An introduction that does not concern the camera itself, but without it the description of the experience would not be complete.
In order to use the camera 100%, then you need to purchase the Smartbox III, which allows the camera to be in the so-called. passive parking mode. However, the Smartbox has its pros and cons. On the plus side, it monitors the voltage and switches off the camera if it drops below a certain level. The downside is that the power supply is limited by time, which can be a maximum of 24 hours, so if you are parked somewhere, e.g. 3 days and you have the camera in passive mode (low power consumption), so the camera will only watch you for 24 hours and the other 48 hours God willing. Other downsides to the Smartbox are the inability to place this somewhere handy to change settings. If you're not a handyman Tim, you're out of luck. Fortunately, my father's hobby is electronics, so I have modified the box by having it mounted behind the mirror by the camera, where he added buttons that I can use to turn the camera or the entire power supply off hard or to turn on passive parking mode. Now to the camera itself, which didn't impress me, but it is usable and has a relatively good image. Unfortunately if you have a two camera setup, then the footage is 2k and 30 fps and yet it's somehow cropped to reduce the viewing angle compared to 4k mode. The camera can be controlled by 5 commands, but the recognition of the commands is uncertain and especially when the commands are two-word and in English (If you don't have English, you don't know how to pronounce it correctly and you never give it twice in the same way.). One of the main reasons why I bought the camera is the display and control directly on the camera. While it's nice that some modern cameras are small, that also makes them dependent on a mobile app, which may or may not work on your phone, and who knows how long that app will be updated. This brings us to Mio's mobile app, which is trivial. I was expecting to be able to adjust the camera as well, but it only has three settings, which are useless (I don't remember what they were, but one of them is the 50Hz/60Hz frequency, which is really the most important setting you need to be able to control from the mobile app. Only, not at all.). As for browsing the footage then of course due to the small display, even though it is >6" and the fact that the camera is loading low resolution thumbnails into the phone you can see the excrement. The only reasonable way to work with the footage is on a computer, but there is no software for this camera from the manufacturer on a PC (Excuses like it's not modern and "everything" is moving to mobile phones are embarrassing. ). Fortunately, there are third-party software (e.g. Dashcam Viewer), which can work with the videos of this camera and even show simultaneous driving on maps, unfortunately all these applications are for money. The dashcam has a database of speed cameras and the manufacturer updates this database regularly. Also, there is already a Czech voice, so update and the camera will speak to you in Czech. If you are asking if I would recommend the camera, then I would hesitate. For how much the camera costs, and that it should be basically a so-called. Mio's flagship cameras. I really don't. I'm not thrilled, but I'm not disappointed either. I wouldn't recommend looking elsewhere first to see if there is something better and then choose this camera as the "least evil". If I could I would give 2,5 stars, but I give 3 because 2 would be unfairly low again.