AZDOME PG16S Mirror Dash Cam Owner’s Manual

June 6, 2024
AZDOME

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Owner’s Manual
PG16S

WARRANTY & CUSTOMER SUPPORT

We provide a 12-Month of limited warranty for your product from the date of purchase to be free from defects in materials and craftsmanship.
For questions, support, or warranty claims, contact us at service@azdome.hk with your Order Number. If you can provide the photos or video to show your problem we will be appreciated.
IMPORTANT: Proof of original purchase (Online order receipt is also accepted) is required for any warranty service. AZDOME can only provide after-sales service for products purchased directly from AZDOME. If you have purchased from a different seller, please contact them directly for service or warranty issues.
service@azdome.hk
Please scan the QR Code to get the online user manual.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Er3W1ZBOp3F2ZrJKAlK1qRidZc_MvY2H/view?usp=sharing

» OUT OF THE BOX INSTRUCTIONS

Please read and understand warnings & safety instructions before operating.

  1. Make sure to always keep the camera plugged into power because cameras adapt supercapacitor if no power supply dashcam can’t power on.
  2. You will need to insert a memory card before you can start recording. Please insert only a brand name Class-10 or above higher speed Micro-SD card.
  3. Before first time use, you MUST format the memory card in the camera to prevent any errors and for smooth operation. (4)Setting Date & Time: Please set the correct date, please refer to page EN-14

SPECIFICATION

Model PG16S
M ic/ Speaker BuiltIn
Photo Format JPG
Video Format MOV
Video Resolution Front:1440P; 1080P Rear:1080P
Memory Card Micro SD Class 10 or above
Car Inverter DC 5V/3.0A
Relative Humidity 10%-70%
Battery Super-Capacitor
WiFi No
GPS track Support, need to connect GPS Module
Loop Recording Support
G-sensor Support
Motion Detection No
Parking Monitor Support, need to connect 3-lead hard-wire kit

PACKING LIST

PRODUCT DIAGRAM

| Component| Description

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1,2| Microphone| RecordsAudio
3| Power Key| -Long Press3 seconds to turn off the device.
-Short Pressonceto turn on the device. -Short Pressto turn off/on screen when recording
4| Screen| Show the front and rear camera image
5| Mini USB Port| Connect to Mini USB cable&charge battery
6| RearCam Input| Connect to the RearCamera
7| Micro SD Card Slot| Support Micro SD max to 64 GB, Class 10, U3 Speed
8| GPS| Check your route when you playback the videos via AZDOME Player
9| Speaker| Built-in Speaker

| Reset| Press ‘RESET’ to reboot when the device is Not Responding

| rear camera| Records rear side

INSTALLATION

Install Micro SD Card

  1.  Make sure the dashcam is turned OFF.
  2. Insert the Micro-SD Card halfway in ( GOLD Contacts-Facing the Back/Lens Side)
  3. Now gently push the card in until it clicks & looks in place.
  4.  Must use only Brand Name, Class-10, U3, or higher speed Micro-SD Card.

Remove Micro SD Card
-To remove the Micro SD card, gently push its top edge inward until it clicks, and then pops out, then simply pull it out of the slot.

MOST IMPORTANT about Memory CARD

  1.  Do not remove or insert a Micro SD card when the camera is powered on which may damage the memory card.
  2. You MUST Format the MEMORY Card in-camera before first-time use.

Front Camera Installation

  1. Turn off the car’s engine.
  2. Insert a Micro SD card into the Micro SD slot of the dash (Note: please use an A-Brand high-speed class 10 or above Micro SD card)
  3. Loop the rubber fasteners over the top fastener clips(There are 2 types of fasteners; please use which ever suits your car. The longer fasteners are for the bulky pre-installed rearview mirrors); Put the mirror dash cam in position on the front face of your existing rearview mirror ensuring the camera lens clears the edge of your rearview mirror. Loop the bottom rubber fasteners over the mirror and attach them to the bottom fastener clip.
  4. Plug the 12V DC charger into your vehicle’s cigarette lighter Run the cable along with your vehicle’s console and windscreen and plug it into the mirror dash cam port marked with the USB icon.

Rear Camera Installation

The rear camera equipped with a 6-meter cable is to connect to the dash-cam via AV IN port. Before installation, please check if the provided cable is long enough to reach the rear cam in your car. Please follow these steps for installation:

  1. Turn off the car, select a flat and central location near the number plate lamp at the rear of the vehicle to mount the camera.
  2. Attach tape to the bracket of the camera to hold the camera in position while installing, and drill two small holes, one for the first screw, the second to run the reverse camera cable through.
  3. Use a screwdriver to fix the first screw, leaving the screw loose enough to adjust the camera.
  4. Insert the camera wire through the intended drilled hole checking the installation position.
  5. Mark the position suitable for the second screw and drill a small hole for it.
  6. Fix the second screw and securely tighten both screws 4. Connect the GPS module to the dashcam, tear off the sticker of the GPS module and place the GPS module on the car dashboard. It will take 1-3 minutes to receive a GPS signal successfully.

DO NOT plug the rear camera into the front camera while it is turned ON. Only do so when it is turned OFF.

FORMATTING MEMORY CARD

Formatting the Micro-SD card will delete all information on the inserted Micro SD card.

  1. Touch to stop the Mirror DVR from recording.
  2. Touch the to enter the Settings Menu.
  3. Touch “System ” and slide the screen to touch “Format”.
  4. Touch “OK”.

NOTE

  1. Do not remove or insert a Micro SD card when the camera is powered on which may damage the memory card.
  2. You MUST Format the MEMORY Card in-camera before first: time use.

BUTTON FUNCTION

| Description| Feature
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1| AdjustViewAngle| Touch/tap to adjust view angle, can’ work when dual camera display
2| recording time| Showstheelapsed recording time
3| Screen Brightness Control| Touch/tap or A sign to increase or decrease the screen brightness
4| WDR| Show the status of Wide Dynamic Range
5| G-sensor| Show the status of the G-sensor
6| Micro SD Card| Showthestatusof Micro SD Card
7| GPS| Yellow: ReceivingGPS signal successfully Red: Receiving GPS signal failed
8| Parking Monitor| Show the status of the Parking Monitor
9| Battery Mode| Shows the status of Battery, if no power
supply, the device will turn off immediately
10| Date/Time| Shows the date and name of the day
11| Photo Shooting| Touch to take photos
12| Emergency Lock| Touch during recording lock the current record file
13| Audio| Touch to turn on/off audio recording.
14| Recording| Touch to turn on/off recording
15| Display Mode| Touch/tap to shift Front Camera/Rear Camera/Dual Camera Image
16| Playback| Touch/tap to open playback interface
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17| System Setting| Touch/tap to open system setting

FUNCTION

General
G-Sensor — Off/ High/ Medium (Default)/ Off

G-Sensor is a 3-axis impact gravitational accelerometer that is designed to detect physical and gravitational forces on the camera. While Video is Being Recorded: In the event when G-Sensor is triggered due to physical or gravitational impact force on the camera, the current loop cycle length of the video file will be locked so it will NOT be deleted by loop cycle function.
Screen Saver —1(Default)/3/5 minutes/ Off
1/3/5 minutes: The dashcam LCD screen will turn off after 1/3/5 minutes, but still recording.
Off: The dashcam LCD screen will always be on.
Beep Sound — Low/ Medium(Default)/ High/ Off
This feature allows you to turn the ON/OFF the camera button’s beep sound & any voice confirmation.
Speed Unit — KM/H(Default), MPH
You can choose desired speed option stamp to be displayed.
Video Stamp — On(Default)/Off
This stamps menu allows you to choose your choice of stamps for the bottom of the video.
Date & Time, speed, GPS Coordinates, AZDOME Logo, and model.
Timezone
From GMT -12, GMTO, GMT+12,
Date/Time Setting
To set the date & time, please do as below:

  1. Please connect the GPS module.
  2. Set the GMT/UTC time-zone value first.
  3. Set the Date/Time: Year-Month-Day-Hour-Minute

The dash camera will set the date and time based on the GMT/UTC value selection when it receives the GPS signal automatically.

USATime Zones| When Daylight Savings Ends Nov- March| When Daylight Savings Begins March- Nov
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Hawaii| GMT (-10:00)
Alaska| GMT (-9:00)| GMT (-8:00)
Pacific Time Zone| GMT (-8:00)| GMT (-7:00)
Mountain TimeZone| GMT (-7:00)| GMT (-6:00)
CentralTimeZone| GMT (-6:00)| GMT (-5:00)
Eastern TimeZone| GMT (-5:00)| GMT (-4:00)
| British SummerTime| British WinterTime
UKTimeZones| GMT/UTC +1| GMT/UTC –±0
| | |

Go to https://www.timeanddate.com/time/map/to find out your Correct GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) value
Frequency— 50HZ/ 60HZ(Default)
Here you should choose the frequency accordingly to your power supply specification used in your country based on your geographical location.
60 Hz (USA – North America)
50 Hz (Europe – Most Asian Countries)

Format Remind — Off/ 15/ 30(Default)/ 60 Days
This feature allows you to set a FORMAT REMINDER to format your memory card. Once set, the camera will remind you to format your memory card at a set interval.
Parking Assistance Line — On(Default)/Off
On: The function is activated when the reverse gear is selected. The camera image is shown on the dashcam screen with an assistance line.
Off: The function is activated when the reverse gear is selected. The camera image is shown on the dashcam screen but without an assistance line.
Rear Video Mirror — On(Default)/ Off
On: The image on the dashcam screen matches that of your rear-view mirror.
1Frame Per 1Sec — On/Off(Default)
This menu will be shown when ONLY connected to a 3-lead hard-wire kit.
Parking Monitor— On/Off(Default)
This menu will be shown when ONLY connected to a 3-lead hard-wire kit.
This function can’t work if the connected car Cigarette is lighter by a USB charger. If you want to use a 24-hours Parking Monitor, we suggest connecting a 3-lead hard-wire Kit, please do as below.

  1. set function “Parking Monitor” “1Frame Per 1Sec” to ON, “G-sensor” at medium, AZDOME 3-Lead Hard-wire Kit is installed properly.
  2. When you turn OFF the car’s engine and turn the key to the lock position. Then the camera will STOP the continuous video recording and it will go into the 1Frame Per 1Sec recording mode automatically.
  3. While this 1Frame Per 1Sec is being recorded, If someone hits your car, then the camera will lock the 1Frame Per 1Sec recording, then save in the LOCK folder of Micro SD card > then go on 1Frame Per 1Sec recording.
  4. Now when you start your car for the next time, the camera will automatically STOP the 1Frame Per 1Sec. Then it will go into normal video mode automatically to start the continuous video recording.
    Note: when playback the 1Frame Per 1Sec video files play at a faster speed.

Video Settings
Resolution —1440P30(Default)/1080P30
Allow choosing the desired video resolution and fps(frames per second). Higher resolution and fps videos result in smoother videos, but also take more storage space. The video resolution is ONLY for FRONT camera recording.
Loop Recording— lmin/ 3mins(Default)/ 5mins
Allow the dash-cam to continuously record. Please notice: the dash-cam will keep deleting the oldest files automatically when the memory card gets full so that it can keep recording over and over. Here select the length of the video file for the loop recording.
Time-lapse Record — On/Off(Default)
Time-Lapse recording mode allows you to capture specific images per second at a much lower rate. So when you combine and play those images at the normal 30fps rate, everything seems to be moving faster in time-lapse.
WDR — On/Off(Default)
Wide Dynamic Range (WDR) improves the exposure by taking the combinations of over-exposed and the exposed images into one robust wide range of lighting with higher depth images.
System Settings
Language — Multilingual, default English.
Allow choosing your desired language for the dash-cam system.
Reset Settings
Here you can restore all the settings to factory default settings.
Version
Here you can check the current firmware version installed on your camera. You will need this information in the future to check if a newer version of firmware is available. Please visit http://www.azdome.hk/downloads.htmlfor the latest firmware upgrade instructions.

PLAYBACK RECORDED VIDEOS

There are 2 different ways you can access your videos.
A. Directly On The CAMERA by entering to the PLAYBACK MODE You can do this by pressing (21 so It will enter to Playback Mode.
B. On Computer

  1. Please remove the Micro SD card from the camera and insert it directly in your laptop if you have a Micro SD Card slot (otherwise please use a Micro SD Card reader).
  2. You should be able to see drive “D” or “E” or other names depending on the pre-installed hard drives. Once you find the added flash drive, double click on it, then you will see the file folders- Movie / LOCK / Photo
    Movie: The loop recording video files that can be overwritten. LOCK: The video file will be locked so it will NOT be deleted by the loop recording function.
    Photo:The pictures

Then simply double click on the video to play them.

File named **”*A=Front dash cam video file File named *****B=Rear camera video file

GPS PLAYER SOFTWARE INSTALLATION (PC/MAC ONLY)

(Only suitable for the units with GPS module)

  1. Go to our website www.azdome.hk/downloads to download the AZDOME Player (For Windows32bits/64bits or macOS)
  2. Install the AZDOME Player in your laptop, photo as below;
  3. The latitude and longitude and speed will be embedded in the video.AZDOME Tech Support: service@azdome.hk

UPDATING FIRMWARE

The firmware will be updated regularly to introduce new functions and improve the general performance. When the camera doesn’t respond to your operation and the resetting doesn’t help, it’s useful to update to the latest firmware. Please follow these steps to update the firmware:

  1. Use a memory card and format it on your PC.
  2. Download firmware on AZDOME official website www.azdome.hk/downloads.html
  3. Save the downloaded firmware file (FW96565A.bin) to your SD card. Turn off the dashcam, insert the SD card into the dashcam.
  4.  Please power on the dashcam, the dashcam screen goes black for about 40 seconds, then the dashcam will power on automatically when the updating is successful.
  5.  Please format the SD card in the dashcam.

FAQ

Q1:Why the rear cam image is converse on the screen?
According to your habit, please use the function called “Backup Cam Mirror Image” .

Q2:Poor image quality of rear cam
The most likely cause is simply a dirty lens. Since many cameras are mounted low on the back of the car, they’re subject to being obscured by mud, snow, dirt, or other debris. Luckily, the fix is easy: Clean the lens with a soft cloth (to prevent scratching the lens).
If still doesn’t work, please e-mail service@azdome.hk with the order number.
Q3:Dash cam will be warm
Yep! A dashcam of this caliber is a pretty high-tech piece of equipment. When you think about it from an engineering perspective, capturing high- quality full HD video takes a large amount of computer processing power. Heat is the by-product of all that data processing that is going on.
But not to worry. The case of the Dashcam itself is actually used as a heat- sink (notice the nice vents you see along the top and bottom of these models), so that’s why you may notice it is warm or hot to the touch. Don’t worry, this is normal, and your AZDOME is operating as designed.
Q4:My Video playback on PC is lagging.
You are viewing a high-bit rate version of video files. General computer configuration may have problems with faster data processing. Please record videos at a lower resolution and try again. Contact us if the problem still exists.
Q5:Why dashcam can’t get the GPS signal?

  1. Check if the GPS icon goes green (it will take 3-5minutes to get GPS signal successfully)
  2. Depending on the vehicle and the location of the GPS signal can be blocked due to strong radio interference of other electronic devices in the car, the cloudy/rainy weather or mountains, tunnels, tall buildings on both sides of the road, etc.
  3. Please check if GPS works by taking the GPS Module from the car to the outside. If it works then there must be a heavy interference in the car, for example, thick car Explosion-proof

DISCLAIMER

AZDOME Streaming Mirror Dash Camera is designed to be used as a driver’s assistant, it does NOT remove the responsibility of driving the vehicle from the driver. The legal responsibility and safe driving practice always remain with the driver.
You agree to use this product and understand that this is to be used as an aid only. We highly recommend that you have this product professionally installed to ensure that it will provide the function it is set out to perform. In case you change your mind or return this product, the company is NOT responsible in any way for the holes or installation modifications made to your vehicle.

 WARNINGS

  •  Do not expose this product to rain, moisture, or water under any circumstances or it will result in external or internal damage.
  • Do not put the unit in a damp environment. This device is not designed to be damp-proof. Do not try to open the cover or try to repair it yourself. If the accessories for t his device have any problem, please contact the seller for assistance.
  • Do not expose this device to excessive heat, dust or use any chemical substance or cleaning solvent to clean this
  • Do not operate or install the camera while driving, or attempt to change any setting, etc. Pull off the road first and only do so when it is safe.
  • Do not drop, puncture or disassemble this product or dispose it on fire. It contains Battery and can explode if improperly handled.
  • Do not use the charger if the cord is broken or damaged. Keep out of reach of children.
  • Do not leave the camera in the direct sunlight for a long period of time or where the temperature could go above 140°F (60°C).
  • Removing the camera from the vehicle when not in use is prevents the likelihood of theft or exposure to excessive heat to prevent damage to the unit.

KAKA GROUP LTD
www.azdome.hk
service@azdome.hk
Address : Room 102, Building 1, No.1 Longcheng Street,
Qingxi Town, Dongguan,Guangdong,523660, CN
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