VIOFO - A229 Gen 1
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Last updated: Aug 1, 2025 Scoring
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"The picture quality day or night is fantastic."
"For the A229Pro, we have well over 150 units out in the field and have not had reports of any poor video quality on the front camera."
"the starvis 2 sensor this has is great. I have both the older and newer viofo units, and the starvis 2 definitely makes a difference compared to the previous gen."
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"the dashcam I've had for 6 years...only changed the SD card."
"Make sure whatever dashcam you buy has a capacitor and NOT a battery. ... In the summer the interior of cars can get well above 120° and cook the battery. A capacitor will survive, no problem. The same for the winter, the batteries fail in the constant, deep cold, capacitors don't."
"Yeah they are specifically better in the heat than other cameras because they use a super capacitor instead of a battery to do the final writing to the SD card when the power gets cut by your car. ... Batteries tend to have issues in extreme heat/cold"
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"For what it ’s worth i have ZERO car experience and I got the viofo front and rear cam and used the donggar adapter to power it off the rain sensor behind the rear view mirror. ... I watched maybe 2 tutorials, went slow, and was able to get everything in place in well under an hour with no issues. ... Highly recommend, super easy to do."
"I just installed my A229 2-channel cameras yesterday, I highly recommend using the ASC connector that you can buy off of Hachi Electronics. Makes it so much easier to hardwire than messing around with the fusebox."
"Very easy install too."
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"EVERYONE should have them. They can save hundreds of thousands of dollars, years of stress and keep you out of prison."
"We had a person in front of us at a red light, when it turned green, put it in reverse and plowed into us. ... no one would have believed us (insurance company) if we didn have footage or admission"
"If someone calls the police on you and it's their word against yours, you might lose in court. And not just traffic court. You can be charged criminally ( depending on that person's "story" ). If that happens, it will be months of stress, thousands on a lawyer and you still might lose. No license to get to and from work, thousands in fines, sued civilly, and angry for 10 years with much higher insurance premiums. ... Whenever there's an incident, save the recording on your PC incase someone tries to blame you etc."
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"Make sure whatever dashcam you buy has a capacitor and NOT a battery. ... In the summer the interior of cars can get well above 120° and cook the battery. A capacitor will survive, no problem. The same for the winter, the batteries fail in the constant, deep cold, capacitors don't."
"Yeah they are specifically better in the heat than other cameras because they use a super capacitor instead of a battery to do the final writing to the SD card when the power gets cut by your car. ... Batteries tend to have issues in extreme heat/cold"
"Tbh your supercapacitor sealed the deal. ... You should advertise that more for this region as overheating is a huge problem here."
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"It does NOT handle the Florida heat at all. ... Constant shutdowns while driving and parked have rendered it absolutely useless. ... Viofo's solution? Kick it down to 1080 / 2k and hope works. It did not. ... The camera is seriously flawed."
"My VIOFO A229 camera constantly powers down & reboots when temps are above 70 & the sun is out. ... Camera is unreliable"
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"It’s also a PITA for me to use WiFi because when I’m in the car my phone connects to CarPlay and CarPlay disables WiFi."
"Slow and the app _blows_."
"I hate the interface and the software."
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"I have the Viofo A229 Dual dashcam installed with a hardwiring kit in my car and in retrospect I feel I should have gone for something cheaper. ... You can buy the hardwiring kit and a CPL filter (if there is one) for the 70mai A510 and still be nowhere close to the budget you'd need for the Viofo A229"
"Just pricey"
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"Routing the two wires properly through the A pillar (behind the airbag) did take me an hour or so and a little improvising ... I ended up bending a wire hanger into a C shape, tying the cable to that, and pulling the wire hanger up and behind the airbag. ... Would've saved me thirty minutes or so if I had planned on how I would snake the wire through the A pillar before hand."
"The biggest hurdle was getting the wired connection from the front camera to the rear one"
"the cable for the rear camera, given that it's way too long for the tiny 86 interior. ... I currently have most of it coiled and shoved inside the right rear C-pillar trim panel (which is a great place for it, I just need to clean it up so the panel can actually close)."
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"It does NOT handle the Florida heat at all. ... Constant shutdowns while driving and parked have rendered it absolutely useless. ... Viofo's solution? Kick it down to 1080 / 2k and hope works. It did not. ... The camera is seriously flawed."
"My VIOFO A229 camera constantly powers down & reboots when temps are above 70 & the sun is out. ... Camera is unreliable"
"Don't rely on parking mode though, as it takes forever to turn on when set for impact detection only."
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