The always-connected Garmin Dash Cam™ Live LTE dash cam lets you
access a live view and share saved video anytime from the Garmin
Drive™ smartphone app. You’ll need an active LTE subscription for
always-on connectivity; some jurisdictions prohibit use of this
camera device. Enjoy greater peace of mind with location
tracking, theft alerts and incident notifications about your
parked vehicle These features require an active LTE subscription,
and some vehicles will need the constant power cable, sold
separately. Saved video automatically uploads to the secure
online Vault for you to view and share later. Record important
details day and night, thanks to high-definition 1440p resolution
with Garmin Clarity™ HDR optics and a wide 140-degree lens. Voice
control lets you use spoken commands in English, German, French,
Spanish, Italian and Swedish to save video, start/stop audio
recording, take still pictures and more.
Review: Great LTE Dash Cam just no Rear View - I purchased this
from desertcart a few days ago as well as the Constant Power
Cable. So far, I'm loving it. I subscribed and connected it to
LTE service through Garmin for $10 a month for 7 days of saved
video. It's then connected to the OBDII port using the Constant
Power Cable. Over three nights of testing, I've been able to
remotely connect to the dash cam to view the live feed perfectly.
At work, it successfully sent me a notification of an event and
uploaded the event video to the cloud a minute later. This leads
to the one downside. This dash cam does not have a rear camera
which is really lame. Nothing occurred in the front view video so
I assume that, being in a parking garage, the vibrations of a
passing car set it off. If so, it's annoying that I didn't have a
rear camera to see the event but I am happy with the fact that
the camera is sensitive enough to pick that up. However, you can
purchase one of their Mini cams for about $130 and route it into
the Constant Power Cable as it has two USB ports on it. You will
not get live parking mode alerts with that camera unless your
vehicle is within range of your WiFi network. If you live in an
apartment and park 50-80 yards from your building like me and
want live parking mode alerts with your rear camera, you'll need
a 2nd Dash Cam Live and a 2nd $10 a month subscription. I'll be
doing one or the other but most likely just purchasing a 2nd Live
cam to get the full power of the system. With competitors LTE
cameras you're paying $600+ so you're really only paying maybe
$100-200 more or even less considering how you power the device.
I was set on getting a BlackVue LTE camera but the reviews of the
app have been really bad - like unusable in some cases so I opted
for the rock solid interface of the Garmin. The BlackVue ones
start at $470, with a $11 a month LTE subscription but if you
want the parking mode, you need to hardwire it to the battery
(which I'd never want to do) or get one of their battery packs
which are $160-$390. The power of this camera is that you have
LTE service with parking mode alerts and video upload. If
somebody were to try stealing your wheels in the middle of the
night, you get an alert. If somebody breaks your window and
steals stuff in your car, you'll get an alert as well as a video
uploaded to the cloud in the case that they remove your SD card
or steal the camera altogether. If somebody steals your car, and
doesn't remove the camera, you have GPS tracking. If you need to
check anything, you can turn on the Live View etc. Setup and
installation was a breeze - took an hour including routing the
cable through the rubber gaskets around the door and floor. There
isn't much more to say right now other than a few things I
learned through my chat with support and reading manuals: 1 - The
Garmin knows to enter parking mode through the OBDII port
diagnostics. 2 - When using parking mode, KEEP THE APP OPEN but
in the background! Otherwise it doesn't send notifications. 3 -
When in parking mode, it isn't constantly recording and draining
power. If an event occurs (a vibrational incident), then the
camera starts filming and records/uploads the event. 4 - The
Constant Power Cable can be switched between operating for 10m,
24 hours or infinitely. I do really wish it had a 12 hour setting
here to cover the night time/sleeping only. It's silly that there
isn't a 12 hour option or one between 10m and 24 hours. 5 - The
Constant Power Cable has battery voltage protection so it won't
drain your battery to nothing. It will shut off after 10 minutes
if it detects the battery is under 12v.
Review: LTE Live View? Only If I’m Next to the Car - I’m paying
the monthly subscription, the app says everything is active, and
the live view STILL only works when my phone is basically
touching the dashcam. That’s not LTE — that’s Bluetooth with
extra steps. And when it finally loads, the video is so pixelated
it looks like surveillance footage from a gas station in 1994.
For this price plus a subscription, the LTE should be rock solid.
Instead, it’s unreliable, slow, and basically pointless for real
remote monitoring. Update: So now I have to wait around two weeks
to get a refund since they can’t replace it for another one even
though it says “Free 30-day refund/replacement.
