RoadScan Canada DC1 Operator's manual

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1. USB 2. GPS 3. Power ON/OFF 4. Lens 5. Charging Indicator
6. Recording Indicator 7. GPS Indicator 8. Reset
10. OK / Recording/ One Buon Emergency Recording 11. Back / Menu
12. Up / Playback 13. Down / Pause / Photo
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POWER
Using the aachment plate, find a suitable locaon for the camera that is free of obstrucon.
It is important to clean the windshield well in the area that the camera will be located prior to
aaching the fixed plate (See setup and installaon). A plate and a sucon cup are provided
with the camera.
The camera can be installed as a plug and play (using the 12 volt cigar lighter plug), hard wired
into the ignion of the vehicle. If camera is not plugged in camera will have power unl it’s
baery life run s out which varies in length from seconds to a minute.
Note: If the plug and play opon is chosen, the 12 volt adaptor will need to be plugged in prior
to use and unplugged when no longer in use. If used, the automac on/off funcon may not
work, always check to see if the camera is working.
***Manufactures 12 month warranty is void if damage occurs to the VEDR due to the
unit being installed incorrectly or wired improperly. It is highly recommended to always use a trained and competent
installer.
The unit will automacally power on when in use with the hard wire kit or 12 volt adaptor. The
unit will also power manually when you press the power buon. The power buon is located
on the le side of the unit when looking at the screen.
Figure 1
Once powered, the camera will chime and a “Welcome” greeng will appear. At this me the
video ‘record’ will automacally be acvated. There is a flashing red symbol that is displayed
in the top right of the camera screen along with a blue blinking on the le side of the camera
(from screen), which indicates the camera is acvely recording. To turn the video recording
off/back on, hit the OK buon located on the le side of the screen.
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Red light = The camera is plugged in to 12 volt, USB, or hard wired.
Figure 2
Blue light = video recording is in progress.
Figure 3
Green Light = GPS is acve and recording
Figure 4
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Screen Icons by number:
Figure 5
1. Red Light Flashing/me = Recording in progress
2. WIFI symbol = Indicates if WIFI is connected or not
3. Plug – Indicates that the camera is plugged-in/charging.
4. Lower right corner of screen – white wring = license plate number, speed, me and
date (this allows the user to view the video in windows media without the GPS program
and sll provide the necessary informaon).
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5. Emergency – Indicates when the camera is in emergency mode. When the camera is
in this mode the video will be stored in a separate folder named ‘emergency’. The data
in this folder cannot be overwrien on the camera and must be deleted manually.
6. Baery - Indicates baery life.
7. Crossed-out Speaker – Indicates that the camera is not recording audio. To turn
audio off momentarily hold the SCROLL UP buon (which is on the right side from the
screen).
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BUTTONS & MENU ACCESS
Figure 7 Figure 8
There are five essenal buons on the DC1.
1. POWER buon located on the le side of the camera
2. OK buon, top le corner from screen
3. MENU buon (below OK buon)
4. SCROLL UP buon, top right corner from the screen
5. SCROLL DOWN buon, under the Scroll Up buon
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If the camera is recording, you can press the SCROLL DOWN buon to stop recording and then
press the MENU buon to enter the menu. Also, if the camera is recording you can just press
the MENU buon and the camera will automacally stop recording and enter the menu. Press
the MENU buon again to exit the menu.
While in the menu hit the OK buon to enter any seng opon’s sub menu. Use the SCROLL
UP or SCROLL DOWN to maneuver within the sub menu selected. Once the seng has been
adjusted, press OK buon. This will change the seng and the main menu screen will come
back up. While in a sub menu, press the MENU buon to return to the main menu screen
without changing the seng. Press SCROLL UP or SCROLL DOWN to navigate to the next
sengs.
Figure 9
File Playback: entering this seng will give you opons to view and play files. There are two
folders: video and emergency. (See PlayBack mode)
●Video will have all your video files, including emergency video and photo files
●Emergency will have all emergency videos (See Record Mode / Emergency Mode)
DriverID Seng: This allows you to set your camera to a unique ID of your choosing.
Date / Time: Allows you to set the Date and Time for your camera.
Time Stamp: If on, while the camera is recording the Timestamp at the boom right of the
screen will show, otherwise if off, the Timestamp will not show.
Video Resoluon: Change the resoluon of the video recording. Opons are 2560x1080 p30,
2304x1296 p30, 1920x1080 p30 HDR, and 1280x720 p60.
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Photo Resoluon: Change the resoluon of photos taken in camera mode. Opons are: 13M
(4800x2700), 9M (4000x2250), and 4M (2688x1512)
Image Quality: Change the quality of the photos captured by camera. Opons are S.Fine
(Super Fine) / Fine/ Normal
EV (Exposure Value): Opons are: -2.0 EV, -1.7 EV, -1.3 EV, -1.0 EV, -0.7 EV, -0.3 EV, 0.0 EV, +0.3
EV, +0.7 EV, +1.0 EV, +1.3 EV, +1.7 EV, +2.0 EV. Aer seng the EV value in the menu, the
exposure of videos will change accordingly.
ADAS Detect: Opons: Off / On. Lane Departure Warning System (LDWS), Low light warning
system, Over fague warning systems.
LCD Seng: Used to set the screen saver me. The cameras screen display will automacally
turn off aer the set me. Press any buon to exit screen save and view the live video.
Opons are: On, Turn Off Aer 30 sec, Turn Off Aer 3 min, Off
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Voice Record: Opons: On / Off. If On the camera will record audio while recording video. If
off, the camera will not record audio. If the audio is manually muted or unmuted (via
momentarily holding the SCROLL UP buon), this will show in the seng.
Set Time zone: Ensure this opon is set to -7. This seng is for PST, -6 for MST and connuing
to reduce the number as you travel east across the country.
Speed Seng: Allows to change the speed measurement unit. Opons are KM/H and M/H
Speed Warning Seng: Opons are off, 80 km/h, and 120 km/h. The camera will show a
warning when it detects speed that reaches or exceeds the set opon.
Beep: Changes the volume of the beep noise the camera emits when the user presses the
camera buons. Opons are: 0 (no volume) to 5.
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Record Interval: Video recordings are split into segments (separate files) when the recording
interval passes the set me. Opons are: 3 and 5 minutes, this makes for easier viewing and
shorter download me.
Moon Detecon: When moon detecon is on, the camera will begin recording aer it
detects moon and will connue to record unl about 10 seconds aer moon is no longer
occurring in front of the camera or if the user manually stops the recording. Recording will
automacally resume if the camera detects moon again. Note: This will require the camera
to be hard wired to always be powered on in the car. This may cause some small drain on
the battery.
Collision Detecon: If a collision occurs, it will automacally trigger the video to be stored in
emergency file to ensure it will not be overwrien or deleted (See Record Mode / Emergency
Mode). Opons are: Off / High / Medium / Low.
Frequency: Used to select the frequency best for the power supply. If the frequency is on the
wrong seng, the camera screen will display lines and or be flickering. Opons are Auto, 60Hz
and 50Hz. It is recommended to use 60Hz.
Language: This opon allows to change the display language of the device.
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File Deleon: entering this seng will give you the opon to delete files. There are two
folders: video and emergency. (See File Playback and Deleon)
●Video will have all your video and photo files.
●Emergency will have all emergency video files.
Format: should there be an issue with the SD Card, use this seng to format your SD Card.
Should this seng be used. PLEASE BE AWARE THAT ALL DATA ON SD CARD WILL BE DELETED
AFTER USING THIS FEATURE
Default Seng: this is to return the camera back to factory sengs.
About: Shows the version of the device.
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RECORD MODE / EMERGENCY MODE
When the camera is powered up, it will automacally begin recording. To stop the recording
press the SCROLL DOWN buon. To start a recording push the OK buon.
If recording and camera is not in emergency mode , navigate to file playback by pressing
SCROLL UP or to the menu by pressing MENU buon and recording will stop.
Note: Every time you enter any menu or other screen and maneuver back to the main
camera view screen, the camera will automatically begin recording.
Emergency mode: While the camera is recording press the OK buon to acvate emergency
mode. Text will appear in the top le corner of the screen saying “Emergency”. Video
recordings that have had emergency mode triggered in them, will be stored in the emergency
folder in file PlayBack. These files cannot be overwrien and can only be manually deleted.
Figure 14
Emergency Mode can also be triggered by an internal accelerometer (collision detecon).
Emergency mode will last for 20 seconds aer acvated whether manually or the camera
detects a collision.
Camera Mode
The camera can be switched and used to take a photo by making sure the camera is not in
record mode and pressing the SCROLL DOWN buon. Photos can also be captured by
stopping the video on your computer and hing ‘print screen’.
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File Playback and File Deleon
File playback allows you to view all recordings the camera has captured. There are two ways to
view files.
1. Exit record mode and press the SCROLL UP buon which will navigate you to the video
folder, which has all your recordings, including photos.
2. Press the MENU buon then choose File PlayBack.
Figure 15
Once selected, two opons are presented: Video which has all recordings and Emergency
which has all recording segments that were triggered manually or as a result of exceeding the
set G-force parameters.
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To navigate through this menu, use the SCROLL UP and SCROLL DOWN buons. Press OK to
view a file. If the file you press OK buon on is a video file, the file will automacally start
playing. Press OK buon again to pause the video. While viewing a selected video or photo
you can press SCROLL UP or SCROLL DOWN to view the next file or previous file respecvely.
Press the MENU button to back out of files.
To delete a file : Go to the menu and find File Deletion and press OK buon. The following
menu will pop up with two opons: Video and Emergency. Just like File PlayBack.
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Choose one of the files you would like to delete from.
Figure 19
Just like File PlayBack, navigate through your file by pressing SCROLL UP and SCROLL DOWN
and press OK to select the file you would like to delete. When you press the OK buon, the
menu screen below will appear.
Figure 20
Delete One will delete the file you selected. Delete All will delete ALL OF YOUR FILES IN THE
SELECTED FOLDER. NOTE: If you delete all files from video folder you will not delete
emergency files
Press the MENU buon to back out of this screen.
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Opening Files On the Computer
1. Plug the camera into the computer via the USB cable
2. A red light should be lit on the camera
3. The camera screen should turn blue and have the words ‘usb connecng…’ displayed
4. The computer should then recognize the camera as a ‘D’, ‘E’, ‘F’, or ‘G’ drive
5. Locate the drive on your computer
6. Once opened there should be 3 files present: EVENT, HDPlayer, and NORMAL
Figure 21
Note: if the camera does not connect the first time, unplug and re-plug it into the computer.
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Select NORMAL to view all of your camera’s recorded files
Figure 22
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To View Event Video:
Open the Event folder. The videos located in this folder are the ones captured when the camera
exceeded the G-Force parameters set. These videos can only be deleted on the computer. Select the
video to view it, open with windows media player.
GPS
To download the GPS viewer, go to hp://roadscancanada.ca and locate the soware DataKam and
download this program. Assistance may be required from your IT department to download the data
due to your company’s internet sengs.
Play Stop Refresh the playlist
Delete file from the playlist Copy file to certain locaon
Add file to the playlist Stop video playback
Delete file completely
Figure 24
A GPS data screen will open. The data displayed will be; video, GPS, files in the boom right corner
(displays if GPS is on or off via satellite icon), compass bearing, speed and G-Force data in the boom
le corner.
GPS will show the beginning and the end of the route taken during that recording. There will be a
green arrow depicng the vehicles exact locaon that the video was recorded and a red line showing
the route taken.
Files below the GPS will show file name, the length of me of the video, the date and me taken, a
satellite icon if satellite obtained, how long the trip was, average speed obtained, size of the file and
resoluon taken. The larger the file the longer it will take to download.
The video can be sped up to 64x or slowed down to ¼ along with a zoom feature for the video.
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To Delete Files :
To delete files, go back to the folder of “D”, ‘E’, ‘F’, or ‘G’ drive and highlight and delete the
selected files by pressing delete (like any thumb drive). Ensure all files to be kept are saved in
another locaon on your computer prior to deleng files.
A secondary way to delete files can be done on the HD PLAYER. Select the file to be deleted
and hit the red X buon.
To save files, highlight, copy, paste, and store in a new folder (In this order).
REMEMBER TO EJECT THE CAMERA PROPERLY FROM YOUR COMPUTER OR IT MAY CORRUPT
THE CAMERA OR DATA ON FILE.
Parts
Figure 25
1) Aachment Bracket Plate
2) Sucon cup (Oponal) Recommended to use the aachment plate as it tends to hold
the camera more efficiently
3) 12 volt car charger adaptor
4) Hard wire kit
5) USB cord
6) DC1 Camera.
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