Automatically copies the days videos from your dashcam.
I have it scheduled to run every few minutes on my Synology NAS, if it finds my camera, it does the download. Should be equivalent functionality available on QNAP and other NAS systems, or any bash script host.
Set the variables at the top of blackvue-downloader.sh
:
dashcam_host
: Dashcam IP addressdownload_dir
: Path to save videos (videos will be placed in a subdir usingvehicle_name
)vehicle_name
: Friendly name for this camera
- Configure your dashcam to connect to your home wifi
BlackVue App
>Firmware Settings
>Cloud
>Turn on, and add your wifi SSID settings
-
Set up a DHCP reservation for your camera on your router. This ensures that the camera will always have the same IP address.
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Schedule
blackvue-downloader.sh
to run regularly and when your camera is in wifi range it will start downloading the videos. -
Optional: Rather than a regular schedule, you may have the ability to run the script when the camera connects to the network. Check your router settings.
This blog post for the URLs plus some of the sed
scripts:
https://gadgetblogist.wordpress.com/2014/10/16/dashcam-hacking/