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Have you ever wanted to get more out of your Android convergence device? How about using it as a hassle free video recorder for your car trips? HTG explains how you can accomplish this with just “off the shelf” components.

您是否曾经想从Android融合设备中获得更多收益？ 将它用作汽车旅行的无忧录像机怎么样？ HTG解释了如何通过“现成的”组件来完成此任务。

Image by Ernest, dinglisch, rubberbigpepper, Svet Ivantchev & Aviad (a.k.a. Hotfortech).

图片由Ernest ， dinglisch ， rubberbigpepper ， Svet Ivantchev和Aviad(又名Hotfortech)提供。

我为什么要这样做？ (Why would I do this?)

Many people have asked me, why do you record your trips? Why is that interesting? And what do you do with all of this data?

很多人问我，你为什么要记录旅行？ 为什么这么有趣？ 您如何处理所有这些数据？

My answer is that it started because there was a famous local story(Israel), where a cop pulled over a driver and gave him a ticket for “not stopping at a stop sign” when he did…

我的回答是开始，因为有一个当地的著名故事(以色列) ，一个警察拉了个司机，给了他一张“不停在停车标志上”的罚单……

But the real upshot of doing this, is that the audio in the car is captured. That means that everything that’s being said in the vehicle is recorded. All those precious family moments are captured for posterity.

但是，这样做的真正目的是捕获汽车中的音频。 这意味着车辆中所说的一切都会被记录下来。 所有这些珍贵的家庭时光都被捕获以供后代使用。

But leaving all of the above aside, there is always the possibility that you would capture something like:

但是，将以上所有内容放在一边，总有可能您会捕获到类似以下内容的内容：

Or even (9gag):

甚至( 9gag )：

As for what I do with all of that data? I keep it, because I personally would like to have more memories stored than less. I am willing to invest the required resources in doing so (future article), but that is a personal choice.

至于我如何处理所有这些数据？ 我保留它，因为我个人希望存储的内存多于少。 我愿意为此投入必要的资源(未来文章)，但这是个人选择。

为什么不使用智能手机而不是专用设备？ (Why would or wouldn’t I use my Smartphone instead of a dedicated device?)

It’s not that we at HTG are dismissing the merits of a dedicated device, but If you’re like us (a geek at your core), you want your convergence device. You don’t want multiple devices and have your data dispersed between them, forcing you to manually synchronize them. Needless to say, this manual procedure gets real old real fast, and if you use your Smartphone, you can take advantage of many applications specifically written to alleviate this issue.

并不是说我们在HTG消除了专用设备的优点，但是如果您像我们一样(核心怪胎)，则希望使用融合设备。 您不希望有多个设备，并且您的数据分散在它们之间，从而迫使您手动对其进行同步。 不用说，此手动过程很快就会变老，而且，如果您使用智能手机，则可以利用专门编写的许多应用程序来缓解此问题。

With the above said, if you’re going to be using everything your device has to offer, such as shooting 1080p video, GPS, BT and with the screen on (mostly), for a prolonged period of time, you may encounter some hurdles:

有了以上所述，如果您要长时间使用设备提供的所有功能，例如拍摄1080p视频，GPS，BT并在屏幕上(大多数情况下)打开屏幕，则可能会遇到一些障碍：

• Battery consumption – If you don’t have a device like the S4 that can actually charge while doing all of the above, you might find that even connecting your device to a power source isn’t enough and you’ll finish the road trip with less power than you started, even though you were plugged into a charger. Personally, I’ve been doing this since I got my S2, and as long as you connect the phone to a decent power plug that can drive the 1000mAh of power the device can draw for charging, you shouldn’t have an issue. At one time, I’ve even used a first generation Galaxy tab with a 4100mAh battery for 40 minutes a day without connecting it to power at all, and had a sufficient amount of juice to finish the day.

  电池消耗–如果您没有像S4这样的设备可以在执行上述所有操作时实际充电，则可能会发现，即使将设备连接到电源也不够用，并且您将通过以下方式完成旅途：即使您已插入充电器，耗电量也比开始时少。 就我个人而言，自从我获得S2以来，我就一直在这样做。只要将手机连接到可以驱动设备可充电的1000mAh电源的体面电源插头，就不会有问题。 一次，我什至没有使用第一代带有4100mAh电池的Galaxy Tab一天40分钟，而根本没有接通电源，并且有足够的汁液来完成一天的工作。

• Heat – Using/pushing your device to this work regimen may be a tad more than the manufacturer planned for, and considering that the device will be mounted above the dashboard (so it has a line of sight to the road), where it is usually more exposed to the sun… May A) Make it very hot when you arrive at your destination, and some people wouldn’t like that feeling in their pocket and B) May shorten its life span. Personally, I think that is what the 2 year warranty you get with the Galaxy devices is for… but as always, that is a personal choice.

  热量–将设备使用/推入该工作方案可能要比制造商计划的要多一点，并考虑到该设备将安装在仪表板上方(因此它在道路上的视线范围内)，通常在更多地暴露在阳光下……可能A)到达目的地时会变得很热，有些人不喜欢口袋里的那种感觉，并且B)可能会缩短其寿命。 就个人而言，我认为这是您使用Galaxy设备享受2年保修的目的……但一如既往，这是个人选择。

• Device slowdown – Because you now have this background workload, you may find that if you want to use something in addition to the above, like a navigation program (for example Waze), the device reacts more slowly than it would without it. In addition, depending on your device’s grade and resources, this may lead to the Android system deciding that your RAM is too low and close apps “for you”. If your device is really low in CPU power and RAM, these may become deal breakers. Again, personally, I’ve been using this since my S2, and I’ve found that the slowdown is bearable.

  设备变慢–由于您现在有这个后台工作量，因此您可能会发现，如果要使用上述功能之外的其他功能(例如导航程序(例如Waze ))，设备的React将比没有设备时React更慢。 此外，根据您设备的等级和资源，这可能导致Android系统决定您的RAM太低，并“为您”关闭应用程序。 如果您的设备的CPU和RAM确实很低，则可能会破坏交易。 同样，就我个人而言，自S2起我就一直在使用它，并且发现速度下降是可以忍受的。

As everything in life, it is a trade-off. It is only you who can decide for yourself if its worth it or not.

作为生活中的一切，这是一种折衷。 只有您自己决定是否值得。

我需要什么？ (What do I need?)

You will only need a couple of things that are easily obtainable.

您只需要几个容易获得的东西。

A video recording program

录像节目

While there are countless programs on the market to do this, since I did the round up to find one way back in my S2 days, I haven’t come across anything better then VideoReg. Yes, it is a paid app, but its features IMHO are unmatched by any other free app. Beyond the common features: recording the video at full HD resolution, shooting a picture by a proximity sensor trigger, setting the amount of temporary data allocation, overlaying GPS information, etc., this app (unlike other apps) records the GPS information as a standard subtitle file that you can play with any subtitle supporting application. It can also overlay the video you’re shooting to the “desktop” so you don’t have to be in the app to see what it is recording. Last but by no means least is that it can also receive Tasker triggers to perform specific actions like start/stop recording, which makes it the ideal candidate for what we are trying to accomplish.

尽管市场上有无数的程序可以执行此操作，但是由于我在S2时代进行了全面的发现以寻找一种方法，所以我没有比VideoReg更好的了。 是的，它是一个付费应用程序，但是IMHO的功能是其他任何免费应用程序都无法比拟的。 除了通用功能：以全高清分辨率录制视频，通过接近传感器触发器拍摄图片，设置临时数据分配量，叠加GPS信息等，此应用程序(与其他应用程序不同)将GPS信息记录为您可以与任何支持字幕的应用程序一起播放的标准字幕文件。 它还可以将您正在拍摄的视频叠加到“桌面”上，因此您不必在应用程序中就可以查看正在录制的内容。 最后但并非最不重要的一点是，它还可以接收Tasker触发器以执行诸如开始/停止记录之类的特定操作，这使其成为我们要完成的目标的理想人选。

I also have it on good authority that the applications’ creator is working on enabling the “dual-camera” feature of the S4 so that not only audio is saved. So go and support its development by getting VideoReg from Google Play.

我也有一个很好的权威，那就是应用程序的创建者正在努力启用S4的“双摄像头”功能，以便不仅保存音频。 因此，可以通过从Google Play获取VideoReg来支持其开发。

An event handler program

事件处理程序

What we are trying to do is to save you from having to tell the Android device that you are in your car. We want to automate this procedure, so all you have to do is mount the device in the car mount and the rest will happen automatically. We will use Tasker to automate this action, but you may use any other automation program of your choosing.

我们正在尝试做的是使您不必告诉Android设备您在车里。 我们要使该过程自动化，因此您所要做的就是将设备安装在汽车支架上，其余的将自动发生。 我们将使用Tasker来自动执行此操作，但是您可以使用选择的任何其他自动化程序。

You can, and should, get Tasker directly from the applications’ developer site.

您可以并且应该直接从应用程序的开发人员站点获得Tasker 。

A USB cigarette lighter power plug

USB点烟器电源插头

Even if your car comes with a USB connector for it’s sound system, you don’t necessarily want to use it mainly do supply power. These sort of systems are usually unable to push the amount of power that the Android device needs. I’ve found that some systems push as low as only 200mAh. Needless to say, that if you want to take advantage of the 2000mAh ability of the new devices like the S4 or even just the 800mAh like the S2, that would not do.

即使您的汽车的音响系统带有USB连接器，您也不一定要主要使用它来供电。 这类系统通常无法提高Android设备所需的电量。 我发现有些系统的电量低至仅200mAh。 不用说，如果您想利用像S4这样的新设备的2000mAh容量，甚至像S2这样的只是800mAh的容量，那都不会。

There are numerous options for where to get this sort of an adapter (the below is just an example). If you can get one that has the “2.1A + 1A” (2100mAh + 1000mAh), like the one in the picture, that would be preferable. We would suggest you don’t get anything that doesn’t have a 1 year warranty, as this single tiny thing can destroy your expensive device.

对于从何处获得这种适配器有很多选择(以下仅是示例)。 如果您可以得到如图所示的具有“ 2.1A + 1A”(2100mAh + 1000mAh)的电池，那将是更好的选择。 我们建议您不要获得没有1年保修的产品，因为这件微小的事情会破坏您昂贵的设备。

A Bluetooth capable car system (optional).

具有蓝牙功能的汽车系统(可选)。

In this guide, we will show how to use a Bluetooth connection as the “state” indicator for Tasker (even though it is by no means the only way to do this), for two reasons:

在本指南中，我们将展示如何将蓝牙连接用作Tasker的“状态”指示器(尽管绝不是唯一的方式)，这有两个原因：

• First, using a BT connection makes it so you can get phone calls as well as any other audio function from your car’s sound system (like play music from your device), which is exactly the way you would want your convergence device to work.首先，使用BT连接可以使您从汽车的音响系统中获得电话以及任何其他音频功能(例如从设备播放音乐)，这正是您希望融合设备正常工作的方式。
• Second, the current crop of Android devices aren’t always compatible with car stereo systems that have USB connectivity, as the phones don’t always show up as a regular “mass storage device”, making it so the sound systems are unable to use them.其次，当前的Android设备并不总是与具有USB连接功能的汽车立体声系统兼容，因为电话并不总是显示为常规的“大容量存储设备”，从而使声音系统无法使用他们。

If you don’t have a BT capable car stereo system, and you don’t want to shell out the $$$ to get one installed, don’t fret, HTG has got you covered. You can get a BT->to->Radio converter and have your phone hook up to it using BT and have it broadcast the BT content to your car stereo as a regular Radio station. I have personally used the JABRA CRUISER, and while I did eventually replace it with a “real” car stereo system after 2 years of use, it did a decent enough job.

如果您没有支持BT的汽车立体声系统，又不想掏空$$来安装一个，请不要担心，HTG可以满足您的需求。 您可以获取BT-> to-> Radio转换器，并使用BT将电话连接到该转换器，并使其作为常规广播电台将BT内容广播到您的汽车立体声系统中。 我个人使用过JABRA CRUISER ，尽管最终使用了2年后最终还是用“真实的”汽车立体声音响系统代替了它，但它的表现还是不错的。

Car mount

车载支架

While there is a seemingly endless variety of car mounts available, we suggest you consider the following points:

虽然看似种类繁多的车载支架可用，但我们建议您考虑以下几点：

• Don’t get one that is suited for your device exclusively. These mounts, are A) usually unusable if you get/have any sort of protection on your device (like a case or skin), and B) are unusable for the next device you do get.不要得到专门适合您的设备的设备。 这些安装座是：A)如果您在设备上获得/具有任何类型的保护(例如保护套或皮肤)，通常将不可用；并且B)对于您获得的下一个设备将不可用。

• Do invest more then the bare minimum. While it seems like you can just order one “off of the net” and be done with it, we have found that the “net ordered” crop of holders seem to be “designed for the dump”, and don’t last too long. This leaves you with the inconvenience of having to replace them. That is why we suggest you invest the time and effort to get one that can give you at least a 1 year warranty.

  做更多的投资而不是最低的投资。 虽然看起来您可以订购一个“网外”产品并完成它，但我们发现，“网购”的持有人作物似乎是“专为倾倒而设计的”，并且使用寿命不会太长。 这给您带来了不便更换的麻烦。 因此，我们建议您花费时间和精力来获得至少一年的保修。

A Lens (Optional)

镜头(可选)

This may be totally overkill for almost everyone, but just in case you’re into it and you haven’t heard about it, there are lenses for camera phones that can widen the “angle of view”. You would want one of these because it would make more of the road visible in the video, which may be crucial if something is happening outside of the dead ahead center. A set/kit of these goes for $5.50 on eBay.

对于几乎每个人来说，这可能完全是矫kill过正，但万一您沉迷其中而又从未听说过，那可用于照相手机的镜头可以扩大“视角”。 您可能要选择其中之一，因为这样会使视频中的道路更加清晰可见，如果在死角中心之外发生了某些事情，这可能至关重要。 这些套件/套件在eBay上售价为$ 5.50。

Personally, I use a 180 degree lens (fisheye) for the road, because I like the 160 degree one for regular shooting:

就个人而言，我在道路上使用180度镜头(鱼眼镜头)，因为我喜欢在常规拍摄中使用160度镜头：

Tasker配置文件和任务 (The Tasker profiles and tasks)

To make this all happen, you need some Tasker magic. You can either import our simple project or advanced project, or follow the instructions below to create everything from scratch.

为了实现这一切，您需要一些Tasker魔术。 您可以导入我们的简单项目或高级项目，也可以按照以下说明从头开始创建所有内容。

The simple project includes all of the below explained profiles and tasks. The advance one adds A) a profile that sets the “Media” and “BT” volumes to the maximum; B) a delay after a phone call has happened before the video recording is resumed; C) the ability to create a toggle widget; and D) severs the connection between the BT toggler and the VideoReg profile, so that you can have a “car mode” profile, because maybe you want the BT connected and have the phone do other “car mode” stuff that is not VideoReg related.

这个简单的项目包括以下所有已解释的概要文件和任务。 进阶选项增加了A)一个配置文件，该配置文件将“媒体”和“ BT”音量设置为最大； B)电话通话后的延迟才恢复视频录制； C)创建切换小部件的能力； 和D)切断BT切换器和VideoReg配置文件之间的连接，以便您可以拥有“车载模式”配置文件，因为也许您想连接BT并让电话执行与VideoReg不相关的其他“车载模式”工作。

Manual way

手动方式

We need to create a profile that would be the “start/stop recording” on car mode and another that (unless you’re the type of person that simply leaves the BT device running) would trigger the BT device.

我们需要创建一个配置文件，该配置文件将是汽车模式下的“开始/停止记录”，另一个配置文件(除非您是只让BT设备保持运行状态的人)会触发BT设备。

The V4C profile

V4C配置文件

To get you started, we will walk you through adding the “BT state” to the profile; you can add more triggers to it on your own.

为使您入门，我们将引导您将“ BT状态”添加到配置文件中。 您可以自己添加更多触发器。

Add a “State”.

添加一个“状态”。

Select the “Net” category.

选择“网络”类别。

Select the “Bluetooth Connected” sub category.

选择“ Bluetooth Connected”子类别。

When asked for the name of the BT connection, make sure that BT is enabled on your device and click on the search icon. Then select the relevant BT connection name for the car’s BT system.

当询问您BT连接的名称时，请确保您的设备上已启用BT，然后单击搜索图标。 然后为汽车的BT系统选择相关的BT连接名称。

Optionally, also select the MAC of the device, so that if another BT device with the same name, goes near you, the profile won’t be triggered.

(可选)还选择设备的MAC，这样，如果另一个同名的BT设备靠近您，则不会触发配置文件。

The end result should look like this:

最终结果应如下所示：

Here, we have changed the default name to be “v4c” (which stands for VideoReg For Car) so it would be shorter in the status bar. We have also added that the profile can only be triggered if there is more than 6% of battery power, so in extreme cases, the phone would not try to kill it self by triggering its most hungry of power hogs.

在这里，我们将默认名称更改为“ v4c”(代表VideoReg For Car)，因此状态栏中的名称会更短。 我们还补充说，只有在电池电量超过6％的情况下才能触发配置文件，因此在极端情况下，手机不会尝试通过触发其最饿的耗电量来杀死自己。

In addition (though this is optional), we have also made it so if a call is in progress, the profile will be disabled. This is because sometimes the way the camera is restarted while there is a phone call in progress is less than ideal and is disruptive to both ends of the call.

另外(尽管这是可选的)，但我们也做到了，因此，如果正在进行通话，则将禁用该配置文件。 这是因为有时在通话过程中重新启动相机的方式不太理想，并且会打断通话的两端。

When asked to create/select the entering task, create one and select the “Misc” category.

当要求创建/选择输入任务时，创建一个并选择“其他”类别。

Select the “Send Intent” action.

选择“发送意图”操作。

In the “Action” text field, put in “rubberbigpepper.VideoReg.StartRecord” (without quotation).

在“操作”文本字段中，输入“ rubberbigpepper.VideoReg.StartRecord”(不带引号)。

Then create an “Exit” task that does the same, only has “rubberbigpepper.VideoReg.StopRecord” in the “Action” field.

然后创建一个执行相同操作的“退出”任务，在“操作”字段中仅包含“ rubberbigpepper.VideoReg.StopRecord”。

The BT trigger profile (semi-optional)

BT触发配置文件(半可选)

This may be unnecessary if you never turn your BT off, but as most of the people we know do, here is how to create a BT toggler that would:

如果您从不关闭BT，这可能是不必要的，但是正如我们所认识的大多数人一样，这是创建BT切换器的方法，该切换器将：

• Turn the BT device on if the android system is connected to a power source.如果android系统已连接到电源，请打开BT设备。
• Wait for 15 seconds to give the pairing time to take place.等待15秒钟，以便进行配对。
• If there was a pairing, leave the BT device on, and if not, turn it off.如果存在配对，请保持BT设备处于打开状态，否则，请将其关闭。

Add a “State”.

添加一个“状态”。

Select the “Power” category.

选择“电源”类别。

Select the “Power” option.

选择“电源”选项。

Select the “Any” type.

选择“任何”类型。

The “Save on 3” Profile (optional)

“保存到3”配置文件(可选)

This profile was created because in VideoReg you can only choose one action for the proximity sensor. But what if you wanted to both save a photo and a video?

创建此配置文件的原因是，在VideoReg中，您只能为接近传感器选择一个动作。 但是，如果您想同时保存照片和视频怎么办？

To answer this question, I’ve set VideoReg to take a photo on proximity trigger, and have Tasker issue a “save video” if the proximity trigger is on for 3 seconds.

为了回答这个问题，我将VideoReg设置为在接近触发器上拍照，如果接近触发器打开3秒钟，则让Tasker发出“保存视频”。

To create this profile, add a state and then select the “Sensor” category.

要创建此配置文件，请添加状态，然后选择“传感器”类别。

Select the “Proximity Sensor”.

选择“接近传感器”。

Leave the settings as they are, and continue to create the “Task”.

保持设置不变，然后继续创建“任务”。

The “Task” should start with a 3 second “wait” and then send an “intent” of “rubberbigpepper.VideoReg.RescueVideo”.

“任务”应以3秒钟的“等待”开始，然后发送“意图”“ rubberbigpepper.VideoReg.RescueVideo”。

Then scroll down to the end of the “Intent” action and add the “IF” condition that this is only to be triggered if the “profile” of “Save at 3” is still active.

然后向下滚动到“ Intent”操作的末尾，并添加“ IF”条件，该条件仅在“ Save at 3”的“ profile”仍处于活动状态时才被触发。

The end result should look like:

最终结果应如下所示：

That’s it, you should be all set to connect your device to the car’s power, have it trigger the BT to look for pairing, and once it’s paired to start the road recording.

就是这样，您应该已经准备就绪，可以将设备连接到汽车的电源，让它触发BT查找配对，并在配对后开始道路记录。

In case you’ve missed them, here are the HTG simple profile and HTG advance profile.

如果您错过了它们，这里是HTG简单个人资料和HTG高级个人资料。

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Its a very rare person, someone who’s mistaken for what he truly is…

这是一个非常罕见的人，有人误会了他的真实身份……

翻译自: https://www.howtogeek.com/164192/how-to-use-your-android-device-as-a-road-recorder-with-tasker-automation/

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