SG9667DC2K Dual Channel 2K Recording Quad HD 1440P Front and Full HD 1080p Rear Dash Camera with WiFi, GPS, and CPL

I'm really impressed by this company - the most conscientious and thorough I've seen in years. Add to that, they are disciplined enough to prioritize features and do the basics very well. This goes to something deep: a group of people who truly care about their product. They see it as more than just a way to make money. Deep claims from a random customer! Here's how I came to this conclusion:- I'm an absolute beginner, and not handy. And I got it up and running in a week without a professional installer. (Yep, I'm not quick. But there were no gotchas in the process.)- When I was stumped, I re-read the manuals (both for the device and the hardwire kit.) Usually, I had left something out that was clearly explained in the manual. When I didn't find the answer in the manuals, I searched "Dashcam talk forums," where they maintain an active presence. Within a few hours of reading forum posts, I'd find the solution.- Throughout that research, the Street Guardian employees were always patient, unassuming, and never defensive. In one case, they figured out they'd mislabeled a cable on the hardwire kit. They owned up to it right away and took action to prevent that from happening again. I have an automotive/quality background and I can say with confidence that this kind of attitude towards problem-solving is world-class.Why I recommend this brand over all the others:- They prioritized durability in both extreme cold and hot temperatures. Writing from Detroit, I'm only concerned about the cold, but it'll handle down to 12 deg F. This means I can set it and forget it for all but about two weeks in the year.- They carefully planned all the default settings and clearly highlight the defaults in the manual. So, even if you have no idea how a dashcam works, you can pretty much slap it on and go.- Good value. They prioritized getting the most bang for the buck, so they stuck with 1080p because the fancier ultra hd would require a faster processor, generate more heat, and is too expensive given the results right now.What went well:- I have a portable car battery charger with a cigarette lighter slot, so I was able to test the device out of the box on my kitchen table. This was especially nice given the cold winter & no access to a heated garage.- I was worried about software to view the videos, and local storage to save the videos. Turns out those concerns are completely irrelevant: Windows comes with software that will let you watch & speed through a 5 minute segment in a few seconds and you can set it to autoplay the next segment. And there's no need to save any files to the PC unless you have an accident or witness an accident and want to send a file somewhere.- Setting up the rear camera and pushing the cable under the roof of the interior was a snap. I mean, there was nothing to it! Easiest part of the whole process. (except for my slight misplacement of the device.)Where I got stumped / My mistakes / near misses:- I couldn't figure out a way to temporarily stage the devices on the windshield / back window. I read the manual & knew I needed some room to insert/remove the SD card on the left, but it was difficult to test without actually sticking it up. I installed it, found there was not enough room to insert/remove the SD card, and then re-installed it. Pain the ass. Needed "goo-be-gone" and a razor to get the gunk off the windshield. That was the worst part about the installation. Thank you for providing a backup sticker for people like me that installed it twice.- Similar for the rear camera. Thank God I placed the thing in between the window heating elements (this definitely deserves a comment in the manual!), since I almost had to re-position it as well. I offset it slightly to the left of the rear brake light at the top of the rear window, but not enough to the left. So the cable I use does an awkward u-turn before getting under the cabin roof. Again, if you guys could find some way to temporarily stage it enough to try it before permanently placing it...- GPS wasn't working for me initially. I guess very few people have this problem, because I searched for hours before finding a post by a Street Guardian employee about pushing the jack deep into the slot (and hearing a little click) in order for it to work. Maybe that comment deserves a place in the manual. Once I pushed it in hard, it worked like a charm.Hardwire Kit:- Note: the hardwire kit is optional, only necessary if you don't was to use the cigarette lighter to power the thing and you want it to keep running while parked & the vehicle is turned off.- Move the following instruction to the front of the manual, and maybe repeat it twice: "Do NOT attempt to install this hard wire kit until you go into settings and change the 'Power Input' from two-wire to three-wire. Keep the cigarrete charger handy in case you forget. If you forget, it will not work." This would have saved me a few hours of getting it wrong.- For us sorry non-handy people who don't really understand ohm-meters, It'd be nice if the hard-wire manual stated that an ohm-meter is required, that you'll need to ground it to the car, and to set the ohm-meter to 20V while checking car fuses. If the reader doesn't have an ohm-meter and doesn't want to buy one & learn how to use it, then they know they have to go to best-buy or a car-stereo installer or the car dealership in order to get it done.The rough edges:- I wish it was location-aware so I didn't have to turn off the power manually when the car's in my garage. (only applies to the optional hard-wire kit installation.) Not a show-stopper, since it comes with a volt-meter to protect the car's battery. But still...it's just a waste when I forget. Until then...I put a sticky on the door leading into the house asking whether or not I remembered to turn it off and asking myself if I really want to film the interior of my garage for a couple hours. I'm thankful it beeps before switching to parking mode, which is usually enough to remind me.- Not a big fan of the "two-wire" vs "three wire" setting. After I got it hard-wired, I could no longer bring it inside and use my portable car battery charger to mess with settings. Unless I turn on the car & change the setting back to two-wire. It'd be nice if that setting could just go away. Can you get it to auto-sense the power input?- Not a fan of the "Novacam" iOS app to leverage the wifi functionality. It's a Chinese software developer. Can you find a European-developed iOS app? No offense to China, but their idea of the corporate & state right to access my private information is culturally VERY different from mine. I do not trust any OS or app developed in China by the Chinese. Not paranoia on my part: Google "Lenovo Caught (3rd Time) Pre-Installing Spyware on its Laptops" to see what I mean.- Instructions for the wifi functionality are too thin to be useful. And looking at the screen settings for wifi, I'm not sure where the password starts. Small thing, given that I'm not sure there's a way to get the photos directly from the dashcam to my iPhone given that I refuse to install the Novacam app. Haven't spent any time researching this feature yet.- Not sure I like the viewer downoaded from the website for use on my PC. Is it Internet-explorer based? In three or four separate windows? It has an unfinished feel to it. And if it's IE-based, it makes me uncomfortable from a security perspective. Haven't spent a lot of time with it, just tried it once.Overall, I'm thankful for Streetguard and its employees. Great product, best out there for the money. Yes, it has some rough edges, but only in those areas where they are pushing into newer & greater functionality. They do the basics very, very well. And that's the most important thing. And the support is better than anything I've seen in years, possibly ever. You pretty much can't go wrong by choosing this product.

I use camera for over 3 Months, and if I could, I will give it 6 stars out of 5.Editing after over 2 years of use. Still 6 stars out of 5. Upgraded firmare, now parking mode can record 30 fps as well. G-sensor now has great range of setting, scratch my earlier complaint about G-sensor too sensitive. I also set G-sensor for parking mode (ensures it creates "events" that are not overwritten). Leaving the rest of my originall review below as it was written.This camera replaced excellent for its time camera FineVu CR-500HD, so I will compare to it (though that is older generation, so older was good, but not a match for today).Lens: lens is great, larger aperture, which basically allows 2-3 times more light to fall on sensor, thus improving sensitivity by amount of captured light. Lens quality appears great as well.Angle width: this is "medium wide" angle camera, angle is about 100-110 degrees. In my opinion this is the optimal angle, as, on one hand it covers sufficient angle on the sides, and on the other hand, it still has sufficient number of pixels captured for smaller objects like license plates. You can read license plates of cars close to you, which for wide angle lens (like 170 degrees) will be virtually impossible.Resolution: this is HD (1920x1080) for each of front and rear cameras which are recorded in parallel. Resolution is optimal: you don't need 4k, as the picture will be deteriorated by windshield presence anyway. Bitrate is high enough, so stopped frame looks pretty much like photograph, whereas for my older camera with lower bitrate stop frames look "blocky". All in all, you can read license plate just on one frame of this camera; for old camera you need to process combination of multiple frames, and it still is not as easy to read license plate. Huge improvement. But make sure you have camera in highest sharpness and quality, which gives you less footage, but is worth it.Cables are stiff, but that in my opinion is a big advantage: you don't need to be gentle with them during installation, and they maintain their physical shape (cross-section, not getting squashed), hence the performance is not deteriorated. All necessary for installation hardware and tools come in the box.You can not swivel camera side to side or tilt it after it is installed. So do "test installation" using scotch first. Only "elevation" is adjustable. This is not a disadvantage in my opinion: the camera once installed is solid in place. This precludes installation of camera far on a side of windshield though, but closer to the center of windshield is best location anyway.G-sensor. It seems to be single axis, and its sensitivity is very low, at least compared to my old camera (which has 3 axis g-sensor). Old camera started "event" recording on lowest sensitivity even on moderate bumps. This camera g-sensor does not start "unerasable" recording even on highest sensitivity on any bumps I run over. That probably would be a minor complaint, but if accident happens, I have about 8 hours worth to record on 128GB card (highest bitrate/highest quality), so it hardly comes to the point of overwriting accident. And I carry spare card in my car, so once something happens I swap cards anyway.Supercapasitor. This is what is used in this camera as power source to continue recording for some 10 or 20 seconds after the power is disconnected totally. This is designed to have whole event recorded in case of really bad accident in which power is lost. My old camera has tiny LiPo battery for that. Supercapacitor used in this camera is not a chemical source of energy but akin a capacitor with very high capacitance, and as "chemistry is not involved" here it can operate in much wider range of temperatures, especially towards low temperatures.Parking mode: it is continuous record at low framerate (settable 1 - 5 frames per second). This allows somewhere near 48 hours of recording (with 128GB card), my marine deep cycle battery I put in place of regular starter battery is unable to power camera over night. I hadn't chance to go deeper into it, measure consumptions etc. Anyway, continuous low frame rate in my opinion is more advantageous for security that the one writing only events, it may give more information under some circumstances.Memory card: I strongly advise to go with memory card this camera manufacturer chooses. I myself can judge which memory cards are the best, will handle high data stream rates and will be durable; all of which is mandatory for this application. And it was the first thing I checked and to my pleasure I discovered that this manufacturer ships camera with indeed best available cards. If you will get second card like I did, stay away from "generic" cards even claiming the same specs, go with similar that came with your camera. I would recommend samsung (see details on the card you got with the camera). It will be highest price of all with similar specs, and this is where you shouldn't try to save money, and you will win in a long run.Now the best part: customer service. I had a problem with my camera (power port connection was intermittent). A couple of hours after I emailed the company advance replacement unit was on the way to me (front camera only - the one that had problem). Of course, if was similarly exchange for somebody else, not the new one, which I don't care: that solved my problem. And even having been through this mishap, I still would give the camera 6 stars out of 5.

In my life, I have never had customer service like theirs'. With all of this COVID-19 stuff going on, I still got a response to my inquiry in two minutes. No, seriously - two minutes. No exaggeration, not in the slightest.Cameras look great, image quality is fantastic, install was dandy, and the customer service... what more could you ask for? You can't go wrong with these guys.

This is a great camera kit. It came with everything possibly needed to install it. Install was easy enough, and the wires are hidden well. The camera takes a little bit to figure out the buttons, but once it's setup it's pretty easy to ignore. Overall, a great camera.

Things to check before purchase for people looking for the parking modeHere is some important specs of the camera you can review before you jump into details1. Resolution and FPS: 1080p, 30FPS (frames per second) - On the road: You can see very clearly if the vehicle license plates within around 2-3 meters from the camera, but if a vehicle just driven by your car, you will hardly see their license plate - Parking mode: (1080p with 1FPS, 5FPS, 30FPS) o 1080p, 5FPS  Pros: You won’t see the license plate if the car just passed by.  Cons: You will be able to record videos the whole night (10hrs at least) o 1080p, 30FPS  Pros: You can probably guess what is displayed on the license plate  Cons: I believe won’t able to monitor 10 hrs2. Installation- You will probably need to disassemble your interior covers for clean wiring - Adhesive tapes included with the purchase with extra in case you failed3. User friendly manual compares to my old DoD dash cam4. Personal Wifi incuded - You can activate Personal WiFi on the dash cam and use your cell phone to download the footage from the camera5. Great and fast customer service with details. This is a huge plus as hard wire the dashcam can be frustrated.Budget, time and things to consider: - Dual Camera system: $350 CAD o Similar model - Blackvue DR750S-2CH With Power Magic Pro Hardwire Kit - $389 CAD (On sale right now) • With this model you don’t have 128GB SD included in the package • I don’t know if they include a lot of accessories like Street Guardian. • If you really care about “60FPS” on the front camera, you can give this model a shot especially at this price point.- Hard wire kit: $40 CAD (From Amazon)- Tools you will need or buy: $30 ish o long nose pliers o Philips screw drivers o Light source, flash light or your cell phone o Voltmeter- Install time and cost: o Install on your own - $0 2Hrs (Assume you know where you pretty familiar with your car, it took me about 2hrs and 4 days so total 8hrs to figure out everything including installation, test, which fuse socket, cable/wire management) o Let third party to install - $175 + Tax As an example, BlackBoxMyCar offer $175 CAD + Tax for Dual Channel Camera (JP car) with 2hrs installation time- Total dollars if you install on your own: $400 CAD + 2hr personal time o Pros: You learn something and you save some money o Cons: If you do not know what you are doing, you might damage the camera/fuse box/car and waste a lot of time- Total dollars if you let third party to install it for you: $565 CAD + 2hr installation time (<- they did not sell this model but they might be able to install it for you, call them to ask) o Pros: Worry free, you don’t need to worry about to damage your camera/fuse box/car and possibly save some research/troubleshooting/testing time o Cons: You need to pay moreBefore you buy1. What type of the fuse hard wire kit you are looking for?- “Mini ATO Low profile” for Honda CRV 2020, if you do not know what type of the fuse you have on your car, take one of the fuse from your fuse box and take a picture to compare with (search "car fuse type" in google) or even send the picture to Street Gordian customer service.- For Honda CRV 2020 fuse box location (fuse type: Mini ATO Low profile) o You will find the fuse box label underneath the steering wheel and the fuse box will be located on the left side of your paddle o You shouldn’t need to remove the plastic cover (at least for my car) to access the fuse box but it will somehow make you easier to access. If you like to remove the plastic cover please pull the cover toward you.

Great product. Easy to install. High quality wiring and lots of extra stuff in the box. So far it’s working as it should and I’m very happy.

The menu button wouldnt work. I say just go the cheapest