Toyota Dashcam Viewer

Toyota Canada Inc

About this app

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Users who have installed Android13 may find video playback doesn’t switch properly to landscape mode. Fix is coming, please use the PC viewer for full screen mode.
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The TOYOTA DASHCAM App allows access to your genuine TOYOTA DASHCAM with your Android smartphone using the built in WIFI DIRECT connection. Adjust the camera settings and/or download your memorable videos directly using your Android smartphone.

App Features:

- View and download your recorded videos directly to your phone
- Adjust camera settings:
o Video quality
o Buzzer noise levels
o Turn ON/OFF Adventure Mode, and adjust SD card’s Adventure Mode memory allocation
o Turn ON/OFF Parking Surveillance Mode, and adjust sensitivity, wake-up modes and surveillance start delay functions
o Live view feature
- For your safety, the app will disconnect from the TOYOTA DASHCAM if vehicle movement is detected. Do not operate your Android smartphone while vehicle is in motion.

Camera Features:

Your TOYOTA DASHCAM features 5 unique recording modes: 3 automatic modes and 2 manual modes activated using the “ACTION” button:

1) Continuous recording – automatically records when vehicle ignition is on. Never worry about turning on the camera to start recording. When SD card is full, oldest files are automatically overwritten.
2) Automatic Incident recording – if an abnormal shock is detected when driving, camera automatically locks and protects the video file from overwriting for review at a later time. Sensitivity can be adjusted. Maximum of 10 event videos can be protected from overwriting.
3) Parking surveillance – when vehicle is parked with vehicle ignition off, camera automatically wakes up and starts recording if an abnormal shock is detected. Parking surveillance files are locked and protected from overwriting. Sensitivity can be adjusted. Maximum of 10 parking surveillance recordings can be protected from overwriting.
4) Manual Flagged Event recording – capture interesting moments by pressing the “ACTION” button on the camera. The current video segment(s) 12 seconds before and 8 seconds after button activation will be protected. Maximum of 5 manual event recordings can be protected from overwriting.
5) Adventure Mode recording – capture your driving adventures. Press and hold the “ACTION” button on the camera for 1 second to start protecting the recorded videos. The Adventure Mode recording will stop protecting files after maximum time is reached, or when the “ACTION” button is pressed and held again for 1 second. Maximum of 1 hour of Adventure Mode videos can be protected from overwriting.

Open Source Software Used:
https://www.e-iserv.jp/top/driverecorder/DashCamViewer/oss/oss_sp.html?lang=en

Ratings and reviews

Camera will not connect to my phone. At all. Ok - it "connects" but a half second later a little "x" of death appears in the wi-fi icon on the tray and the message "no internet" pops up and we are done. By the way, I have a Google Pixel 4XL, not some obscure knock off POS. Based on the reviews here, it's pretty obvious that this app and the camera have never been functional. I didn't choose the dash cam. I bought off the lot and it came pre-installed from the factory. $500 in the wind. 😠

Seems utterly and completely abandoned by Toyota with no updates in years. The wifi connection to the camera constantly drops during video downloads on the latest version of Android, making mobile retrieval impossible without carrying a micro SD card reader around. Even then, this app can't read from the card like the PC application can, making this Android app 100% useless.

Connected pretty easily once I found the Wifi Direct option on my phone (Pixel 8). Once I was connected I was easily able to download footage from the camera. Would be nice if there were an option to get thumbnails for clips so you don't need to go through the time consuming process of downloading them individually. Maybe also a way to stream videos instead of having to download the entire thing. Other than that though, it seems to do the job.

What’s new

Improved compatibility for Android 14.