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Hi Guys,
Recently I decided I'm probably going to be getting another car so I've created "project" ideas for the VT commodore I have now.
I have laying around some Mini Dome Security Camera's (with low infrared vision so it can see at night) loads of spare computers parts and an idea I've had in my head for awhile just haven't had the time or probably the money to spend on it to make it actually something good.
The plan or the idea at this point is, running a Windows Media Center operating system on a computer I'll build up that will fit into the car somewhere (probably the boot near my amp) in a tidy custom designed computer box attached to the boot like my amp also. I'll purchase a Touch Screen that I can install into the car somewhere easily accessed from drive and front passenger so that I can access my media center desktop. Basically I have a big collection of music at home, I'll setup Syncing so that whenever my car is in range of my home (for like when I get home I'll park my car it will pick up my wireless router been in range and start re syncing my songs with my home collection so i have my most updated collection in my car as well) I guess since in the morning I let my car idle for a few minutes this would be the most when the PC would be syncing songs - i calculated around in 3 minutes the system could sync approx 50 songs no worries which is fine. On top of that I will have a dome security camera installed into my car maybe 1 at the front 1 at the back that will continuously do recording whenever there is motion. There has been times where if I had a video camera and I had it running, alot of accidents i witnessed would of been alot more easier to prove not my fault. Ontop of that, we could load heaps of awesome BCM monitoring software and hook the computer to the car too, so we can get some readings for when I want to see them (could be useful in the future).
At this point its an idea, not correctly flawlessly thought about yet but I thought it would be a good idea to share and see if anyone else has feedback on my idea / plan.
Oh and on the terms of legality of camera recording any ideas?
Recently I decided I'm probably going to be getting another car so I've created "project" ideas for the VT commodore I have now.
I have laying around some Mini Dome Security Camera's (with low infrared vision so it can see at night) loads of spare computers parts and an idea I've had in my head for awhile just haven't had the time or probably the money to spend on it to make it actually something good.
The plan or the idea at this point is, running a Windows Media Center operating system on a computer I'll build up that will fit into the car somewhere (probably the boot near my amp) in a tidy custom designed computer box attached to the boot like my amp also. I'll purchase a Touch Screen that I can install into the car somewhere easily accessed from drive and front passenger so that I can access my media center desktop. Basically I have a big collection of music at home, I'll setup Syncing so that whenever my car is in range of my home (for like when I get home I'll park my car it will pick up my wireless router been in range and start re syncing my songs with my home collection so i have my most updated collection in my car as well) I guess since in the morning I let my car idle for a few minutes this would be the most when the PC would be syncing songs - i calculated around in 3 minutes the system could sync approx 50 songs no worries which is fine. On top of that I will have a dome security camera installed into my car maybe 1 at the front 1 at the back that will continuously do recording whenever there is motion. There has been times where if I had a video camera and I had it running, alot of accidents i witnessed would of been alot more easier to prove not my fault. Ontop of that, we could load heaps of awesome BCM monitoring software and hook the computer to the car too, so we can get some readings for when I want to see them (could be useful in the future).
At this point its an idea, not correctly flawlessly thought about yet but I thought it would be a good idea to share and see if anyone else has feedback on my idea / plan.
Oh and on the terms of legality of camera recording any ideas?