Dashcam video sync when parked at home?

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I’d love to figure out a solution to grab recordings from a dashcam when my vehicle is parked at home. I recognize this would be partly dependent on the dashcam/vehicle hardware itself (must be wifi capable, basically), but I’m coming at the problem from all angles so asking here in HA is useful in case someone has found a solution that works with a specific flavor of hardware. Goal would be to get video/pics/data sync’d to a reliable home storage system.

I recently got sideswiped in a parking lot but didn’t discover it until like 36 hours later because it was on my passenger side. My dashcam had a physical (accelerometer) trigger event but the video had been overwritten by the time I noticed, so I have no visuals of the incident. This got me thinking, “a larger and offboard storage system could trivially solve this by maintaining 180 days of tail videos” (or whatever).

thx!

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Did you get anywhere with this?

Mark

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Essentially no, but it’s because I haven’t gotten around to it. I recently noticed that there’s an HA add-on for Torque and I have the necessary ODBII hardware and spare Android devices sitting around such that I was going to play with that to do a basic, “get my dumb-ish car to report stuff when it ‘docks’ at home, per GPS”

Maybe it’s why you poked, but also: there’s some press from yesterday about Google trying to position some native dashcam functionality into Android. Google will soon let Pixel phones double as dashcams