I looked that one up on Amazon, it has good reviews

 

Glanced at the specs and didn't see any mention that it could be triggered by external motion such as a person or vehicle going by. They made it sound like if the camera was jostled or vibrated, it would come on. But then I may have misinterpreted something. If it actually is triggered by external movement, it's a good deal.

 

The "Motion Detection" is what I wanted, which is, if the camera is on, it will start filming when there is motion.

So, parking lot, and the camera is powered 24/7 (it's currently in my jeep since that's what I took to work today), it should record people walking by.

I'll check the 'tape' tonight.

The rear 12v outlet on my jeep is hot 24/7, so I stuck it to the rear window (hard top on in winter) and... we shall see.

From testing in my garage last night, yes, walking by would turn it on, it lights up, and starts filming. Then this AM when I started driving it turned on.

Obviously with no top or doors in the summer, this presents a problem, but let's deal with that when it happens.

 

When I first setup my E-Prance 801, I left the power on 24/7 with the motion detect on, but it needed pretty big movement to activate, as in a vehicle passing by, I tried walking in front of the hood and it only started recording at the point I was nearly out of view...
As for driving motion detection it works great..so I opted to set it up to operate with ignition on only...
I have yet to capture anything exciting 4 months into ownership...

 

Updates on my dash cam.

The motion sensor setting 'works' but just as in2pro pointed out, it appears to require "A LOT" of motion to start recording. a human can walk by, fully lit garage, and it won't start recording... when the vehicle moves it does, but when there is no motion (stop light) it seriously stops recording... motion should trigger at least 60 seconds of recording past motion stopping, but that's not adjustable.

So, I'm starting to rethink how I plan to use this. Obviously on w/the car is the most common setting, but with my Tesla on it's way, I really wanted to film motion based... if someone runs into it in a parking lot or shopping cart or just some jackass... etc. etc.

1080p needs about 100MB per minute, so that works out to 320 min (give or take) on a 32gb card. Let's call it five hours of recording before it loops.

720p (30fps) needs about 1/2 that. So 10 hours before it loops.

Recording 24/7 for 10 hours may be my only option. So as long as I discover the damage within 10 hours, I'd have video.

as for "no events" in2pro. I'd call that a good thing