pelsee P12 Pro - 170 Degrees 4K

Buy Pelsee P12 Pro 4K Mirror Dash Cam w/ADAS and BSD, 5.8GHz WiFi 20MB/s Download, Rear View Mirror Camera 4K Front and 1080P Rear, Voice Control, GPS, Color Night Vision, 12" Touch Screen,32G Memory Card: In-Mirror Video - desertcart.com ✓ FREE DELIVERY possible on eligible purchases Review: Update to: Love it, but has a few issues... - ===== Update 1/9/2024 ===== Ok, so after emailing with support, they asked me if I bought the correct hard wire kit, which I hadn't. I had bought the one that desertcart was recommending. I had actually avoided buying the Pelsee brand one because it had low reviews because as some users reported, it would drain their car battery because it didn't have the Volt Protection Technology which turns off the dashcam if the car's battery voltage goes below something like 12.5 volts or something like that. The new one that Pelsee was now recommending to use had very high reviews and it specified that it has Low Voltage Protection built in. So I bought and installed the correct Hard Wire kit, which is this one: https://a.co/d/96tzm2u The major difference with the two different hard wife kits is that the original one that I bought only had one wire which connected to a fuse that had power all the time, so it was telling the dash cam to never turn off. The new Pelsee brand kit comes with two wires, one that connects to a fuse that is always on and one wire that connects to a fuse that has power only when the car is on and cuts off the power when the car goes off. After changing kits, I'm very happy to announce that the dashcam works perfectly as I would expect it to. It turns on when I turn the car on and it turns off only when I turn off the car. But not only that, but if you bump the car or mess with it in any way, the cash cam immediately records for the next 2 minutes, but the screen doesn't go on. It records covertly, which is simply awesome! I love it now and I just updated my rating from 2 stars to 5 stars. Way to go Pelsee!!! ====== Original Review Below ========= First of all, gotta say that I'm impressed with the quality of this mirror dash cam. It looks amazing. The night vision is insane! That said, there's a few issues that I hope they'll be able to fix. I installed it with a hard wire kit so that it can monitor the car 24/7. The kit only comes with 1 red wire and the instructions clearly state that if camera comes with parking mode, to connect that red wire to a fuse that has power even when car is off. So that's what I did. The problem is that the camera is always on, even when the car gets turned off, the display remains on all the time. Now, the mirrorcam comes with an auto shutoff feature as well as an auto screen-off feature. These features would be ideal, but there's another problem with them. I set the auto screen-off feature to turn off the display after 3 minutes of inactivity. And as I'm driving, it turns off every 3 minutes! I have to keep tapping the screen to keep turning it on! Pelsee... please update your software so that if the car is in motion, it detects that motion as "activity" and keeps the screen on. If it's detecting any speed or movement, it should not be considered "inactivity". Make sense? So that could be a simple fix. The other issue I found on my unit is that the auto shut off doesn't work at all. I set it for 1 minute, nothing. Then I set it for 3 minutes and nothing. It just never shut down at all. So that might need to get looked at. Another issue that popped up yesterday, we noticed that it tends to get pretty hot and when it does, it kinda shuts down and restarts on you. As we were driving, when we'd swipe the screen so it can show us the front camera, it would suddenly shut down and restart again. Then we'd swipe again so it could show us the rear camera and it would do a whole restart cycle again. But when the cam is cool, that doesn't happen. So that kinda worries me because we live in Yuma, AZ. Right now, the temperatures are still cool, but what will happen when the summer hits and the car's internal temps reach 200 degrees? I don't think it's going to survive one Yuma summer. So as I was saying... I'm so happy I finally have a dash cam. It's beautiful and I love that as it records full HD video, it's showing the direction I'm traveling as well as the speed, so that's cool. But I can only give it 2 stars until the issue of it always staying on gets fixed. That is really a big issue that I feel needs attention. And again, don't get me wrong. I DO want the camera on and monitoring the car 24/7, but it should be smart enough to detect when there's true inactivity, you know, the car off and no motion for 3 minutes and only then the display should turn off. Makes sense? Oh, and the hardwire kit I installed it with was the one desertcart recommended, which is this one: https://a.co/d/ceQLgKD Review: Great device. Best support from Pelsee - I bought the Pelsee P12 Pro to use on an RV. The installation process was easy and without any issues. On the first major trip across the country, it was not comfortable at all. The device powered off (or entered into standby mode) ever few minutes. I had to keep it awake by touching the screen constantly, it was driving me nuts. I even thought it was the SD card getting full, because it was constantly recording, and caused the system to power off. When the device was ON, the image was crisp and without any lag. The brightness is good, and the ADAS was working great. So, on the first evening i emailed Pelsee asking for help on the power off issue and the always recording function. In the morning i already had a reply from support apologising for the inconvenience and offering help in a clear instruction and also a screenshot on how to deactivate the "auto power off", and explaining the always-recording function is like this by design, but asking me if i preferred it to be set out differently, as they could manage it somehow. In a matter of seconds i found the setting they suggested - for which i searched on the day before, without success, that's on me - and tested it. The P12 Pro worked without depowering for an hour until i switched it off! And now that i know that the always recording function was not the issue, getting the SD card full, I'm OK with the device always recording. This is not my first mirror, but it is by far, the best i had. The previous ones were from the other side of the world, with sketchy firmwares, even some translation errors, as we all know. The support given to this issue was quite a surprise for me, as it was fast and effective. I ordered this from the US desertcart all the way to Portugal, because of the many reviews i saw online and i don't regret it. As I said to Pelsee support, in my opinion, the auto power off should be preset to OFF instead of 5 min, as this is a rearview mirror, and should be ON as long as the vehicle is ON, but other people may think differently. TL;DR: Great device with excellent image and even better support. The problem I had was that I hadn't read the manual.