drewf
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Fitted a front and rear camera today into the QP, routing the cables behind the headliner to join them together. The master camera at the front records both front facing and rear facing video and audio into separate files on a microSD card. I've had these in all the cars for a while, but didn't have the rear camera in the Maserati before today. The power feed is taken from the 12V switched feed at the rear of the centre console, allowing the cameras to automatically start when the engine is fired up, and shut down 15s after the ignition is turned off.
Total cost of this setup is a mighty £35, including the 16Gb microSD card. It takes many, many hours of recording to fill the card, and then it will automatically overwrite the oldest files.
These units can also be set to start recording when motion is detected, although I don't use them in that mode for this install.
When driving, I can't see the front camera as it falls neatly behind the sunvisor; the rear camera is a tiny rectangle right at the top centre of the rear screen. Only the bottom half of the unit is visible, as the headlining hides it.
Total cost of this setup is a mighty £35, including the 16Gb microSD card. It takes many, many hours of recording to fill the card, and then it will automatically overwrite the oldest files.
These units can also be set to start recording when motion is detected, although I don't use them in that mode for this install.
When driving, I can't see the front camera as it falls neatly behind the sunvisor; the rear camera is a tiny rectangle right at the top centre of the rear screen. Only the bottom half of the unit is visible, as the headlining hides it.
