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Ty, I am not sure if I am following your chain of thought - if your car is equipped with the PDC, the PDC can be activated either by pushing the button on the console manually, or by putting the gear in reverse, automatically. When the gear is in reverse, the reverse lights are activating, more to let other people know that you are backing up then to shine light onto your backup path. The reverse llights only activate when the gear is in reverse (also, for the "follow-me-home" mode), so if the camera is wired to the reverse lights, it will only activate when the gear is in reverse. Same goes for the PDC, it is activated when the gear is in reverse... So, logically, the camera is active when the gear is in reverse, either via the reverse lights or the PDC...
this is my logical view on camera actication - but I would like to hear other views, maybe my view is not the best...
Instead of drilling the car and risking rust in the future, I will rather cut and redo the camera wires to feed the wires through existing opening and will figure out the placement into the license lilght opening... In my previous install, I cut a small hole in the plastic next to the license plate light and camera was there with no problems for several years - I will take a pic and post it later. The llicense light camera looks much cleaner and more stock then the one I had on my 4.6is.
I haven't tested the wireless camera, so I have no say on that, but worse case scenario, I'll just run the video feed to the battery compartment - done that before, no biggy deal.
there was a point, when I was thinking about rigging the car with multiple cameras, one for inside view, several for outside views, and run those cameras through a "DVR"-like setup via a carPC - after seeing a few videos on youtube about the cops being less than nice to motoring public. I even got an 8-channel USB converter but never got anywhere with project. CarPC is still on the back burner, even though I got the PC, the CIS-IBUS unit - but then life got in the way, and I had to trade the 528i for the new 4.8is... lol...
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