live view while parked?

[Booma]

This will be my first dash cam. I want a cam that I can watch live while the vehicle is parked so I can check on it from time to time. I use Comcast so there are wifi hot spots all around me that I can use. And the vehicle has built in wifi (but I but it turns off when the truck is off. Not sure) Will the DR750S let me view live video while parked?

 

[flank]

This thread gives me an idea to use an old android phone as a surveillance cam for my parked truck.

 

[bpsmicro]

If you have the camera powered up and constantly connected to a WiFi hotspot, then you can use the BlackVue Viewer to connect to it via the cloud and view live. But for only 5 minutes per day unless you pay for a subscription.

If you have the camera connected to a WiFi hotspot *you own* (ie. your own wireless router inside your house), then you can direct-connect to it via the assigned IP address. The URL to direct-connect is:
http://<ip address>/blackvue_live.cgi?direction=R
(or ?direction=F)

Public WiFi hotspots won't let you do this. I don't know if your vehicle's built-in WiFi will, but I'm betting it's not designed to allow incoming access from outside the vehicle. Making this all work required a bit of advanced knowledge of networking, and takes a lot of fiddling to get just right.

Brad.

 

[SawMaster]

B1W (and I presume some others) can give you a still 'snapshot' view via their wifi but it's not video. Might be good enough though

Phil

 

[Mtz]

This thread gives me an idea to use an old android phone as a surveillance cam for my parked truck.

For your idea think to CameraFi Live.
If you can live stream (private!?) on Facebook, YouTube, etc, you also have a backup.

enjoy,
Mtz