I Gave My Friend a CarPlay Display for his Bus RV for His Birthday! Let's install it!

All right friends, we got it rough mounted in. We're going to go ahead and show you here, show you what we did. He's loving the Bluetooth and the maps, but let's try reverse. Awesome. Well, my buddy, he's doing it. He's all in. He bought the bus. He's going to make an RV conversion. And so he happened to be coming through town. It's his birthday. I thought I got the perfect gift for you, buddy. I got one of these Apple CarPlay dashes. With a backup camera, he's got a different dash cam he's going to use for actually recording. So this is a perfect product for people who already have dash cams that they may love it. And they're just looking to get the Apple CarPlay functions for maps, text calls, Spotify, you name it, all kinds of apps that you want to have. This is fricking fantastic for that. Plus the fact that it has just a dedicated backup camera on it, which is gonna be perfect for for this bus conversion. So he is looking to come. Completely start from nothing. This is gonna be a fun project for him. So we're gonna install this in just a matter of minutes. We're gonna rough install it so you can actually see the functions and quality of this for yourself in case you're looking to buy a product like this. So once again, the big advantage I see on this one, and they have other models, is if you already have existing dash cams you love, this is gonna be for you. And let's see how much easier it is to back this bus up with a good backup camera. Let's go. All right, backup camera, little mount bracket for that. I'll set that here so it doesn't blow away. Okay. That's our backup camera extension wire. Let's figure out the mojo here. All right. This was what I expected. So here's more of the mount for here. Suction cup with 3M tape if you wanted to go that route. Set those in there. A little manual. Here's the other mount for the screen. And if I remember right from the advertisements, one thing I was really excited about on this one was the fact that it had a magnet. I think it was well packaged. But the thing I was really excited about on this one was the fact that it had this heavy-duty magnet. Look how strong that is. That's pretty stinking cool. Look at the size of that screen. Okay, all right. Well, set that all to the side right now. Super easy to wire in. It's got a USB as well. Since you're consuming that plug, but just plug and play and go. But I like this too, where you can turn it on and off here. So that's nice. we got these other little strips we'll have to see what their intention is on that and then we got an extension cable here OTG I'll have to see what that's about all right i'll show you inside the manual what this is but this is a different kind of mount where if you wanted to just it's kind of cool they come with extras but let's say you just wanted to glue this to your dash something like this and then you'd be able to take your screen and mount it like this and have all kinds of adjustment flexibility that's if you didn't want to do this big suction cup one either off some glass or off a nice big flat surface but this thing is also quite adjustable so you can come up with some different levels now on my personal vehicle i have a version of this and this is what i use in my service van i found it to be really useful what i don't have on mine is this magnet gosh things awesome because then you could throw it out of sight, out of mind, less chance for somebody to want to steal it. So way to go on that. All right, let's go ahead and work on getting this installed. So let me explain what I'm going to do. I'm going to take a 12 volt test light and on this LED light I had really no good place to get a ground on the back of the bus. The paint was actually pretty good. So I'm going to put each side of this lead on this tool and when my buddy puts it in reverse and the light lights up I know that is triggering that reverse light which tells me which wire that I want to wire the camera to. So let me show you how I'm going to do that. So, I'm going to show you how I figured out the wiring on this for that reverse light. So, unfortunately, I started from this side, and if I were really smart, I would have started from this side with the most likelihood to get wires to the panel because this side of the bus is where the panel is. I'll show you in a second. So, I put a couple of T-pins in here. Let's take a look here. I'm going to yell at my buddy, have him prove. Sorry about that. Hold on one second. And you've got to make sure you don't touch something to ground and pop a fuse. So, let's actually go. This side. All right, go ahead. Okay. So we know that this blue wire is the wire we're looking for. So if we go ahead and move over here, what we did, we followed the wiring inside the bus, most likely of where it would be. And there was a channel inside the bus that we noticed came down, came along this pillar. And then we got in here, found that blue wire and I'm going to go prove to Okay, turn off or go drive. All right, before we mount it, we want to make sure and figure out that we're going to be happy with where we're going to be. So we've decided to do, we think, the suction cup mount here. So what you want to do is make sure and have your nut on first and then just snap this in place and then put your nut on. Okay. All right. So this has adjustments up and down and in and out. Like I said, pretty sweet. Keith, you want to figure out where you want to try to see this? Man, that freaking magnet is strong. I thought I was going to drop it, but it was just that this isn't tight, but that's going to be freaking great. But I don't want to block this because I want to set a cup here. So I want it a little bit higher. The only thing I noticed from mine, this is something for viewers to think about, is when I had mine floating, just hard, you know, bumps in the road and different things. Is there a chance this could move over here so you can rest it on here, gear shift be blocking it at all or no? This seems like yeah, and then what I did is I put a little foam pad under here Yeah, if you notice on my van or whatnot, I think that's the spot. Yeah, because we'll just all just Justin, so come on, just sit like this. Perfect perfect. Yeah. Okay. Sweet. All right, so we're gonna clean the glass there and then next we'll wire it up Just for now. Just what I want to do before we get too crazy. So satisfying. I should show the viewers real quick what our options are. So obviously we have charge. There's the two auxiliaries. I believe that's a reset and then a, actually there's two. You get your glasses on. Here's what we got. We got USB. That's for charging. Okay. I can see it. Microphone, audio. ABN. That's for the backup camera. The top one. Okay. All right. So bottom one is where we're going to power it. Then audio would be that Bluetooth one. The audio video is the backup camera. And then there's that second, uh, Oh no, it's a microphone. That's just, it's a good thing you don't reset that, that'd break it nice and easy. And then that USB toggle. Yeah. I think you can hook up the portable power with that cable, with that cable. Oh, look at that. Oh man, it's centered too. See how it's machined out to like center it. You got it? I don't want to let go. Yep, I got it. Right there. That good? Yeah. Can you go back a little bit? Just a little. That's it. Yep, right there. That's all the way back. I got some material we can stick under there too. That'd be good. That way when I put it in reverse, that kicks on. Yeah. Because we're going to wire it that way. So then as soon as I go in reverse, I can see. You might as well start turning the Bluetooth to it. and my phone you're the expert here but i'll let you start playing with that looks like bluetooth here bluetooth on the name is PND dash I already got it 732. okay i'll let you mess with that it's nice that that power adapter has that on off switch why would this need my contacts it doesn't but it lets you use your phone So I take my calls and stuff through mine. Yeah, but it's just a display. Yeah, but it sets your favorites just like Apple does. So like if you want your favorites or when someone calls you. So this is just like CarPlay in a car. Okay. Go back to like a home button. Hit the CarPlay all the way to the left. One more. Your Google just saw it flash. So the Bluetooth just flashed on there. There it is. Dude, let's try a map or something. Different apps as a hat. Oh, it looks like there's a... Oh yeah. dude right on the backup camera oh yeah it's great all right let's get the backup camera going and we won't waste everybody's time this video obviously we're gonna one two three obviously we gotta route wires and do things like that but we're gonna just you know no big deal we're gonna run the camera the way back but i do want to show a recommendation i saw excuse me one two three i do want to show a recommendation i has when you think about your backup camera That door swings open, so I obviously don't want to have to do that and have to worry about the wiring or whatnot. These work pretty amazing set off to the side, and since it is intentionally for a backup camera, you just have to get used to knowing what your field of view is, but the big thing is not to run into something, but they're pretty wide angle, so we'll try this a couple different ways before we hard mount it. That's just something to keep in mind. If you don't want to be drilling holes and mounting this on the outside of the vehicle, That's something to keep in mind. On my truck, I had it on a sliding glass window that was tinted and I'd never know the difference. It worked great day or night. So you can keep that as an option if you don't want to drill outside the vehicle, especially on like, if you're putting this in cars and trucks, that's really nice for thinking about the car wash and things like that. All right, let's get this finished up and test it out. What I did for my buddy here is since he's going to be doing a lot of modifying and running wire and accessories. better than up through the little hole that we have in the dash. I went ahead and just used bullet connectors so it'd be so easy for him to pop that out reroute it on the inside and then come back in but normally I'd just solder this but for him as he's going to be customizing this I thought this was a good option. All right friends we got it rough mounted in we're going to go ahead and show you here show you what we did. He's loving the bluetooth and the maps but let's try reverse. Awesome. So your line, so we can tweak, I'll take that blue tape off right now. It looks like it maybe is a little crooked. It's hard to tell. Oh, no, it looks actually pretty good, doesn't it? Yeah. The lines are nice, but here's what we did for right now. Go ahead and take this tape off to get out of his view there. We just took and made a little L bracket there, mounted up because we didn't want to go outside the bus. But that view, as you could see, was awesome through this tinted glass. That's it my friends. Like I said we just wanted to show this product that if you're looking for something to give you a backup camera and Apple Play that is a awesome and quick way to go about this. A couple other features that we both agreed we really liked was on the power supply and having an on-off switch and then additional USB for him to take advantage. You can see our reverse wire just running down into the panel out there that I'll show that other clip of earlier in the video. Alright friends, I'll put links below. You can check out all the other apps and everything about this. And then get one of these for yourself. Make sure and like, share and subscribe. Make it a great day and as always, keep wrenching.