Great Project! Thank you and some features I have been working on

[jasongho85]

Thanks @RobXYZ for building ViofoSync—it's been incredibly useful! I've been running my own fork recently to tackle a few specific issues I was having, and I wanted to share it with you in case any of the features would be useful upstream.

The main things I've added are:

• Thermal-aware download prioritization: I noticed the camera overheats on long parking downloads, so I added a "breadcrumb" strategy that prioritizes entry/exit clips and skips the middle of long parking blocks. (I think this touches on the "Advanced sync policies" mentioned in your roadmap).
• Two-phase manual deletion: Hardened the archive deletion workflow with a background task and tombstoning to prevent UI race conditions.
• E2E Testing: Added a Playwright smoke-test harness to make future refactoring safer.

I've documented in
walkthrough.md

Take a look at the fork when you have some time. I'd be happy to open modular PRs for any of these pieces if you think they'd be a good fit for the main project!

[RobXYZ]

Hi, thanks for the great ideas. I really appreciate the feedback!

I’ve been thinking about the thermal issues myself as well. The new GPS triage feature in v2.5 can reduce download times because it allows you to exclude geofenced locations from being downloaded.

The advanced sync policies are something I’m still thinking through. It will probably involve drag-and-drop, reorderable categories, so parking can be set as a low priority or not downloaded at all.

Another idea I have for reducing thermal load and SD card wear is to stop recording while connected to ViofoSync at home. The risk is that the car could drive away with recording still stopped. However, I think that if ViofoSync first checks that the camera has entered parking mode, it should be safe to stop recording, as the camera will automatically resume recording when it exits parking mode. I haven’t had time to test this idea yet.

The deletion process does need some work, and your ideas sound very good. I can’t see your fork at the moment - perhaps it’s private?

[jasongho85]

Hi Rob — I kept the repo private, but I invited you as a collaborator.

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