ANS-810 / ANS-510 (PROPER RNS-510 alternative)

[duaned]

Anyone been having issues with the Bluetooth? I have a Galaxy 3 linked to mine and occasionally I cant hear the caller and they cant hear me, but the Bluetooth answers the calls and ends them perfectly. Ideas?

[wai]

Anyone been having issues with the Bluetooth? I have a Galaxy 3 linked to mine and occasionally I cant hear the caller and they cant hear me, but the Bluetooth answers the calls and ends them perfectly. Ideas?

I have had no issues with Bluetooth and my iPhone. About the only thing is that the ring sound comes from the phone and not the ANS-610. Not really an issue.

[schultp]

My issues with my RVC continue...

I returned from my business trip and installed a relay that is triggered by the right reverse light wire. The relay sends power to the RVC from the rear 12V outlet.

Sadly, I still don't have any success with getting the RVC to work. I also still don't have a right rear reverse light that works. It isn't the bulb since I swapped in a known working bulb and it didn't light up. My multimeter shows zero volts at the rear reverse light wire when I have the car in reverse. I ran VCDS and it shows zero volts going to the right rear light when I engage the manual transmission into reverse.

So, it appears I now have a separate wiring issue unrelated to whether my reverse camera is operational. Is there a seperate fuse for the right rear reverse light? I doubt it, and I checked the fuses that appear to handle this circuit according to the owner's manual but the fuse descriptions in the manual are definitely sparse. I suppose I may be missing which fuse is the correct one.

Adding this RVC has been much harder than I anticipated! Can someone verify that I have wired it correctly? I have 12V power (relayed) connected to the red (positive) wire leading to the RVC. I have the black (negative) wire from the RVC connected to ground. Am I missing something.

Finally, I stuck a pin into the blue/black power wire that powers the right rear reverse light about 4-5 cm upstream of my splice/connection and still don't see 12 volts. I thought maybe I had an internal break in the wire that I could not see through the insulation. Sadly, no difference.

All my connections are soldered so I don't think this is a loose connection issue.

Very frustrated...

Paul.

[tonymy01]

how are you testing the reverse? you know the boot needs to be closed (on the Golf anyway) for the reverse to work. I didn't need a relay at all in the Golf, the camera is fed by a permanent red power feed, and only uses the reverse to trigger on the yellow wire, no relay required.

[bazzle]

how are you testing the reverse? you know the boot needs to be closed (on the Golf anyway) for the reverse to work. I didn't need a relay at all in the Golf, the camera is fed by a permanent red power feed, and only uses the reverse to trigger on the yellow wire, no relay required.

Now thats interesting.
Assuming camera with red/black (power) and yellow (video)
If you have a permanent power feed to the camera the ANS-810 in my case, see's the camera and it over rides all the other screens and stays on permanently.
The yellow wire is the video feed from the camera so should play no part. The camera is activated by the power lead (+ve or -ve depending on what one you switch)
Later units do have a Rev power feed on the rear harness that has 12v switched to it when the ANS senses Rev from the canbus.

Other head unit brands I have installed (4 diff brands) all could work with perm 12v feed as the camera was switched internally in the head units from the canbus signal, but not what Ive seen on an ANS... yet.

Also my R32 mkV Golf 2008 has rev lights that stay on with boot open.. I melted a rev light assy one day when I was testing things out and forgot car was in Rev, ign on v

@ Shultp ..... try connecting your 12v feed directly to the camera red wire and see what happens. It should overide the display on the ANS.
If your head unit has the Rev wire on the head unit you dont need to run a relay off the rear rev light just run the camera red (+ve ) to there.

[tonymy01]

the badge camera is red for permanent power to allow boot to open at any time, and to supply power to allow pop up mechanism to work. yellow is not video, this is to feed to reverse power trigger, which enables both the flip up, and the video output, which is from a coaxial style lead.

[enigma32]

The yellow wire is the video feed from the camera so should play no part. The camera is activated by the power lead (+ve or -ve depending on what one you switch)
Later units do have a Rev power feed on the rear harness that has 12v switched to it when the ANS senses Rev from the canbus.

Other head unit brands I have installed (4 diff brands) all could work with perm 12v feed as the camera was switched internally in the head units from the canbus signal, but not what Ive seen on an ANS... yet.

If this helps, I have installed an aftermarket camera (not the badge camera) and have it connected to the permanent 12V power, so it is on all the time. RVC image only activates when I engage rev gear - as it is supposed to. I am assuming that even though the camera is always powered, The ANS810 will only switch to RVC display when it detects rev gear, and a signal on the yellow video in.

In other words it is working fine on my ANS unit.

I have tried to use the brown back connector cable from the back of the head unit, but have never been able to get any power from it. I did get myself a relay to tap into the reverse light, but haven't bothered installing it as it is working perfectly fine on permanent 12V.

[schultp]

how are you testing the reverse? you know the boot needs to be closed (on the Golf anyway) for the reverse to work. I didn't need a relay at all in the Golf, the camera is fed by a permanent red power feed, and only uses the reverse to trigger on the yellow wire, no relay required.

I've tested with both the boot closed and open...no difference.

Paul

[schultp]

@ Shultp ..... try connecting your 12v feed directly to the camera red wire and see what happens. It should overide the display on the ANS.
If your head unit has the Rev wire on the head unit you dont need to run a relay off the rear rev light just run the camera red (+ve ) to there.

I'll give this a try.

Paul

[DkN]

I'll give this a try.

Paul

You need to make sure you have the MCU ANS510AS.130112.m1.D0 to use the brown wire from the back of your unit. ANS510AS.130112.m1.D1 (or any other MCU ending in D1) will not supply power to that brown wire. If you don't have the brown wire though, you are supposed to use this D1 MCU to avoid issues with RVC not showing up. Hope that clears up a few things and answers why some of you cannot get a feed from that brown wire.

Regarding the CAN-Bus signal detection... The ANS's CAN-Bus reverse signal detection works fine, otherwise OPS would not display. Using the power wire as the overriding detection mechanism is a conscious choice. I think this has to do with the fact that hooking up the camera to a permanent feed means the camera is on the whole time you are driving, even if the feed is not showing on the unit. I imagine this would shorten the lifespan of the camera. But because it's troublesome to wire to the reverse light they came out with that new brown wire which supplies power only in reverse, but again this only works with the D0 type MCU.