I recently bought this "car camera" as a cheesy way to get a decent sized display at a cheaper price. Most searches for displays for IoT/making end up in touch enabled puny screens, which are 3-10x the price of this entire unit. I don't care for touch, so I was happy to just "salvage" the display from this combo & the camera just becomes a bonus. However, giving it a try, I found out that it's a rather nice unit that works beautifully with minimal configuration as a closed circuit camera system, and it's pretty cheap for that purpose. I'm actually considering getting a few of them, and set up a full monitoring system. I'm just day dreaming about it in peace & quiet, meanwhile dad saw it & passed a comment: "Oh, is it a CCTV? does it record?" *Thanks dad, thanks a lot!* I thought... but "yeah, you can just use a DVR (and 'repurpose' the monitor muhaha)" is what I s...
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