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Originally Posted by BigBen
Slick. You have any pictures (installation/UI/etc)? Would love to hear the details of how you made it all work.  |
Still a work in progress, the above is from a test run where I was fooling around with video capture code...
Specs are:
E1200 CPU
2GB RAM
2 x 250GB 2.5" SATA HDs in RAID1 config
2 x analog vid capture cards
2 x USB wifi (one as a host for my PDA to connect to, one as a client to transfer video and GPS data to my home network when the car is in the garage)
GSM phone connected via USB - also charges it too
GPS receiver
100W 12V ATX power supply (puts out everything including the 4 pin P4 connector, SATA power, etc)
SLA battery to keep the PC running for up to 2 hours after the engine is off
Electronic equipment case custom butchered to my needs
FreeBSD 7.0 i386, PHP, Apache, Mysql
The hw is pretty much final, although there's now an extra fan and I'll probably add a SATA-CF adapter so that video is saved to solid state memory while the vehicle is moving, then dumped to HD once the engine is off. It's the software that's going to be the fun bit, I've been pulling my hair out trying to get FreeBSD's meteor (video capture) driver to work properly... the sample code on the man page does NOT compile and no one else on the planet seems to have figured out how to do it yet.
I need to find a way to plug in mains sourced 12V (and not forget it's connected) so I can at least fully install it, then continue doing the s/w development via wifi+SSH... the wiring for the cameras, GPS and power is hidden inside the car, ready and waiting.
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