AceEngineer
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I've had a Chinese dash cam in my Honda now for over a year. I just love it. The unit I have is a small recording traffic camera with no display, so it is close to invisible mounted way up in the windshield. It is completely automatic once it is hooked to power and accessories. It also has a raw video out RCA plug which I can view via an auxiliary input on the Chinese Android head unit in the dash. The camera has buttons for selecting menu settings viewed via the raw video output and records on a micro SD in the camera. I love the arrangement because it results in a tiny camera, mine is about 2 inches by 1 inch in diameter and virtually unnoticeable. Now to the question I have. I just bought the wife a BMW and it already has way to much neat stuff in the dash that I do not want to mess with it and it has no suitable input for the RAW video like the camera in my car. What I want to find is a camera for her car that is real small, which means no screen like mine, but is viewable or preferably controllable with an app for her phone via Bluetooth. The view on the phone app need not be high resolution or even video, it is mostly for menu selection feedback but the recordings in the unit should be high resolution wide screen (my Chinese unit's raw video is low res, but the recordings are 1080p). Has anybody out there seen any cameras that fit this description? I think it is a logical solution for anybody that wants a small no display tiny traffic cam, using a smart phone as the screen. The unit need not even have selection buttons on the camera like mine, the Bluetooth link could do all the control and selection on the phone. That said, my ideal solution would be a tiny no display camera that records in high res to an onboard micro SD with the controls all done via a Bluetooth phone app.
Anybody seen anything suitable for my application?
AceEngineer
Anybody seen anything suitable for my application?
AceEngineer