Replacing the front cam of the K5 also means replacing the DVR, as both are combined in one case. Or in other words….you would buy a new K5. So “repairing” the K5 may be worth trying if you plan to buy a new one anyway.

But before that I would check if it is moisture. You could put the DVR in an oven and let it run at 50-60°C for a while.…

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Are you sure it is dust and not moisture? I can’t see how dust could enter the lens by an open sd card slot.

Removing the lens will not be an easy job, but if you want to try, you could flip back the top board by disconnecting the flat ribbon cable. For this you need to remove the red coating and push the holders to the side. With the four…

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The status of the LED is quite simple.

When the Camera is off:

Solid blue LED => Battery voltage is > 12.4V. Parking Mode is available

Slid red LED => Battery voltage is < 12.4V. Parking Mode unavailable to prevent battery drain.

With ignition on (12V at the yellow cable)

Blinking blue LED indicates that the power module started the camera.

To…

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Hi Gary,

no, there is no way to automatically upload videos to your phone or anywhere else.

Hi,

Yes, the yellow wire is required. It tells the K5 when the ignition is on and when it is off. That is why the yellow wire must be connected to a circuit that only supplies 12V when the ignition is on. Otherwise, the K5 wouldn’t know when to turn on.

Regarding the app. It does not need to connect to the internet, but to the K5. When the K5…

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I can remember that I had a similar issue on an early version of the K5. After enabling the parking mode, the K5 stayed in that mode, even with ignition on. As a result, the K5 started, recorded a short 20 sec video and went back to sleep. Just to repeat this again after a minute or so.

Do you have the parking mode enabled? If yes, please…

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Hi Christian,

there are two reasons for the delay. The first one is the one Hans already mentioned. The K6 needs some time to boot up. Should be around 10 sec or so.

When used with the K6 power supply, then there is a fixed delay within the power supply itself. If I remeber correctly, this delay is around 15 sec. Some motorbikes cut off power…

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Hi Doron,

a continuous reboot may also occur if the DVR cannot detect the front camera. So I would suggest to check the connection for the front cam. You could also disconnect the front cam and connect the rear cam to the front connector to check whether the fron cam is defective.

I checked the 2k video and for me the reason is quite obvious. The bit rate of the K7 is too low to record all details. For this reason, some areas become blurred. This is also known as compression artifacts.

Just check the first second of the video. I’ve zoomed in a little bit to make the effect more visible.

At first the grasses at the right…

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Hi Ben,

Please turn off the automatic Wi-Fi shutdown and check whether this changes the behavior.
The moment the Wi-Fi switches off, recording stops for a few seconds on my K3. It is very likely that the same thing happens on the K7.

Regards,

Marc

Hi Dan

Normally, the HexCan is the ideal way to connect the K6 (or any dashcam). But since you are powering the HexCan via the Thunderbox, you are depriving it of its capabilities.

Each port on the HexCan has three cables. If you configure a port as an “accessory,” the third cable acts as ignition switch.

So my suggestion are as follows:

• Remove…

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I tried gopro with 60 and 30 fps. Not a big difference at 4k.

Yes. It depends on whether the GoPro really takes 60 pictures per second or only 30 and then interpolates the output to 60 FPS. FPS only provides information about the output, not the input.

In terms of overheating, is the recorder unit a front camera, right? It always has a wing flow,…

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Depending on the speed, it will always happen that the license plate of an oncoming car is not legible. Remember that the camera takes 30 frames per second. The more an object moves within this 1/30 second, the blurrier the image becomes. For sharper images in motion, you need a faster shutter speed. A camera with 60 FPS will take sharper…

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Hi Roman

Sorry, but I don’t quite understand your complaint. The only thing I would criticize about the video is the occasional jerkiness. The quality is okay. The video is H.265 with a bit rate of 13 Mbit. That’s a bit low for this resolution, but it’s sufficient for the current scene. With more details (e.g., more trees, bushes,…

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Hello,

try switching your phone to Airplane Mode before connecting to the N2.

Regards,

Marc

Ich habe jetzt gerade die K7 nicht greifbar, um es direk zu testen. Bei allen Innovv Kameras ist es aber so, daß das Drücken des Knopfes dazu führt, daß das aktuelle Video im schreibgeschützten Ordner abgelegt wird.

Vielleicht liegt das Mißverständnis darin, daß Du davon ausgehst, daß die K7 die letzten drei Minuten sichert. Das tut sie NICHT.…

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Hi,

ich verstehe deine Frage nicht so ganz. Die Kamera startet doch mit dem Einschalten automatisch mit der Aufnahme. Inwiefern kann sie dann mit einer Aufnahme beginnen, wenn Du den Knopf drückst?

Knopf drücken heißt, daß die Kamera die aktuelle Aufnahme in den geschützten Ordner legt.

I can’t say why they set the default for loop recording to 1 minute. Perhaps because when the camera places some videos in the protected folder, they only take up one minute each instead of several minutes. But I really don’t know.

What’s the best setting?

To my experience, the G-Sensor setting, which saves the video to the protected folder,…

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Now I get it. You thought about some way of syncing the settings instead of setting them directly. That’s not possible. I see that this would be a convenient way to get used to the different settings and the app, but technically such kind of automatic syncing is difficult to implement.

For example, the app would has to connect your phone to…

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Hi Paul,

well…you could connect your K5 via USB to your computer to copy the files. But as USB at the K5 isn’t faster than 5GHz wifi and you have to remove the sd card cover anyway to access the USB port, it would be easier/faster to remove the sd card then.

Ehhh….How do you suppose to connect your mobile to the camera, so the app could access it, if not by wifi? Bluetooth would be an alternative, but its range and transfer rate is lower than that of wifi.

Sorry, I don´t get your point.

Ok. There is a serial shell on the DVR, where you can see the live logs and send commands directly to the system. To connect a computer to the DVR you would need to solder three wires onto the board and connect them to an USB-UART. The USB-UART will then give you a serial interface to which you can connect using any terminal programm…

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Hi Philipp,

hmmm…sometimes hardware simply dies. And often enough it is something simple, like a broken joint somewhere on the board. But I assume you don’t want to dig any deeper in that, in view of the age of the K2.

Hi

Sorry Hans to have to correct you. None of the cameras of the K2 are used as wifi antennas. The wifi antenna of the K2 is right within the DVR.

@PhilBuck

For the K2 to start there needs to be at least the front camera connected. Without a camera connect to the F Port, the DVR will continously reboot it its efforts to find the missing camera.…

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Hi Rick,

the “Logging firmware” is for testing purpose only. I can’t say whether it has a negative impact or not. But I won´t suggest to use it all the time.

Better use the latest original firmware or, if you want a higher bitrate, the one modified by me which boost the bitrate to 20 MBit.

Hi Rick,

so re-flashing the original firmware did the trick? And if so, what did you do wrong during the last tries? Just for other forum members who get into the same problem.

Can you provide some sample videos? I haven´t check out the K7 yet due to bad weather. Only did some tests on the desk.

Unfortunately it is not possible to increase the bitrate at the K7 due to technical limitations. I already tried and talked to Rock about that. The limitation comes from the EIS functionality, for which they added additional encoders within the cameras itself. And these encoders are very limited regarding the encoding bitrate.

So sorry….there…

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Hi Rick,

what I read from your mail is:

– Wifi seems to work, but the App does not connect most of the time

– Flashing the firmware seems not to work, as the wifi password did not reset

I am still unsure whether the problem comes from the K2 itself or is an issue with the App/phone. So I would like to first addess the problem flashing…

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Hi Rick,

The wifi ”Not secured” of INNOVV is detected on my phone so everything is normal, but as soon
as I want to enter the settings page or the live video or the recordings, the information page of
INNOVV opens indicating a wifi connection problem…

Technically, the app really does the same as a web browser. If you hit the “settings” button in…

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Hi Rick,
Hi Hans,

for me the error message looks like the app does not have the correct permissions to access the wifi network. So a setting within android. I am not familiar with android, but according to the symbols on the upper bar, you’ve put the phone to airplane mode. Are there settings within android to allow or forbid an app to access…

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> Ja, der Parkmodus sollte aktiviert sein, außer Du hast wie beim G-Sensor einen guten Grund, das
> hierauf verzichtet werden sollte.

Nicht direkt. Bei der K7 habe ich den Parkmodus noch nicht getestet. Bei den älteren Modellen (K2, K3) brauchte die Kamera bei Auslösung/Erschütterung einfach viel zu lange, bis sie hochgefahren war und mit der…

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In general one should avoid twisting the cable, as the wires within the cable are very thin. Especially twisting the cable near the camera could be bad if the force of the twist could be transfered into the camera and the soldering points within.

Regarding your problems which went away after swapping the camera:

At the older Innovv cameras (K2,…

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Hi Dieter,

die Einstellungen passen soweit eigentlich. Den G-Sensor hast Du abgeschaltet, also wird die K7 keine vermeindlichen Unfall Videos erkennen und gesondert abspeichern. Wäre auch meine Einstellung, da es sonst zu Fehlalarmen kommen kann. Außerdem hast Du eine 512MB Karte drin. Bis da ein Video überschrieben wird, dauert es.

Die Länge…

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Hi Danilo,

when I got my H5, I used it during summer time and had a runtime of slightly above 5 hours. But it is normal that the runtimes decreases at low temperatures, because the chemical processes within the battery are running slower than at high temperatur. This causes the battery voltage to drop earlier under load. The optimal…

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The 32GB recommendation comes from the necessity that the sd card must be formatted in FAT32 for the update process to work.

As FAT32 does not support volumes larger than 32GB, every OS will deny formatting the card in FAT32. So if a sd card is larger than 32GB, it is very likely not formatted in FAT32.

Hi Bob,

did you try switching your smartphone to airplane mode? Some phones do have problems accessing the K7 (or any other wifi dashcam) when not in airplane mode.

Hi Kev,

the factory reset by pressing the button 10 sec does not reset the wifi password. To reset it, you have to re-install the firmware, as explained in the link below.

https://innovv.com/pages/k3-dashcam-support

Regards,

Marc

Hi Michael,

I had the exact same issue with my K3 and EZcan. It all started after I disconnected the battery for a while for another reason. After that, EZcan stoppped signaling the status of the ignition on the third wire, so the K3 did not start.

My solution was the same as yours. I resetted the EZcan and re-created the settings and…

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Hi Rick,

the first test I would do is powering the DVR by USB. Just use normal wall charger for smartphones with at least 2A. If the DVR starts up, chances are good that the DVR is ok and that only the power module got broken.

Hi Morten,

depending on the loop settings and the size of the sd card, you will end up with a lot of videos before the K5 starts to overwrite the oldest videos. But that’s normal.

The button can be used for both save recordings and take pictures.

– one press ==> save video to protected folder

– press twice ==> take picture