I know this could go in the android app thread but i thought it maybe worth starting a new thread to see what people think about this.
As any of you that drive know the are more and more idiots on the road nower days. After being the victim of a crash last year where the driver was 100% at fault i got shafted for a 50/50 decision because i had no proof or witnesses. I felt sick at this as it put mut my premiums up quite a bit so i rang my insurer and asked if a video recorder in the car would count as proof and they said it would.
I looked into some dash cams but they are very expensive. So i decided to look into Android software and i think i have come up with a realy nice and quick solution.
Now the first problem would be having to set up a car mount every time you drive. Thanks to mrk's great DIY dash holder thread http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=16992427#post16992427 it literally takes seconds to mount the phone into the cradle. The thing is so light weight and un bulky its extremley easy to store.
On the software side check out a program called autoboy blockbox https://market.android.com/details?id=com.jeon.blackbox
Its awesome and uses your GPS connection to display the speed and the location data at all times (even more proof to the insurers to show your speed at the time of accident and also the location of incident). You can set the program to record all footage or for it to only save footage when you click the save button. You can tell the program to only use 1GB of space meaning it will start to overwrite older videos once the space has ran out.
Really nice software and it works perfectly and its not a hassle to set up. Oh make sure you have a car charger becuase it will drink battery.
Anyone else use any car cam software for android? I can upload some sample footage if people want to see it.
EDIT: Mods feel free to move to motors if you feel it should go there
As any of you that drive know the are more and more idiots on the road nower days. After being the victim of a crash last year where the driver was 100% at fault i got shafted for a 50/50 decision because i had no proof or witnesses. I felt sick at this as it put mut my premiums up quite a bit so i rang my insurer and asked if a video recorder in the car would count as proof and they said it would.
I looked into some dash cams but they are very expensive. So i decided to look into Android software and i think i have come up with a realy nice and quick solution.
Now the first problem would be having to set up a car mount every time you drive. Thanks to mrk's great DIY dash holder thread http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=16992427#post16992427 it literally takes seconds to mount the phone into the cradle. The thing is so light weight and un bulky its extremley easy to store.
On the software side check out a program called autoboy blockbox https://market.android.com/details?id=com.jeon.blackbox
Its awesome and uses your GPS connection to display the speed and the location data at all times (even more proof to the insurers to show your speed at the time of accident and also the location of incident). You can set the program to record all footage or for it to only save footage when you click the save button. You can tell the program to only use 1GB of space meaning it will start to overwrite older videos once the space has ran out.
Really nice software and it works perfectly and its not a hassle to set up. Oh make sure you have a car charger becuase it will drink battery.
Anyone else use any car cam software for android? I can upload some sample footage if people want to see it.
EDIT: Mods feel free to move to motors if you feel it should go there
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