Owl Car Cam

[harkco]

Just thought I would share this, as I know a lot of you guys use dash cams. I just ordered one to try. LTE service is included for one year and installation looks dead simple using the vehicle's OBD port.

Anyhow, I'll report back once I receive it if anyone is interested.

https://owlcam.com/

 

[Ryan1975]

I tweeted to the company this morning why they were promoting leaving pets in cars. At this moment it's illegal to leave pets in cars in 16 states.

 

[MossJenks]

Why does it hook in to the OBD-II port?

 

[DannyLlama]

Looks cool but $350!!!! and IOS only?!

 

[scanny]

I tweeted to the company this morning why they were promoting leaving pets in cars. At this moment it's illegal to leave pets in cars in 16 states.

I guess it's legal in rest of the states then, I don't see why not to leave pets in car if it's not too hot or cold outside.

It would be interesting to know how this camera uses battery if it says it's up all the time. And how much video is stored locally in case in cell network is not available.

 

[Heavy_GD]

Why does it hook in to the OBD-II port?

Ease of installation/avoiding a cig lighter plug.

Not uncommon overseas.

 

[18thirty6]

Following... Curious to see how well it performs. Living in the Houston area, you need these things :mad2:

 

[TexasChick]

Looks cool, let us know how you like it.

 

[e60ral]

i don't like that you can't install it discretely, or somewhere out of the sun

(and i would much rather drop the resolution a little if it meant 60 FPS)

 

[RedSled]

It would be nice if it had 1080p, and a little better night vision.

 

[Jetboy]

$350 is the problem. My dash cam was about $50 and does everything except live stream the video. There's value to that for sure, but not that much for me because I live in a pretty safe area and my car is in my garage at night - with it's own security camera system and I work in a secured facility.

What would be a much better product IMO would simply be an app for the old iphone/andoid phone we all have sitting around unused that does the same thing. It already has everything you need for all of the functionality of this plus some. Samsung has a really good one to use for a baby monitor kinda thing, but not setup for dash cam operation. A cell phone also has things like temperature sensors, two way audio, humidity sensors, etc. that this doesn't have. And it could also offer map/navigation functionality while you're driving. It's just a better mouse trap if the right software were available.

The OBD2 port is handy for the fact that you can control other stuff - like turn the lights on remotely.

 

[Engineer]

Another Monthly Fee - Neat concept but I think far overkill, I see little reason to have a LTE connected camera in my car. I get the concept, thieves cant steal your video, you can check on things remotely but certainly wont pay a monthly subscription for a dash cam.

 

[Titanpat57]

Sygic has "record" for program for Android

https://eshop.sygic.com/en/

 

[Jetboy]

The missing thing on all the android apps is that they're designed for using your current phone. So they lack all the utility of an automatic dash cam. The primary utility for me is that it's always there, automatically records whenever the car is turned on, has motion sensor recording for when I'm not driving and stays put when I leave. It's all automatic.

The ones that use your current phone require you do do a bunch of steps to make them work. My experience is that they well almost never be turned on when you need them.

And I'd really like to leave it on when I leave my kids in the car so I can watch them if I'm in a restaurant or at a movie. Having a thermometer and two way audio would be AWESOME!

relax - I don't even have kids

 

[e60ral]

Thanks to this thread every facebook ad is now owl cam

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[harkco]

You're welcome :roll:

Thanks to this thread every facebook ad is now owl cam

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[Friggin Idiot]

You can buy a really nice and better capable dashcam for less than $350. I don't really need/want a camera recording the inside the vehicle. I don't want to worry about whether it is recording in back country areas and trails where the nearest cell signal is measured in tens of miles. And I don't want my OBDII port taken up with some dashcam that doesn't need that information. Also once the first year is up you can bet they're coming after you for the monthly fee, or a slightly discounted annual renewal, for their data servers.
I only spent $300 (Panorama X2), front and rear at full 1080p 30fps, dual processors, separate memory cards and good night recording. It's hardwired into the always hot circuit and has a voltage sensor that will stop recording when the battery drops below a set voltage (never happened). And that camera is years old now.
Newer models have wifi to direct connect to your phone or home network to download footage, and resolutions are always getting better. When I was looking 1080p front and rear at 30fps both was a very limited set, most were 1080p 30fps front and 720p 24fps rear. Now 4k dashcams are starting to take a chunk of the market, so 1440p doesn't sound like much of anything to be impressed with.