Dashcam Hardwire w/o Fuse Box *ALMOST* as easy as Dongar

[BoboForShort]

To be fair, it takes all of 10m to route power from the passenger fuse box... You can remove the mirror cover without a pry tool (pop the small top/center cover out using a finger, then slide the large molding downwards). The passenger A-pillar cover comes off with a 10mm socket (use pry tool for 2 bolt covers on the handle) and the headliner is freely accessible between the two.. If you're not buying a pass-through harness to tap 12v/ACC from the mirror assembly this is actually much quicker/easier than DIY splicing into the ACC wiring up top..

That's still an option. This is just a lot cleaner for me and doesn't require an add-a-fuse. There also isn't a lot of room in the fuse box to close the covers once you've added them.

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[Josh256]

Agreed! Did your harness supply constant 12V/battery as well? The fitcamx only ACC+/ACC- so I ran a wire to the fuse box for battery... you know, for my not-GPS accessory;) But also: I needed to pull the A and B pillars to properly route the rear camera wire..

 

[BoboForShort]

Agreed! Did your harness supply constant 12V/battery as well? The fitcamx only ACC+/ACC- so I ran a wire to the fuse box for battery... you know, for my not-GPS accessory;) But also: I needed to pull the A and B pillars to properly route the rear camera wire..

Yes, this plug supplies 12V constant, 12V ACC, and 0V. Need all 3 for the Viofo and other cameras for their parking/sentry mode. It's the main reason I did not go with any of the Dongar adapters.

I managed to just tuck the rear camera wire into the pillar trim and door seal.

 

[Dongar]

Yes, this plug supplies 12V constant, 12V ACC, and 0V. Need all 3 for the Viofo and other cameras for their parking/sentry mode. It's the main reason I did not go with any of the Dongar adapters.

Unfortunately this is incorrect. Viofo's parking mode needs their hardwire kit and you cannot trigger a Viofo parking mode using any other 3-wire parking mode hardwire kit on the market Viofo uses a non-standard implementation (aka proprietary pinout) USB-C, which is how it feeds the ACC signal into the USB-C cable. So if you wired up a different brand (or generic) hardwire kit to that 5-pin connector, you will still be unable to trigger Viofo's parking mode.

Pretty much every other dashcam brand uses accerometers to trigger parking mode... i.e. Vantrue, BlackVue, Nextbase, Garmin (and more) use a sensor to detect lack of motion to activate their low-power / low-data modes, and you'll have no issues activating these parking modes with a Dongar.

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