Baseus’ solar-powered dash cam keeps an eye on your parked car for up to two weeks

The built-in star sheet extends the beingness of the dash cam’s rechargeable battery. | Image: Baseus

Baseus has announced a caller dash cam that tin proceed capturing incidents adjacent portion your conveyance is turned off. The PrimeTrip VD1 Pro includes some a rechargeable artillery and a high-efficiency star sheet it uses to grounds incidents erstwhile question oregon impacts are detected for up to 14 days portion your car is parked, without draining your vehicle’s battery.

It’s available present done Amazon for $169.99 (discounted to $109.99 with a coupon that expires connected October 1st) and portion the VD1 Pro doesn’t request to beryllium hardwired to your vehicle’s electrical strategy oregon fuse container during installation, it’s decidedly not a wireless solution. While you’re driving the main portion draws powerfulness from your vehicle’s auxiliary outlet truthful its 4K camera with a 170-degree wide-angle tract of presumption tin grounds continually, ensuring the events starring up to an incidental are captured. Another cable, which you’ll request to conceal successful the seams of your car’s trim panels, connects the main portion to a 2nd 1080p rear camera with a 120-degree tract of presumption for capturing what’s happening down your vehicle.

The VD1 Pro’s star sheet is astir arsenic tiny arsenic those utilized connected calculators truthful the portion remains unobtrusive, but it lone generates capable powerfulness to widen the dash cam’s battery, not support it charged indefinitely. As a result, you’ll lone get up to 14 days of what Baseus calls “standby parking monitoring.” When question astir the conveyance oregon an interaction is detected, the dash cam volition aftermath and seizure 30-second clips from the beforehand and rear cameras up to a maximum of 20 incidents oregon 40 clips that are stored connected a 32GB microSD paper that tin beryllium upgraded. If you’re parking someplace similar an underground store wherever the disposable lighting is limited, you tin expect the artillery beingness to beryllium reduced.

Other features see continuous loop signaling that volition automatically overwrite the oldest videos erstwhile the microSD paper gets full, and hands-free dependable controls. The VD1 Pro connects to the Baseus mobile app implicit Wi-Fi 6 for wirelessly downloading videos from the dashcam oregon uploading firmware updates.