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Jun 25, 2018
Best Dash Cam I've seen.
This is my third attempt at buying and using a dashcam. The first went straight in the trash as there were no instructions and no way to access it other than with a smart phone app (I don't own a smart phone). The second one came from Best Buy. The geniuses there had no idea how it worked, so it only took me 3-4 hours of experimenting and trial and error to figure out the most basic functions. It seemed to work OK, but the unit would lose memory (date and time) if I didn't drive the car every day, so the files it collected (videos) all had meaningless date/time stamps (also the file name) and files were routinely overwritten before the SD card was full, because every time I did drive, it started saving files with the same name (derived from the date/time which was always 01/01/2000).
The Rove was a pleasant surprise. It came with a quick start guide (what a concept!) that had me up and running in minutes. They also included a very nice printed owners manual with everything I could want to know (the BestBuy one had to be downloaded from the internet and was incomplete at best). The menus are intuitive and very easy to use. Except for a couple of menu items or button presses that were not readily apparent (accessing system parameters for instance), I probably didn't even need the manual.
The other units did not have a GPS receiver. The Rove has the capability built-in so you always have the correct date/time as well as speed and heading indication in the recording. You can also download a Geotracking app to display your drive route on a map (I don't use this, but it might be nice to have). I can't stress this enough: I bought the Dash Cam to record what happened in case of an accident or other traffic situation. It is very important to me to have the proper date, time, my speed and heading recorded if something happens. If you ever get into a "He said...She said" situation, you want to be able to prove what happened and what your car was doing beforehand.
I have 4 vehicles and I put a Rove dashcam in each one. I would not drive without one now.
Jun 25, 2017
Good quality, good price, poor documentation
The display and I2C adapter arrived quickly, but with zero documentation.
The description shows the I2C address is 0x20 from the factory, and it can be set for any of 8 values between 0x20 and 0x27. There are 3 address solder jumpers on the PCB, although this is not documented anywhere. The jumpers have pull up resistors on them, so they are normally high; that should have made the address for my device 0x27.
After 4 hours searching on the web and 2½ hours with a DSO, voltmeter and datasheet, I discovered that my PCB has a PCF8574A chip instead of the PCF8574 version. The address range for the "A" version is 0x38 - 0x3F; with all solder jumpers open, my LCD address is 0x3F.
Recompiled with this address, and the LCD works as intended (once the contrast pot on the I2C board was properly adjusted; as it came from the vendor, there was no display as the pot was set to one extreme).
Other than the lack of documentation, the LCD is high quality and low cost.