Black Box Pi

[...] it back while. While my focus is solely on data collection, I want to be able to export the GPS data into a standard file format to use in mapping programs. The GPX file format is a simple XML spec [...]

[...] using backup power after the main power (from the car) shuts down when the car is parked. The GPS data was run through a PHP script to generate the GPX XML file and uploaded to http://www. [...]

[...] So far, my results have been mixed when outputting GPX files from my GPS data. But the GPX export feature on this site is working to spec. Next up will be to use some of the [...]

[...] to generate the GPX files. You can use it here with your own GPS log. There were over 30,000 GPS data points recorded over the trip. The default is 10 times a second to pull GPS data from the [...]

[...] switch, power is suddenly lost to the Pi and the Pi UPS senses that. It switches seamlessly to battery backup with the Pi noticing. It then sends a [...] Pi power supply attached to the Pi UPS [...]

[...] cam and GPS logger Everything listed below is available from Amazon.com except the last item (Pi UPS) which is produced by a German company. There’s a US distributor that carries it. Raspberry Pi ( [...]

[...] One of the most useful features of the Black Box Pi is hooking different sensors to it, like a dash cam. I left this feature out initially as I [...]

[...] let me know. The post Visualizing vehicle data with Python & MatPlotLib appeared first on Black Box Pi. [...]

[...] The Black Box Pi car black box computer will now automatically sync GPS data any time it has an internet [...]

[...] it would’ve been if I had a dashcam to record the incident. That’s when I remembered that the Black Box Pi is just as applicable to a motorcycle as it is to a car. In fact, since I’m big on trip [...]

[...] as part of the server side of the project. Conceptually, the data is in MySQL on the server. A Python script is fed data from an HTML web form on this site in WordPress. The Python script takes the [...]

[...] Pi out of your car, plugging it in at home, connecting to it via SSH, and finally running a Python script to sync the data. That sync script is now running in the background. Any time there’s an [...]

[...] . Each time it’s logging 10 different PIDs. This all builds up in the local buffer and the sync script then clears it out and uploads it to the API. With this estimate, the client generates 100 data [...]

[...] , connecting to it via SSH, and finally running a Python script to sync the data. That sync script is now running in the background. Any time there’s an active internet connection then [...]

[...] Wrapping up existing open source OBD2 capture data so it runs as a daemon on the Pi Logging data to a local storage buffer, which then gets synced to the aforementioned cloud storage [...]

[...] the more day-to-day utility of doing it for a car. Keep in mind one of the big advantage to logging GPS data through a motorcycle black box like this instead of through your smartphone is that your [...]

[...] The Black Box Pi car black box computer will now automatically sync GPS data any time it has an internet connection. This is a big step in usability and ease of use. The [...]