Dan,

My new Venture Cam has arrived from ebay and all looks to be in good order but its arrival has raised the issue of charging. I assumed (wrongly it turns out) that the holder it fits into would provide a means for connection to a 12v point in the car. Not so. So now it would seem I need another part to provide just that.

Would you be able to provide such a part?

Cheers,
Baron. Current: Volvo XC40 T4 R-Design. Loitering with intent to possibly buy back in.
Previously: 4.4 TDV8 Vogue Baltic Blue MY11

Are you saying you don't have a Venture Came dock ?
If not I can't see how without a lot of work that no one else so far has tried to do you can make one work .

I'm thinking charging cradle , loom and programming the off road screen to recognise and show the image . 2008 MY Supercharged
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Don't know what a VC dock is but this may well be the part I'm missing. The cam has 2 contacts on the underside which I assume are for connection of a 12vDC supply (from the car) for charging purposes. So all I need is a VC charging holder (dock?) and from there I just need to wire up a cigarette lighter plug. As the VC uses bluetooth for comms to the head unit in the dash it is just a matter of temporarily syncing it in place of any mobile phone currently synced.

If I can't get hold of the original VC "dock" I'll just fabricate something to do the job, shouldn't be too difficult. Current: Volvo XC40 T4 R-Design. Loitering with intent to possibly buy back in.
Previously: 4.4 TDV8 Vogue Baltic Blue MY11

Hmmm....further research reveals the need for a docking station. Not only for providing a charging connection for the cam but also for receiving the VC signal and transmitting it via a canbus connection to the head unit.

Me thinks this is starting to sound both costly and complicated.......pondering my next move carefully. Current: Volvo XC40 T4 R-Design. Loitering with intent to possibly buy back in.
Previously: 4.4 TDV8 Vogue Baltic Blue MY11

The docking station is located on the passengers side of the dash on the part that slopes away from the passengers knee area. I would have thought that the screen would have searched for the VC if you asked it to. I do know that on my FFRR it can search for quite a few VC's over & above the one that comes with the car.

Hope thats of a little bit of help mate..Rob The reason women's minds are cleaner than a mans mind is that women change their minds more often!
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Sorry to add to the problem but as far as I understand it, the dock uses Bluetooth for sending commands / establishing the link. But also uses a seperate frequency to transmit the picture part of the signal back into the AV system.
The dock on facelift (56 plate on with TR/Electronic handbrake) is in the upper glovebox next to the cd changer. 
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Dan, can you give me an idea of the complexity on retrofitting to my RR? Is it a simple job or is it likely to be a show stopper requiring significant trim dismantling? Current: Volvo XC40 T4 R-Design. Loitering with intent to possibly buy back in.
Previously: 4.4 TDV8 Vogue Baltic Blue MY11

dont know why you need a venture cam Baron, but would a baby video monitor do the job.. ... - .- -.




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Good point, that would probably do just fine. I'd just like one for when I'm reversing up to my trailer hitch. The reversing camera placement is a pants design because its in the wrong place. Should be beside the number plate lights. The neep who decided to put it above the rear window should be shot! Current: Volvo XC40 T4 R-Design. Loitering with intent to possibly buy back in.
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Sure I mentioned all this regarding docking the venture cam and the Bluetooth signal as well somewhere on this question you asked