Road AngelHalo Pro 2K Car Dash Cam Front and Rear - HD Night Vision Dashcam Front and Rear Camera - Dashcams for Cars with Built-in WiFi, silver, HD3

Installation was straightforward. I was able to hide most of it behind screen ‘frit’ (the black border around the windscreen) so from the front view all you could see was the lens peeping out. Be careful to leave enough room on the right side to access the sd card (recommend 128Gb). I used the hard wire kit which was fairly easy to install and comes with 3 types of fuse taps – ATO, low mini and mini – it does NOT include micro2 fuse taps which most newish cars seem to use (come on Road Angel it’s about time you sorted this out). I had to buy separate micro2 taps and graft them on to the end of the usb cable.Video quality front and rear was very good. It took me a little while to get to grips with the app but once I did I found it very useful. Amongst other things, the app sets camera resolution, downloads videos /pics to your smartphone and controls parking mode. Parking mode control can monitor car battery level and can be set to 12.4, 12 or 11.8volts. When the car battery reaches the selected level the parking mode is turned off to prevent a flat battery. (if you don’t want to use parking mode you don’t have to disconnect any wires as it can be manually switched off in the app).Video seems to be recorded in 2 or 3 minute sections (which have date/time stamps). You can quickly browse or ‘page’ through these to find the section you want to watch or download to your phone. This is via WiFi – I initially had problems with this but discovered that my phone kept trying to switch to my home wifi – once it was locked on the dashcam wifi downloads were reasonably quick (each one can be up to 5 minutes long). Alternatively you can remove the card and read it on a PC/Mac – each video has a readable date/time stamp (front and rear videos are located in separate folders). Needless to say I had problems with this! – some videos seemed to pixelate or break up. Finally discovered that I had a faulty card reader – once replaced, no problems.The Halo Pro has been in use for 6 weeks now and worked perfectly. I am really pleased with its’ performance and would definitely recommend it.

The dashcam is simple to install in your car, it's quite chunky but works. Simply plug it in to a 12V and put up the front and rear camera. Obviously it takes time to make it neat and not a complete mess. I would say the cable is quite large as the 12V plugs straight into the main front dashcam and the rear camera cable is run from the front camera. The rear dashcam cable has a extension connector which can be awkward to hide in the seals of the door but overall, the cabling is almost unnoticeable unless you were looking for it.You have to purchase your own SD card, I went with theSanDisk Extreme 128 GB microSDXC Memory CardThe app works well, I had the Halo Go (the cheap front dashcam) and the app was slow to load videos. Could of been the old SD card but I don't know.Good video quality and easy to use. I have had no problems with any of it. The dashcam also has a large mute button so you can enable and disable audio with a quick press, which I think is a nice touch for private conversations.

The Dash cam itself is very well made and once installed it works exactly how you would want with both cameras syncing up and the ability to read number plates clearly on both cameras. After a bit of playing the app is easy to use and a nice way of changing settings on the camera. I found I had to turn off the automatic crash sensor as it would be set of by every pot hole. Now that i have the camera in the car and working i would definitely recommend it to anyone.However it is not all good. As one of the most expensive cameras on the market there were a few things that bugged me. Firstly the kit does not include either a Micro SD card or the Hard wire kit which is needed to enable half the features that make this a premium camera. These then ad an additional cost of over £30 to an already expensive kit.The hard wire kit also has to be a Road angel specific kit to enable the features and this doesn't come with changeable fuse options like with other kits this meant that it wasn't a direct fit into my car. This resulted in having to outlay even more money to pay a pro to do the wiring.In total including paying to have the camera fitted and all the accessors to make it work it cost just over £250. This is a lot compared with other cameras on the market, however its the 3rd dash cam i have owned and by far the best. Its great to have the added peace of mind driving round London with all the craziness that happens on the road.