long enough if you mount the monitor on the rear view mirror. Comparing my non-powered rear view mirror and the Akeeyo dashcam, images from the dashcam appear farther away. Power for the Akeeyo NVX dashcam comes from a aux 12v socket (stock), and I have a Bluetooth transmitter (to connect to my phone) in the regulator 12v socket. They are both on the same circuit and I think the fuse is 15 amps. At lower volumes, everything is okay. At higher volumes, the Bluetooth transmitter might be using more power, so the Akeeyo monitor flickers. The main reason I got this was to see better at night. I mounted the monitor on my dashboard (in the center). That way, I just need to glance down to see what’s further down the road. On dark roads, I can see better with the dashcam, but I’m not sure if I could react quickly enough if there was a person walking on the road. If I got another dashcam, I would want a taller screen (same length). At speeds below 25 mph, I can react quickly enough. Above that, it’s hard. I hope to get better with some practice. It takes me a few moments to recognize people/animals on the screen, and by then, I’ve traveled many yards. The glare from oncoming traffic makes it really hard to see at night. Installation was easy, but the wires are really short. The SD card was easy to format, but I’ll be installing a larger one soon. Overall, this is a pretty good dashcam.

The only reason I did not give all the stars is because the unit goes dark for no reason randomly, but not often. I simply power off, then power back on and the picture lights up. I unplugged then re-plugged the camera just in case, I checked for kinks - the wire kind not the good kind - and found none. It just randomly shuts down the pic. OTHERWISE, this thing rocks. Oh, and if the cam gets wet in the rain, you will see a very blurry picture until the water drips off. . Good product - pretty easy to install for a dork like me . .

After installation I'd have to say that the device works as expected. Super night vision is great. I can see using it to survey the area before you get out of your vehicle. The most unexpected feature that I think I'm going the most use out of is the voice command "take picture" when we see awesome stuff. It's going to take some getting used to seeing headlights pass from the oncoming left lane and then in your peripheral vision seeing someone pass on the right when viewing the front camera. This kinda makes you feel like someone from a side street is about to hit you. The screen is bright at night. I bought some window tint and taped it over the screen it helped. In the end tilting the screen helped the most. It looks odd when you have the rear view mirror pointed towards the passenger seat. With the tint the opposite problem occurred during the day it was too dim so go figure. If they make future versions it'd be nice if there was an easy way to switch from day/night mode or a daylight sensor that auto-adjusted brightness. 3 levels of screen brightness isn't enough. The unit will automatically lock videos if you go over something like a cattle guard so you might want to disable the g-sensor or be prepared to delete a bunch of locked videos. If you're driving on a road in the middle of the night it will see animals on the side of the road but unfortunately - for me at least - it doesn't allow you much more reaction time than driving with your brights on at a safe speed. Which was one of the reasons I was attracted to this device.

Loved the idea of this camera and the night quality of it and both were really nice.......while it worked. I only had it a few months at most before it just stopped working. Which for how expensive this set up was, I was very disappointed and unpleased. Definitely not worth the steep price! Especially for at best 3 month life span. Which nothing was even exposed to outside elements. Everything was inside my truck cab. Also the instructions and paper work was very limited and not very useful as far as English went.