I've installed it and it works.
The Beatsonic kit works. A plain old NTSC camera displays right on the factory screen. There are a few annoyances though. They didn't hook up the backlight wires even though they could have, the pins are available in one of the connectors they tap into, and the camera turns itself back off...
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The kit has pretty cool functionality. It can optionally time out and return to the rear view after 5-20 seconds, or stay switched until you manually switch again. It can optionally turn the front cam on by itself any time the vehicle is in a forward gear moving less than 15 mph, or only when you press the button. All settings are programmed using just the ignition and camera button so you can change the settings any time without taking anything back apart.
There is one annoyance that they didn't wire up the button illumination wires when they could have. The pins for the dash lights dimmer circuit are available right in the 28-pin "A" harness.
It's annoying but possible to add the wires to the existing harness without any cutting.
Take a pair of new wires about 2 1/2 feet and fish them in the main 2-foot wire loom (from the control box to the 28 & 30-pin connectors).
Take the "A" harness, the female 28-pin connector, and look at the back of the connector, oriented with the 4 heavy pins on top. From that position the bottom row of pins left to right are 28,27,26,25,24,... Pin 25 goes to the yellow wire on the button pigtail. Pin 24 goes to the black wire on the button pigtail.
I just cut away the wire wrap on the "A" bundle and added the new wires by melting a spot of the insulation on the 2 wires about 2 inches back from the female connector and soldered on the new wires laying in line with the exiting wire. Then extracted the female pin from the connector to slip heatshrink over the splice and reinstall the pin. To release a pin you just poke a thin steel wire into the smaller rectangular hole next to the pin in the front face of the connector. When re-installing, the barb points at that hole where the steel wire goes (aka in the direction of the 4 big pins). Then the "A" bundle can be wrapped back up in ordinary electrical tape. The other end of the main loom you can terminate the new wires with whatever kind of connector you have like spade or bullet terminals.
Then add the same new wires to the button harness, just solder & heatshrink new wires directly to the yellow & black wires on the button pigtail (no point in having removable connetcors on that end) and terminate the other end with the mate for the ones on the main harness.
Now the camera button backlight is on the same dimmer with everything else on the dash.
There is a hole in the firewall with a rubber plug just above and to the side of the brake assist, perfect for running the video cable. I turned the plug into a split grommet by just drilling a 3/16 hole down the center and cutting a slit down one side. So it goes right back into the hole and seals it back up.
As for the camera. Any camera works. BeatSonic suggests a $180 camera but a $7 camera works. The camera they offer has an unusual clamp mount that would let you mount it on any grill and be able to aim the view wherever you need, and *maybe* the camera has a better image quality than others, IDK. But I wanted the camera to go into the exiting hole already in the grill, so I got a "flush mount" camera for like $15. The extisting hole in the grill is a little smaller than the 18.5mm needed, but a step drill widenes it perfectly cleanly.
I did the heritage grill swap, and in that grill the camera position is right at the top and doesn't angle down enough to be useful for seeing how close things are getting to the front bumper, IF the camera is flat with the face of the hole.
So I found a couple models that fit in the same hole but allow tilting the camera within a little dome.
I don't have this installed yet but I found these:
Amazon.com: PolarLander Car Rear View Camera 360 Degrees Adjustable CCD High Definition Night Vision Auto Waterproof reversing Backup Camera for Parking Monitor DVD : Electronics
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Those are a super junk cameras, no 1080 or even 720, but I want that clean built-in look on the outside, and I don't need much image quality just to see how close the bumper is to some other object. I'm still trying out different cameras to find the best one. Some claim to have 720p or even 1080p "AHD", but it's unknown of our head unit supports the video signal until someone tries it. Also some of them that say "170 dgree" seem to actually be less. Maybe my initial camera just isn't actually showing 170 degrees in the vertical, and maybe some other camera does? So I've actually ordered a few different ones that might work but at the moment not received or tested yet.
I wanted it for parking. I have that nice NYTOP bumper purely because in the first month I stuffed my front bumper into a trailer tongue, and you can't buy that valence part. (you can order the part number, you will just never get it)
And I don't like the shape of the Wolfbox replacement rear view mirror. I just want to use the factory screen.
