HOW TO CONNECT eBay BACKUP CAMERA TO NAVI

[LeMansX5]

Does the Dynavin or any of new Nav units take backup cam feed?

The new AVIC units from Pioneer do.

[blkxer]

The Dynavin unit accepts a composite video input for the rear view camera. Same on the Hualingan units as well.

[SlickGT1]

Originally Posted by Bulk

You picked the wrong project then

Yea but I have a friend who re-builds Benz electronics, from wiring harnesses to amplifiers. So as long as I get all the necessary parts, this can and will be achieved. I hope.

[SlickGT1]

Ok so camping for the 4th. Had a min to take out the trunk area. Looks like this is not my X's first time with someone messing with the crap in the trunk.

Can someone tell me if this is the video module that I need to connect my backup camera too? I am about to buy navtool. Only concern I have with that is I want to try and keep everything stock. If this is not the module I need. I guess I really don't have much choice. Thanks in advance.



I am talking about the long unit toward the bottom of the screen. Thanks.

[TerminatorX5]

it looks like a Sirius radio unit is placed into the TV tuner slot, with the portion of the plastic cover cut-out, just as one of the Sirius DIY suggests. The sirius and the TV module can not occupy the same spot at the same time, the TV tuner usually takes the whole cavity, while some folks managed to neatly tuck away the Sirius module where you have the tow module. In this case, you will need to get either a full blown TV tuner, or a special reverse camera module. the module is smaller in size but I am not so sure if the sirius and the smaleer module can co-exist in the same slot. If you get the full tuner, stick it into the properly designated spot, then you will need to figure where to stick the sirius, as the tow module is getting in the way of the new spot for sirius. Maybe the tow module can be relocated, but that is a factory harness that will need to be modified for the tow module... geee... my head is spinning... is the small module available on the market?

[SlickGT1]

Thanks for the reply. Yea I going to get the nav tool. Just waiting for sellers paypal to finalize the deal. I pulled that thing out and confirmed it's the Sirius module. Man did I break a sweat today. The tow harness deal is in the way too and not much room to move it out of the way.

Yes the small module is available but not worth it just for the camera. The navtool is just a much better option right now. I don't want to take sat radio out, and modifying that harness would be a nightmare. That's like 40 wires in that thing. Plus I can get DVD with navtool.

I guess I'll keep this going with my progress. Thanks again.

[TerminatorX5]

Yea, please let us know what you did with the sirius - I have the TV tuner and thinking about the sirius module, but I also will have the tow package installed in the new 4.8iS, so I wonder where you will manage your sat module at... toys, toys, toys...

do you know about the rubmw.ru site, where you can check your factory installed options just by doing the last 7 of the VIN? very cool site... lol...

[SlickGT1]

No I don't know the site. I'm actually Russian. Thanks. Let me know when you are ready for serius. I might get rid of it down the line. I am currently finding myself not using radio at all. But not really sure I want to dump the sat radio. Yea running out of space for the toys. Lol.

[TerminatorX5]

here is another thing - it seemed that the factory also was envisioning a front camera, in addition to the rear view camera - i can't think of a link, but it was on the forums, someone either got it retrofitted or had the original specs.

you can tell, the cameras were expensive then, like the flat screen LCDs, so the factory solution was to run a V-shaped mirror/prism to achive left/right view of the sides of the car. Now they just stick two cameras on either of the fenders and call it done...

What I wonder, if there is a video software that can fuse three video images into one video output to achieve the "new" bird-eye view... In other words, have a camera from left of the car (say, mounted in the left mirror), regular rear camera and the camera from the right mirror send three video feeds to a "box", and then from the "box" we get the fused video feed that is fed into the rear view camera input in the Tv module. What the "box" will do is to take an image from side camera, crop it accordingly, also crop the middle camera and then have all three aligned together - basically same thing that the OEM topview does now.

[SlickGT1]

Originally Posted by TerminatorX5

here is another thing - it seemed that the factory also was envisioning a front camera, in addition to the rear view camera - i can't think of a link, but it was on the forums, someone either got it retrofitted or had the original specs.

you can tell, the cameras were expensive then, like the flat screen LCDs, so the factory solution was to run a V-shaped mirror/prism to achive left/right view of the sides of the car. Now they just stick two cameras on either of the fenders and call it done...

What I wonder, if there is a video software that can fuse three video images into one video output to achieve the "new" bird-eye view... In other words, have a camera from left of the car (say, mounted in the left mirror), regular rear camera and the camera from the right mirror send three video feeds to a "box", and then from the "box" we get the fused video feed that is fed into the rear view camera input in the Tv module. What the "box" will do is to take an image from side camera, crop it accordingly, also crop the middle camera and then have all three aligned together - basically same thing that the OEM topview does now.

That would be insanely sick. Like the new Range Rovers. It doesn't fuse them, but with like 5 cameras around the car, you can see everything. Talk about not having to check shit when off-roading.