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Digital Rear View Mirror
- Thread starter Phil T
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It’s easy. If you already have an auto dim mirror, the new mirror will plug right in. The CHMSL with camera will swap right in, and you connect it to the mirror using a fakra z female to female coax cable. No BCM programming required.
One thing to note- If you have auto high beams, but you don’t have the DASM (adaptive cruise, FCW), you will lose the auto high beam feature by swapping in the digital mirror.
So what you are saying is that the mirror is directly connected to the cargo camera? I have the 360 package and all the bells and whistles with a few exceptions. Any info on a mopar part number for the mirror? What I was thinking is to have it display the aux camera on the back of the trailer.
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Kind of. The CHMSL has two cameras- the usual downward facing cargo camera, and a straight back facing camera for the mirror. The digital rear view mirror and that camera is it’s own separate system completely disassociated with anything else on the truck, linked together by a single coax cable. The camera is digital, so an analog camera, such as the one normally used for the aux camera won’t work with the mirror. You can do what you’re thinking, but you’d have to probably use that specific camera that is used in the CHMSL. I’m not sure if one of the surround view cameras or cargo camera would work with the mirror monitor. An example would be- the digital backup camera on a surround view truck is different than the digital backup camera on a non surround viewing truck, even though they both use coax cable. The CVPM can’t process the image of a regular digital backup camera, and the radio can’t process the image of a surround view digital backup camera if it is used without the CVPM. So, basically, you probably won’t be able to use just any digital camera, but only that one made for the mirror. Right now, I only know the part number of the digital mirror for a DT truck, and I’m not positive if it fits the metal mount on an HD windshield.
dave41079
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I wonder if it would be possible to move the camera to the rear bumper. I plan on adding a topper and it would be nice to still have a rear view.
In a nutshell, you can put that camera wherever you want. Just use a fakra z female to female rg174 coax cable long enough to relocate the camera wherever you want. You’re only limited by your imagination on how you want to mount it.
Where do you find all of your detailed information? I would love to know some of the things you know.
Millmutt
Active Member
Does the digital mirror only default to the CHMSL camera or can you select tailgate view. Any idea on cost.
Thanks
Millmutt
Darkone
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I don’t know, or can’t find any 2021 HD part numbers yet. To put it in perspective, though, the CHMSL with only cargo camera is ~$600, and the digital rear view mirror for the DT is ~$475.
Reviving this thread.
Jimmy, any update on possible parts to add this?
Jimmy, any update on possible parts to add this?
Different (separate) cameras, different points of view.
The Digital mirror can be adjusted for up/down angle and zoom.
The cargo cam is fixed, can only zoom down into the bed and can't be kept on (unless using NAViKS).
got it. Thanks.
I’m still waiting on the CHMSL part number, but we ran into issues with some guys trying to get this to work on the 2019-2020 DTs. The first person to swap the digital rear view mirror in had a 2021. He plugged it in, and the image fired right up, giving us a false positive that it would “just work” for anyone. Then, a few guys with 2020s installed it, and got nothing. I had someone with the digital mirror remove the lin bus wire from the mirror to see if the image would stop displaying, and it did, proving that there is a message being used that makes it work. Question is, is it a setting in the BCM that just isn’t in the list on AlfaOBD yet, or, since the 2021 install just worked, is it the actual BCM firmware that makes it capable.
Thanks for the update!
Millmutt
Active Member
On page 47 of the 2020 owners manual there is mention of the Digital mirror. The description says it is a view from the tailgate camera and works in reverse. The picture on that page shows that the image is only the left half of the mirror not the entire mirror. I suppose you may be able to keep it on with Naviks device but doesn’t really looks that exciting to me since the image is so small.
Not you in particular, because the feature isn’t really as heavily advertised as other new features have been, but a lot of people are misunderstanding the digital rear view mirror’s intended purpose. The digital rear view mirror uses a rear facing camera on the CHMSL, and is intended to mimic what you see...when you look in the rear view mirror. So, if you don’t like seeing the headrests in the mirror, or if you have a bunch of stuff stacked up in the rear seat blocking the rear window, you’ll still see exactly what you would see in the rear view mirror as if the window wasn’t blocked. The camera image in the mirror can be left on indefinitely, and can be turned on and off with the mirror lever switch whenever you want. The image displayed is only a piece of the “whole” camera image, so it can be adjusted left, right, up, down. Here’s a CHMSL with the digital rear view mirror camera verses one without-
Millmutt
Active Member
Well I just took a look at the 2021 manual and in that explanation the feature looks a lot more appealing.
That's a different mirror setup when you don't have the 360* or CHMSL that can display on the Uconnect.
