Thread: Ambitious Video Security System

Thanks guys,
No, I do not need the manual for the 563T anymore. Extremeproaudio hooked me up! (Thanks)

Well, pics so far were of the mods to the video transmitter board. Those are going to get undone now that I am going to remove the modules. I am still waiting on quite a few pieces to really begin.

BTW, the only way I could arm/disarm by my controller is to hack in one of the remotes. I can check the status of the alarm. But, now with the manual, I can set my alarm on passive arming mode which will arm the car for me 10 minutes after the engine is shut off and the last door is closed.

There are alot of settings that can be done with the valet switch. I may hook that up to my micro-controller to automate it.

Yeah, that was the other thing I was going to mention, the bit-writer only provides very few more options (usually when there are more than 2 selections possible). But it would be neat to write a program that can read and write to those bits via car-pc. I know DEI had software and a link-cable at one time, but I searched a few months ago and couldn't find it. I imagine inside the alarm module itself you could find the pin from the tranciever to the controller and tap into it to not have to use a remote. But I guess six of one, half doz..
If you ever end up popping your 563T open, could you let me know what chip manufacturer they use (for the controller) I've always meant to check, but now I don't have any spares around.

h3rk,

Sure. I don't really plan on it, though. Like I said, if I set it for passive arming, it will arm itself after I get out of the vehicle. All the other signals I am interested in can be tapped into externally. Unless the passive arming doesn't work as well as I expect or ends up being annoying (like setting the alarm while I am sitting in the car) I don't have any more plans to mess with it.

I am getting really anxious to start this, but these damn sellers are taking forever to send my stuff. The main thing I am waiting on is the DVR of course. I emailed them and apparently they don't speak the greatest english. They vaguely told me it has been shipped and I should be receiving it shortly (as in they shipped it when I emailed them a week later, or they shipped it several days before??) I don't dare ask again for clarity!

Received the boost mobile phone today. I activated it with no problem. Mobile web with no problems. Set up my credit card I use only for recurring payments. Loaded it with $35 and registered for Auto-Reboost, which will add $25 to the account automatically if the balance drops below $5.

I set up the phone to never ring, backlight always off, etc.. I am probably going to set my voicemail greeting to say that this phone does not accept incoming calls. That way if my number was recycled, anyone calling it (hopefully) will never call it again.

Should be all set for in car use. I just ordered an extended battery for it. I see a lot of people thinking there isn't one for this phone. There is, it is the same as the i730 and i830, but the battery door ends up grey instead of black. No big deal for my use.

Edit: Nevermind, the battery door will not fit the i455 at all. The bottom clip is different. But, in my case, I won't need the door anyway. I just ordered a 2400mAh battery (stock is 850mAh)

That's it, didn't get anything else today, so no real news (this is sounding like a blog, maybe I should start one of those instead.)

I remembered that I had an account with blogspot already, so I did a quickie set up for a carpc blog. I just have an intro post there right now, but I will try to add to it more this week. It allows me to post pictures within the blog, so this is where you will get to see the pictures for this project.

Here is the addy:
http://sonatapc.blogspot.com/

Any suggestions, let me know.

Scott M.