Rip my left ear

 

That can hardly be described as a "professional" reverse camera installation - in fact, the video is titled as a "do it yourself".

No self respecting "professional" installer will utilize those "scotch lock" splices, especially in an area where they are exposed to moisture - they damage the insulation on the existing wiring and within a few weeks/months/years (depending on the climate), corrosion sets in and the splice becomes problematic - solder & heatshrink is the only acceptable method.

Also if I handed my car to an installer to install any accessory and got it back with the accessory plugged in via a cigarette lighter/power outlet, I would be extremely unhappy.

The main reason I watched the video was to see what camera they would use and where/how they would mount it - the GV is not an easy car to do a reverse camera install on - that camera is mounted too low and that forces it to be set too close to horizontal for the driver to get a decent view - he/she will find it difficult to judge distance to anything behind the vehicle - mounting it using the screws at the top of the license plate would have been better, but still far from optimal.

Take a look at a few OE reverse camera installations, you'll find the cameras are set relatively high up (above bumper level) and angled downwards, it's really the only way to get proper perspective.

 

I did mean a professional video, much more than the character of the actual install and product. The video is from 2008 and the technology more advanced now. And I watched it for the same reasons, how do they do it. As to my own, I have just put in an Esky plate camera and have a transmitter installed in the left rear tailight - so the wire from the transmitter to the plate camera is nothing. I'll post how that goes, once the head unit (Alpine ILX-107) is installed. In the meantime, however, I'm dealing with the water in the carpet issue (condensate) same as on the other thread.

It would be great to use a wireless IOS program, but I think that would probably interfere with the Wireless CarPlay under the ILX-107.

 

I kept watching, anticipating the music would soon start.

I must have read more into the start of it.

I guess I should add a review.

Two I purchased from Amazon.

The one on the left doubles as a digital pc monitor (notice the connector).

The camera has good reviews & is only $19 bucks.

I was going to mount it in the wives Trans Am, but I was afraid it would just confuse the old girl.
Will probably go to one of the trackers & the GV.

I agree with fordem, never ever! use those connectors, it is an open circuit waiting to happen.

Don

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Why would you go to all that hassle when you can buy a license plate wireless camera that feeds directly to your phone for under $50?

No wires or screen required. You just pull the backup cam up on your phone.

 

The only reason your microwave oven doesn't take out your WiFi is that the microwave oven is shielded to meet FCC requirements on electromagnetic radiation, and WiFi systems are by default configured to "co-exist" with adjacent networks.

In a typical residential apartment complex the adjacent WiFi networks can and do affect one another with the impact ranging from simple reduced throughput (if the router is left at default settings) to complete "obliteration" of all adjacent networks (if the user "selfishly" configures his/her router for maximum throughput with no regard for his/her neighbors.)

Personally I would not consider using a phone as a reverse camera display because of the inconvenience - my phone lives in my pocket, I would have to get it out, pair it, start the app - compare that to - doing nothing except glancing down (or up) at a permanently installed video screen - by the time you can see what's happening on your phone, I've already back into or out of the space and gone.

 

Carplay wireless

The way I understand the Alpine ilx-107 wireless Carplay implementation, it uses Bluetooth only as a handshake and then switches over to a wireless network taking over the Iphone. From what I understand of the available backup camera Iphone apps, they also want to use the wireless network. I'm not convinced that the two can live together at the same time; my Iphone currently only connects to one wireless network at a time. The Alpine does have a separate input for the backup camera and so if I want to run a wire fine; but the Esky add-on transmitter has a wireless radio that is not a network implementation and its receiver plugs into the back of the Alpine. So I anticipate they'll work together.