We have put together some brief explanations on how the viewing software for the DC-1 drive recorder works. Please note that we supply full manuals with every product sold in these ranges.

Main Window Roadhawk DC-1

The main window of the Roadhawk DC-1 in car black box camera software gives you full control of your recorded video files. The large image to the left of the screen is the video taken  with the DC-1. Directly under this is a graph showing real time G-Forces of  the X,Y and Z coordinates.Towards the lower part of the window is the video transport control.

The right hand side is the Google Maps Overlay and file management. Below this are the option controls for loading  video and data files from the SD card.

Video Transport Control panel

The video transport control panel works like any other VCR or media playing software. In the middle of this panel is the current  vehicle speed and this can be toggled from the settings menu.Towards the right hand side of this panel are the playback speed controls. Volume control is on the left. To disable the DC-1 from recording audio please visit the SETTINGS menu.

Video File List Menu

The video file list menu shows all the stored video files your SD memory card.

You can access this list by clicking on the small purple arrow just to the right of the smaller file list.

Each video file is date and time numbered in this format YYMMDD_HHMMSS.

The event status will tell you why the video file has been stored “shock”, “emergency”  etc.If you just want to list event files then click “EVENT” at the top of the list.

Double clicking these files and then pressing on the PLAY button will start playing the video.

The Google Map overlay

The Google Map overlay displays the position of your vehicle relative to the time the video was taken in real time. You can display the map in normal “map mode” or choose  ”satellite” or “hybrid” modes to overlay satellite imagery of the surrounding area.You can use the map controls to zoom in or out and move around the current vehicle location.Pressing on the “map”, “satellite” and “hybrid” modes will change the way the map displays on you computer making it easier to locate the vehicle.

The device settings panel

The device settings panel is used for changing the way the DC-1  operates. You can select video quality and change the sensitivity of the G-Force sensor.Recording mode sets how the DC-1 triggers. In single mode only alarm events will be kept on the SD card. In infinte mode the unit will  record continually on a loop deleting the earliest files when the card is full. In event mode, events are also stored as a separate file so you can navigate directly to an event using the file manager panel.

The DC-1 software supplied is both intuitive and easy to use. There are no complicated settings to be made and the software is  small in size and technically quite basic so it will run on just about any computer running any windows operating system.

A copy of the viewing software can be found on the CD-ROM included with your RoadHawk camera.

The software for the DC-1 is freeware and can be given to anyone to use.
PLEASE NOTE: The software is not compatible with MAC operating systems.