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Highscreen Black Box Radar-HD firmware update. Firmware update Highscreen Black Box Radar-HD Highscreen black box connect firmware unofficial

If earlier DVRs grew from year to year, growing in linear dimensions, screen diagonal and matrix resolution, now the opposite trends are clearly visible - each next model is smaller than the previous one. Compactness and elegance are the trend of the season. But on the other hand, more and more devices began to appear with unexpected and seemingly unusual functionality for the registrar - they began to dock radar detectors, GPS modules and even navigators. But to the new device from Highscreen - the Black Box registrar - they screwed WiFi and it became Black Box Connect.

The device itself is square, small and cute:

In the center is the lens, trying to look bigger than it is, on the bottom is the recording enable button, on the side are the power and WiFi buttons:

On the other end - a slot for a memory card and USB, it is also a power connector:

The gadget is powered by USB, from the car charger to the cigarette lighter, which has a second connector - to charge the smartphone. This is good, because we need a smartphone.

The device is attached to the suction cup by snapping onto the guide:

Holds well, no play, removed with noticeable, but not excessive force. There are three guides included:

One is screwed to the suction cup, the other with a ring - to cling to the cord:

And the third - with a magnet:

This allows you to attach the device to the refrigerator door and finally find out who eats it at night, not sparing your health!

Behind the indication of the four mode lights - and no screen. Somehow, you know, it's unusual. How do you set up the shooting angle? And how to show the traffic cop that he is wrong and you did not do what you are now ashamed of? And that's what Wi-Fi is for, yeah.

The practical use of this device certainly requires that you have a smartphone. I have a tribal one on the test here Highscreen Alpha R (read it the other day) - but even the latest iPhone will do. There is a free Unieye program in a friendly Google player or an enemy app store that can connect to this registrar via WiFi. Detects it as a separate network:

And when you connect, you suddenly find on the screen an image of yourself looking at yourself, who is looking at himself:

Apotheosis of self-contemplation.

Actually, everything is configured through this program, no screen is needed on the device:

The network can be password-protected so that no one peeps from your camera - it's your own business, who opens the refrigerator at night and why! Maybe there are, uh... important secret documents! Hidden in a sausage.

In general, the program allows you to receive a signal from four cameras, so you can buy several Highscreen Black Box Connect devices at once and arrange a circular view from the car or something like a security video system for an apartment. Moreover, if via WiFi you can admire this splendor from 20-30 meters in an apartment and a house 50 in an open area, then via the Internet - from anywhere at all. To do this, the device can broadcast a video stream to the Ustream cloud video service:

Right in the setup program, create an account, connect the service, and ...

You dance a little with a tambourine. And a little more. And one more thing ... But then everything finally gets better:

Now you can indulge in narcissism via the Internet, make faces at yourself and put horns to your head. True, the delay of the picture is about 10-15 seconds, so this activity looks a little schizophrenic.

I immediately came up with a possible use of this system - to hang a camera outside the window in the country house and, sitting in the city, watch how apples fall from the trees there. However, even though I have Wi-Fi there, but through 3G, and a constantly working video camera will gobble up the whole mobile traffic. But technically it is quite feasible, why not. At the same time, you can power the device from any smartphone power supply with a microUSB cable output - the internal battery (700 mAh) with Wi-Fi turned on only lasts about an hour.

However, let's not forget that the Highscreen Black Box Connect device is primarily positioned as a car DVR, and let's see what it is in this capacity.

The technical data of the camera is not impressive - one megapixel, CMOS-sensor with a diagonal of a quarter of an inch. That lone megapixel gives you a HD resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels - which is no longer mainstream these days. The fact is that broadcasting over Wi-Fi imposes inevitable technical limitations - in order to transmit a Full-HD video stream, completely different solutions are needed. This is somewhat compensated powerful processor Ambarella 7th generation. The picture is of average quality, legibility of numbers on the original recording starts from about this distance:

You can watch the daytime video on YouTube (taking into account the fact that YouTube video is always pinched and soapy):

It is easy to see that the quality of the shooting is sufficient - but nothing more.

In general, few of the DVRs cope well with night shooting - after all, within the price range decent for these devices, the task of really high-quality night shooting is not solved in any way. But the Highscreen Black Box Connect here, perhaps, performed weaker than other models from the same manufacturer:

I've seen better shots.

Of the minuses, I can also note the absence of a hard mute button (only through a menu accessible only through a smartphone) - I always turn off the sound on the DVRs, because you never know what I can say unexpectedly in an accident? It will be somehow inconvenient later ... But sometimes it is necessary to turn it on.

It is not possible to set the duration of the clip during loop recording - only three minutes. Well, the very concept of working only through a smartphone, although original and delights me as a tester, is rather inconvenient in practical everyday use. If you remove the registrar in the parking lot, you will inevitably knock down its position. This means that every time you install, you need to get a smartphone, launch the application, wait until it starts and establishes a connection, adjust the picture, then turn off and switch the device to DVR mode ... Isn't it too much trouble? So it is better to use it for those who never remove the device from the glass - for example, they store the car in a guarded parking lot.

In addition, do not forget that one of the important applications of the DVR in our realities is to show the picture to the traffic cop on the spot in order to prove the absence of a violation. ( This saved me a couple of times from extortion attempts “for an oncoming lane”). At the same time, manipulations with a smartphone can be perceived very negatively, and the reliability of this bundle is obviously less than that of a simple device with a screen - it would be stupid to lose your rights due to the fact that Wi-Fi has fallen off on your smartphone ...

Conclusions:

The Highscreen Black Box Connect is a very interesting and progressive device, and I really enjoyed testing it. However, one must understand that this is more of a gadget for geeks than a device for the mass consumer. The “plug and play” pattern does not work here – you need to understand what WiFi is, how to install an application on a smartphone, tinker with the settings, knock on a tambourine and read the manual… Most likely, this device can be attributed to concepts that are created to try different trends consumer market. If you just need a DVR, the same Highscreen has one, which requires a power connection to work. But if you like to be slightly ahead of the market, like multifaceted and versatile devices, and are not alien to the joys manual settings everything and everything - then this gadget will suit you perfectly. Not so much as a DVR, but as an interesting toy. Moreover, its price is quite affordable - less than five thousand rubles.

Procedure for correcting the error of incorrect recording of the current time.

Highscreen Black Box Radar-HD devices have been tested in the field and found that some of them save video with a time that does not match the current travel time. According to the developers, they also found a similar error on some devices after the goods had already been shipped to us. They suggest the following procedure for fixing the error:

Copy the firmware binary file (SQ680_FW5.5c_DTL_HighScreen_4key_AP_OV9712_.BIN) provided in the application to some folder on the computer.
Remove the memory card from the device and connect it to the computer.
Run the player - (file HighPlayer.exe), located on the card.
Press the "Settings" button on the player's control panel.

In the menu that opens, select "Upload Firmware". The program will ask you to confirm the selected action. Click on the "Yes" button.

In the list of folders and files that opens, select the file that you copied first, and click on the "Open" button. The file will be copied to the card.

Remove the card from the card reader and insert it into the device.
Next, you need to connect the car power cable to the device. If you do not have a mains converter (220V/12V), the firmware update can be performed inside the car. As a last resort, you can use the supplied USB/mini-USB cable. When using this cable for firmware upgrade, it must be connected to the mini-USB connector (“USB UPGRASDE”) located on the bottom of the device.
Insert the power cable into the on-board or 12V power adapter or connect the USB cable. Press and hold the "MODE" button on the device. Insert the cable plug into the power socket of the device (“DC12-24V”). The splash screen will appear on the LCD screen of the unit and the inscription “FW UPDATING…” will light up.

When the update is completed, the following message will appear on the screen:

"FW UPDATE OK. PRESS ANY KEY TO RESTART" - the update is completed, press any button on the device to restart.

After updating the firmware, the problem with incorrect time recording should disappear.

Procedure for correcting the error of incorrect recording of the current time.

Copy the firmware binary file (SQ680_FW5.5c_DTL_HighScreen_4key_AP_OV9712_.BIN) provided in the application to some folder on the computer.
Remove the memory card from the device and connect it to the computer.
Run the player - (file HighPlayer.exe), located on the card.
Press the "Settings" button on the player's control panel.

In the menu that opens, select "Upload Firmware". The program will ask you to confirm the selected action. Click on the "Yes" button.

In the list of folders and files that opens, select the file that you copied first, and click on the "Open" button. The file will be copied to the card.

Remove the card from the card reader and insert it into the device.
Next, you need to connect the car power cable to the device. If you do not have a mains converter (220V/12V), the firmware update can be performed inside the car. As a last resort, you can use the supplied USB/mini-USB cable. When using this cable for firmware upgrade, it must be connected to the mini-USB connector (“USB UPGRASDE”) located on the bottom of the device.
Insert the power cable into the on-board or 12V power adapter or connect the USB cable. Press and hold the "MODE" button on the device. Insert the cable plug into the power socket of the device (“DC12-24V”). The splash screen will appear on the LCD screen of the unit and the inscription “FW UPDATING…” will light up.