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Post by moiloon on Jan 14, 2017 16:31:21 GMT
right I have my nexus 7 2013 installed in my car now for sometime I have a question regarding a dash cam, I have searched the playstore to find an app to be able to background record from a usb camera and allow recording to usb storage (which I havnt been able to find), all apps currently in playstore only see the devices front and rear camera
id like to use either a usb webcam or what I was thinking about was the usb camera from the joying headunit range or AVN Chinese headunit, which then got me also wondering if their car record app (which apparently tricks device into thinking usb cam is the devices cam) which is on their unit which is android kk, would work for the nexus with the joying cam or a web cam??
if not plug and play could the apk be modified to work ( beyond my capabilities I may add ) ive found a link to to where I came across the apk and a little info, www.carjoying.com/Joying-blog/36.html
or can an app be fooled into thinking the usb external camera is the rear facing device camera,or make the rear redundant camera (behind dash) and then make nexus see usb as the device rear camera??
as in my case could never use it as my nexus 7 rear camera is behind my dashboard fascia
would love to be able to get a dash cam incorporated, as a good quality dedicated cam is just too dam expensive, and also would like the nexus to be a AIO device
hope someone can give me any helpful info, surely someone has maybe done? |
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Post by moiloon on Jan 14, 2017 19:18:15 GMT
well I think ive now found an app in the playstore that will do exactly what I wish, but I cant save to an external drive, which I really need tbh, as my device only a 16g wifi model
if anyone interested hers a link to the app in the playstore
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.shenyaocn.android.usbcamera&hl=en
if anyone could help to maybe modify the app to change its save location that would be awesome
and I reckon I also need some help to automate pressing record and keep in background
the app can natively be sent to background recording and it functions perfectly with timurs 6.0 rom, and ive tried leaving it background recording,then simulating ignition off, upon ignition back on and checking the recorded file it saves in full :-) but id like this fully automated one tablet gets power with ignition to start usb camera app in background+record button pressed, another task I wish I could set would be to delete the recordings after a set size, or stop /start recording after set time or even after a set number of files ssaved in the usb camera save location , tried with automateit pro, get it to start the app but cant figure out the rest of the tasks in automateit,
and tasker confuses the absoloute **** out of me tbh, I understand little to do with android os as a whole
I'm fairly newish to android. |
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Post by moiloon on Mar 4, 2017 8:06:33 GMT
just to let you all know, the usb camera app is updated by the developer with features I had requested, and its pretty much perfect, and ive been using as my dashcam for a few weeks now.
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Post by Admin on Mar 5, 2017 9:10:02 GMT
Good stuff .. will check out the new version
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Post by moiloon on Mar 5, 2017 14:24:54 GMT
only one thing that's a hinderance, you must manually delete the recordings from the usb camera folder with a file explorer, no real biggie, probably someone cleverer than me can maybe use tasker script or the like to automate the deletion (I'm not gonna lie,i cannot get my head around tasker, baffles the shit out of me ),I just do it daily at the moment, unless someone shares a tsasker profile ect for my dash camera I bought this www.aliexpress.com/item/night-veraion-Waterproof-Camera-for-Car-Android-GPS-Unit-with-USB-DVR/32713385902.htmlworks perfect and good quality image, and a nice size and in my motor looks pretty much oem ive got a wireless rear camera id like to incorporate next, but not sure how thatll pan out trying to use another camera at the same time. |
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