We've a new dashcam!

I ordered a new dashcam for our anniversary. It is an inexpensive one, and, in hindsight, I should have upped it a bit. You get what you pay for. The old one (Garmin) had many more bells and whistles. This one doesn't have an app that process images. Ah well. 

I went online to figure out how and where to attach it to the dash. It plugs into the lighter, and has a nice, long cord. You tuck it up in between the frame and the panels. 

 

I wasn't happy with where it was hanging and it slipped out. Back to the drawing board. You can buy packages of proper hanger thingies. Instead, I had one of these left over, plus the Handi-tak. I sent JB into town to get some more of the hooks. 

It's hard to see, but I put another here. A job done, checked off the list.

Now that's the first part done. The next part is accessing the videos. Garmin has a nice app that lets one play around with raw videos(in .AVI), it shows speed and a map. You can see the red dot on the bar, below, this marks an old incident, which it saves, and doesn't erase over. This is a screen capture of the old dashcam footage, as the car was passing. It automatically downloads the footage. 

 

The app doesn't work with the new dashcam video footage. It simply doesn't recognize it. I looked around, and iMovie works with the raw footage. What a relief. The colours are much brighter, even in the pouring rain! new dashcam  

In the meantime, the bear were up to having some fun. It was a sing song, apparently.

Summer is winding down. Such is the cycle of the seasons. 

That said, the horse chestnuts are growing. 

And, it was a trick photographing my anniversary cards! JB went all out.

Autumn, here we come!