My beatsonic kit came in a couple days ago. Looks good physically, all nice connectors & harnesses and pre-wired camera button largely duplicating what I already did manually when I first installed the existing "Anytime Backup" kit and front camera relay switch.
https://www.4runner6g.com/forum/threads/anyone-tried-this-anytime-front-bumper-camera-on-sr5.6140/
https://www.4runner6g.com/forum/thr...me-front-bumper-camera-on-sr5.6140/post-81027
That worked for everything except the front camera. I got the anytime camera button working including the button backlight on the dash lights dimmer circuit and the video signal switch relay connected to the reverse signal from the radio, so the camera button tells the radio to go into camera mode, and the relay switches depending on the shift lever.
But I couldn't find any pins on the radio that accept a composite analog video signal. The backup camera is a digital LVDS signal that connects through the square green connector, not a composite analog video signal on one of the pins in one of the 28 or 30-pin connectors. So the relay swites, but doesn't do anything. The backup camera doesn't go to the relay so the relay can't disconnect it, and there is no place to run the front camera signal into the radio.
I assumed that the only way to get a front camera would be to get an actual Toyota front camera from one of the higher trim levels, and you would need male & female of the green lvds connector which you cannot buy yet, and you would need a way to switch 4 to 6 wires of high speed digital signals & power, not a simple relay. Even a 4-pole relay probably wouldn't be good enough.
So I am pretty curious how this new beatsonic kit can possibly work. It physically doesn't have any connectors for the green lvds connector. It just has 30-pin and rca plugs the same as the old kits for 5th gen and earlier, and most any other car. So I can only assume that the way it works is they found not only a pin on the new radio that still accepts the old composite video even though the factory cameras are all lvds now on totally different special connectors, and they must also have found a pin that tells the radio to switch itself from the digital input to the analog input.
IDK if I'll get to install it today but pretty soon. It's just that it's snowing where I am today and it'll get both stuffy and cold working inside the truck without it running. I have a garage but there's another car in it and I have to shovel before I move cars around to avoid making a bunch of ice.
But on the plus side I already did half the job before. I already have a camera mounted in the grill and partially routed the wire with the disconnect between the grill and the truck (which I already made use of that disconnect while installing a NYTOP bumper, so that worked out well), but not through the firewall yet. And the inside work (except getting the camera wire through the firewall) is all easy to do sitting right in either front seat.
https://www.4runner6g.com/forum/threads/anyone-tried-this-anytime-front-bumper-camera-on-sr5.6140/
https://www.4runner6g.com/forum/thr...me-front-bumper-camera-on-sr5.6140/post-81027
That worked for everything except the front camera. I got the anytime camera button working including the button backlight on the dash lights dimmer circuit and the video signal switch relay connected to the reverse signal from the radio, so the camera button tells the radio to go into camera mode, and the relay switches depending on the shift lever.
But I couldn't find any pins on the radio that accept a composite analog video signal. The backup camera is a digital LVDS signal that connects through the square green connector, not a composite analog video signal on one of the pins in one of the 28 or 30-pin connectors. So the relay swites, but doesn't do anything. The backup camera doesn't go to the relay so the relay can't disconnect it, and there is no place to run the front camera signal into the radio.
I assumed that the only way to get a front camera would be to get an actual Toyota front camera from one of the higher trim levels, and you would need male & female of the green lvds connector which you cannot buy yet, and you would need a way to switch 4 to 6 wires of high speed digital signals & power, not a simple relay. Even a 4-pole relay probably wouldn't be good enough.
So I am pretty curious how this new beatsonic kit can possibly work. It physically doesn't have any connectors for the green lvds connector. It just has 30-pin and rca plugs the same as the old kits for 5th gen and earlier, and most any other car. So I can only assume that the way it works is they found not only a pin on the new radio that still accepts the old composite video even though the factory cameras are all lvds now on totally different special connectors, and they must also have found a pin that tells the radio to switch itself from the digital input to the analog input.
IDK if I'll get to install it today but pretty soon. It's just that it's snowing where I am today and it'll get both stuffy and cold working inside the truck without it running. I have a garage but there's another car in it and I have to shovel before I move cars around to avoid making a bunch of ice.
But on the plus side I already did half the job before. I already have a camera mounted in the grill and partially routed the wire with the disconnect between the grill and the truck (which I already made use of that disconnect while installing a NYTOP bumper, so that worked out well), but not through the firewall yet. And the inside work (except getting the camera wire through the firewall) is all easy to do sitting right in either front seat.
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