How to recalibrate your 360 Cameras

[hemlockz]

Thanks. And if you just want to change out your grill, making that adjustment is super simple. Takes less than 5 minutes. Most people use an adjustment of +165. No need to put tape markers down or anything.

The tape and lines are used to recalibrate all the cameras together, incase they are off from factory.

Can confirm. 165 seems to be the sweet spot. I was driving around after my heritage grill swap for several months with misaligned camera. It made the the backup mode and side view askew… kinda bugged me and I finally took the 5 minutes in a square parking space. It never looked perfect in the adjustment menu, but 165 seemed to be the best. Now everything seems fine.

FYI My service menu would not go away after I got it adjusted and saved and restarted, and I couldn’t get out of the service mode. I just drove it home and parked it and when I came back a couple hours later it was fine.

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[emerica243]

Is it +165 on the right side of the screen for the height adjustment? There's a lot of individual adjustments here that I see. Just want to make sure

 

[Baltimore]

generally, yes. ~ "up" 160 to 165 is working for most people. It depends on your wheels, trim level, lift, etc.

When doing all the cameras, I got better alignment of the corner "crosses" by also doing selective height adjustments (they are not equal). Changing the lift/height number zooms the camera in/out.

 

[emerica243]

generally, yes. ~ "up" 160 to 165 is working for most people. It depends on your wheels, trim level, lift, etc.

When doing all the cameras, I got better alignment of the corner "crosses" by also doing selective height adjustments (they are not equal). Changing the lift/height number zooms the camera in/out.

I'm being annoying. But just to be perfectly clear.

What I have circled in red is where the +160 up to +165 change that people are making correct? As in not those other values on the left side of the screen.

 

[Baltimore]

I'm being annoying. But just to be perfectly clear.

What I have circled in red is where the +160 up to +165 change that people are making correct? As in not those other values on the left side of the screen.

No, that's the lift/height adjustment that will zoom the camera in/out.
The adjustment you want is the up+ arrow that current reads zero. You'd send that up to the value.

That said, if this is a live image of your vehicle, your crosses look pretty aligned already.

Take note that if you're working any of the cameras, what the left side UP DOWN LEFT RIGHT arrows do changes... it's all about the installation angle of the camera. so even in the tech instructions they tell you to play with each direction to understand which moves the camera in which direction, then make the necessary adjustment accordingly.

 

[emerica243]

No, that's the lift/height adjustment that will zoom the camera in/out.
The adjustment you want is the up+ arrow that current reads zero. You'd send that up to the value.

That said, if this is a live image of your vehicle, your crosses look pretty aligned already.

Take note that if you're working any of the cameras, what the left side UP DOWN LEFT RIGHT arrows do changes... it's all about the installation angle of the camera. so even in the tech instructions they tell you to play with each direction to understand which moves the camera in which direction, then make the necessary adjustment accordingly.

The image i showed above, is actually the image supplied on this threads original post. I was just using it for context of my question.

I did the grille swap to TH\Heritage grille from RAVE and used Gurveys camera bracket. Im guessing by doing that thats why these lines here from the front camera arent lining up straight on the overall image? So I was trying to get clarity where on that diag screen i actually put the +165 adjustment.

 

[Baltimore]

The image i showed above, is actually the image supplied on this threads original post. I was just using it for context of my question.

I did the grille swap to TH\Heritage grille from RAVE and used Gurveys camera bracket. Im guessing by doing that thats why these lines here from the front camera arent lining up straight on the overall image? So I was trying to get clarity where on that diag screen i actually put the +165 adjustment.

Correct. If your lines aren't matching, or when you roll up to a stop stripe, the image is broken/misaligned from the edges to the middle, this is the adjustment you need to make. For me, since in order to not lose the guidelines I had to set up the entire lines and crosses, I went ahead and adjusted all the cameras for better total alignment. Which also then, if all the blue alignment markers fit within the red target boxes, allows your blue and yellow line guides to be available.

 

[emerica243]

Around +130 to +132 seemed to be the sweet spot for me.

BEFORE(heritage grille installed + Gurvy bracket)

AFTER adjustment (+130)

DURING

 

[Baltimore]

I think it's heavily dependent on your trim level, wheels/tires and lift/suspension as to what the final numbers end up being.

I didn't even bother to track the results, since it "zeros" them after the commit. I just focused on image line up. Including the sides and rear.

 

[J_wgz]

So a few weeks ago I went down the rabbit hole on how to re-calibrate my 360 cameras after I swapped my Limited Grill for a Heritage Grill.

To calibrate your cameras, it's actually fairly simple. You can do it all on your radio infotainment screen.

Steps to access the Calibration Menu (service menu):

1. Get in your truck and close all the doors and windows. From my testing, you cannot access the Service Menu if a door or window is open. Once you access the Service Menu, you then can open a door or window.
2. With your foot off the brake pedal, double click your stop/start button to access Accessory Mode
2. Wait until the infotainment (radio) screen boots up
3. Turn the volume all the way off
3. Go to Settings > Display > Screen > Turn off Display
4. Okay so here is the hardest part. You have to swipe left to right 5 times, and then right to left 5 times. Your screen may display "Touch to turn screen on" while you are swiping, but ignore the message.

4a. It may take 1 or 2 tries to get this to work. If you mess up, you just have to tap the screen to turn it back on, then turn it back off in the settings. Then continue with step #4 again.​

5. If swiped correctly, you should see a Service Menu pop up.
6. Navigate to Function Check > Camera Settings > View Adjustment

6a. If an option is greyed out, just hold the desired option for appx. 5 seconds and it will let you select it.​

7. After selecting View Adjustment, select Next.
8. You will now see the birds eye view of your truck where you can make adjustments.
9. After making your adjustments, select Ok.
10. Once it completes saving, click OK and you can exit the Service Menu. The next time you start the truck, it will ask you to complete service mode and just choose ok to complete.

Notes:

- Accessory Mode only stays on for 15-20 minutes, so make sure you don't take too long to adjust all your cameras otherwise you will have to restart the process.
- I don't think it's possible to get the cameras aligned 100% perfectly. I got it like 95% good and I was happy with the result
- While adjusting the cameras, where both cameras line up and meet in the image, there is no blending effect of how they mesh together. Once you exit the Service Menu, and start driving, the normal 360 camera view adds a blending effect to where the cameras mesh together to hide some of the imperfections of misalignment, so don't worry if the service menu doesn't look 100% perfect.
- If you are only looking to realign your front camera after swapping grills, you can follow the above steps (change the front camera angle to +165 should get you close to spot on, adjust + or - 1 until you get it perfect).


Be cautious when making changes in the Service Menu. It appears you can change other settings in this menu as well, and I recommend not doing so unless you know what you are doing. I am not an export and I am just sharing some of the information I have found.

If you are looking to do a full recalibration of all the cameras, I have attached the official Camera Calibration Procedure from the Service Manual that I found shared online. This procedure is very in depth, and honestly probably not recommend if you are only swapping your front grill camera (I believe other forum members were able to change their front camera calibration to +162 or +165 to get it adjusted correctly) With my tailgate camera also being misaligned from the factory, I performed this calibration to get everything dialed in. It did take some time, especially settings up all the tape.

The official calibration procedure of laying tape down in precise locations was time consuming and very tedious to get all the tape lined up perfectly. Honestly, I think if you just take a 2ft x 2ft piece of wood or cardboard, put some painters tape on it, and move it around to each corner of your truck where your cameras 'mesh' together in the view, it will work almost as good. I've saw someone else mentioned they just went to a parking lot and used the painted lines.

Tape laid out per the Service Manual Procedure

This was as close as perfect as I could get it. It's not perfect, but I was happy with the results. Much better than how it came from factory. The adjustment values in this picture are not accurate, as each time you save, the value returns to zero.

Using wood instead to save time.

Can’t thank you enough for this post! Just recalibrated front camera after my grille swap and it was a breeze thanks to these detailed instructions.

If I were to add just one detail (and maybe it was just me)… I entered into accessory mode with the engine off…once already in accessory mode, the camera settings button was grayed out (pressing and holding wasn’t activating it)… I turned the engine on and it instantly activated the button to be able to move on to the next step.

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