Venture Cam details info required (pantelis)

People Hi,

does anyone happen to know the operating details of the Venture Cam?
Venture Cam is the remote wireless camera which connects to the onboard
monitor of the latest Range Rover (is it available also for the LR3?)

Does anyone know whether this camera communicates with the monitor with
bluetooth or does it require a dedicated receiver?
I know it transmits a signal at 433 Ghz. Is this bluetooth frequency?

Thanks in advance for your assistance.

Take care
Pantelis

P.S. I am considering asking for such a system from Land Rover UK. They are
currently building a base model LR3 for a round the world expedition to be
undertaken by a Greek journalist whom I assist into setting up/preparing the
vehicle.
We plan on using the Venture Cam with his laptop since the car will be as
much as possible without electronics, trying to keep only the bare
essentials like the engine related, ABS etc ones. Coil springs instead of
air suspension, no Terrain Response of course.
BTW can the rear locking diff be fitted without the Terrain Response system?

"Pantelis Giamarellos" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> People Hi,
>
> does anyone happen to know the operating details of the Venture Cam?
> Venture Cam is the remote wireless camera which connects to the onboard
> monitor of the latest Range Rover (is it available also for the LR3?)
>
> Does anyone know whether this camera communicates with the monitor with
> bluetooth or does it require a dedicated receiver?
> I know it transmits a signal at 433 Ghz. Is this bluetooth frequency?
>
> Thanks in advance for your assistance.
>
> Take care
> Pantelis
>
> P.S. I am considering asking for such a system from Land Rover UK. They
> are
> currently building a base model LR3 for a round the world expedition to be
> undertaken by a Greek journalist whom I assist into setting up/preparing
> the
> vehicle.
> We plan on using the Venture Cam with his laptop since the car will be as
> much as possible without electronics, trying to keep only the bare
> essentials like the engine related, ABS etc ones. Coil springs instead of
> air suspension, no Terrain Response of course.
> BTW can the rear locking diff be fitted without the Terrain Response
> system?
>
If you are planning to use a camera with a laptop would a USB webcam
http://www.aria.co.uk/productinfocomm.asp?id=18708&opener=DFT not be a
simple and more cost effective solution or do you need the remote external
facility bearing in mind the Venture Cam is only good for around 20metres
Derek

Are you sure that is not 433 MHz. This is a far more common frequency and
most wireless cameras are in the <2.7GHz range.

Regards
Stephen

Pantelis

I can confirm the Venture Cam is on the bluetooth frequency. In order for
the Venture Cam to work, the vehicle will shut down the bluetooth phone
connectivity. It's not a bad bit of kit, and comes in useful for me when
reversing the caravan in narrow places, I simply attach it to the blindside,
and point it down the side of the van

--
Neil
2006 RR Vogue SE SC

Neil Brownlee <[email protected]> uttered summat
worrerz funny about:
> Pantelis
>
> I can confirm the Venture Cam is on the bluetooth frequency. In order
> for the Venture Cam to work, the vehicle will shut down the bluetooth
> phone connectivity. It's not a bad bit of kit, and comes in useful
> for me when reversing the caravan in narrow places, I simply attach
> it to the blindside, and point it down the side of the van

H'mmm I've something like this, I 1.2 ghz (?) Wireless colour camera, It
works on 12 v which I have three stabilsed supplies for.

I use one supply in the caravan then have the camera mounted on a metal
plate which hooks on the rear window frame. The camera fastens via Velcro to
the plate. The plate has a mirror mounted on it to reverse the image
(keeping it really simple here!)

I then use a 2.5 inch colour TFT to view the image. The camera will
broadcast 100m running on a 9volt battery for a short while, say 1 1/2
hours. It has IR lights and goes to B & W at night. the camera also has an
AV out should you wish to use it as a normal camera.

All the kit cost me just around £80.00 off Ebay. Mine doesn't have audio but
for a little more you can get the next modle up which does audio.

The beauty of this is you can use it in lots of different applications, it's
relatively cheap, if you wanted to run it on a lap top as well then you
could use a TV card should you desire.

Just another option to consider.

Lee D

Stephen Hi,

Microcat states 433 MHz.
But after speaking with the technical training director of LR here in Greece
he told me that the 433 MHz frequency must be used in order to make the
Venture Cam communicate with the vehicles video system.
The older version of the Venture Cam was using the PAL system while for the
2005 and later vehicles they swithed to NTSC.
And he believes (as you said) that for the video signal from the camera to
the receiver in the car they use the 2.4 GHz range.

Take care
Pantelis

"fanie" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Are you sure that is not 433 MHz. This is a far more common frequency and
> most wireless cameras are in the <2.7GHz range.
>
> Regards
> Stephen
>
>

Neil thanks.

I also got your message on my direct e-mail but was very tight on time and
only send you a very short thanks.

Thanks again
Pantelis

"Neil Brownlee" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>
> Pantelis
>
> I can confirm the Venture Cam is on the bluetooth frequency. In order for
> the Venture Cam to work, the vehicle will shut down the bluetooth phone
> connectivity. It's not a bad bit of kit, and comes in useful for me when
> reversing the caravan in narrow places, I simply attach it to the
blindside,
> and point it down the side of the van
>
> --
> Neil
> 2006 RR Vogue SE SC
>
>