Neat gadget - Wifi reverse camera

[Dion]

http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/how-to/products/top-car-tech-of-sema-2013-pm-editors-choice-awards-8

Stick it on the back of your camper, direct your smartphone at it and voila, instant reverse camera when backing up the trailer.  Neat.

[Mallory Black]

Don't think much of the camera but the website's pretty good.

PS if you have 2 apple devices, ipod or ipone, doesn't matter .. there's a free app that lets you turn one into the camera and the other into the reciever.
same thing.... multi uses.
the name escapes me but it had a picture of a hummingbird on it.
tip is whicher i-thing has the better camera, make that the camera

[Barry G]

Don't think much of the camera but the website's pretty good.

PS if you have 2 apple devices, ipod or ipone, doesn't matter .. there's a free app that lets you turn one into the camera and the other into the reciever.
same thing.... multi uses.
the name escapes me but it had a picture of a hummingbird on it.
tip is whicher i-thing has the better camera, make that the camera

Now THAT sounds great.  However, presumably it needs to be within coverage area of the carrier, so may be a bit difficult when travelling in remote areas.

[lino6]

I can see other uses for this. Like when SWMBO hears something in the night I could check the yard without getting out of bed! Or she could check the horses without turning every light on, slamming every door, and yelling at the dogs! 

[Marcus73]

So who'll be the first to get one and let us all know how it goes?


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[Mallory Black]

it'as not a problem the apple devices use their own wifi bluetooth whatever it is. the connection is between the 2 devices, nothing to do with the phone network.
I'll find out what it is

[Pirate_Pete]

it'as not a problem the apple devices use their own wifi bluetooth whatever it is. the connection is between the 2 devices, nothing to do with the phone network.
I'll find out what it is

Remote Live.

[Mallory Black]

yeah that's it, thanks PP

[Mallory Black]

PS we've used remote live to be able to manouver the loaded car to the hitch.
Mrs B or one of the kids just points an iphone (camera) at the back of the car and I can see the action from my iphone (screen) in the drivers seat.
as I wrote before, it does not need a phone network to work, it's a direct wifi connection between the two devices.

[bobkay]

PS we've used remote live to be able to manouver the loaded car to the hitch.
Mrs B or one of the kids just points an iphone (camera) at the back of the car and I can see the action from my iphone (screen) in the drivers seat.
as I wrote before, it does not need a phone network to work, it's a direct wifi connection between the two devices.

Hi MB, I'm interested in this. Could you give me a bit of info on this please. Keep it plain english, I'm not even up to the "computers for dummies" stage. For me it's more "electronics for poor simple b#%*^rds" .

How you get the two devices to talk to each other, I thought they have to go through the home wifi.

If I'd known how to do this last night it would have saved some grief as I had to quickly back a loaded trailer into the garage out of the rain while the garage had s#*t everywhere requiring SWMBO to let me know if I was going to hit something. U know how it is, they go into stealth mode and stand  behind something in the darkest part of the garage with both hands in their pockets until you hear a bang, eventually followed by a rather meek "stop now"

[Jon]

Just done the same with Samsung devices, a Galaxy 2s phone and Tab2 10.1
Real time is a bit slow but for free, meh.