Raspberry pi Dashcam

rpi dash cam uses raspberrypi + rpi camera to create your own dashcam. It supports button control and LED indication. Very simple and minmal code. Most importantly, it has no frame drop!

During recording rpi dash cam requires very little CPU and memory source, it uses techniques like Theading and Event Queue to handle the workload between capturing and buffer saving. Thus solves the frame dropping problem many people are facing when recording long-duration video.

Tested on RPI3 model B with rpi camera V2. Demo video.

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Installation

ssh pi@raspberrypi.local
cd ~
git clone https://github.com/xeonqq/rpi_dash_cam.git camera_record
cd camera_record
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
sudo apt-get install gpac # for MP4Box, or build standalone binary from [source](https://github.com/gpac/gpac/wiki/GPAC-Build-Guide-for-Linux#mp4box-only) to save disk space

Hardwares

• LED light on pin 10
• button on pin 8
• exteral usb stick for saving the videos. To mount it at boot refer to mount external-storage

Execute

python3 record.py

Usage:

• LED constant on indicating ready to record
• Press button once to start recording, LED start blinking in 1 sec interval
• Press button again to stop recording

Start RPI dash-cam on boot

sudo apt-get install supervisor
sudo cp rpicam-record-proccess.conf /etc/supervisor/conf.d/