Stock backup cam with aftermarket radio?
 

Hey all, may be buying my Z tomorrow. It comes with a rearview cam as they dont have any in my combo without. Anyways if I got something like the Kenwood nav unit, can I tap into the stock rearview cam? Would it display on both the Kenwood and the rearview mirror? Or would I need to add a 2nd (new) camera to make it work?

Thanks

I wondered the same thing as well & I wouldn't see why they couldn't tap into the stock rearview cam.

hmm. so no one has actually done this?

It may be possible, as long as the harness coming from the rear camera is separate from the rest of the harnesses, and 2 there is a standard 2 wire input feed it is providing that you would wire into a rca male connector.

However if you are getting the rear camera that means you have the bose with nav? And if you have the bose with nav you can not change the head unit. Unless they are now offering the reverse camera as a separate screen.

for 2012 they offer a Rear view cam linked to show in the rearview mirror. Its def a base + sport im looking to purchase

Ok, sense it is new if you can get a diagram for that harness of the camera I can let you know if it is possible, and what you would need to do.

4pin plug at the cam...pins 3 and 4 are camera signal and signal ground....1 and 2 are power and ground if you want to lose the mirror....it is possble

There ya go! :tup:

I knwo some of the newer ones are digital so I was not sure if this one was or not. Thanks for the info.

In the end I dont mind having the video show on either

A. Both mirror and HU
B. just the HU

I would just rather tap into the existing factory camera if possible to save me money and the hassle of running the stuff to the trunk, etc. Has anyone on the boards by chance done this?

I do not think anyone has done this yet. I also think you should disconnect it from the mirror and run it directly to your head unit if your going to do it.

Either way your going to have to do some work.

You can no doubt catch the signal wires at the mirror....however you may have to power the camera as well if you disconnect it from th e mirror because often times factory cameras get power from the mirrors they are connected to.

What I can tell you for sure is that there have been people that buy aftermarket cameras and the OEM rear view mirror and they work together. It would be safe to say that it would work oppositely because of this.

I am trying to do this too. I have a stock reverse cam (no mirror monitor). I have an aftermarket radio which will take the composite rca input for camera. This is a 2-wire connection (no brainer). I need to locate the actual harness coming from the camera up to the front of the car. Has this been found? I plan on adding a tft mirror later and my stereo will allow for the camera to be displayed on the screen as well as external mirror monitor.

I would venture to say that for an aftermarket stereo the reverse power signal should work for the positive power on the camera (turns on when in reverse only) OR.... the revers light power would also work. Ground is ground.

The other two wires will be the video signal and video signal from a cmos camera is pretty universal. All I would need to do is splice a RCA connector on it and plug it in. :stirthepot:

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You can most easily tap into the camera at the rear hatch. The wire comes through the rear on the passenger side. If you pull out the spare & other misc junk it's easy to get to.

I don't have color codes handy, but it should be easy enough to trace.

Yeah... i played with it a little then i had to fly to Germany. I will check it out when i get back for sure. I tried one wire as power and everything else as video with no results. I will swap the power wire. From what i have been reading those cmos cameras are pretty tough and can take some abuse so if you hook them ip.completely wrong you dont really risk messing them up. I hope that is true. You do have to trace and figure it all out though. I think i actually uploaded some pics. I tapped it right at the harness closest to the camera. Thanks.

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I have a Pioneer AVIC-Z140BH and the stock backup cam on my nismo works fine.

How did you hook it up? :-)

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Sorry to bump an older thread but..................

I am wondering if this has been done yet.

I have a 2013 with the factory Homelink mirror - backup camera option. If I upgrade the HU (thinking of the Kenwood DDX419) it would be nice to send a video signal to it as well. Nissan has done the majority of the work for me already :tiphat:, I just need to find the video feed and splice into it to send to the HU too.

Nobody has spliced into the OEM mirror video feed and sent it to an aftermarket HU??? :confused:

I am not too much of an audiophile, I just want to replace the stock HU because it does not have a USB port for my Flash Drive with all my music on it. I was thinking the Pioneer or Clarion HUs for around $150 - $170, but may jump up to the Kenwood DDX419 ($275 on Amazon) if I can get the extra added benefit of the rear camera video feed being sent to it also.

If anyone knows where the feed wire is and how exactly I could splice into it I would appreciate it :tiphat:

http://nissan-techinfo.com/asistgc_1.../T/E/1TE34.PDF

Getting a little closer. I have the factory cam with aftermarket radio.... No mirror...trying to figure out how to tap it. Here is the oem install instructions. Maybe this will help you since yours matches exactly.


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Thanks for the update -- I will start reading through it. Still have not bought aftermarket radio yet. Might be a project for my Christmas break.

Hhhhhmmmm.......those are oem install instructions for the roadster. They talk about running the wiring up on the driver's side. Somewhere else on this forum it was stated that the rearview camera wiring is run up the passenger side.

I searced some on that site for oem instructions for the coupe but could not find any -- that seemed strange. Oh well, my search continues.

It runs up the drivers side on both.

I'll post the instructions shortly, once I get back to my pc.

Thanks in advance. Any insight on how I would tie into the camera feed to send it to the headunit would be appreciated. I really like the idea of the display coming up in the headunit AND the rearview mirror. Heck I payed all that money for the mirror, I might as well keep it fully functional.


I was talking to a guy at the local "Window Tint & Stereo Install" place in town about getting my windows tinted. I asked him if he knew how to tie into the rearview camera feed and his only reply was "It is a real pain". Of course he could have been trying to sell me on their install service

Below is a link to the instructions. I tapped into the camera feed behind the drivers side kick panel.

https://www.box.com/s/6l0il9j3gy3qjoc5iblw

Thanks. This looks like it will help.

Do you happen to remember what color is the wire that I need to splice into? Looking at the back of the mirror, there are about 8 different color wires being feed into it. Maybe that is spelled out in the directions somewhere, but I dont see it :icon14:

(I am looking at Figure 23, 24 & 47)

Hey, thought I would give a shout out again. Any help on locating the correct wire to splice into down in the driver's side kick panel for the video feed? :confused:

OK, I am really close to making a new Headunit purchase (looking at the Pioneer AVH-x2500bt now).

I have looked through the instructions on installing the OEM Homelink mirror and see that the wires are feed down to the drivers side panel. What I am still not sure is what color of wire am I going to splice into for the video feed? Also, what is the setup for this wire that I will run to the headunit (bare wire that I splice on one end, RCA jacks on the other?). Would I need to connect the wire on the Headunit to the "Reverse" power wire, or since that is already done for the mirror, would the video just show up when the Headunit senses a video signal?

The plug that connects to the Homelink mirror is a 10 pin setup. "Top" row has Red, Green, Black, Pink, Black. "Bottom" row has Red, White, Green.

Ideally I would like the rearview camera video show up in the mirror & the Headunit.

Any help by the experts would be much appreciated!!! :bowrofl:

Mirror & camera.
 

It can be done, I bought a Nismo without Bose & had the dealer throw in the 790$ mirror, you tap the orange wire @ the fuse panel (details on Nissan tech net) to power the harness that powers the camera, signal is provided through the harness, (I have a 940bt pioneer & made the harness ,tapping the wires out of the harness that came with the mirror) into a RCA & have camera out of hu & mirror. Details, I'll get you the link :)

Excellent!!! Thanks alot. I just pulled the trigger on the Headunit (Pioneer AVH-x2500bt = $255 on Amazon) last night.

FYI -- The Homelink mirror is already installed in my Z. Just need to find the right wires to splice into the Headunit.

From reading the Pioneer manual, looks like I will need to splice into the video feed with a RCA type wire, and splice into the wire from the camera that is already splicing into the Reverse power feed.

Would love to see the details link. I really would like to have my whole plan of attack ready to go before I start tearing apart the dash.

Rep points for you!!!!!!!!!!!

Did we every come up with the video feed wire colors for tapping into an RCA?

I'm looking to do this project as well, keeping both the mirror & HU video feed's.

Another request to see if this is documented anywhere for us folk installing a new radio and want the camera to come through the radio screen rather than the rearview mirror.

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/12/06/ate3eby9.jpg

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/12/06/pu8a2yva.jpg

Yep I knew h2o had it but that still doesn't give us a DIY or a wire to tap into lol.


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It doesn't help that I am too clueless to remember which wire went where.

Someone should punch me.

Naw no punching needed. We shall fig it out soon enough. :-) and I will do the DIY


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I'm interested in a DIY as well for when I install a new HU on mine.

I just did this on my 2013 NISMO. I caught the grey line on the driver side kick panel, and carefully cut through the gray shield.

There are four (4) wires and a shield wire in this packet (Green, White, Red, Black and again shield wire).

You need to splice an RCA wire, and connect the Red wire to the Positive (Video), and the Black wire to the negative (Video). Then, connect the Green wire to reverse wire on the back of your head unit. Be advised, the green wire INSIDE the grey pack of wires is a 6V wire, and the darker green wire OUTSIDE the pack of grey shield is 12V. Either 6V and/or 12V will work just fine with the Stock camera of the 370.

As well, I have a Kenwood DNX891HD head unit. I am running an iData Link Maestro Rr connected to the Can high and Can low, which allows me to run a dash command style program on the head unit. As well, it allows FULL steering wheel use with the Kenwood units. I use to have an Avic z140BT installed in my 350 NISMO, but that unit SUCKS. Any questions, feel free to ask. I can take pics of the head unit connected if needed.

Frosty,

Let me know how it worked out for you? Also, if you need any help or have questions, let me know...