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Dashcam data retention recommendation? (pawb.social)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by EonNShadow@pawb.social to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I'd like to get a dashcam, but unfortunately my phone isn't one that has an SD card slot.

I'm going on a road trip soon and would like to pick up a dash cam for it as I've had issues in the past.

I'm looking to see if you guys have any cleaner (as in more automated, less fiddly post-setup) solutions than just using an SD Card reader on the phone to manually upload the data to a NAS via VPN

Thanks in advance! I'm definitely more of a tech person than a car person so any help would be appreciated.

Edit: you all seem to be making the same point, I'm coming at this from the wrong POV. I'm worried about vendor lock-in and being reliant on whatever service the vendor wants to use instead of just handling the data myself. But it seems like it shouldn't be too much of a problem. Thanks for all your answers!

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[–] brewery@feddit.uk 6 points 1 week ago

Dash cams record on loops and you can usually change the video lengths. Mine has a button you can easily press to mark that video (and the one before/after if less than 1 minute in/to go) which moves that video to a different folder and prevents it being overwritten. It also does that automatically if it senses a crash. If you have a large enough SD card you won't have to transfer it anywhere for quite a while depending on how much you want to save. I go a few months of saving the odd thing before moving them over to my laptop