Trailer camera

Greetings! wondering if there is a way to have a trailer backup camera display on the OEM display in a 2017 TRD Off Road.

Don’t want to have to add a secondary wireless unit and screen.

thanks

 

Aftermarket harness (long enough) with same connector to tailgate camera, for a one or other manual choice.
or read this:
AnytimeBackUP Camera set for added trailer camera.

 

You can use the factory backup camera by adding this harness and switch. I have this on my 2020 Tacoma and it works great.

https://www.anytimebackupcamera.com/products/anytime-backup-camera?variant=32035650535502

 

This is terrific. So adding relays to this product would allow it's Front cam setting to display a hardwired camera on the rear of my camper, and a cab switch can toggle that or the oem backup cam?

Reading the linked wiring diagrams...
What is an "ABC" relay? Does the term denote a function, or a brand please. A vendor link would help me decipher.
Thanks all.

 

I'm sure that's "Anytime Backup Camera" relay

 

Thanks. Looks like Kit will do the trick. Will need to make up a 40 ft two piece cable to reach back of tow trailer. Any recommendations on a waterproof removable connector between truck bumper and trailer? Will signal degrade over that distance... a lot of voltage drop to run the camera that far away.

Dumb question... what do people use a front facing camera on truck for?

 

Offroad approaches or very close parking

 

OEM connector is weatherproof.

 

VGA signal is good for 30m (100 feet)

 

Alternative solution.

Magnetic Wireless Backup Camera - LASTBUS Rechargeable Magnetic WiFi Backup Camera for Easy Hitching Gooseneck Horse Boat Travel Trailer Fifth Wheels RV Camper for iPhone iPad Android, Easy to Install

$70 Magnetic Wireless Backup Camera - LASTBUS Rechargeable Magnetic WiFi Backup Camera for Easy Hitching Gooseneck Horse Boat Travel Trailer Fifth Wheels RV Camper for iPhone iPad Android, Easy to Install

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08PKLXW6C

Your phone is the screen.

 

so it's a really good thing the oem signal is Composite. which is good for well into 1,000 ft.

 

see https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/anytime-backup-camera-for-towing.832390/#post-29829950
The ABC camera harness did not work over long distance and had to be hardwired due to voltage drop to work on my towed trailer.

 

If you connect it at the rear bumper to do the switching it will work. But maybe you are towing a 50' mobile home...

 

I assumed from a few posts on the forum that wiring up a trailer backup camera was sucessfully done before using the extension cables.
A 19' Tacoma and 16' Travel Trailer required five or six 6.5' extensions cables with a M-F joint at the bumper to hitch and unhitch.

With the vendor on the phone I plugged in and swapped around three, four, and five extension cables and we found after three the video was not coming through. Its always possible that something in my particular purchased vendor harness or head end was creating more impedence that normal.

Can you please clarify what you put at the rear bumper other than a pluggable break point?
It would benefit other forum members to understand how to utilize this great system for towing backup, without hardwiring.