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Video was very helpful so far. Only thing I find confusing is the hook up of the backup camera. Did like the video, hooked up the wires to the plate light but , not sure about those 2 tiny wires and how to hook them up. Also, how to hook up the green e-brake wire. Any thoughts?
I think that the side piece of the consol just snaps into a piece on the Metra. I'll let you know how mine fits when I'm done.
Dave
i bet the 2 tiny wires are the mirroring effect and the parking lines, particularly if they are looped (green and white if I remember correctly). If your head unit already has the same capabilities, you just snip the small wire loop(s), otherwise you will have 2 sets of parking lines on the screen when you back up.
Also, I hope it was just a typo when you said you hooked the camera up to your “plate light”, because it should get power from your REVERSE lights.
the ebrake wire should tap into a wire coming from your ebrake towards the dash (brown if I remember correctly). Sorry, not in the position to be exact right now, just answering your questions with my phone and don’t have access to check my PC or car, for that matter. I’m sure someone will chime in and correct me if I’m wrong
Last edited by FX VETTE; Mar 14, 2019 at 03:04 PM.
i bet the 2 tiny wires are the mirroring effect and the parking lines, particularly if they are looped (green and white if I remember correctly). If your head unit already has the same capabilities, you just snip the small wire loop(s), otherwise you will have 2 sets of parking lines on the screen when you back up.
Also, I hope it was just a typo when you said you hooked the camera up to your “plate light”, because it should get power from your REVERSE lights.
the ebrake wire should tap into a wire coming from your ebrake towards the dash (brown if I remember correctly). Sorry, not in the position to be exact right now, just answering your questions with my phone and don’t have access to check my PC or car, for that matter. I’m sure someone will chime in and correct me if I’m wrong
Exactly. Make sure you are spliced into the reverse light wire harness. As far as your parking brake wire, simply ground it to any ground wire, such as your cigarette lighter harness. I grounded mine to the dash support where the radio bezels screws to the support.
Got a feeling I did it wrong. I followed the video and wired from the backup lights also got 12volts from the plate light. Both wired to those thin wires. Did I do it wrong?
Got a feeling I did it wrong. I followed the video and wired from the backup lights also got 12volts from the plate light. Both wired to those thin wires. Did I do it wrong?
Dave
You should have been able to tap your red wires into the hot wire for your reverse lights and the black wire into your ground wire for the reverse lights. Also, the 2 tiny wires I was referring to are the ones near the white arrow (below).
Arrow points to the 2 small looped green and white wires for mirroring effect and parking lines.
Last edited by FX VETTE; Mar 14, 2019 at 04:48 PM.
You should have been able to tap your red wires into the hot wire for your reverse lights and the black wire into your ground wire for the reverse lights. Also, the 2 tiny wires I was referring to are the ones near the white arrow (below).
Arrow points to the 2 small looped green and white wires for mirroring effect and parking lines.
My backup camera doesn't have that many wires. Just one wire up to that junction block. Then another set of wires with the yellow and black fittings. I am now thinking, I should have connected a wire from the cars backup lights to the tiny wire. I also hooked the other wire from the plate light (12 volts) to the other tiny wire. I'm really confused now.
Ps.. Without the backup camera hooked up yet, the radio works great. Very pleased so far. Want to figure out this back up camera so I can put the car back together. Any thoughts ?
Ok, figured out that the tiny wires don't hook up to anything. Ran the wire up to the radio, plugged in where thy are supposed to go. Still can't figure how to get it powered. There's no place to hook up the wire comming from the reverse light and no place for the other wire comming from the plate light. Any ideas?
Dave
Pioneer AVH-210EX receiver ECHO MASTER Pro PCAM110 camera
Everything works fine but for the back up camera. Figured out that the tiny white and green wires are not to be used like I had done. Followed the video but, don't know where to go from here. Hooked up a wire from the plate light and a wire from the back up light but, see no place to wire them into the radio. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Dave
Last edited by shaggyvette; Mar 15, 2019 at 04:42 PM.
Reverse lite wire (in the harness), does that get hooked up to the wire comming from the backup lights? Was I supposed to run that wire all the way back to the radio? (I didn't) Also, where does the wire from the plate light go?
So looking at the harness pictures it seems your power wires (red/black) need to go to the backup light wires. Red would go to green and black to white. This should activate the camera when your backup lights go on. Assuming your backup lights work.
Now on my backup camera I also had another red wire attached to my yellow RCA that attached to the backup light green wire (with my other red wire) and the other end attached to my radio's "reverse" wire.
Hope this helps.
Last edited by dhorner77; Mar 16, 2019 at 02:11 AM.
Reverse lite wire (in the harness), does that get hooked up to the wire comming from the backup lights? Was I supposed to run that wire all the way back to the radio? (I didn't) Also, where does the wire from the plate light go?
Thanks Dave
Afaik you shouldn't be doing anything with the plate wires. I didn't. The reverse wire needs to go to the positive (green wire) for the backup lights.
Ok, figured out that the tiny wires don't hook up to anything. Ran the wire up to the radio, plugged in where thy are supposed to go. Still can't figure how to get it powered. There's no place to hook up the wire comming from the reverse light and no place for the other wire comming from the plate light. Any ideas?
Dave
Originally Posted by shaggyvette
Reverse lite wire (in the harness), does that get hooked up to the wire comming from the backup lights? Was I supposed to run that wire all the way back to the radio? (I didn't) Also, where does the wire from the plate light go?
Thanks
Dave
It seems you've been struggling with this longer than you probably wanted
According to your camera's published documentation, it comes:
attached to a 68" cable terminated in a 4-pin cylindrical connector
a separate 18' cable terminated with a mating 4-pin connector in one end and 2 female jacks (1 RCA and 1 power) in the other end
another separate cable 22" long with the corresponding male connectors (1 RCA and 1 power) in one end, and 1 male RCA plus a red and a black bare wires in the other end
You should run the 18' cable from the back of your car to the area behind the headunit and connect the camera to the rear end of that cable and the 22" cable to the other.
You also need to run the +12v from the reverse lamps and the +12v from the license plate lamps to the area behind the headunit.
Once you have all that in place do the following:
connect the male RCA plug to the "rear view camera input" in the back of your headunit
splice the +12v from the reverse lamps to both, the bare red wire from the camera and the "violet/white" (reverse gear input signal) from the headunit's connector
splice the bare black wire from the camera to the black from the headunit's connector. These 2 wires together need to be connected to ground
splice the +12v from the license plate lamps to the "orange/white" from the headunit's connector. This provides the dimming function once the Parking Lights are engaged
Don't connect the little white and green cables to anything. Their functions, in case you need to make adjustments, are as follows:
...My only identified issue is the stereo doesn’t dim when I turn on the lights, but after more research is seems like maybe the C5 harness doesn’t have a wire related to dimming, however the hvac harness uses a yellow wire for lighting. I will try tapping into that in lieu of the orange wire in the stereo harness and see if that works.
You can connect it to the Parking Lights circuit. This way, when these lights are engaged the headunit will dim accordingly.
You can connect it to the Parking Lights circuit. This way, when these lights are engaged the headunit will dim accordingly.
I ended up tapping into the yellow wire on pin 15 of the HVAC harness, which is the trigger for the HVAC lights. Works great! Android auto will even switch the google maps colors to nighttime settings when the lights are turned on.
Leaves me wondering what the orange wire in the axxess adapter is actually intended for!
Last edited by CinciZ06; Mar 16, 2019 at 02:29 PM.
It seems you've been struggling with this longer than you probably wanted
According to your camera's published documentation, it comes:
attached to a 68" cable terminated in a 4-pin cylindrical connector
a separate 18' cable terminated with a mating 4-pin connector in one end and 2 female jacks (1 RCA and 1 power) in the other end
another separate cable 22" long with the corresponding male connectors (1 RCA and 1 power) in one end, and 1 male RCA plus a red and a black bare wires in the other end
You should run the 18' cable from the back of your car to the area behind the headunit and connect the camera to the rear end of that cable and the 22" cable to the other.
You also need to run the +12v from the reverse lamps and the +12v from the license plate lamps to the area behind the headunit.
Once you have all that in place do the following:
connect the male RCA plug to the "rear view camera input" in the back of your headunit
splice the +12v from the reverse lamps to both, the bare red wire from the camera and the "violet/white" (reverse gear input signal) from the headunit's connector
splice the bare black wire from the camera to the black from the headunit's connector. These 2 wires together need to be connected to ground
splice the +12v from the license plate lamps to the "orange/white" from the headunit's connector. This provides the dimming function once the Parking Lights are engaged
Don't connect the little white and green cables to anything. Their functions, in case you need to make adjustments, are as follows:
White: Mirror Image
On - Cut (Default)
Off - Joined
Green: Parking Lines
On - Cut (Default)
Off - Joined
Hope this helps
Still no backup camera. Do I have to hook up the plate lite to the orange & white to make it work? I just have the backup lite 12volt+ running up to the head unit. Is that ok? What a PITA this is getting to be. Radio works, dvd works, put the car in reverse and nothing. Any more thoughts, other than burning it to the ground. Lol
Dave
Last edited by shaggyvette; Mar 16, 2019 at 04:45 PM.
Just re read and see that both 12v lines (plate lite and backup) need to go up to head unit. Do they both connect to orange /white wire?
There should be a wire in your stereo harness that will trigger your head unit to switch to the camera display when your in reverse. In my sony harness it was purple. Connect your reverse light wire you ran up to that wire in your harness as well as the other wire in your camera wiring you ran up to the head unit, as this wire supplies power to the camera when you shift into reverse.
The wire coming from your plate light connects to your orange / white wire and tells your head unit that your lights are on and it's time to dim the display.
Hope that helps and makes sense to ya.
Last edited by CinciZ06; Mar 16, 2019 at 07:49 PM.
Just re read and see that both 12v lines (plate lite and backup) need to go up to head unit...
Yes
Originally Posted by shaggyvette
...Do they both connect to orange/white wire?
No
Read again my original Post Relax, you're just frustrated
See below:
splice the +12v from the reverse lamps to both, the bare red wire from the camera and the "violet/white" (reverse gear input signal) from the headunit's connector
splice the +12v from the license plate lamps to the "orange/white" from the headunit's connector. This provides the dimming function once the Parking Lights are engaged
Relax, you're just frustrated 
Let us know how it goes