Are you looking for all the functionality
of an Android Auto or Apple CarPlay,
touchscreen, Bluetooth monitor
with a built-in dash camera
and capability for a rear camera
without having to completely withdraw
and replace your existing deck
like we did in our last video?
Then the Car Pride W903 might be just the unit for you.
In this video, we are gonna go through all of its features.
We're gonna install it on the dashboard
of my 2018 Ram ProMaster Work Van.
If you stay tuned, all my Land Rover LR3 viewers,
I'm gonna show you how you could put it into that vehicle
using its auxiliary input.
And then we are going to take it for a test drive.
We're gonna look at the quality of the dash cam video
and the user interface all after this intro.
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Hi, I'm Mike.
Welcome to my Waffle Square where I obsess about things
and you get to benefit from it.
Well, in my previous video,
I removed the old existing stereo deck
out of the Land Rover LR3
that I am refurbishing for my daughter, Aspen,
and I replaced it with a brand new Alpine wireless system
that had Android Auto and Apple CarPlay in it.
And that video was very popular.
I had a lot of questions and comments about it.
Several people reached out and said it might be easier
just to put a wireless Bluetooth monitor in it.
So when Carpe Ride emailed me
and offered to send me this unit for free
for my independent review, I jumped at the chance.
Now this is my 2018 Ram ProMaster Van.
It is a work-slash-travel van
that I'm doing a complete build-out series on
on my other YouTube channel.
If you're interested in seeing me
do the insulation on the floors,
put in a sub floor, insulate the walls,
put in these windows on the sides and the rear,
put up solar and battery banks in the back,
as well as put in a refrigerator, microwave,
all that kind of stuff is happening in the build series
right up here where this link is.
Also, I'll have it at the end of the video.
So full disclosure,
I am neither paid nor sponsored by Carpe Ride.
They did reach out to me after seeing our last video
and offered to send me this unit for free
for my independent review.
So let's get started.
We'll unbox it, take a look at all the features,
and install it in my van.
I'm pretty impressed with the packaging.
You get a combination of cardboard, foam padding,
and every single piece you see here
has its own Ziploc baggie.
Pretty nice.
All right, here's everything that comes in the package.
You have the unit itself.
It's a very short but long screen.
On the back of it is the front-facing camera.
That actually rotates up and can be twisted around
for the driver or passenger,
or you have a view out the driver's window
so you get pulled over or something like that.
Then we have the backup camera right here.
It has a 3.5 jack that goes into the side of the main unit
plus a red cord that is to supply it power.
You have mounting hardware for the camera.
Then we have the first of two ways to mount the unit.
This is the suction cup mount here,
so you have full adjustability there
if you want to put it in the window or anywhere like that.
This head also adjusts.
If you don't want to attach it to glass,
you can mount this disc that's included
with three screws anywhere,
and then the suction cup will affix to that mounting plate.
The plate I'm most interested in is this one
that's gonna go on our dashboard,
and this one is very flexible, so that's pretty cool.
It also comes with double-sided adhesive
to adhere it to the bracket and then to the dashboard.
Over here, you have an auxiliary jack,
so if you don't want to use the Bluetooth functionality,
you can instead use an auxiliary jack
if the vehicle you're putting it in has one of those.
We have the manual, and lastly, over here,
we have the power supply,
so the included power supply is a cigarette lighter adapter,
and it's kind of cool that it has
a standard USB coming out of it,
and then it has a long cable and the USB-C adapter
that's going to plug directly into the unit.
So as I'll show you in a little bit,
I'm actually gonna purchase a different USB-C cable
that is 90 degrees, but not 90 degrees this way,
but 90 degrees facing down,
and I think that'll give us the sleekest assembly,
and then I also want it to go straight to standard USB
rather than having to route it
to one of the cigarette lighter adapters in the van.
So that is gonna be on order.
I'll show it to you in a bit,
and I'll leave a link for what I purchased
in the description below.
Let's take a better look at this side of the rear here
where you have all the various ports.
So this is the USB-C that you connect power to.
This is the audio-visual in where the rear camera will go.
It comes with a micro SD card
already installed right here,
and this one is the auxiliary jack.
Then if we flip this way,
you can see a reset button
that you would have to put a pin in.
You flip to the top of the unit,
and right here is a power button.
Now we could easily do this next part out at the vehicle,
but this is a nice controlled lighting setting.
So let's go over some of the features
and what the screen looks like from right here.
I'm gonna plug into the USB-C.
Look at that, support at carpreride.com.
I like that it's got the email for help
right on the home screen.
All right, so this is the screen that pops up right away,
and you can see that we have CarPlay,
Android Audio, AirPlay.
So if you wanna send something from a phone
or someone else's phone in the vehicle to this screen,
you can do that.
Android Cast.
I don't have an Android phone,
so I would imagine that's the same thing as AirPlay.
Then we have Wi-Fi video, audio output,
and playback and settings.
So let's first go to settings,
and you can see in the general screen here
we have the screen saver.
So you can turn that off so the screen saver never goes on,
or you can have it come on after 10 or 30 seconds.
I'm gonna leave it at the default for now.
Left or right-hand drive.
We're in America, so I'm gonna leave this the way it is
with the buttons over here for me being an American driver.
If you're in the UK or somewhere else,
you can switch that,
and then all your buttons would be over here.
Split screen mode.
So this is pretty cool.
It's by default set at full screen mode,
but if you wanna go to split screen mode,
you can see you get all these functionalities here,
split in half, and then the camera.
So you have a full-time camera on.
I could see that being valuable
if you hook up the backup camera
and you have that camera powered on
so it can work at all times.
That would be a pretty cool way,
especially in a van like ours
where we can't see out through a rear-view mirror very well.
Next is brightness.
By default, it's set to auto mode,
so I'm just gonna leave it there,
and I can always adjust it later if I don't like that.
Next, we have assistive touch.
So right now, that's on.
I'm just gonna leave it on by default.
Then we have clear connections.
So if you had, say, your kids in the car
and they wanted to play their favorite Spotify list
with you on a drive,
I know my older daughter loves to do that,
we could connect to her phone just for that period,
and then I could clear that connection if I wanted to.
So let's go over to camera settings.
Camera format.
You can see it has a camera format
of a couple different 720 and then a 1080p.
By default, it's set there,
so I'm gonna leave it at the highest as well.
Record resolution.
It has 720p, 1080p, and 2.5K.
I'm gonna go up to the highest resolution.
Segment duration.
So you've got a choice of one, three, and five minutes.
You figure if you have an accident or something like that
and you want the collision to be recorded
for the police and also for downloading ease,
one minute seems fine to me.
If I ever come over under a situation
where that wasn't enough
and I had to have several videos spliced together,
maybe I'll change it,
but for now I'm just gonna leave that.
Then we come over here to collision sensitivity.
So if it senses an impact, it will mark that.
Or if it's parked with power,
you can have it turn on perhaps.
So it's set to middle.
I'll just leave it at that for now.
Microphone is strictly on or off,
so I'm just gonna leave it on.
Rear mirror image.
So if you have the rear camera set up,
you can hit rear mirror image
and you can have that be what's on the screen
instead of the front facing camera.
So for now I have that turned off.
And then this is so cool.
So if you set up the rear camera,
you can calibrate, you'd get the image here,
and then you can calibrate these lines
wherever you want them to line up with the car like that.
Really cool, and then you would confirm it right here.
So let's just cancel out of that.
I like that screen a lot.
Okay, language, we're gonna leave it in English.
That tip sound every time you hear me doing something,
it's giving you the little sound.
I'll leave that on for now if it gets annoying.
We can just turn it off.
Date and time.
So as we are recording this,
this is actually one day off.
And we are at noon.
And confirm, easy.
All right, storage info, look at this.
The unit comes with a 58 gigabyte card.
If we wanna format that card, you do it right there.
Factory reset, if we wanted to reset
every setting we had done, right there.
If you wanna check the firmware, that would be right there.
So once we link it to our phone,
I'll be interested to see if it asks us to do an update
or if that's something that has to be done
like the Alpine deck where you have to download it
to the card and then put it in.
But we'll see.
All right, let's go to the home screen from there.
Now look at this.
This is the camera button.
So this is what this front-facing camera is seeing.
I wanted to go over some of the features.
First of all, it's saying it's claiming 4K down there,
which I don't know where they get that from
because as you saw, it was a 1080 screen
and a 2K record.
It was the highest, so where they're getting 4K from
is kinda confusing to me.
Right over here, it's a little hard to see
with this white backdrop, but if I go like that,
you can see the date and time right there.
And then pretty good quality.
You can see the box signal here.
If you look right here, as you get to the outer edges
of the camera, there's quite a bit of barrel distortion.
Now, we are very close.
This is within, say, six inches,
so it'll be interesting to see if that is done
to get a widescreen view and it looks more natural
when we're looking out of the windshield and to the road,
but there is quite a bit of barrel distortion on both sides.
Take a look there as well as I pivot the camera
and swivel it a little bit.
You can see, see that?
There's a little bit of that rolling shutter warp
look to it.
I don't think we'll be making turns that fast,
but you can see that it is processing in such a way
that you get a little bit of that warp there
as it's turning.
They call that rolling shutter.
Let's see how it handles a brighter light.
Pretty good.
You don't lose any resolution here
by it making up for the brightness.
I will say, look at how the brightness
is a little bit blown out,
because in actuality, this is all orange,
but the way the camera's processing it,
it's actually blowing out in spots,
so I wonder if nighttime driving will cause an issue,
but I like that nothing else is losing detail
because of the brightness of the lamp.
Now, if you tap on the screen while it's in camera mode,
you can lock it right there.
You can take a photo, a still shot
of whatever the camera is seeing
just by hitting that button.
You can go to the home screen right there.
You can set it for directly over to airplay,
and you can, with one button, turn off the microphone.
All right, let's go to home screen,
and then let's check playback.
Now, it's set at all, which would make you believe
that it would show everything you've recorded,
but that's actually not happening,
so you have to go to video,
and you'll get a list of videos.
As you can see here, it had the wrong date previously,
so there's the replay, really good quality.
You can hear the audio coming right out of the unit,
and there is a volume control
somewhere in one of the screens,
but for now, it's pretty good,
so let's go out of that one,
and let's check the photos we took,
so you remember I made that screenshot,
and there that is.
Now, if we click on the three dots,
you can see it's only asking if you wanna delete it.
That's not a quick way to send it to your phone
or something, that would've been a really cool feature,
but the only thing we have here is to delete that file,
and with the video, you can lock it or delete it.
All right, let's go back into settings,
and now that we've set the time and everything,
let's format all this stuff we were doing
to get it off.
Formatting will erase all the data, confirm.
All right, go back to the home screen,
and the unit turns on automatically.
Let's test the power button up here
and see how long that takes to shut it off.
Shutting down, and there we go, not too bad.
All right, let's take it out to the van
and start our install.
Now, I happen to think the installation process
on the dashboard of this van is pretty interesting,
but if you're not interested in that
and you wanna fast forward,
go right here to this timestamp,
and we'll just start test driving it
and testing the user interface
and looking at the quality of the video
you get out of the dash cam.
All right, this is the spot I have in mind
for our Carpe Ride monitor.
It does seem to be a little bit high up,
however, I sit like way up this high
looking out through this portion of the windshield,
so this actually won't affect me at all in this van.
Now, this area where I'm going to attach it
is actually like this strange rounded clipboard,
and it's not very functional at all,
so I want to put it right here,
and then I wanna run the cable right down this break
between the clipboard attachment and the actual dash,
so we need to get to a couple screws that are right here.
Now, you can see here,
I have four of these really tiny little screwdrivers.
The stems of these screwdrivers
fit right into these four holes perfectly,
and all they need to do,
as you can see right here in this video,
is overcome these little tabs on the sides of the deck,
and at that point, we can slide the whole deck out
and out of our way.
There's plenty of wiring here
to just hold that while we do some work.
Now, right here are two T25 bits,
so I've got a ridiculously long extension to get to them,
but anything that I had that was shorter,
I was afraid was gonna rub up against my work surface,
so let's get in here.
Now, because it's daylight,
there was a ton of bright light coming in here,
so I actually have a fabric diffuser
trying to equalize the light,
so if you see a little bit of movement,
that's just the wind blowing that fabric.
All right, with those two screws out,
we can push this up,
and you can see this little clipboard attachment
that's integrated into the dashboard.
Now, if we look over here on this side,
there is a little piece here I want to avoid,
but I think I can drill a hole
in between this side of the clipboard
and down the side of this opening
where there's a little flange coming out
that receives this,
and if I do that, our cord should come right up here,
so I'm just gonna take this little pencil.
I'm gonna mark that spot that'll be perfect for us.
Now, if we put this back in right there to rest,
we'll know right where to drill,
so this is the cable I was talking about.
It just arrived today,
and we have on one side a USB-C with a 90-degree angle,
so it's gonna come straight off
down to the bottom of the monitor,
and then in this case,
we're gonna have three feet of cable
to be able to fish down over to here
where you can see we have a standard USB port
and an auxiliary jack,
so judging by the thickness of this cord,
I think a 13-16th bit will be just fine.
Close that right back up,
and that's gonna give us a little bit of flexibility
to get the cable right where it needs to be
without having a bunch of it exposed,
so I think that's gonna be really nice and clean.
All right, before we secure this,
let's use this nice open area here,
and let's put this electrical fish
all the way down over in this area
so we can run this cable.
Now, if you look at this image here,
you can see I turned on the strobe light feature
of a flashlight,
and from up here down to the area by the steering wheel,
you can see the flash,
so we've clearly got an open channel
to fish the cable through.
All right, there is the fish line coming out
down by the gas and brake pedal.
I'm gonna attach the USB cord to it,
and I'll pull it through up through to here,
and then with the leftover piece,
I'll be able to reach down here on the steering column
and bring the cable up to the USB cord.
And there we go.
Just being gentle and pulling it through,
we've got our cable.
And with that done,
I can remove these little mini screwdrivers
from the holes.
I'm gonna take this opportunity
just to wipe down this spot
where a drink must've splashed at one time
since we're here,
and then I can put the deck right back into place.
Nice.
Now, with everything locked back into place,
let's go ahead and degrease this area
so we'll get good adhesion with the sticker.
All right, I've let that all dry for a couple minutes,
and I am gonna set it straight along this line
so it looks good.
Now, if you're worried about being able
to twist the monitor one way or the other,
as you can see in this close-up video,
this ball joint on the mount has a lot of maneuverability,
so I'm not the least bit worried about that.
So let's peel back this side,
there, gonna line it all up,
center it on that piece so it looks as good as possible,
and just push it down.
And I'm gonna position with a slight angle bias
towards the driver and tighten it down.
Here's our USB cable.
And as you can see in this close-up picture,
it looks really clean.
Here comes the really satisfying part.
Nice.
All right.
As you can see, we are plugged into the USB port.
That looks really clean.
Let's click on the first step of our ignition here.
Here's the radio from our deck firing up.
Here's our unit firing up.
A couple things about this unit,
it does have Bluetooth,
but it's not all that user-friendly down here
other than the radio is great.
It can connect a phone wirelessly
and it does have navigation.
However, the maps in here are very dated.
And as you can see, my daughter likes it
because we can change it to a little van
and it shows the little van turning on streets and things.
But this screen compared to this nice big screen
is going to be a night and day difference.
Plus this one won't talk to you and give you directions,
which of course Apple CarPlay will.
So let's instead go over to phone.
Let's go to CarPlay.
Switch to CarPlay mode.
Confirm.
All right.
Now we are going to go into our phone, into settings.
We're going to go to Bluetooth.
We're going to come down here.
Here is the carpe ride coming right up.
So we select that.
Yes, I want a pair.
I don't need my contacts to sync with it,
but if you wanted to, you could allow that.
And we are connected.
Use with CarPlay smart screen, question mark?
Yes, use with CarPlay smart screen.
Now we are up and running.
Now my deck is saying there's no phone connected.
Do you want to pair with your phone?
So rather than utilizing the auxiliary cord
to come down here,
which we could do if this unit wasn't Bluetooth,
the carpe ride allows us to connect our existing deck
to our phone as well.
And they integrate with each other through the phone.
It's pretty neat.
So yes, let's pair a phone.
Here it is.
You connect.
And we are good to go.
Now when we go to media, I'm hooked to my phone.
Let's go over here to maps.
All right, let's see about my favorite self-service carwash.
We're going to hit go.
Starting route to legacy self-serve carwash.
Head east on West Joe Ray Avenue.
And turn left onto South Valley View Boulevard.
And that sound is coming out of the unit itself.
It's not actually coming out of our stereo.
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All right, so I can control my podcasts.
I can control music.
If we swipe over, we have a Pandora.
Awesome.
Don't want to get a strike, but that is a great song.
So I can control everything from this screen.
Now let's check out a split screen view for now
and see what that's like.
Cool, now we've got the camera here.
And we've got our CarPlay functions over here.
Once I hook up the backup camera,
then I could actually have this portion of the screen
be the backup camera,
instead of looking up at my rear view mirror
while having all the functionality over here on the left.
Pretty cool.
I say I hop over into the driver's seat.
We go to a full screen camera mode
and let's go test out the dash cam.
As you can see here, once I turn off the ignition,
remove the key,
this vehicle continues to send power to the USB port
for about a minute or so, and then it shuts down.
Just like that.
Nice, so this won't be on all day long
draining our battery in our ProMaster.
All right, let's take it for a drive,
see how it functions when we're using the map,
see if we can get some text messages to come in
and just how we interact with it.
Now, the nice thing about this van
is because that USB port is right there,
I can unplug it so it's not constantly turning on
and off the machine while I'm loading and unloading tools
and that sort of stuff.
Once I'm at the job site and I don't want it functioning
as a dash cam, I can remove that power.
So let's go ahead and start it.
And I'm gonna hit mute on the stereo
because I don't want any copyright infringements.
See here, I've got Maverick with me.
He loves to go for a ride.
So we'll make sure it's not getting impeded by his nose
or his interest in it.
So we pop right up to the same screen that we left.
So we're split screen with the front camera up front.
As you can see right here,
because it's only that small portion of the screen,
it looks to me to be quite distorted.
It's really bowed this way
and everything is compressed in the center.
So I'm not a fan of that at all.
What if we switch over to the smart screen
and we go to camera and we make it full screen.
I can still see rounding down at the bottom
of what is a pretty flat dashboard.
But the image itself looks pretty good.
And I think even though there's slight barrel distortion
still, when we're this far out,
I still think that's perfectly usable
for replaying an accident or some other issue,
say to the police or to your insurance.
So that is automatically recording.
Let's go home.
And I wanna go to CarPlay.
Now from CarPlay, you can see we have a message.
So let me click on there.
That's a group message with our real attorney.
And Seth, Seth like Brooke's message.
To hear the message, say read it.
Reply to the group, okay?
All right, so that is the same voice
that my phone uses to give us directions.
So speaking of directions, let's go here.
We're gonna go get some parts for the house
at a local Walmart that I know will have
a couple other things I need as well.
All right, there it is on my phone.
What happens if I just hit go
after being able to find it on my phone?
Starting road to Walmart.
I can hear it coming out.
Head east on West Joe Ray Avenue.
Then turn right onto South Valley View Boulevard.
All right, cool.
Let's do this though.
Let's go to full screen.
Smart screen, setting, split screen.
Let's go back to the full screen mode.
And we'll go home, CarPlay, and our maps.
That's a little better.
What's up, buddy?
Now what happens if I want to adjust the volume
on the gentleman who's talking to us
and giving us directions?
Are you seeing any input?
When I hit the volume button here,
I'm not seeing anything come up.
At the stop sign, turn right
onto South Valley View Boulevard.
That sounded like it got maybe a little louder,
though it didn't show any indication.
What happens if we hit the smart button over here?
That's showing us volume.
It's all the way up.
Also a home screen, brightness, and camera.
Let's go to that.
Cool.
That takes us right to the full screen camera mode.
Now, because I have the screen positioned
a little bit more comfortably towards me,
the camera is in its lockdown position
and it's pointing slightly over towards the passenger side,
which you can see is giving us quite a bit
of area on the screen over here on the curb
and off the roadway.
Now, you may like that.
That might be beneficial because a lot of times
people coming out of a private drive
and onto a roadway can cause an issue.
But if I didn't like that,
and I wanted more of, say, this area over here
where you can see this car in the next lane over,
I could just easily turn the monitor
and get that camera that way.
Remember also I can pull this up
and actually dial that in a little bit better.
Now, forgive me for all this area
being blown out and overexposed.
I'm exposing for the monitor
so you can get the clearest picture
of what that looks like
rather than the drive down the road.
So to my eye as I'm driving,
this screen is pushing the images further away
such as vehicles and cars at rest and things like that.
So it'll be interesting to see if that's how it translates
when we transfer the video files over to our computer,
if that is the same,
or if it's because of this compression
that it's looking further away.
All right, if you look right here,
you can see that those brake lights that looked solid to us
were actually flashing on here.
So that's gonna be the frame rate of this camera.
All right, let's see if we were an Uber driver,
what would it be like if we turned the camera around?
You can see both seats in this pretty big van are visible.
So here's me on the driver's side,
and then this would be any passengers that we have.
The way I have the screen slanted,
that camera is heading up,
so we're getting a lot of the rooftop.
You could easily adjust that down
to get more of what's happening down at waist level
if you were worried about presentation of a weapon
during a robbery or something like that.
All right, we're here in the parking lot,
so if I wanted to kill the map,
I suppose I could go to CarPlay, hit End Route,
and he won't be talking to us anymore.
And then with a touch of this button going back to camera,
boom, we're out of that.
So overall, the user interface is really good, I like it.
In fact, the only part of the user interface
I don't care for is how you go about getting the video
from the dash cam off of this unit.
Now, you would think the easiest thing
is to go right in here to hit Playback,
and you could actually play it for, say, a police officer
or an insurance adjuster that comes out,
but when you hit that, it says CarPlay is connected.
Please disconnect first.
So how do we do that?
If we go to Smart Screen, what do we have to do?
Hit Settings, Clear Connections.
Like, I don't know if I wanna do that.
Let's try turning off Bluetooth.
Maybe that would do it.
If we go back to Home and then hit Playback,
nope, it says CarPlay is connected.
So that feature doesn't seem like it's working.
Now, another thing you can do
is pull out the SD card back here
and bring it right to your computer.
Well, I did that, and as you can see here,
the files coming out of the CarPuRide display
are MPEG-2 transport stream, whatever that is,
and that's not compatible with your phone
nor your iPad in my case.
So instead, you have to convert that over
to an MPEG-4 file.
Now, I already have a video converter.
As you see here, it's actually called
in the App Store, The Video Converter,
and I already had that installed
because Aspen and I like to set out a game camera
right outside the fence at our house
to catch wild animals and stuff around this tree.
As you can see here, we actually got this footage
of a wild coyote.
So if you do that, you can go in, just like you see here,
and you can one-by-one convert the files over that you want.
And the cool thing about the file designations,
as you see here, it's the date, time, and the channel.
In this instance, channel one is the front-facing camera.
If we had the rear camera installed,
then we would also have a channel two file.
But you're not gonna be able to do any of that
here in the car, out at the scene of an accident
or some other incident where you need dash cam footage.
So in reading the Car-P-Ride manual,
there is an app that's called Vidur.
As you see in this picture here on the App Store.
And apparently you can download that
and interface with this unit.
So let's try that.
Now you see here it says Add Camera.
If we hit Add Camera, it wants to use our location.
Install the camera and power it on.
We've already done that.
All right, now select Camera Wi-Fi and Connect.
So let's go over here to Wi-Fi Video.
And again, it says CarPlay is connected.
Please disconnect first.
So let's go back to Settings in our phone.
If we go to General, we have CarPlay.
Smart screen, maybe.
Let's turn CarPlay off.
Now we've lost the CarPlay up here.
Now we can get into Video and recall our files.
But remember, even with the file pulled up,
you are not allowed to send it.
You can only lock or delete it.
So let's get out of here.
Now we can go back to Wi-Fi Video.
Switch to Wi-Fi Video mode.
And so now with CarPlay disconnected,
perhaps we can go into Wi-Fi.
And there's our car link.
Let's see if that works.
And I believe the manual said the car password
is one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
All right, we are finally showing
that we are linked to the Wi-Fi.
So let's go back to the Vidur app.
Hit Add Camera.
And now nothing's happening.
Let's try closing out the app and try opening it again.
Connection failed.
All right, let's go maybe here to Wi-Fi Video.
Switch to Wi-Fi Video mode.
Confirm, maybe this'll work.
Now we're connected.
Let's go back to the app.
All right, finally, let's go into Files.
And we've got a bunch of video files that show connected.
Let's see how long it takes to download a one-minute file.
We'll pick one of the same ones from our test drive.
Okay, Download.
Already to 10%, already to 20, 30.
That's going really quick.
Download it.
Okay, is it only downloaded in this app?
Or does it transfer over to our camera?
No.
Does it have its own video file perhaps?
Downloads?
No.
Can I save it?
Yes.
Now it's going to my phone's library.
Here we go.
Done.
And then if I go into here, I don't see it yet,
but let's, is it maybe giving it an older date?
All right, so I don't know what Save means,
but let's try Share.
Okay, it does bring up your typical screen
where you could text it or email it.
So I could see, finally, we're here,
we're on an accident scene.
And without having to pull the card out,
we can go through this arduous process,
get the file and share it
with a police officer's file system
or with a insurance adjuster.
All right, this video is already well over 40 minutes long
and I'm running out of shade,
as you can see at the top of the van.
So let's summarize by saying the user interface
with the CarPlay Android Auto functionality
is flawless on this device.
Retrieving any of the dash cam footage, very clunky.
I hope they can come out with some sort of firmware
or something to make that easier because it is unenjoyable,
especially at a moment when you might be distracted
by everything that's going on
when you actually need that video out on the road.
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So all you have to do is hit this auxiliary button
right on the front of your existing deck
if you didn't want to change it out.
And then if you go through the back seat
down on the center console,
flip up this little plastic cover,
you will see a port for the included auxiliary cable.
All you'd have to do is have that plugged into that spot
and then plugged into the unit
as I showed you when we were going through the features.
And you should get full functionality
of this unit in your Land Rover LR3.
I'm gonna leave a link for this unit
in the description below.
Full disclosure, that'll be an Amazon affiliate link.
So if you click on it
and end up making a purchase of any kind,
it won't cost you anything,
but I do get a small reward at the end of the month.
I also want to thank Car Pride
for sending me this unit for free.
There was no prearranged agreement on what I would say
other than going over the features
and they did not request to see the video
that I produced before I published it to YouTube.
So I think it takes a lot of courage to do that
and I want to thank them for that.
Until next time, thank you for watching.