VIOFO - A129 Duo
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"A good robovac is a life changer. Even a $350 basic S8. It is a great place to start. ... I promise you that you will not be disappointed by a basic S8. It will change your life even if it can't fit under every piece of furniture you own. ... My two S8s just finished vacuuming our entire house in about 46 minutes. ... While my floors were being cleaned, I sat comfortably on our patio in the cool shade with a slight breeze and composed my far too long response to you while sipping a diet soda and relaxing. ... I will have to spend about four minutes maintaining my two S8s. This will be my entire contribution to my home floor cleaning effort for today. Four minutes!"
"Like 500$ these robots are currently the steal of the century ... You can get a mova p10 pro ultra (cannot remove its mops), equivalent to the l40/x40 for 500$ after a discount code"
"I got the Q5 Pro for $139. ... costs $450 less than what I paid for the S6 ... it is the best value option out there imo."
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"when hardwired with their power kit the parking mode never misses a motion event."
"We have four roborock S7’s running in our 5,000 sqft office. ... Bought them since they first came out years ago. ... They run every day. ... Only last year did we replace the battery for all 4. ... Other than that, no issue at all, rock solid, very pleased that we also have them for our homes too."
"My Roborock S7 does about 2,000 sqft twice a week since 2021, and it's still going strong"
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"Can't see it at all! ... it is 100% hidden away. ... if it wasn't for seeing the bottom .25" of the back camera you wouldn't know it's there"
"Super easy. ... Took about 20-30 minutes"
"Was easily able to run the wires on the top, press it behind the header with the spudger they gave and make it look nice. Then on the liftgate theres a plastic cover panel you can take off to bundle the extra wire and make the drop to the camera really nice and clean."
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"Saved me $10k when I got sideswiped by a UHaul."
"If you can spend money get a Viofo and enjoy high quality videos ... So practically I have 8mp IMX678 sensor on front camera and 5mp IMX675 sensor on back camera which is all other brands put on front cameras (Rove, Xiaomi etc.) even it is Starvis 2 new sensor it ’s still a 5mp. So back camera performance on Viofo is similar to top brands new dashcams front camera ... Top of the line sensor with 8mp and Stravis IMX 678 sensor - image quality is perfect. ... because I want not just dash cam for the sake of having dash cam, but also best image quality therefore I spend more. ... For now I ’m happy with video quality"
"Viofo always alerts when the recording is not working for whatever reason, FitcamX stays silent so you can easily miss recording on accident."
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"What I think IS A MUST, especial for "wawing" social posts, COLORGRADING. And for this, you need a drone that suports D-cime/DLOG/DLOGM video mode, which give alot of flexibility how the shot will end up after post processing - this is a big part!! This mods start with Mini3 pro forward"
"Have you tried shooting in HLG on your A3S? I use this for better results at night. ... HLG is only 100-1600 but definitely gives a better looking result. ... I post process color grading HLG to HDR and looks way better than night mode because you get a larger dynamic range of colors and light to shadows from the original video done in HLG."
"Picture quality is the best I've had"
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"It does NOT handle the Florida heat at all. ... Constant shutdowns while driving and parked have rendered it absolutely useless. ... Viofo's solution? Kick it down to 1080 / 2k and hope works. It did not. ... The camera is seriously flawed."
"The mirror power is not on when the car is off, so the dashcam will also be unpowered when the car is off, so no recording when parked if u use the mirror power."
"You may get around 4-8 hours in parking mode depending on the state of the car battery and the voltage you set the cutoff to. ... I needed a longer parking mode duration so I've added a dashcam battery as well."
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"It does NOT handle the Florida heat at all. ... Constant shutdowns while driving and parked have rendered it absolutely useless. ... Viofo's solution? Kick it down to 1080 / 2k and hope works. It did not. ... The camera is seriously flawed."
"the xtherm sucks in hot summer."
"When you put the rain cover on top it blocks all of the openings leaving very little air flow. ... When it is hot at night it’s pretty miserable in there. ... The only thing you can unzip is the front door to the porch and if it rains that night congrats you are hot AND wet."
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"I ended up buying another one as I wanted a 4K camera."
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"It's also extremely slow with Wi-Fi transfer"
"dodgy wifi streaming"
"The UI and app are janky"
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"I don't trust them anymore with their built in capacitors that died."
"The rear camera died at 13 months which stopped the front from recording. ... They wanted me to pay $40 for a replacement rear cam though it was still in warranty."
"it's very inconsistent as far as recording when you need it to"
Agent_Cow314 1.0Project farm on YouTube just did a dash cam comparison and viofo took the #1 spot. I've had my viofo 129 duo since 2019 and it's been great.
AssistanceNatural556 1.0I got a Nextbase and upgraded to a Viofo A129 Duo very quickly. The Viofo is nice and reliable. They have newer versions now
bentley72 1.0VIOFO A129 duo. Has front and back cameras, as well as gps
BrightWubs22 1.0I went with Viofo A129 Duo almost 6 years ago, but I only use the front cam and never set up the rear cam. It's still going strong.
CapShep 1.0Also same
Cigarandadrink 1.0Exactly my setup. Works great.
CpE_Wahoo 1.0That's exactly what I did, I bought a pair Viofo A129 Duo from Amazon and brought them into the Fair Lakes location. I'll add from my first post, when I installed the Dash Cams in my original car, I had it hooked up by USB cause I didn't wanna mess with the fuse box or run more cords. The guy at Best Buy was able to hard wire it in to the system, so I can take advantage of the parking mode features.
dadoftriplets 1.0Have a look at the Viofo range of Dashcams - I have personally had the A119v3 and A129Duo in my previous two cars and will be upgrading once again to the A329 in the coming weeks. All Viofo dashcams have excellent video footage from either the Sony STARVIS or STARVIS 2 sensor, they are capacitor powered meaning no bulging batteries and they have an app available on both ios and android where you can connect via the camera wifi network to download and view the footage from the camera. The latest camera in the range, the A329 series, can have an SSD connected to the camera to store the footage (which will make it easier to transfer to a computer for viewing) and has Wifi 6 built in making downloads direct from the camera a lot quicker. All Viofo cameras either have a GPS chip built in or in the window mounting attachment to allow for accurate location and speed tracking on the footage. Viofo dashcams have upto 3 cameras (front rear and cabin) if you need that functionality. Prices start at (I'm in UK) approcx £106 for the Viofo VS1 mini, a single front mounted camera, right upto the top of the range A329 at £360 (this is the one that has wifi 6 and SSD support) although you may be able to find some second hand or refurnished models on ebay.
danbyer 1.0I bought two an A129 Duos in 2018. One is still working flawlessly. The other was going strong when I sold it with the car last summer.
Detrii 1.0My Viofo sitting on the passenger side behind the mirror never bothered me in my last car. Also it still works perfectly fine after 4,5 years so as soon as the temperature outside goes up a bit it's going right back in the Polestar.
Why not? Just watch some videos to find the best route to take and go for it. I recently took my viofo A129 Duo out of my old lease car and will put it in the P2 as soon as the temperature goes up a bit. (its still a fair bit of work so I don't want to be cold when doing it)
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