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So I ordered this camera with the hopes of using it on the pi

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And I'm stumped. I haven't tried connecting it to a pi yet, just a windows pc. It shows up via USB as an audio device, and also as a USB drive. On the drive is an .apk file for android, to install their in car DVR software (and driver I guess?) to allow the android device to access it as a camera.

 

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  • The .apk file is an android application on android phone. The USB drive will not need a driver, but other than power it is not clear if any picture is sent. My guess is that all recording goes to sd card. Then you can access the files on the sd card through usb. I suggest to look at the android applicatiob for more details.

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    Oh I know the apk was the android app. What was unusual was that windows recognized it as an audio device. I've seen plenty of other devices that had that "dual mount", the actual device plus some space for the drivers/application. One of my cellular modems is that way.

    This doesn't have an SD card, its meant to store everything on the android device. I just hadn't seen any sort of camera recognized as an audio device before. I guess I need to forget about this for the single board computers. I primarily got it because it was the cheapest wide angle lens USB camera i found. Luckily, my miata has a full android head unit in it, so I can just throw this into there. I had pondered trying to read the serial stream and work out how its actually sending, but probably simpler to just get a wide angle webcam that will work easily with the beaglebone/raspberry pi.

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  • in reply to clem57

    Oh I know the apk was the android app. What was unusual was that windows recognized it as an audio device. I've seen plenty of other devices that had that "dual mount", the actual device plus some space for the drivers/application. One of my cellular modems is that way.

    This doesn't have an SD card, its meant to store everything on the android device. I just hadn't seen any sort of camera recognized as an audio device before. I guess I need to forget about this for the single board computers. I primarily got it because it was the cheapest wide angle lens USB camera i found. Luckily, my miata has a full android head unit in it, so I can just throw this into there. I had pondered trying to read the serial stream and work out how its actually sending, but probably simpler to just get a wide angle webcam that will work easily with the beaglebone/raspberry pi.

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