Customer needs a camera to reverse in his car linked to his iphone.

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I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas for this.

Customer needs a camera to be able to see behind him when reversing in a truck. He is never in the same truck so it cannot be permanent, hence why it needs to connect to his iphone.

Something like a Bluetooth connected portable chargeable camera. I told him bluetooth probably wouldnt work because it's not meant to transmit large amounts of data.

I'm thinking getting a wireless access point, and connecting the camera wirelessly to the AP then connecting his phone to the AP is the only way, it just seems really cumbersome.

Ideas?
 
Two iphones + Facetime. One with a simple mount on the back. He calls the mounted one while he's standing next to it, accepts the call, gets in the truck and double-checks his reversing with the phone and the mirrors.
 
Xander said:
Two iphones + Facetime. One with a simple mount on the back. He calls the mounted one while he's standing next to it, accepts the call, gets in the truck and double-checks his reversing with the phone and the mirrors.
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Good idea but face time requires wifi... Could get into Skype I suppose but Skype over 3g is messy and then it would require two I phones with data plans so we're talking a few hundred for the phone and another $90 minimum for data a month...
 
I dont know what exactly he's backing up but I'm guessing it's a Semi truck, so ....

The wireless reversing cameras are all good ideas but power is required to the camera so it would have to be spliced into the tail light power ...

bandont's suggestion looks pretty good though
 
thecomputerguy said:
I dont know what exactly he's backing up but I'm guessing it's a Semi truck, so ....

The wireless reversing cameras are all good ideas but power is required to the camera so it would have to be spliced into the tail light power ...

bandont's suggestion looks pretty good though
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That was actually isavecomputers idea I just agreed that it was a good idea.
 
thecomputerguy said:
Good idea but face time requires wifi... Could get into Skype I suppose but Skype over 3g is messy and then it would require two I phones with data plans so we're talking a few hundred for the phone and another $90 minimum for data a month...
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I was going to mention that facetime over 3g is possible now (i think att charges extra for this), but then I thought about latency, and i think any facetime/skype call may not be good for this situation ;). the linked camera/display does look cool though.
 
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