OEM Dash cam

AustinTexas · Mar 15, 2022

Just picked up my Tundra
It came with a factory dash cam
Anyone have any experience with it

bigjuice · Mar 16, 2022

Page 27 of the 3rd Gen Accessory Thread (sticky on top) is a good start

gnc1017 said: ↑

If during this state, you have directly connected your phone to the camera via the WiFi on your phone, with the camera device acting as a Wireless Access Point (WAP), since the camera itself does not have a connection to the internet, your phone is letting you know that it sees a WiFi connection that isn't providing internet access. If this is the case, that would be normal for this dash cam or any other similar device that offers setup or access connection using the device as a WiFi access point.

This is where a device with connectivity via Bluetooth (while shorter range than WiFi) is a better approach as it lets you keep your phone WiFi or LTE cell signal to maintain it's connection to the internet at the same time.

Does the dash cam offer a Bluetooth connection to your phone instead of direct WiFi?

Or is there a way to connect the dash cam to a WAP (your house or your phone as an internet hotspot)? If so, that may provide the live view and full functionality you are looking for.
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gnc1017 said: ↑

If it does allow connectivity to an external WAP that provides internet access, the vehicle's WiFi hotspot should be only one of may options you would have. You should then be able to connect it to your home, business, etc. (of course, then only having that enhanced connection when the dash cam is in range of that) or your (or another person's) phone as a a WiFi hotspot (as long as that phone is in proximity of the vehicle).

Having it tied to the vehicle's WiFi/internet subscription would of course seem to be preferred if that subscription was in place but would guess not a requirement.

All this assumes again that the dash cam can be configured to connect to an external WAP...

It sounds like worst case, you can always ignore any wireless connectivity options and just use the storage and access via SD card.
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Tundra206 said: ↑

@gnc1017
if you have both your WiFi and Bluetooth ON, CarPlay will try to connect, once it does while you’re connected to your DashCam, you will get disconnected from the DashCam itself. In order for me to connect to my DashCam, I have to turn off Bluetooth, hit the wifi button on the camera, open the app on my phone, then connect to the camera’s WiFi.

There isn’t an option to connect via Bluetooth and you won’t able to select a wifi connection for the camera as well.

I contacted the dealer regarding why my live view won’t work and suggested that my camera may be defected. A member on facebook’s tundra group mentioned his worked immediately. Waiting to hear back as to when I could bring in my truck. If they would let me swap out the camera to test, I would be happy.

I do have a couple videos I put together that shows what I’m talking about.

Installation
https://youtu.be/4aNg31P9IH0

Video quality of recorded clips
https://youtu.be/wM0yD0Sdfcw
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bigjuice said: ↑

Well…got my OEM DashCam installed today and I did get live to work…problem is that it only works when connected via WiFi to your phone as you all probably realize…and if your phone is connected to CarPlay then it doesn’t provide a WAP to the DashCam for live access at that very moment.

So it’s either CarPlay or DashCam but not the two simultaneously for live.

Otherwise it records in 2 minute loops until the card is full then overwrites if you have it set up that way.

Its 1080P at either 30 or 60 frames, you can toggle the microphone on and off via a multitude of automatic and manual settings or what mode the camera is set to (everyday on start up, Adventure modes, Parking mode, etc)

will play around more with it and see what I can find out.
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