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Remote Camera Preview & Export of Recording - sandrin@hunkeler.ws - 01-30-2025
Dear PhyPhox Team
I'm really enjoying the app! As a software engineer, I’ve been experimenting a lot with it, what a fantastic tool!
I'm using PhyPhox for outdoor physical experiments, where I attach my phone to large moving parts for long-term tests. However, a major challenge is linking the recorded sensor data to real-world actions in the environment. To address this, I’m currently combining the video preview with the sensor data to correlate actions with measurements. Unfortunately, this approach has two key limitations: I can't preview the camera feed live on the remote user-interface, and I can't export the recorded videos together with the sensor data. I thought this feature would be of great value for other users as well
Since the app's implementation is quite complex, my current code doesn’t integrate well. I want to keep PhyPhox clean and avoid introducing a lot of foreign logic to be able to merge with future version, so I’d like to ask if you're working on something in this direction? If so, I’d prefer to pause my development and wait for your experienced team to establish a solid foundation before proceeding with the integration of my code.
I love that you open sourced this!
Best
Dev from Zurich
RE: Remote Camera Preview & Export of Recording - Jens Noriʇzsɔɥ - 01-30-2025
The camera produces a massive amount of data and I doubt that our simple included web server could handle that. The current approach to store data is already sort of at its limit, so I cannot see such a feature anytime soon. Sebastian has some ideas how to improve storing data, however, nothing for the near future.
For the time being, I would perhaps go for screen recording or sharing and postprocess the video in python. There are good tools to read out analog or digital data displays.
What are you planning to integrate – and where: Android, iOS, both? We are heavily working on the next release, in particular on the finalisation of the camera part for iOS in order to catch up with the beta on Android. I’ll check with Sebastian what he thinks. Perhaps an occasion for a virtual coffee…