VIOFO - A229 Pro 3CH
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Last updated: Aug 1, 2025 Scoring
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"VIOFO A229 Pro is the only dash cam that you can read plates easily on."
"The picture quality day or night is fantastic."
"the Sony Starvis 2 sensors make nighttime footage incredibly clear"
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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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"VIOFO A229 Pro is the only dash cam that you can read plates easily on."
"Was in an accident a couple months ago and had the video footage on my phone before the cops even showed up. ... Saved my ass with the insurance. ... has Wifi to beam video to your phone via their app if you want."
"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"
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"It's the easiest install ever ... i just had to remove one panel to get to the connector, then tucked all the wires into the sides of trim pieces and the headliner."
"Very easy install too."
"install was relatively easy ... longest part was maneuvering the A pillar but once I got the wiring past the A pillar it was really easy to run straight back along the headliner."
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"Have it hardwired for parking mode, and it's given me no operational issues whatsoever."
"Connects from the dadhcam’s power cable to the engine noise speaker cable and uses its power directly. ... Allows the dashcam to stay on when parked and it comes with a switch to prevent draining your battery completely. ... Super useful"
"Hardwired into the fusebox, runs about 10 minutes after turning the car off ... it’s been great."
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"The second time I witnessed a huge crash on the freeway that I very narrowly avoided. Pulled over so I could pull footage for the "victim". Red button was on showing it was recording, but no buttons were working at all when trying to pull up, recording light was clearly on. Had to unplug and turn it back on to find out it wasn't recording for the past 2 days.... ... Very unreliable."
"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_."
"The app is hit or miss with connectivity, you can plug in a pc direct to the camera for downloads, or just pull the card and pop it into a computer to pull files."
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"PLEASE don’t remind me of the struggle getting that damn wire through the rubber boot!"
"The only thing to watch out for is the side pillar—you’ll need very long needle-nose pliers to reach the clips. ... Another issue I encountered was installing the rear camera; I used a plug washer and drilled a hole for the cable to ensure a discreet installation."
"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."
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"Draws too much current, so 3h of video recording is the average, without killing your battery."
"I’ve read a few posts about other Priuses’ 12V batteries dying due to battery drain from third-party electronics like dash cams, so I specifically asked the installer to set the voltage cutoff of the hardwire kit to the highest setting (I think it was 12.4V). ... I know that limits the parking mode, but I’d rather mitigate the risk of a dead battery."
"But, there is one thing that you should know about parking mode, which almost nobody is talking about. The cam may drain your battery. Whether the hardwire kit has discharge protection or not, there is always a chance. ... Also, even if the harwire kit is working properly and cutting off power if the battery is discharged to some level--it puts a strain on it. Which means it wears out quicker. ... Gotcha. Be careful with setting it so low, as it not only puts a strain on the battery going through so many cycles of charging/discharging every time, but discharging it to such a low state can lead to not being able to start the car on a colder/hotter day at 11.4V ... good to hear because I had some clients who reported batteries died on them over time after they tried using parking mode. Despite it had voltage protection"
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"Lastly, while the IR coverage is fine, the scope is narrowed so that anything out of the cone/"periscope" of light coverage isn't lit nearly as well. My previous camera (Coxpal), while it had its own issues, did all these things better with its interior camera."
"The quality, even for 1080p, looks subpar to other interior camera combos I've had, and the exposure is just "weird" in that it doesn't exactly flatter anyone sitting in the car."
"I do wish I had something that records inside as well though."
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