Black Box
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Black Box OS (Beta) is a download in your Dashivo account, open to every Dashivo Cloud subscriber. The download is under Devices › Black Boxes, with the list of hardware it supports.

So each Black Box belongs to one account, gets our signed updates, and can't be taken over by someone else. Sign up with Apple, Google or your email. The app itself never needs an account.

Put Black Box OS on the board from your Dashivo account on a computer, and keep the board plugged in while it starts for the first time: the page adds it to your account over the USB cable. Then set it up with your phone next to it, before it goes into the vehicle: in the Dashivo app, Settings › Black Box › Set up connects over Bluetooth and gives it its Wi-Fi and a name. If the page can't reach it, it shows a setup QR code: scan that in the Dashivo app, version 1.1.3 or later, with your phone next to the Black Box. The Black Box needs no internet to be set up.

Through the Wi-Fi networks you save for it, up to 3: home, office or a phone's hotspot (a USB Ethernet adapter or cellular modem works too). When the car is near one, the Black Box joins it by itself to upload to Dashivo Cloud, report to your Dashivo account and get updates. Its own Wi-Fi is only for your phone in the car. Our servers never connect to the Black Box: it reaches out by itself.

Yes. Black Box OS is included with Dashivo Cloud, with no separate charge, and it needs an active Cloud plan on your Dashivo account. In the car the Black Box keeps your clips without internet; Cloud adds an encrypted copy away from the car, for the day the car itself is gone.

A car parked in the sun can reach 60 to 80 °C inside, which is why the Black Box goes under a front seat, the coolest hidden spot, and never on the dash or the rear shelf. The UNO Q is fanless and runs cool. Pausing writes when it's too hot and picking up again as it cools is part of Black Box OS (Beta).

No. Power it from a socket or fuse that turns off with the car, so it runs only while you drive and draws nothing when the car is off.

It's hidden under the seat, so it's hard to find in a hurry, and your phones still keep their own copies. Encrypting the Black Box's card is part of Black Box OS (Beta): a stolen Black Box shows nothing to whoever took it. Flashing it again doesn't help either: its card stays locked to your account, and the Black Box can't be added to anyone else's account.

The clips it recorded are already on the Black Box: each one is copied as soon as it's saved, and a police stop copies every few seconds. Taking, breaking or wiping the phone doesn't touch the Black Box's copy.

Then the Black Box goes with it. That's what Dashivo Cloud is for: your phones upload police stops and accidents right away, locked on the phone first. Uploads from the Black Box itself, from your home Wi-Fi, are part of Black Box OS (Beta).

No. It's optional: the app records, stamps and keeps your footage on its own. The Black Box adds a copy hidden in the car, away from the phone. The Black Box switches are already in the app, in Settings › Black Box.

Normally the setup page puts the board into flash mode by itself: a board with a factory Arduino image, another system the page can reach, or a board running Black Box OS that is on no account (the page asks you to confirm first). The flash jumper is only for when the page can't reach the board. On dashivo.app open Set up a Black Box, then Nothing in the list?, then Use the flash jumper: it shows where the JCTL pins are. Put the jumper on the two JCTL pins, unplug the board and plug it back in, then choose it again; it shows up in flash mode. After the flash, the page tells you to take the jumper off; then unplug the board and plug it back in. Never move the jumper while the board has power. A board that is on an account must be removed from that account in the Dashivo app before it can be flashed again over USB.

Your phone may still remember the board's old Bluetooth pairing, so adding it fails with "the Bluetooth connection dropped". Forget the pairing, then add the board again. The board's name is DBB- plus 6 characters, shown on the setup page and in the Dashivo app. On an iPhone: Settings › Bluetooth, tap the (i) next to DBB-xxxxxx, then Forget This Device. On Android: Settings › Connected devices (or Bluetooth), tap the gear next to DBB-xxxxxx, then Forget (or Unpair). Then add it again in the Dashivo app under Settings › Black Box.