See what's happening
with your car

An open project exploring DIY dashcam builds for cars with remote access.

Motivation

What we dream about

A dashcam in your car is an everyday thing.
But we believe they should be better.

Convenient remote access

Browse your footage via chat from the comfort of your couch — not just by connecting to the dashcam's WiFi while sitting in the car.

Auto-sync to your home NAS

Automatic video sync without third-party services. Your personal data belongs only to you.

Remote monitoring

Check why your car alarm went off — was it a passing motorcycle or did someone bump into your car?

Open platform

To evolve the product. To learn. To create.

Pi-Videoreg

Raspberry Pi-based implementation

Core dashcam

  • Continuous video recording to SD card
  • OSD overlay: time, GPS coordinates
  • Loop recording with configurable clip length

Parking mode

  • Regular photos for incident monitoring
  • PiSugar 3 UPS keeps it alive when car is off
  • Low power consumption standby

Remote access

  • Telegram bot control
  • Web UI
  • Download videos and photos remotely
  • 4G connectivity via SIM7600 modem
Download .img View on GitHub
Video

See it in action.

Hardware

What you'll need.

Five components. Fits in a 3D-printed enclosure that mounts to your windshield.

01

Raspberry Pi Zero 2W

Main compute board

02

PiSugar 3

UPS — keeps device alive when car is off

03

Camera module (OV5640)

Any RPi Zero 2W–compatible camera

04

4G Modem — SIM7600

With GPS antenna (recommended)

05

3D-printed enclosure

Mounts to windshield

Getting started

Up and running
in four steps.

Flash, boot, connect — that's it.

01

Download the image

Grab the latest .img release from github.com/videoreg/pi-gen/releases

02

Flash to SD card

Use Raspberry Pi Imager to write the .img file to your SD card.

03

Connect to WiFi

Power on the device. Connect to the WiFi network videoreg, password 12345678.

04

Open Web UI

Navigate to http://10.0.0.1:8443 — login admin, password videoreg.

Change the default WiFi password and admin password before connecting to a network.
Open source

Built in the open.

Source code, issues, and contributions welcome on GitHub.

View on GitHub Source code
pi-gen releases Download .img
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