steve192 / dashcam-transporter

Application running on a raspberry pi, to transfer your dashcam video files to your preferred storage

dashcam-transporter

Application running on a raspberry pi (or other debian based platforms), to transfer and archive your dashcam video files to your preferred storage

How it works

• The application is searching for the WIfi of your dashcam
• If found it connects to it in searches for locked videos (those where something happened), downloads them and deletes them from the dashcam
• The application then searches for your home network, connects and uploads the videos and deletes them from the pi

Currently supported dashcams

• ✅ Viofo A119 Mini (Probaply other viofo as well)

Currently supported target storages

• ✅ Samba (SMB) Windows Share

Installation

Automated script

• Setup raspbian lite (or other debian based os, this is not tested though) and execute

curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/steve192/dashcam-transporter/main/install.sh | bash

Manual

• Setup raspbian lite (or other debian based os, this is not tested though)
  • Ensure npm is installed if using something different than raspberry pi (sudo apt install node npm)
• Install git and node sudo apt update && sudo apt install git nodejs npm
• Download clone dashcam transporter from github
  • git clone https://github.com/steve192/dashcam-transporter.git
• Navigate to the directory cd dashcam-transporter/backend
• Install node modules npm i
• Build npm run build
• Navigate to the build result cd dist
• Execute setup script sudo ./setup.sh
• Edit the settings.ini file nano settings.ini
• Reboot and the script will automatically be started sudo reboot

Meaning of leds

The script controls the raspberrys leds

• Blinking LEDs - Waiting for connections to dashcam of home network (Will also blink if there is nothing to transfer)
• LEDs on - Transfer is currently running

dashcam-transporter's Issues

Only enable raspberry pi depending features on raspberry pi

Raspberry pi dependent features are only enabled when a raspberry pi is detected (Status LEDs).
This allows the software to be run on any debian based system.

Add tests

Every dashcam model should have integration tests

Cleanup code and introduce linting

More configuration options

• Also download unlocked videos
• Leave videos on dashcam
  • Different options for locked / unlocked videos