KENWOOD Motorsports CAM 4+

Vary poor App Support. Had this camera system on my Harley for a year and half. I could not bring up and veiw the stored videos on my phone. I was told that they are working on an update and it will be out in about four months. A year and a half later I’m still waiting. The only way to view what’s on the card is to remove it and view it on a computer. I still had an issue with that.

This KENWOOD Motorsport system came with my race car. It’s awful. It did reliably work to capture an incident on track when a competitor hit me due to its internal sensor to capture that. But that’s the limit of reliability so far. When I am on grid I manually push the circular remote button that’s included and installed in my car cockpit. But almost every time it fails to work. Even the 1 minute snapshots it is supposed to continuously record as a dash cam- just in case there is an incident without an impact for the sensor to trigger saving the video- I’ve only gotten 15 second clips. In a settings you can choose 30 second clips or 1 minute clips. I choose 1 minutes. 15 seconds isn’t even an option. This weekend I re-inserted my microSD card after copying the video it had into my desktop computer, and now it records *nothing•!

If I had purchased this I would return it. I had been hoping not to have to buy an expensive racing camera system like Smartycam. But I may have no choice as I never heard any complaints about SmartCam failing to record. But I have heard complaints with GoPro and experienced them myself. And this KENWOOD Motorsport system is just terrible. It just seems like it was based on their regular car dash cam system for street cars to record an accident, with no quality control or feature check for Motorsports. And the WiFi based app to get your videos is bonkers confusing and frustrating to use. I’m sorry to say it’s a big failure KENWOOD. Maybe JVC can make a better product for motorsports now that it merged with KENWOOD it appears.

Functions well and does the job