DDPai Dash Cam, with Wi-Fi 1296P Dash Camera, Emergency Accident Lock, 140 Wide Angle, Car DVR Dashboard Camera with G-Sensor, WDR, Built-in Super Capacitor

I love it. I used for2.5years, it's still working good.

I got this on a deal of the day, and it was a steal for the price. I use this for the interior of the car. I like to do rideshare once a week or so, so I wanted an interior security. I have a dashcam already.- Great quality photos and videos,-- but coming nightfall, all you see is pretty much black.- It uses an microSD card, but you can also use your device to upload the video and pictures; however,-- it uses WiFi, which is okay, but when you need your phone's data for like music, rideshare driver's app, etc., you can't do both: DVR and Data usage.REMEDY: I use two phones. One is plugged in hidden, and setup for when the WiFi loses the dashcam's WiFi signal, the phone switches to data, and all of my photos & videos are uploaded to Google Photos. The other phone is for rideshare driver's app. If my car had like OnStar and I could is the car's hotspot? I would use a tablet for the rideshare app.- It welcomes you with the phrase, "Hello Ding, Ding, Pai [pie]." (The brand name is DD Pai.)- The camera panic button is great to take a snapshot of my riders. But what would be nice is to have the ability to silence the camera click. So if I have questionable rider, I don't need to alert them that I just took their picture.

There's one problem with dash cams. There's not one major, well known electronics manufacturer that makes dash cams and sells them in the US. No, Xiaomi doesn't count. Just about every single one on the market is from a questionable manufacturer based in China or Taiwan.So, if no reputable major brand makes a dash cam, what's left? Well, ddpai seems to be the answer. If there's no premium product, I don't want to pay a premium price. ddpai's pricing seems to be fair and reasonable. I have this in my wife's car, and the Mini 2 in my car. I bought this after the mini 2. I think this is a better use of your money. It's cheaper, you don't lose anything vs the mini 2, and 2k video recording is silly for a dash cam anyways. 1080 is fine.Image quality is good. Comparable to a gopro. 140 degree field of view is okay, but not perfect. I'd rather 160 or 170 with some lens distortion. Loop recording is good. Retrieving clips off the SD card itself is easy. I couldn't get the app to download video on iOS though over wifi. Configuration of the camera through the app worked. The button thing is handy if you want to grab a higher res still of a license plate or something.I appreciate that this camera included 3M VHB tape for the camera. That's about as good as it gets when you want tape to stick two reasonably smooth, but not necessarily perfectly flat surfaces together.My problems with this camera, and workarounds:DDPai's Mini and Mini2 lines advertise a supercapacitor and voltage monitoring with shutoff. None of the documentation I have explains how that works. Voltage monitoring and cutoff cannot work at all, it doesn't make sense. any USB power adapter is going to have a 5 volt voltage regulator built in. There's no way for the camera to know when the car's battery voltage drops. DO NOT TRUST THIS FEATURE.The supercapacitor would make sense if the camera would use it to take regular photos and use limited power to run the camera after you turn the car off and it loses USB power. This has not been my experience. Even when configured to continuously take photos in its power save mode, it doesn't take any photos. I believe this mode is triggered based on the g sensor if you leave USB power to the camera all the time, but then what's the point of the supercapacitor? DO NOT DEPEND ON THIS FEATURE.The software. Kind of what you'd expect. mediocre translation from Chinese to English, poor layout, and not all features work. Good enough to configure the camera for the first time, and grab still images, but that's it. I recommend NOT signing up for their social sharing platform thing built into it. Something about giving personal info to a questionable chinese company sounds wrong.So what did I do to get around all this? I use and depend on this camera only to record video while the car is running. I have this camera hardwired to a USB voltage regulator attached with an add-a-fuse with a 5A fuse. The add-a-fuse was connected to the same fuse socket as my auxiliary power in my car, which is switched on ignition. The camera powers up when I start my car, and turns off when I shut off my car. Simple as that. I don't use the software at all now that it's configured, I just grab the SD card if there's footage I want to see. Also, you can thankfully turn off the "Hello Ding Ding Pai" welcome message.If you don't care about the extra features, and just want to record when your car is running, this is probably the best choice on the market right now. I wish a major camera or electronics manufacturer would figure out that there's a void in the dash cam market. Good software and functional power save mode recording would be a game changer. Samsung? Panasonic? GoPro? DJI? You listening?

I used this as a rear view dashcam to supplement a (more expensive but older) front dashcam (I was too cheap at the time to buy a device with front and rear cameras). It's small and unobtrusive, and was easy to set up over WiFi with a smartphone. It DOES NOT have a screen or ability to review video without a smartphone or PC, but I knew this going in. It works great for my application, and (obviously) functions totally independently of the front camera. I viewed some of the recorded videos (by removing the SD card and putting it in my PC) and found them to be of decent quality and sufficient for recording any rear end accidents.One minor annoyance is a happy female voice announcing "Hello Ding Ding Pie" whenever 12V powers on when the car is first started.