VIOFODash Cam A119 Mini 2, STARVIS 2 Sensor, 2K 60fps/HDR 30fps Voice Control Car Dash Camera with 5GHz Wi-Fi GPS, Night Vision 2.0, 24H Parking Mode, Supercapacitor, Support 512GB Max

This is a really good dash cam. The video quality is excellent both day and night and it has had no issues in the almost year since I've installed it. I'm thoroughly surprised at how well it's held up in the heat, I installed it last fall and was a bit worried that the adhesion might fail in the summer, or that the device may overhead, but I've had no issues with either thus far.Install was pretty straightforward, I got the additional cable so it could be hardwired in, and while I wasn't able to get the always-on passive monitoring to work for me I'm pretty sure that's just due to a lack of understanding on my part and the confusing work of Volkswagen cars. I ended up routing the wires along the top edge of the windscreen, through the front driver side pillar, and down into the power box. The device itself is very small, and easy to hide behind the mirror or another part of the car where it won't obstruct your view, which is ideal in my opinion. The final result in my vehicle was a nearly invisible dash cam with only a couple inches of exposed wires, nothing blocking my view while driving but the whole thing is easy to access if needed.

After extensive “research”, aka reading reviews online on reddit, I decided to finally buy this dashcam. Quality of the camera is amazing, it is a plug and play so it is super easy to install, theres no monthly subscriptions so it’s an overall win. Night recording looks great, so does day. Of course I bought a memory card that was on the not recommended list because i dont read, BUT it works perfectly fine!the only thing that bugs me a little is the app. it sucks and its ugly lol takes forever to connect to your phone and sometimes doesnt even work. it looks so prehistoric like they built it when the internet was first invented and just left it at that. Still functional though.

The A119 Mini 2 is a good little dashcam for the money. It was super easy to install. The power cable was long enough to run to either side of the vehicle. I tried different resolutions to see what looked best to me. It has decent picture quality at night with the HDR turned on. Overall I am happy with it. Everything works great except the video stop command does not work.

The media could not be loaded. I have one video uploaded, but I cropped out my own screen data that includes my license plate (plate data can be added in the app). You’ll get the idea of the image quality, but I believe that Amazon compresses this. It looks better than what is uploaded. I had a thinkware F50 from 2017 that I am upgrading because I burnt it out by accidentally connecting it to 12 V directly. My bad. As I looked to replace my old dash cam, I came across Viofo and the new a119mini 2 with GPS, Sony starvis2 and capacitor (a must in Florida) vs cam with an internal battery. The quality for both daytime driving and nighttime exceeds my old cam. Huge difference, but we are also talking a model from 2017 to 2024 release date, in all fairness. I want to note that I am not using the viofo polarizer and the image is still really good. I am certain I could benefit a little bit from the polarizer by getting rid of some windshield glare and reflection. But for me, having no polarizer does not hurt the image quality. It is difficult to quantify, but in my opinion, a big part of capturing an image is to get a license plate number if needed for identifying a vehicle. My old cam would sometimes fail to resolve plates in high contrast situations, which are often with bright days in Florida and was too grainy at night or in rain. It may have been the frame rate, too, that caused the old cam issues. I am using this new camera with the higher frame rate and middle resolution, based on some car gear review I saw. Bottom line, I’m getting way better images with this camera than the older camera. Customer service is also great. I had an issue that others were reporting, too, that I could not see the GPS data in the ios app. I heard back from customer service in a few days with detailed instructions. There was a misunderstanding on my part on how to obtain the GPS tracking data. It is not visible while viewing the camera footage in the first gallery. It must be downloaded and then viewed within the app in the downloaded My Media menu area (pancake menu in upper left gets you there as of Oct 2024 app release). That is where the GPS tracking data attaches, and shows the map. You just have to get to it a different way it appears than from what users say was available in an older version of the app. Also, the little gaps between video review that people complain about is by design. You aren’t missing any data. It’s just ending on one file and starting a new file. This is just part of the looping structure of the video clips that are taken. Any good dash cam should do this. But, I suggest also allowing the camera to do smaller sized video clips. This can be done right in the camera settings. This makes them easier to download. Having the little 2 minute clips is much easier to download. Even the small clips at high resolution can be upwards of 500 MB. That is a big file to share. Imagine trying to share a clip of the entire duration of your drive. These settings can be done while connected to the camera via wifi. Yes Wi-Fi, not Bluetooth. There are many complaints in iOS app reviews about connecting the phone to the camera. The camera does not connect via Bluetooth to the iphone. It connects via Wi-Fi. Think of it as its own little Wi-Fi hotspot. Based on some of the comments I am reading, it seems like people think that they should have their home Wi-Fi and also be able to connect to the camera. Or they keep thinking that the dash cam should be a Bluetooth device. This is not the case when the camera and the phone are connected. I do get my phone service data simultaneously (I don’t know if this is specific to carriers, but I can’t connect to the phone and still browse using my LTE or 5G on iPhone 14). To connect, turn wifi on (right lower button under camera screen). Open phone and join the new hotspot (camera will speak a wifi connected confirmation). Then open app and connect to camera. App now can control camera, review video, download and see GPS data and offer ability to share images and video to others. I was not provided a dash cam nor was I paid or rewarded to write this review.