Download video files from BlackVue camera

Forked from PhilRW/blackvue-download

Firstly, install the pip requirements for the script:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Then, run the python script and pass it two arguments: the destination directory and the IP/hostname of the camera. It will run continuously and will wait 5 minutes between trying to reach the host.

python ./blackvue-download.py /home/me/BlackVue 192.168.0.123 

The script will place the files in subfolders based on year, month, and day (YYYY/MM/DD).

The following flags are available:

• --wait_time sets the time between rescanning the dashcam file library, defaults to 5mins
• --log_level sets the logging level of the output, defaults to INFO
• --skip_night will skip the night time files, between 8pm and 6am
  • --early_hr will set the early hour value, defaults to 6 (24hr time)
  • --late_hr will set the late hour value, defaults to 20 (24hr time)

A docker image is available via GitHub to run the script as a container. All flags can be delcared as environment variables.

docker run -v /home/me/BlackVue:/data -e HOST=192.168.12.34 ghcr.io/wilddorito420/blackvue-download:1.0

If you don't map the data volume, it will be anonymous.