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Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2023
Great addition to security/awareness while in reserve
Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2023
I installed it in a Sprinter cargo van. The van is long and has fully enclosed back doors so there was a desire to add some more visibilty around the vehicle specifically while backing up.
Found fair previous reviews about this system so gave it a chance and so far so good!
I had my own head unit with a screen so I only needed the system/sensors/cameras. The front and rear cameras are fairly straight forward to be installed on the grill/license plate (though be aware, the rear camera bracket has been designed to be installed on a flat horizontal surface, so if you dont really have it-as my back door is almost fully vertical/straight, need to be creative, I have used an additional L bracket). Also the rear camera cable was short for my van so I needed to contact Customer Service for an extension cable. While they were fast to response, they charged me for the cable which in my opinion, considering the real cost of the cable should be simply covered by the actual unit price (same cable length issue with my Wolfbox digital rearview mirror and they sent the cable free of charge).
The side cameras require drilling a hole with the provided hole saw. Not a big deal, just properly locate the place and the cameras need to be pushed in. It is not in the manual but read in a review, the white dot on the camera must be facing to the outside!!
Once I have located the battery/switched power wires (along the reverse sense) and the GND connection, it was up and running in no time.
Before calibration, was just making sure everything is correct so made the required SW settings and I realized there was a reverse image problem (between the individual vs 360 view) along the reverse guide could not be switched off on the screen. Started a concersation with the Chinese customer service and they were super fast to response (some cases were able to exchange multiple emails with them withing a day (while still regular US hours).
Got a SW update file, was able to install it, reverse guide went away but an unexpected “stand by” mode kicked in after a couple of sec run time. I continued interacting with customer service and shortly I got a second SW update file. After installing this one, all my previous problems has been solved! I went ahead, followed the calibration instructions and the system is finally up and running. Time will tell if the product is reliable long term, but let’s have faith!
Pros:
-absolutely fast customer service
-pretty easy installation, actually it is based on you/your vehicle how easily you can route/fish wires throug
-most importantly absolutely providing the promised 360 view!!!!
Cons (some is a combination of my vehicle specification and product together):
-for my extended lenght Sprinter the rear cable was not long enough, had to spend an extra ~12$ to buy an extension cable
-I believe my van’s lenght (rather front location of the side cameras) is pretty much the upper limit for the HW, around the very back I can see how the 360 image is not as clear
-some HW installation (white dot facing to the outside) and SW setting explanation is not in the manual, you either figure out or talk to Customer Service
All in all, so far I am satisfied, cameras have good enough picture quality individually, 360view is working and really does show the perimeter around the vehicle. Great addition for my van!
Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2019
Glad I Bought and Installed it- but could have been better.
Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2019
I am pretty happy with this product. I installed it on 2014 2 Door Wrangler. I took away 1 star for the limited directions and hokey mounting of the side cameras. It is much cheaper than other options, looking like it’s the same quality. My biggest complaint was the installation of the side mirror cameras. There are very little instructions provided. A hole saw is provided that creates a hole that barely fits the camera body. Unless I’m mistaken you’re supposed to make the hole then install one of the grommets (I chose the angles ones which was probably the right choice for my application to angle the cameras outward a bit), then push the camera body in with the grommet holding it in place. the only problem is the hole is too small for the grommet to fit in along with the camera body, also the groove in the grommet is way to small for the thickness of the Jeep mirror outer housings. I ended up just opening up the holes with a Dremel drum sanding bit and it worked ok. I would be much happier with a better mounting on the two side cameras. The instructions for a competing product for the Jeep were very helpful in my case running the cables from the mirrors in. The front and rear cameras worked out well. I converted my license plate to mount in the middle of the spare tire and mounted the camera on the plate.
For me the auto calibration worked very well. Things don’t line up perfectly past the 4 corners that they are pretty nice.
I really would like a better list of all the possible operating modes. The cameras cover a huge field of view and you choose a portion of that view to have imaged on your monitor. For the rear I’d like to actually see a bit more of the large field of view.
I’m super happy with the finished product. It is very cool to have the birds eye view. I really want to get an overhead picture of my Jeep and send it in to replace the white SUV.
9-15-19 – I upped it to 5 stars after all of the help Lucy provided with the overhead view. That was a bit of work also. I tried adding the proper size images to a USB drive and connecting to the system. This did NOT work properly and it reset all of my menus to Chinese. OH NO! What am I supposed to do now? An email to Lucy got me the way back but on a huge semi related subject … before I got the email back I wondered if I might be able use Google Translate, but how do I type in Chinese?? Well, I’d never seen it before but there is a ‘Camera’ option in Translate. You image the Chinese in the camera view on your smart phone and it overlays English… AMAZING!! That quickly got me back to English, and I learned a little more about Google Translate. Ok, back to the review.
I ended up sending my images to Lucy (an overhead of my Jeep sized correctly and a mask file that is black around the Jeep and white in the Jeep image), she sent images back that she said she needed to correct the file size. I’m not sure what she had to do. Ok, I tried transferring the images again and now I’ve got my Jeep overhead… Yay! I did have to fix the language again (easy now) and putting in the new image reset the calibration done with the Checkerboard pattern. So, I set up the checkerboard pattern per the instructions, made all of the measurements, and ran the calibration. It went very smoothly.
I’m including some screen shots of the modified images for the overhead and the banner as well as camera view before and after calibration (I think very cool watching the before and after).
So, here is my suggested procedure for using your own overhead.
1. Get a copy of the standard images from Lucy.
2. Get an overhead of your vehicle (I used a drone to get an overhead shot). Taking from a higher distance with drone will provide a flatter image, for instance on mine you can see an angled view of the spare tire because I could fly high a ave the vehicle).
3. Size it to the same as the ones Lucy provided.
3. Change the banner images (there are 4, 1 for each camera view).
4. I ended up needing to send them to Lucy to get the correct “file size”, I’m not sure what she had to do..
5. Copy the files onto a USB drive.
6. Plug the USB into the cord on the device.
7. Power up the ignition.
8. Menu, System, Maintain. The select Recovery, then OK
9. Menus will be in Chinese, change back to English.
10. Do the Checkerboard calibration
11. SAVE
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