Dashcam issues

[Rafis29]

Anyone else figure out how to properly power up a dash cam? I plugged in my old Aukey cam via USB into a 12volt charger and noticed that the lightning keeps the 12v powered up after the truck is off.
So I purposely bought a OBD power source. It has a switch that recognizes when the truck is off and is supposed to power down the camera after 5 minutes. To my surprise the truck kept supplying power via the OBD port. Either that or the switch on the device doesn’t work. Sucks. Thought I had it figured out.

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[Whammy Bar]

Anyone else figure out how to properly power up a dash cam? I plugged in my old Aukey cam via USB into a 12volt charger and noticed that the lightning keeps the 12v powered up after the truck is off.
So I purposely bought a OBD power source. It has a switch that recognizes when the truck is off and is supposed to power down the camera after 5 minutes. To my surprise the truck kept supplying power via the OBD port. Either that or the switch on the device doesn’t work. Sucks. Thought I had it figured out.

I'm just going to tap the back of the mirror when I get mine.

 

[Rafis29]

I'm just going to tap the back of the mirror when I get mine.

I wonder if that will cut the power when the truck is “off.”

starting to seem like it’s always going to be ”powered up.”

 

[O’Majestic1’slightnigF150]

And that’s a problem? Super duty’s after ‘16 power down after 300 seconds / 5 minutes. Prior years were always on. The power supply time is programmable. I forgot the range but Forscan will allow modification from 0 seconds to 99,999 or something fairly high. I reprogrammed our ‘22 Superduty to the max just for the surveillance capability provided by the dashcam. When we park at home In the garage and they don’t move for longer than a week we do unplug the dashcam. It will drain both batteries.

 

[Rafis29]

I’ll look into the forscan programming. My device is suppose to time itself out at 5 minutes. The problem isn’t the truck. It’s the device (somehow it doesn’t recognize the truck as “off”).

Now Ill have to find a work around…hopefully the programming does the trick. hopefully it can be a future over the air update setting or something

 

[Whammy Bar]

And that’s a problem? Super duty’s after ‘16 power down after 300 seconds / 5 minutes. Prior years were always on. The power supply time is programmable. I forgot the range but Forscan will allow modification from 0 seconds to 99,999 or something fairly high. I reprogrammed our ‘22 Superduty to the max just for the surveillance capability provided by the dashcam. When we park at home In the garage and they don’t move for longer than a week we do unplug the dashcam. It will drain both batteries.

Think the max is 4500 seconds - feel like I saw that in a video somewhere.

 

[Firestop]

Anyone else figure out how to properly power up a dash cam? I plugged in my old Aukey cam via USB into a 12volt charger and noticed that the lightning keeps the 12v powered up after the truck is off.
So I purposely bought a OBD power source. It has a switch that recognizes when the truck is off and is supposed to power down the camera after 5 minutes. To my surprise the truck kept supplying power via the OBD port. Either that or the switch on the device doesn’t work. Sucks. Thought I had it figured out.

I’m interested in the solution you com up with as I too plan to install a dash cam when mine arrives. I don’t want to install Ford’s version, but I’ve been looking at the installation instructions for their dash cam to see if it will provide me any ideas on where to tap.

I don’t know if this provides anything that relates to the EV version, but I’d be interested in your thoughts……

https://www.fordservicecontent.com/Ford_Content/Catalog/accessory_files/Ford_Thinkware_DashCam_K.pdf

 

[merek]

I wish Ford would just sell us a software switch for $500 or whatever to just record and tap into the existing cameras in the truck, and save them to an SD card.

 

[It's Just Me]

I have a Street Guardian that worked fine in my '15 F-150. Since the second I installed the same unit in the Lightning it has been, very whacky. Chirping frequently, I can't access the menu, frozen screen.

It plugs into the cigarette lighter outlet.

It's driving me nutty. Nice to see (sarcastically) that I am not the only one with this issue with their dash cam.

 

[Avocadodude]

I wish Ford would just sell us a software switch for $500 or whatever to just record and tap into the existing cameras in the truck, and save them to an SD card.

Exactly

 

[beatle]

I wish Ford would just sell us a software switch for $500 or whatever to just record and tap into the existing cameras in the truck, and save them to an SD card.

If this is just software, they'd probably get raked over the coals for charging for a feature that Tesla gives people for free. If it requires hardware, I can't see them adding it to the truck at this point. I'd love to be wrong though as I think it's a great feature.

 

[FlasherZ]

A lot of it depends upon the processing power available to the truck's systems, storage speeds, and what the camera subsystems are able to do. Displaying real-time camera information while parking is pretty easy to do - handling multiple frames, efficiently encoding them into a video file, and getting them onto flash storage at speed are a bit more difficult.

I do love that feature in the Tesla, and I hope that Ford would at least have some foresight to design it in, but perhaps that's just a cost too much for them if they're using lower-powered processors or slower flash. Choice of operating systems can also make a difference, if they have to write a lot of code to get there.

 

[PopsGG]

Ford and ADT announced Canopy. It's a subscription service that does what Tesla sentry mode does, but I don't think it's ready yet.

 

[Firestop]

Ford and ADT announced Canopy. It's a subscription service that does what Tesla sentry mode does, but I don't think it's ready yet.

https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/fna/us/en/news/2022/01/18/ford-and-adt.html

 

[Rafis29]

Subscriptions are a HUGE no for me. The day that Ford,or any manufacturer, implements “BMW heated seat subscriptions” I’m dropping them.

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