Alright dudes, so I won some money on a scratch ticket during Christmas so I went with a radio upgrade finally. I really didn't want to loose my cameras, and after checking out some stuff on Crutchfield I found that radios with an iDataLink port should retain the cameras properly. I went ahead and ordered it all, including the $25 Ready Harness service (which I would never order another radio without) and installed it. The radio is the Pioneer DMH-1500NEX, and god damn it sounds so much better than stock. The install was fairly simple as well, I didn't have to crimp any wires or de-pin any connectors, just plugged in all the harnesses, flashed my Meastro RR module, and I was done.
Not a huge fan of how the radio sits in kind far, but other than that it's a great upgrade. Both rearview and lane watch cameras still work, just gotta figure out if I can get the radio to trigger the laneview camera on a turn signal. Backup camera worked first try with no screwing around with stuff which is exactly what I was looking for. I also retained the factory USB port in the center console, so that still works and does Android Auto.
I see a lot of these questions asked here so I thought I would make a thread about my install. Not sponsored, but Crutchfield really makes this stuff easy...
Yes that's correct. I have yet to figure out how to get the Lanewatch camera to come on with the turn signal. Maybe there is a way to do it, and I just can't figure it out? However the backup camera worked with no extra effort right out of the box, only thing that doesn't work is the different views for the backup camera, you now only get the widest view. Doesn't bother me much though.
Yes I used that harness in my install, which is why I can still see my Lanewatch camera. I think it might just be that the radio I selected doesn't have the software built in to recognize a secondary trigger to trigger the lanewatch camera.
Like I said in my original post. I'm using this harness along with a Maestro into an iDataLink ready head unit and my lanewatch camera does NOT trigger like stock. I can manually bring it up on the radio, but as of yet I can't get the radio to see the turn signal trigger. It seems even if the harness supports it, and the harness works with the radio, both cameras aren't automatically triggered. Only the backup camera on mine.