Just get it. Great in every way. Works flawlessly in 2017 Honda Pilot.
Super happy with this product. Everything in the packaging felt premium. The instructions were well written, easy to follow, extremely detailed, and even the booklet felt high quality. The marketing on the box felt a little cheap, like lots of images and looks typical of cheap Chinese imitation garbage, but this apparently isn't that. I bought this to put in a 2017 Honda Pilot, replacing my 7 year old ROAV camera. This did not disappoint. Installation was breeze. I opted to use the optional ROVE hardwire kit (additional $30) to hard wire into my fuse box via the include fuse taps. I thought it would be more complicated but the instructions and the included fuse adapters cover 4 standard types of fuses used in most cars sold in America. The included fuse puller was essential to remove the fuses and the little tester was also essential. It had everything i need to get the job done. I highly suggest using ChatGPT to ask it to detail out a list of all your fuses, positions, labels, and whether or not the fuse it ACC or constant power. It returned and instant result, saving me hours of frustrating searching. For the 2017 Honda Pilot, there are 2 fuse boxes by the drivers feet, the larger box A with 42 fuses and the smaller box B with 7 fuses, A-G. For the Accessory power (yellow), i used the unused fuse slot 12 in Box A, and for the constant power, i used the 10A slot F fuse in the smaller fuse box B. Make sure to measure which side of the fuse slot is hot. I attached the ground wire to the bolt the emergency brake frame screws into the chassis with. After I got it all wired up, everything was erring out on my car's dash panel. Simply unplugging the ground from the battery for 15 minutes resets all the computer stuff in the car and everything work perfectly. For wire routing, I stuffed the cord across the headliner and down the driver side front pillar. I mounted the wiring harness box on the frame with the included adhesive behind the hood release plastic cover. Everything is super hidden and protected. The rear camera cable I was able to route along the headliner back to the driver side back door, then fishtape back to center of the back window, through the rubber wire protectors and along the top to the rear window. Also don't make the mistake I did and not read the instructions to use the clear films to put on the window before mounting the camera with the adhesives. This will help you if you ever need to remove the camera. But don't use the film on the dotted part of your windshield by your rear-view mirror. The dash cam works flawlessly. What an improvement from my last one! The Rove App is intuitive, responsive, connected the first time. Viewing the videos within the app was quick and downloading them to my iphone 14 was pretty fast via the 5G wifi connection. It's one click and about 10 seconds and the 1-minute video clips show up in my Photos app. The video quality is quite impressive as well. The front uses the STARVIS 2 IMX678 (true 4k, 3840x2160, 8.4MP, and better dynamic range) and the rear uses the STARVIS 2 IMX675 which is not 4K, really only 2K, 2616x1960, 5.12 MP. The front camera is a true 4K and the rear is 2K. The previous Rove R2-4K DUAL.... NON-PRO version is not a real 4K video, since it uses the IMX675 for the front. Don't waste you time on that camera. Just get this camera instead, it's worth the money, you might need to see that license plate in some incident, not worth it getting the cheaper one. I've already ordered a 2nd one for my other car. Everybody should have a dash cam these days. Too many liars and bad drivers out there. Also of note, I've emailed customer support several time when deciding on a purchase the they have been incredibly responsive, within hours not days. In some cases it was less than an hour. Also it seems they are US-based with is so helpful not having a communication issue. Having a company like this feels weird nowadays. I've accepted the fact that everything is made overseas these days, but customer service doesn't have to be and Rove has delivered in this regard. I've only had it for less than a week and am super impressed with the image quality of the front camera, both during day and night, easily seeing license plates both during the day and night time. I appreciate the free 128GB SD card included, however with 2 cameras, one of which is 4K, that doesn't give a ton of looped footage. So I expect to need to upgrade to a higher capacity. If you want that, go ahead and order a larger one now. Will update this review as time progresses to see how well it holds up. So far, 5 stars in every way! Read more
