Do any dashcams connect to factory installed cameras?

[jokiin]

Something to do with Napoleon as I understand it, not sure what it has got to do with colonisation

yep heard of him, again, not something they taught in school though

 

[HonestReview]

Something to do with Napoleon as I understand it, not sure what it has got to do with colonisation

The War of 1812 was a conflict fought between the United States and the United Kingdom, with their respective allies, from June 1812 to February 1815. Historians in Britain often see it as a minor theatre of the Napoleonic Wars; historians in the United States and Canada see it as a war in its own right.

Britain got pissy the over U.S. trade with France...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_1812

Britain got a second taste of America before being repelled.

 

[Nigel]

The War of 1812 was a conflict fought between the United States and the United Kingdom, with their respective allies, from June 1812 to February 1815. Historians in Britain often see it as a minor theatre of the Napoleonic Wars; historians in the United States and Canada see it as a war in its own right.

Britain got pissy the over U.S. trade with France...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_1812

Britain got a second taste of America before being repelled.

And the background to the trade sanctions that USA decided to violate, Napoleon was acting much as Hitler would in the following century:

Hoping to isolate Britain economically, Napoleon launched an invasion of Portugal, the only remaining British ally in continental Europe. After occupying Lisbon in November 1807, and with the bulk of French troops present in Spain, Napoleon seized the opportunity to turn against his former ally, depose the reigning Spanish Bourbon family and declare his brother King of Spain in 1808 as Joseph I. The Spanish and Portuguese revolted with British support and expelled the French from Iberia in 1814 after six years of fighting.

Napoleonic Wars - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[kamkar]

Judging by how the Danes behaved yes.

Side with Napoleon.
"Sacrificing" a handful or two of men in a few hours when the Nazis came, and then played the public disobedience card for a few years while they was here. ( Not saying side with Nazis, but really to me the behavior of my country back then when those creeps came knocking was embarrassing )
I know the Wehrmacht would have steamrolled us no matter what, but at least fight properly for a few days / weeks.
TBH in my eyes that was the moment that defined that the Fighting Danes was a dead concept, and from that moment on our spines would be made from the finest Firestone rubber.

In WW1 we was making money on just about everyone involved in that war.

 

[Nigel]

Side with Napoleon.

That didn't go too well for you, defined your history from that point up to your state visit from President Trump!
Long read: Denmark: The Napoleonic Wars and their aftermath

 

[comadose]

I feel like this thread has been slightly derailed.

Anyway turns out that the Nissan 360 system does just use ordinary cameras with ordinary composite video and you can buy an adapter to splice your own camera in.

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So very likely on similar systems you will be able to take the same composite video signal out via a similar adapter. If I still had a Leaf I'd order one of those, hack it to extract the signal instead of inject it, and try it out.

 

[DT MI]

I feel like this thread has been slightly derailed.

'Slightly'?!

 

[comadose]

It's good news, and the fact that all the wiring will come in to the head unit means it might not be too hard to access.

 

[Dashmellow]

Banggood sells similar versions of this adapter (24 pin) for various car models. One unit shown also has RCA audio connectors.

 

[comadose]

I'm thinking that a small video amplifier may be needed if you want to connect to two things at once (head unit and recorder). Just to balance out the impedance.

 

[HonestReview]

And the background to the trade sanctions that USA decided to violate, Napoleon was acting much as Hitler would in the following century:

Napoleonic Wars - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Britain forcibly conscripting Americans didn't help their cause.

From the outbreak of war with Napoleonic France, Britain had enforced a naval blockade to choke off neutral trade to France, which the US contested as illegal under international law. To man the blockade, Britain pressed American merchant sailors into the Royal Navy.

 

[HonestReview]

Judging by how the Danes behaved yes.

Side with Napoleon.
"Sacrificing" a handful or two of men in a few hours when the Nazis came, and then played the public disobedience card for a few years while they was here. ( Not saying side with Nazis, but really to me the behavior of my country back then when those creeps came knocking was embarrassing )
I know the Wehrmacht would have steamrolled us no matter what, but at least fight properly for a few days / weeks.
TBH in my eyes that was the moment that defined that the Fighting Danes was a dead concept, and from that moment on our spines would be made from the finest Firestone rubber.

In WW1 we was making money on just about everyone involved in that war.

Emblematic of Europe's naivety during WWII: Europe acquiesced Poland to Germany in 1939 (not our problem). Then came France (Not Our Problem) and soon European Countries fell one by one. Because there was no unity to resist, the individual countries remained powerless. If not for Britain and the United States, and Eventually Russia (after Hitler backstabbed them in Operation Barbarossa), there'd be the Third Reich in charge.

Sweden took a "Neutral" stance and became Germany's passive bitch. Albeit some diplomats (Raoul Wallenberg) have been recornized by Yad Vashem for issuing Swedish Papers to Jews. Raoul Wallenberg was captured and killed by the Russians...Or died in Russian Custody. His whereabouts and the truth of his death have never been clearly explained.

Switzerland remained Neutral.

And the rest is history.

First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist

Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist

Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist

Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew

Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me

 

[jokiin]

I feel like this thread has been slightly derailed.

Anyway turns out that the Nissan 360 system does just use ordinary cameras with ordinary composite video and you can buy an adapter to splice your own camera in.

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So very likely on similar systems you will be able to take the same composite video signal out via a similar adapter. If I still had a Leaf I'd order one of those, hack it to extract the signal instead of inject it, and try it out.

the 360 systems are not the same as regular reverse type cameras, there's some hardware in between to turn it into something viewable on the display, these interface cables are just to allow you to get a regular camera input directly to the screen

 

[Nigel]

The main issue with Octopus is getting a SMETS2 smart meter installed. You are best off getting one from your current supplier before switching to Octopus because they are very slow about it.

In the mean time people have been getting discounts from them to make up for the lack of cheap night time charging.

Seems you will soon be expected to either choose a car based on your energy supplier, or an energy supplier based on your car!

Volkswagen has teamed up with energy giant Centrica in a bid to accelerate electric vehicle (EV) adoption across the UK, with the two firms today announcing a three-year partnership to provide home charging systems for new plug-in vehicle owners.

 

[Nigel]

There is no substitute for liquid-fueled internal combustion engines in weight-critical high-power applications, and nothing is on the long-term radar to replace them either.

That's what Mr Koenigsegg said, but only when his battery power is insufficient - then his camless 3 cylinder internal combustion engine kicks in to give his family car 1700 BHP on green wind/solar/bio sourced liquid fuel. If only the big car manufacturers could innovate in the same way! He even managed to get to the Geneva Motor Show unlike them!

 

[comadose]

the 360 systems are not the same as regular reverse type cameras, there's some hardware in between to turn it into something viewable on the display, these interface cables are just to allow you to get a regular camera input directly to the screen

Yes the head unit does some image processing to convert the fish-eye into what you see on screen. But that doesn't matter, as long as you can record the original fish-eye video signal it will catch people damaging your car. And the Honda actually has cameras instead of wing mirrors too, i.e. it has both fish eye and ones like the Tesla that look backwards and cover the doors and rear sides of the car, so you have pretty good coverage of all the areas that are likely to get hit.

 

[jokiin]

Recording a signal is one thing, being able to play it back is the issue

 

[comadose]

Recording a signal is one thing, being able to play it back is the issue

It's just ordinary NTSC composite video, you capture it using a normal CCTV recorder or TV capture device and play back the resulting .MP4 file from SD card or hard drive. It's absolutely trivial.

In fact you can buy a suitable recorder off AliExpress. They are designed for trucks with many cameras, handle on/off with the ignition etc.

 

[HonestReview]

That's what Mr Koenigsegg said, but only when his battery power is insufficient - then his camless 3 cylinder internal combustion engine kicks in to give his family car 1700 BHP on green wind/solar/bio sourced liquid fuel. If only the big car manufacturers could innovate in the same way! He even managed to get to the Geneva Motor Show unlike them!

The Koenigsegg Gemera will likely cost upwards of $1 million, and with only 300 being built

Don't think that's in most people's budget. Technology trickles down the food chain over time, but only after the costs significantly drops. So I doubt Koenigsegg's advances will be mainstream anytime in the foreseeable future.

I want 1 million dollars...Care to spot me some spare change Nigel? This car is badass.

 

[HonestReview]

Recording a signal is one thing, being able to play it back is the issue

Wouldn't this be accomplished by adding an SD slot for a memory card? If the software support isn't available to play back a recording stream, then a user could do so on a computer instead?