I got a rear view camera that I have no idea on how to install it on my 2001 Prius. How do I go about installing the rear view camera?
Hi guys, Someone come to my rescue....I have browsed around for an answer but got none. I believe I'll get some useful info here. First off...the camera has four wires: -red -yellow -white -black Which wires are for power and video signal? Chaps
Im no electric guru, so take it at will. From my knowledge, Red= Positive Black= negative/ground White/Yellow= I have no clue. On TV equipment, Yellow would be for video and white would be for sound..
Well said NinnJinn. The yellow will go to the camera, maybe the white will be Ignition wire (after key)
I have a camera and monitor on my Envoy to help back up to my hitch. Going from memory, the yellow is channel one video, white is channel two video. The red is 12 Volt DC power. Black was the neutral. These are all RCA connections except black wire. This is what I had on the monitor and the camera had a yellow RCA for video and power wires to hook into reverse lights. Where did you get the camera and why no directions? Do you have a monitor and camera? Only a camera and expect to hook into the display on the Prius? I don't think video can be put to the center console.
Thanks everyone for the replies. To answer your question young,I got the camera from another Toyota car which isn't a Prius.I don't have an aftermarket monitor.I am hoping to hookup the camera to the MFD on my Prius. Would you suggest I get a monitor?Kindly attach a pic of how you have mounted the monitor into your Envoy. Could anyone be having a a wiring pin-out for the four connectors attached to the back of the Gen 1 MFD?
I recommend the wiring diagram, whether you buy a paper copy or download it from tis.toyota.com. I have a cryptic note I cribbed from the manuals quite some time back, to the effect that the signal wires for external video to the MFD are for red, green, blue, sync, vr, and vg. That's all I wrote, which as I look at it now wasn't even enough for me to remember what it meant. vr might be a video signal return and vg a separate ground, but I can't be trusted on that. And I never even had a device in hand I was trying to make work. You do, so I doubt you will want to go much further without the wiring diagram. I don't think the documentation covered the other things you'd often need to know for driving a video display (pixel clock, horizontal and vertical sync ranges, etc.) so that might take some digging or experimentation. I think the first challenge would be that once you have a video source connected to the MFD, you'd also need to send the MFD the right AVC-LAN command to switch sources. From my limited digging AVC-LAN isn't well documented anywhere. If you have the nav unit and some way to snoop on the AVC-LAN, you might be able to work out the handshake when you switch to nav with the center-panel button. It's the sort of thing that would give me a great feeling of accomplishment to figure out, but a lot of the things that would be necessary to do it I haven't got (sufficient time being one ). You mentioned the rear camera gadget you've got came from another Toyota. Does it have connectors for AVC-LAN as well as video? Maybe you would be lucky enough it just works.... -Chap
