Reverse Cam autoswitch?

**sanjaym** · 09-12-2007, 02:53 PM

I will be using carbuttons to hotkey to the cam screen when it detects the reverse light. However is there any way to swich back to whatever screen i was on before?

IE show the cam when it detects reverse signal, and switch back when signal is removed.

Thanks

**coucouillu** · 09-12-2007, 03:03 PM

i remember a day when David talked about a possibility of using parallele port to switch cam...

**veetid** · 09-12-2007, 03:15 PM

yes, there is a hotkey for switch to CAM and another hotkey for switching to Previous Section...

david

**sanjaym** · 09-12-2007, 04:20 PM

is there no way to swich back when the hotkey is released?

**veetid** · 09-12-2007, 04:52 PM

not currently... you should be able to detect power on the line and send a hotkey and detect the release and send another...

david

**coucouillu** · 09-13-2007, 02:17 PM

Could someone make a quick plugin for CAM switch by parallele port?

**moto_noob** · 05-19-2009, 11:38 PM

can you explain a bit clearer for me?so i get power and ground from reverse light and hook up to carbuttons on gnd/an1. and how do i set it up in centrafuse to go to the cam. the site is down so i can't read anything. also you said about detecting a release. how would i do that? hook up gnd/power of reverse light in reverse polarity on carbuttons? (i.e. power -> gnd on carbuttons and gnd -> an2?)

**elBradford** · 05-20-2009, 12:27 AM

Originally Posted by moto_noob

can you explain a bit clearer for me?so i get power and ground from reverse light and hook up to carbuttons on gnd/an1. and how do i set it up in centrafuse to go to the cam. the site is down so i can't read anything. also you said about detecting a release. how would i do that? hook up gnd/power of reverse light in reverse polarity on carbuttons? (i.e. power -> gnd on carbuttons and gnd -> an2?)

I did a quick search for carbuttons and the link to the vendor appears to be dead. Do you have a link for any more info? I would be very interested in installing such a device.

Edit: It's still there, just drop the .html

http://www.madhacker.org/carbuttons

Pricy...

**moto_noob** · 05-20-2009, 11:44 PM

nah, i don't have any links. i don't have the carbuttons. but if i know how to work it, it'll probably try to search it somewhere.

**ik632** · 05-28-2009, 10:18 AM

I'm still trying to find a similar solution. I want to monitor +12v from reverse and also for the dimmer and then switch to reverse automatically, and adjust screen brightness when I turn my lights on/off. Are there any good solutions out there? The FB seams like it could do it but requires a bunch of programming to get it to work and then there isn't a hot key for screen brightness.