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Terry Casey

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No-one else has even tried to answer your question. They have been too
busy acting like barrack room lawyers.

+1

My dashcam - a cheapo Aldidl one - starts recording when it
detects movement.

If there is somewhere you could mount one where it is
reasonable safe and protected from the weather - even if
someone has to install it every night just before it gets dark
and retrieve it later - I wonder if it would work?

By masking its own IR LEDs and placing it at a different angle
to the problem area - possibly near ground level - I wonder if
it won't be flooded by the IR from the main camera and record
the registration numbers? A simple check with a hand held unit
one night would prove or disprove the idea.

Make certain that the date and timestamps on both cameras are
correct so that the two recordings tally. Then you would have
the main camera recording events while the dashcam records the
registration numbers.

The internal battery on mine is rubbish so you might nead an
external battery supply but that should be easy to arrange.

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Terry

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