Miss using my IPHONE as reversing camera

Submitted: Tuesday, Mar 19, 2013 at 19:13
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Hi,
I have been chucking around the idea of getting a reversing camera to help when positioning the car to mount on the tow ball.

I have an IPAD and an IPHONE so I looked in to using these. This would not be a fixed solution just set up when positioning the car.

It is possible to link video from iphone to the ipad but that is over a WIFI network or 3G network. I wanted this to be able to work when no wifi or 3g available.

However I believe ir would be possible to set up a WIFI netowrk (no internet) using a router of sorts. I may look in to this.

My next options was to pair the two devices using bluetooth. So I started looking around for some apps in the apple store which would allow me to do this.

I found one called Duplicam, which if installed on both devices will allow me view the iPhone picture on my IPAD. I have done a test in the garage, after turning off WIFI and bluetooth on and it does work.

Issues
I would have to build a bracket to hold the IPHONE so it shows the area I am interested in.
Most reversing cameras are fish eyed view. I don't believe the IPHONE (3S) has that feature.
Not sure how it would go in real life.

I think the duplicate app cost about $1.99 so so far lots of fun at minimal expense.

Has any one else looked in to doing this. If so please let me know.

An alternative I would like to try is to buy a camera ( Bluetooth) and have it picked up by one of the IPAD apps (there are lost of them).

A WIFI set up may be better but I have no WIFI in the car :). Jay Car sell a WIFI reversing camera unit which appears to have a private WIFI network. Not sure if the IPAD could connect to it though.

Rich
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