[Talk-us-massachusetts] openstreetcam in MA

[Alan & Ruth Bragg]

I've never had a dash cam so I'm not sure how they work.
The waylens will capture an image every second, and those images are
available to you to view or download *individually* at anytime. It should
be useful if I ever have to prove who caused an accident.

You should be able to just let it run all day. It stops recording when you
stop. Mine power downs when I turn off the ignition and restarts again when
I start the car.
The OBD helps fine tune the lat/long of the photo location. I read
somewhere that splitters have been used.
 I'm at 1,353,892  p
​oints after only a few weeks and 856km​


Be sure to join the Telenav slack channel. Just waylens users like us and
lot's of information and immediate help.

On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 7:15 PM Angela Morley <silivrenion at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for sharing! I should be receiving mine in the next few days now.
> As I drive a commercial vehicle, I rack up a lot of mileage in my area,
> plus the trips we take on weekends. Unfortunately, my OBD port is already
> occupied by a GPS logger. I've thought about running a splitter, but I
> don't know if OBD allows that. They confirmed with me you don't have to use
> OBD, but you get a reduction in points if you do that. With my
> calculations, I should be able to get to that threshold even without OBD
> doubled points. I drive a lot.
>
> The controller mount will be useful, because as I make stops with clients,
> I can stop the recording in a natural spot instead of with my clients.
>
> I was wondering... Does the camera still work as a regular dashcam, or
> does the Telenav software completely change it's functionality?
>
> High speed fiber optic at home. No problem uploading here!
>
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2018, 18:01 Alan & Ruth Bragg <alan.ruth.bragg at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> There are at least three participants in MA who have, or will soon have,
>> Waylens Horizon cameras provided by Telenav to record streets.
>>
>> I've had my camera for a couple weeks and learned a few lessons.
>>
>> The camera doesn't have to be mounted too high on the windshield to get a
>> good view of the street. My first mistake was to mount it high where the
>> radio antenna built into the windshield  was blocking the gps signal which
>> is received by the camera mount.
>>
>> The camera mount is held to the windshield by a very strong sticky pad. I
>> mounted it under the rear view mirror and looped the power cable once
>> around the rear view mirror. If the camera mount fails it will just dangle
>> from the mirror.
>> I have peeled the mount from the windshield several times without a
>> problem. I use it in a second vehicle when I take trips.
>>
>> I didn't realize that their is no need to be conservative when recording.
>> I leave the camera on all the time, recording the nearby roads repeatedly.
>> I concentrate on driving and not monitoring the camera.
>>
>> Uploading data from the car over my home WiFi is not practical. One
>> problem is that the camera tries to start uploading data as soon as I pull
>> into my driveway.  To avoid this I remove it from the mount a block from my
>> home and it shuts down in 20 seconds. I upload the data from a location
>> close to my router.
>>
>> I put a black felt cloth from AC Moore to put on the dash to reduce the
>> reflection.
>>
>> It takes a while for the GPS, Bluetooth Button,  OBD2 data connector to
>> sync at start up. I don't wait for them to sync before driving.  As soon as
>> I see a red dot circling the display I know it is recording images.
>>
>> The unit comes with a separate bluetooth button that can be used to stop
>> recording data. This is not very useful because after whenever you come to
>> a stop for more that a couple of seconds the recording will start again.
>>
>> Here's a link to various screen shots
>> https://photos.app.goo.gl/yD7JGH6WWFfgRfz39
>>
>>
>>
>> Alan
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