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I ended up using circuits which are marked “not used” in the manual. I did not want to mess with any used circuits by putting any additonal load on them. I found C9 to have always on power and D8 to have ign on power.
initally I could not get the camera to come on, even though I tested the camera with the lighter socket. I tested ever cable every connection but could not figure it out. I tested the magic box on my other car and found both boxes to be good. But the parking feature which was working in my other car previously and tested was no longer working and that explained why I was having problems testing. I also found that I had to have the car running for the camera to come on which is fine.
I checked with a friend and found he has the same problem the parking feature which was working is no longer working for him either this is the feature where you turn on the magic box with the switch and the camera comes on and records in parking mode he and I have three cameras between us and the feature is not working anymore on any of them.
once past that issue I was able to test and tidy up the cables and everything is good. I ended up hiding the magic box behind the fuse panel, as I will not be using it to record when parked.
i did use the Blendmount mirror mount.
I will upload more pictures with my cell phone soon.
Gotcha - nice clean install. I'm going to wire up a streetguardian tonight, I favor the "wedge" style cams pressed up to the headliner. Will see how it goes!