Reversing Camera

A reversing camera is easy to add yourself if you have some skills.
The Camera is attached to the back of the NIT on pins 31,32,33. 31 = Cam input pos, 32 = Cam input neg, 33 = camera Shield (ground).
Then a simple Arduino nano with a can bus decoder like an MCP2515 can act as a can bus filter between the head unit and the Canbus wire. Your simply send the correct can bus code to the head unit and it will turn on the input to show the attached camera.

Then if you really want to turn it up a notch you can even attach a front camera as well and have your Arduino Nano flip between front and left cameras via a simple relay.

That is basically what the NAVIKS unit does. Except its crazy expensive for the Ferraris and 1/3rd of the price for the same thing for Chrysler units.

 

You don't want to splice into the harness. Ferrari uses standard connectors and you simply make a harness that plugs into the OEM one. That way it is reversible.

 

I own a Cali30, my wife would like a better camera (wider angle, sharper image, ...). The car is under warranty, but warranty or not, I do not want to touch any electrical parts. Looking into the subject, must be wireless. What would you recommend, something not difficult to install and easy to operate?

 

Making a harness that plugs unto the OEM system isnt hard. I wouldn't bother with a wireless camera, and would simply run a wire from the NIT to the rear. The harness depends on the year of the car since Ferrari changed the NIT Units quite a bit. Frankly if you have an old NIT, I would suggest upgrading to something better that has camera inputs and such.

 

Thank you for the information. Going to look into the combo Garmin BC40+Drivesmart (first by making sure the view is much better, sharper and bigger than the Ferrari camera that came with the car).

Now, for the front, not possible it seems to have such a camera because in Florida we do not have plates in the front of the car (+ would the Drivesmart work with both cameras, meaning no need to have 2 of them?).

 

In the California T, the resolution is 800 x 450. The camera system they use is an LVDS system on those cars. You can hook up a regular camera to the pins on the harness for video, but once again you need to make a can bus filter to flick the video on and off.

 

I have a Ferrari ff 2015 with reverse camera, but unfortunately the camera lens is damaged therefore, the quality became very poor! Is there a way to buy an aftermarket camera and just connect it?? Any other suggestions?

 

Depends on the camera you buy. If it is the same format, then you can simply plug it in. If it is not, then you need to do what I stated earlier.

 

Can someone tell me what is the same format?

 

the format of the picture pixels, 600x800, LVDS etc.

 

Thanks a lot, I will start searching.

 

Ive been working on a 3d birds eye camera system with DVR parking recorder and AI obstacle detection for our cars that will interface with the OEM Head Units. More to come in a few months after I get the circuit boards back.

 

Great, will be waiting