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I just started doing this with my car, mostly to add a camera/temp monitoring for when I leave my dog in the kennel in the car (she's well watched over, please don't fret over it).

I'm hooking it up via starlink specifically so it works in remote areas with no cell coverage too.

Monitoring and proxying everything via an RPI as well. Victron DC-DC inverter to keep the bluetti battery pack charged with bluetooth relay boards so we can turn loads (camera/starlink/others) on/off programmatically (it only turns the starlink on when there's no good/known wifi for example).

Fun project, combines software dev (which I'm fairly good at) with hardware work (which I'm less) and my dogs (which I'm a big fan of).



It’s interesting to see how many people in this thread have the same idea. I’m doing something similar and learning that hardware is just plain hard




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