When I bought my Hyundai Sonata about 4 years ago, I was very pleased with the elegant look of the car's design. Much so that I took a step further by purchasing many parts to beautify it (Chrome metal parts imported from Korea and such).
While the car's exterior seems to look elegant and unique (trust me, it's really one of a kind but not too much until it looks yuppy) but the interior still runs on primitive stock double din music system. There was no reverse camera which is also a downside which renders me a few minor scratches and dinks due to reversing too far and hit the elevated pavement underneath the chassis (ouch !)
It was an insomnia night when I started asking myself, are there such a thing as a wireless reverse camera which uses the Android screen for display? As I'm currently docking my device onto the car and using a headphone jack to relay audio into the car's system, what if I can attach a reverse camera which can use the same Android screen? It would make my device being modular to the car !
It was then I Googled a bit and then I stumbled upon this fella...
So basically it's a reverse camera with IP66 certification and uses Wi-Fi to relay image from the camera onto your device. All you need is just to install the app and pair with the Wi-Fi for the first time and voila! You're set to go...
While the car's exterior seems to look elegant and unique (trust me, it's really one of a kind but not too much until it looks yuppy) but the interior still runs on primitive stock double din music system. There was no reverse camera which is also a downside which renders me a few minor scratches and dinks due to reversing too far and hit the elevated pavement underneath the chassis (ouch !)
It was an insomnia night when I started asking myself, are there such a thing as a wireless reverse camera which uses the Android screen for display? As I'm currently docking my device onto the car and using a headphone jack to relay audio into the car's system, what if I can attach a reverse camera which can use the same Android screen? It would make my device being modular to the car !
It was then I Googled a bit and then I stumbled upon this fella...
So basically it's a reverse camera with IP66 certification and uses Wi-Fi to relay image from the camera onto your device. All you need is just to install the app and pair with the Wi-Fi for the first time and voila! You're set to go...
Basically the package comes with a simple booklet with instructions for the installer (which is simple to understand but hard to apply as you may not know how to pry open your car's exterior hubs and caps).
But because the unit comes from Hong Kong, I decided to give it a test run by hooking to the AC/DC adapter and see if it works (My car installer not free today).
Tada! It works like a charm! Basically the application would run automatically when it detects the camera's Wi-Fi and performs the connection. After which, it automatically launch the app and display the image for you. As you can see, it also gives you the indicative range of how close or far you are to the object which you want to hit... Hehe
So I'll be installing it tomorrow and if this guy can serves me a while, I may consider getting another unit for the frontal part of the car. So here's the idea, when driving forward, the Android screen will display the camera in front. When reversing, it will disconnect the frontal camera and activate the back camera... Hmmm... I wonder... :-)
