kkqd0298
Member Since: 23 Nov 2006
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Firstly appologies for the intrusion into the Disco forum, but seeing as the Disco also has surround cameras I thought It would be relevant here as well.
Is there any way to record the feed from the 5 surround video cameras? 11 FFRR: Autobiography Black
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 16th Jan 2011 9:41 pm |
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tjp74
Member Since: 10 Feb 2010
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If you can capture the signal coming from the nav unit to the LCD display. You would certainly have to take the main nav unit apart. I think there are products out there that can capture whatever is displayed on your touch screen and output as RCA signal. TJ
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| 17th Jan 2011 8:04 am |
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Russell
Member Since: 24 Aug 2007
Location: Kent
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This would be a good option if any one has a way of doing it. MY17 D5 1st Edition Namib Orange
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| 17th Jan 2011 6:57 pm |
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wiggs
Member Since: 03 Sep 2006
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there is a camera module under the passenger seat . The small brown connector ( fakra /smb ) goes from there to the screen ...you could interupt the signal and split it off to some sort of digital recorder . You would have to have the cameras you want to record set up on the nav screen first though G4 Gone ...but not forgotten
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| 17th Jan 2011 7:08 pm |
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Russell
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wiggs are you sure that that is the right connector, I thought that was on the D3 and the D4 use a new connector, cannot remeber the name off had,but have been trying to get plug/cable for a while with no joy. Do you have access to these plugs/cable? MY17 D5 1st Edition Namib Orange
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| 17th Jan 2011 9:30 pm |
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wiggs
Member Since: 03 Sep 2006
Location: Manchester
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i have a camera module here ...there are 5 coloured connectors for the 5 cameras , a green plug for power and canbus and the brown fakra ( as mentioned earlier ) is the out put to the screen .
The screen does not have a fakra connector any more ( well not for the camera ) it has a 6 pin plug
Rosenberger is the name of the camera connectors
http://www.rmcoax.com/index.html
what plug are you after ? G4 Gone ...but not forgotten
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| 17th Jan 2011 9:39 pm |
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Russell
Member Since: 24 Aug 2007
Location: Kent
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I was after doing the same thing, trying to split the cable to the screen with a view to putting it into a recorder of some sort, any ideas? MY17 D5 1st Edition Namib Orange
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| 17th Jan 2011 9:40 pm |
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wiggs
Member Since: 03 Sep 2006
Location: Manchester
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make up a small lead ...male fakra / smb on one end to go into the camera module ...female on the other to take the original plug to the screen .
Cut the cable in half , and join in an extra pair of wires with a female RCA connector on it .
That way you dont need to cut any of the cars plugs . G4 Gone ...but not forgotten
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| 17th Jan 2011 9:47 pm |
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mwestcrew
Member Since: 24 May 2005
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Won't that be sending some sort of digital multiplex signal to the screen? All the camera outputs are available on the screen at the same time, so even if there was some control protocol to the box under the seat I don't think it outputs composite video.
Don't really know that much about the system yet, but the above seems logical.......to an old duffer like me anyway!! 2011 D4 Landmark, Mini Cooper SD Clubman, Range Rover Vogue SE
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| 18th Jan 2011 10:40 pm |
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wiggs
Member Since: 03 Sep 2006
Location: Manchester
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The connector out is not a digital one ....and the wiring diagram shows is not digital either .
If you want to test the therory , get one of these leads from the shop http://www.disco3.co.uk/shop/index.php?act...oductId=34
Bring up whatever cameras you want on the screen , unplug the brown single connector from the camera module , and plug in the lead ...other end to a screen of some discription . G4 Gone ...but not forgotten
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| 19th Jan 2011 1:20 am |
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buellbeast
Member Since: 30 Jul 2008
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It seems i have everything i need to test this except something to capture the video feed, is it possible to output to an iphone with the right cable? Club Forum Criminal !!!
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| 19th Jan 2011 8:05 am |
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wiggs
Member Since: 03 Sep 2006
Location: Manchester
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Don't think so
I have a small monitor  .. Are you about today to prove this theory ? G4 Gone ...but not forgotten
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| 19th Jan 2011 9:11 am |
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kkqd0298
Member Since: 23 Nov 2006
Location: Aberdeen/London
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Please let me know how you get on so that I can test on the ffrr.
Surely if you splice out the feed straight from the cameras then they will still be live regardless of whether the nave screen has them showing. 11 FFRR: Autobiography Black
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| 19th Jan 2011 1:38 pm |
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wiggs
Member Since: 03 Sep 2006
Location: Manchester
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the cameras are digital ..why would you want to splice them ? ..you would have to cut into all 5 . G4 Gone ...but not forgotten
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| 19th Jan 2011 4:47 pm |
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Russell
Member Since: 24 Aug 2007
Location: Kent
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Wiggs will that lead fit the camera module as the plug looks diffrent, cannot check as my car i still in dealers having third turbo fitted after the replacment was faulty on fitting  MY17 D5 1st Edition Namib Orange
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