Dash cams and remis blinds, what do you do?

[Stumpie]

Hello Funsters,​

Can I please have some guidance and opinions? We used to use a dash cam in our previous motorhome we would share it between the car and the van removing it and refitting it each time we went away.
Each time we wanted to shut the blinds in the van, we had to disconnect/unclip the dashcam. We changed the van before lockdown and have ,yet to have the cable rewired. The dashcam has remained in the car.

Recently we have nearly come a cropper twice due to incidents, not our fault.

Last night somebody pulled out from a side road into our path, and without my quick thinking husband, who managed to steer us to the opposite side of the road, we survived. We were both quite shaken

I’m now looking at getting a dashcam fitted for the van only.

I prefer not to go through detaching and reattaching it each time we want to shut the blinds; I feel this does not help the connectors, as we went through a couple of mounts previously doing this.

Does anybody have a dashcam and front internal Remis blinds? If so, what do you do?

We also have a tracker and an alarm. Would this do you think to mess with the wiring?

Can you get sat navs and dash cams combined at all that sits on the dashboard? Halfords were not very helpful.

In an ideal world, I would also like to look at something for the back of the van. We have a Wild Ax constellation three, but again it comes to the remis blinds at the back window.

Some delightful person reversed into our van, cracked the rear lights, and left blue paint on our van; bodywork was thankfully intact

Any guidance would be appreciated.

Regards Stumpie.

 

[Badknee]

Does anybody have a dashcam and front internal Remis blinds? If so, what do you do?

Ours just pushes forward towards the windscreen. The cable fits under the bottom of the blinds.

 

[Revolvor]

We have a Nextbase 412GW and have found that it will fold forward so the blinds just clear it.

We also share a Dashcam between car and MH, so hang a reminder off the mirror of whichever vehicle we are not using.

 

[StitchUp]

Watching this ......

 

[Badknee]

I put ours low down on the windscreen so the cable goes along the top of the dash.

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[Revolvor]

I put ours low down on the windscreen so the cable goes along the top of the dash.

My cables, for dashcam and reversing camera are hidden behind the top of the blinds, and go down the windscreen pillar.

 

[stevewagner]

I use an Aguri sat nav with built-in dashcam that sits on the dash and plugs into the 12 volt socket which works really well. You mentioned you would like a camera at the back as well. Although expensive you may want to consider having an Omni-view 360 degree system fitted. This consists of 4 cameras and gives you views all round the van and a birds eye view. In effect all angles and blind spots are covered. You can also include a hard drive that records all round too.

 

[Clivefog]

Stuck on the "why was one there" review mirror, blinds go behind mirror. Wires as sais behind blind and down door pillar.

 

[Two on Tour]

I upgraded to a Nextbase 622GW that uses a magnetic mount and have mounted it in the top right of the windscreen, which clears the closed Remis blind with the camera off the mount.
It's easy to run the power cable down behind the Remis blind casing to the fuse box to pickup power for a hardwired kit.

 

[royandsharont]

My Nextbase in the car is in a magnetic mount but I must admit I find it hard to remove the camera, it’s easier to remove the suction mount completely with the camera. I have a rear dash cam connected to it too but it is attached by cable between the two. Easy in the car but not in a MH I think but believe you can get wireless ones.

I use a Kenwood in the MH and just lift it off the mount when I use the blinds but mainly use silver screens outside

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[Howard B]

Have a Nextbase which is fixed at the bottom of the screen. Stays in place at all times. Screens shut without removal of dash cam

 

[Kannon Fodda]

I have the wiring kit and a 3D printed mount, rain forest purchase. One day I might get round to fitting onto the dashboard for a permanent install. Meantime I’ll keep forgetting to plug it all in until I’m three quarters of the journey.

 

[Coolcats]

Hello Funsters,​

Can I please have some guidance and opinions? We used to use a dash cam in our previous motorhome we would share it between the car and the van removing it and refitting it each time we went away.
Each time we wanted to shut the blinds in the van, we had to disconnect/unclip the dashcam. We changed the van before lockdown and have ,yet to have the cable rewired. The dashcam has remained in the car.

Recently we have nearly come a cropper twice due to incidents, not our fault.

Last night somebody pulled out from a side road into our path, and without my quick thinking husband, who managed to steer us to the opposite side of the road, we survived. We were both quite shaken

I’m now looking at getting a dashcam fitted for the van only.

I prefer not to go through detaching and reattaching it each time we want to shut the blinds; I feel this does not help the connectors, as we went through a couple of mounts previously doing this.

Does anybody have a dashcam and front internal Remis blinds? If so, what do you do?

We also have a tracker and an alarm. Would this do you think to mess with the wiring?

Can you get sat navs and dash cams combined at all that sits on the dashboard? Halfords were not very helpful.

In an ideal world, I would also like to look at something for the back of the van. We have a Wild Ax constellation three, but again it comes to the remis blinds at the back window.

Some delightful person reversed into our van, cracked the rear lights, and left blue paint on our van; bodywork was thankfully intact

Any guidance would be appreciated.

Regards Stumpie.

Something like a road angel may do

 

[82125]

I just fitted my dashcam on top of the dashboard binnacle, no clearance to worry about and dead easy to run the power cable too

 

[bridgedino]

Ours uses its ‘adhesive’mount that came with it. It sticks nicely onto the dash with no issues. Had to flip the image in settings as its effectively mounted upside down

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[Stumpie]

Thank you all for the responses it is certainly giving me some ideas

 

[kevino]

Aguiri for me - great sat nav and forward facing dash cam combined

 

[RobertJary]

We mounted our dash cam underneath the front of the drop down bed; we 3d printed our own support to hold a NextBase 212. It picks up 12V from the in built lights.

 

[Guigsy]

I don't trust the idea of having to remember to replace or reposition it every time I open the blinds. I'll get lazy and/or forget. Instead I've just mounted the dashcam on the dashboard so it's inside the blinds. It's upside down, but that doesn't matter.

 

[62272]

I removed the rear view mirror and mounted a camera on the mounting (for the mirror). The remis blinds have a rebate for the mirror, so problems with fully closing the blinds with the camera attached. The wires I inserted into the surrounding trim down to the dash 12v connection plug port. All very neat - if I say so myself!

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[Sue and Rick]

Some of those dashboards have far too much clutter on them.
In my opinion haha

 

[Old Gibber]

On my Fiat, the dash cam sits at the top of the windscreen, permanently wired in, and the blind closes behind it without the need to remove it.

 

[berni109]

I have a cheap dash cam bought from Amazon and a mount that has a metal plate to fix to the dash and a very strong magnet to hold it to the plate. Had it for couple of years so cant give u a link.
Camera is USB powered (needs USB power cable not a normal USB cable) which plugs into the head unit.
Just slide the whole thing back and forth on the plate to clear the blind.

 

[AndyPK]

We don’t use our blinds……..

 

[Offagain]

We take it down each night and reattach the next morning
Never had a problem with broken mounts or cables in 5 years and we drive to Greece and back twice a year

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[Sapper520]

Got our 522GW hardwired. We just unplug the power cable and take the camera and mount off the windscreen. 10 second job to take down and put back.

 

[2GB Racing]

Nextbase user here and remis blinds in PPVC I folded a piece of alloy sheet sprayed it black and it clips to the clip board, this has the Dashcam and continuous what’s behind camera screen on it

 

[Reallyretired]

In my previous mh I mounted it on the front edge of the drop down bed.
In the current one I have fitted it centrally at the bottom of the windscreen where there is enough clearance for the blinds to close behind it. Makes wiring easier too.

 

[Gellyneck]

I removed the rear view mirror and mounted a camera on the mounting (for the mirror). The remis blinds have a rebate for the mirror, so problems with fully closing the blinds with the camera attached. The wires I inserted into the surrounding trim down to the dash 12v connection plug port. All very neat - if I say so myself!

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