starbl
New Member
Hey @VIOFO-Support and everyone, couple of questions/suggestions.
First off, I love the dashcam, when it works. I've had small issues with it when it comes to not recording (I'm using a Sandisk PRO Endurance 256GB) and it freezing up.
First, some background. I uber/lyft/rideshare/airport taxi. I run all 3 channels at the best quality. What I want to do is mimick what my Blackvue does when I park because my blackvue, even after spending the ~$500 doesn't notify me when the interior camera is unhooked, nor does it do the bitrate that the A139 does. My unit is hardwired into my car using the HK3.
I want to offload the videos from the camera as much as possible. I have a 50TB NAS in the basement that has a few scripts that calls wget and tries to grab as much off of the A139 as it can while it's there. The reason is that with as much rideshare/uber I do, I generate ~20GB of data an hour. I'm sure you can do the math on how long the footage stays on the SD card when I'm generating that amount of data.
Right now, I have to unhook it from the hardwire kit, let it power down, and then power it back up just to get it to engage station mode, or leaving my car on, turning off wifi (if on), stopping recording, turning on station mode and then going in.
I'm looking for the following to happen:
When I park my car, it enters parking mode, turns on Wifi Station mode for 60 seconds. If it doesn't see the SSID broadcast, turn it off. If it sees the SSID, connect up and hang out there like it would if I manually turned it on. the 60 seconds was chosen for the simple fact of conservation of energy. It could be left to the 5 minutes just for coding simplicity.
Now, a couple of questions:
I see there's a FTP port open, where can I find the username/password to access it? I would rather do this than HTTP/wget, as it's more interactive and reliable with file transfers.
Is there anything else I can do to make it easier to enable station mode?
Is there anything I can do to address the heat issues? Even though I live in Wisconsin and I only deal with the summer a few months out of the year, I've noticed that it slows down quite significantly when the unit gets hot, even when in parking mode and in my garage with strong-wifi.
Other things I've noticed:
When downloading via wget, protected files (RO/Parking) do not allow for the files to resume downloading. Only the main files do. Why is that?
Also -- when downloading and trying to use the "Remove" link for protected files -- it wont allow it to be deleted. The only way I can delete them is to go onto the app and unlock them, pull the card from the camera and delete on the computer, OR format via the app/manually. I understand it's probably just protection from being deleted -- but if I -- the user -- is asking for them to be deleted, it should do what I ask it to.
Thanks in advance!
First off, I love the dashcam, when it works. I've had small issues with it when it comes to not recording (I'm using a Sandisk PRO Endurance 256GB) and it freezing up.
First, some background. I uber/lyft/rideshare/airport taxi. I run all 3 channels at the best quality. What I want to do is mimick what my Blackvue does when I park because my blackvue, even after spending the ~$500 doesn't notify me when the interior camera is unhooked, nor does it do the bitrate that the A139 does. My unit is hardwired into my car using the HK3.
I want to offload the videos from the camera as much as possible. I have a 50TB NAS in the basement that has a few scripts that calls wget and tries to grab as much off of the A139 as it can while it's there. The reason is that with as much rideshare/uber I do, I generate ~20GB of data an hour. I'm sure you can do the math on how long the footage stays on the SD card when I'm generating that amount of data.
Right now, I have to unhook it from the hardwire kit, let it power down, and then power it back up just to get it to engage station mode, or leaving my car on, turning off wifi (if on), stopping recording, turning on station mode and then going in.
I'm looking for the following to happen:
When I park my car, it enters parking mode, turns on Wifi Station mode for 60 seconds. If it doesn't see the SSID broadcast, turn it off. If it sees the SSID, connect up and hang out there like it would if I manually turned it on. the 60 seconds was chosen for the simple fact of conservation of energy. It could be left to the 5 minutes just for coding simplicity.
Now, a couple of questions:
I see there's a FTP port open, where can I find the username/password to access it? I would rather do this than HTTP/wget, as it's more interactive and reliable with file transfers.
Is there anything else I can do to make it easier to enable station mode?
Is there anything I can do to address the heat issues? Even though I live in Wisconsin and I only deal with the summer a few months out of the year, I've noticed that it slows down quite significantly when the unit gets hot, even when in parking mode and in my garage with strong-wifi.
Other things I've noticed:
When downloading via wget, protected files (RO/Parking) do not allow for the files to resume downloading. Only the main files do. Why is that?
Also -- when downloading and trying to use the "Remove" link for protected files -- it wont allow it to be deleted. The only way I can delete them is to go onto the app and unlock them, pull the card from the camera and delete on the computer, OR format via the app/manually. I understand it's probably just protection from being deleted -- but if I -- the user -- is asking for them to be deleted, it should do what I ask it to.
Thanks in advance!