I talked to you guys already and this is the standard answer. I have the vehicle Battery Usage at High. I have a hybrid car and I drive it every day for 1/2 hour in the am and 1/2 hour in the pm and since it is a hybrid... it should have a sh*t load of battery. Again, I say this is a bummer. It shouldn't turn off as I want it to record when parked. Please check this and fix it . If not, stop advertising that it records when parked.

The problem here is it doesn’t even look at the battery level. I’m willing to bet the the “High Usage” setting lasts 6hrs regardless of your battery level. My 12v battery is charged by a 17kwh battery pack, which when parked in my garage is charge that battery pack is being charged by a wall outlet. With that said the camera should be able to live stream everything it sees for the entire time it’s plugged in. There should be a 4th option to let the user decide to keep running the car cam until the power gives out. We had people get their garages broken into recently and stuff stolen out of both their garage and their vehicle. So it matters to me that the camera works while my vehicle is parked in the garage, 12v battery level be damned. If I have accessories plugged into my vehicle that drain the battery to the point it doesn’t start it, that’s on me, but at least give me the option to do that. Besides I have a rechargeable battery pack to jump start it if it gets that bad (which it won’t). So make the software change so we have a car camera that’s actually worth having.

Totally agree this should be OUR decision (like any other dash cam or accessory)! Ring is too wound around liability! They won’t let you use it if your OBD-II port is right of the steering column! That should be OUR decision as well. I also did some data logging… it seems the trigger point on the OBD-II port voltage is ~12.20 Vdc. This took some time to figure out. Basically, if you monitor the battery voltage (directly), the OBD-II voltage, the Ring Voltage (and current draw), you’ll end up with a nice chart of exactly what voltage the Car Cam sees. And if you tie Push Alerts to the data when it decides to shut down, that voltage is ~12.20 volts +/-0.05 Vdc. This is repeatable, too. If you keep the voltage above that point, it won’t shut off. So it doesn’t matter what the capacity of the battery is, but rather the voltage the Ring sees. Can anyone else confirm? 2023-03-18 Update: The Ring Cam won't turn on until the voltage is above the 12.80V threshold (like starting the vehicle). I confirmed the operating voltage hysteresis is 12.20V - 12.80V and the blue LED on the OBD-II connector starts blinking when it trips the lower voltage point (12.20). It continues to blink (and prepares for shutdown) until the voltage returns above the higher (12.80V) trigger point, at which point the blue LED stops blinking and shut-down is aborted. Once triggered (going below 12.20V, if it never sees >12.80V, it’s countdown to OFF. Ring really needs to move the lower point down to 12.00V to satisfy a larger application base -- and make it an app USER setting like other dash cam brands (BlackVue is 12.00V by default). Please Ring, GET OVER the grip on liability and let the USERS accept the responsibility! Ring had some time to release a a firmware update to easily fix this, but are about to fail, as many of us at the end of the return window. Nice Beta run, Ring. Hope you learned something :wink: Renewed product soon to be available. So sad, has lots of potential (see my other post in who’s sending it back). I've mentioned powering work-arounds (at your own risk). They all work..

If the camera is off and parked will it detect motion if it is hit and wake up and record? After reading this thread it appears it may not wake up but that is one of the selling features in the video ads...... I just got mine so I haven't noticed if it will yet. I do notice it turns off really quickly after the car is off and my car is brand new (just a year old)

Ok, but my $100 Vantrue dashcam live on "parking mode" using the Fuse Box for like 2 weeks without running down my car's battery. Oh and I can download more than 20 seconds of footage at a time. 🤨