Hi guys,
Just checking back in!
Sadly I haven't had time to work on my car anymore (by the time I get home from work its too dark, wet and cold still at the moment!) but I've still been regularly watching your progress.
I can't believe you both had bad luck with the angles and offset. All these drive2 posts would make you think you can stick the camera with a piece of tape at any angle and it will be good!
The most I've done is make and print a very basic angled holder to test mount the camera (without the housing and circuit board, this can still go above the reading lights). But until I get chance to connect my harness up I can't test it out. I based the angle mainly on the angle of the camera housing (the bit where the heater sits) however after reading what you have to say, that probably won't be accurate enough, I should just order a heater element too.
You will finish it eventually, and when you do, we will have the answer for the dynamic calibration so it wont be a problem anymore.
I Think the static calibration angles arent the real angles, when the dynamic calibration begins the camera calculates the real offset, so the way i am going to try is making sure the camera is as perfectly aligned as possible and calibrate it, then go to the highway and let the camera tell me the offset, after coming back i will do that again to make sure the camera did not move and the angles are the same, then i will adjust the screws that hold the camera to the bracket to get a really precise correction and go for a drive again, after that i cant see any reason that the camera will not work, but the most important thing in all this is to make sure the camera does not move a mm.
you have to get the heater for the correct angle with the windshield, which will get the pitch offset to about 0.0x offset.