joe start with the wire from pin 17,DONT WORRY ABOUT SOUND OR VIDEO ground it out when the stereo is on, it should switch the screen to a blank screen,AV, you have the ibus working so thats good. V8 facelift Range Rover Autobiography 22" wheels.
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@ daveo

Got some real life issues to deal with tomorrow, but might get some time to figure it out.

Plugged the video output into my RSE and they both worked together showing the carx screen very nicely, but went wonky when I connected the front screen output as well. Maybe when I sort out my wiring all three will be happy together ?

Looks like I may have to do some iBus code snooping too, rotating the right hand knob worked, but pushing it didn't (this is when I had carx up on the RSE) .
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OK, success (sort of)

Now have carx up on front screen, no sound, rotary right knob occasionally works, pressing it doesn't.

Seems we add the codes into the Carx.ini file as the default ones are hard coded? .
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Seem to have most of the teething troubles sorted now, just need to sort out the button codes to get better control, and now my intended PC has arrived I can set that up and put it in place. Now to figure out how to run digital TV.....  .
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Update with PC stuff

http://www.fullfatrr.com/forum/post96349.html#96349 .
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hi joe, lets have some pics of your pc. i was after the atom based pc..wow its small.

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I'm only using a lowly Acer Aspire One with 160gb HDD. This is fine for a car pc, low power, small footprint, all in one, screen attached, has battery power




At home I run as my main PC (and also for my HTPC) the Asus E1012p nettop - which has the Nvidia ION and a faster dual core atom, you can get a 12v adapter for these as well - fine for media playback and general desktop use, not so good for serious number crunching / encoding. Was tempted to use one of them in the car...maybe later.

Having just seemingly blown up the radio and sound on the car tonight, ( http://www.fullfatrr.com/forum/topic9091.html )I repaired indoors to test out my reverse camera and usb video capture dongle thingy.

The USB thingy needed a driver which I had to track down on the interweb as the supplied CD didn't work!

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Found some time to review the iBus codes coming from the head unit, and checked these off against the list that comes with carx, and put them in the carx.ini file.

No real improvement from the button presses:

Mode/Tape does it job well - this brings up the carx screen.
Right Knob Press will either work 1st time, after two or three presses, or not at all
Left Turn and Right Turn will either work 1st time, after two or three turns, or not at all

Also the button pressing seems to got to work on other menu settings behind the scenes, I managed to change my temperature from C to F whilst working in the carx screen?

Steering Wheel buttons work well

Had had trouble with sound not working but this time around worked every time I needed it.

So after a good fiddle with buttons I can get music and videos to play, but getting back to the main menu is the same fiddle, so not practical for on the move. And I made it crash on the front screen, although was able to use the mouse on the PC

Front screen is very dim compared to rear screens

Running navcoder or IBA Analyser also allow the front screen to display the PC screen, if I could find a way to consistently capture the iBus codes and convert these to keystrokes/mouse clicks I could run XBMC as a front end?

With next to no information out there about the inner workings of carx, nor about how to maintain the screen output to the front screen without carx running, I have now reached a bit of a dead end.

Off to join mp3car / carpc etc see if I can get any help there..... .
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Looks like flying to the moon is easier !

What a job !  All my spelling errorz are belong to me!

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Been there, done that

Made some progress this morning. Much prefer working in linux than windows and made contact with the car using Art Tevs OpenBM-Gateway software. For those interested, here is his site and carpc project! http://projects.tevs.eu/OpenBM. The work he has done is quite impressive, using XBMC to run the whole OBC as well as CarPC.

Once I had figures out the COM assignments (tty in linux speak) I was getting all the ibus codes coming down the screen

Should just be a matter of assigning keypress events to these codes which relate to button presses to run xbmc as the front end. (easier said than done)

Will detail all this in the front end of the thread, once I have it all sorted out.

Front screen very dim though - nice and bright with OBC but dim with PC (may be better if I disconnect the rear screens?)

So a slightly happier new year after all .
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Been making really good progress of late, having switched to a Linux setup and with help from Art Tevs of the OpenBM project. Tonight I ran the hardware and software together and was able to operate XBMC from the OBC buttons.

More work to do on button control, seems that the right hand knob and the 1-6 buttons may be enough, and I have got to try to get that screen a bit brighter and clearer!

Art will do a replacement screen unit (with upgraded screen and his own hardware) for @ 300 euros, which completely takes over from the OBC but retains all the functions - runs the radio, CD and OBC bits and bobs. You have to supply your own screen unit for this - they are @ £190 on eBay. It's a tempting upgrade....for the 02-05 units.

Happy days  .
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well done joe you have really got your teeth in to it now, the only let down to the carx project was the factory screen
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hi joe, have you tried your reversing camera to see if it fits in the number plate light surround V8 facelift Range Rover Autobiography 22" wheels.
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Not yet, as its a pig of a job to dismantle most of the upper tailgate to fit and then run the cabling back to the PC:)
There is nothing in RAVE about removing the black outside bit that holds the number plate lamps (held in by four torx bolts?) but I guess this will become clearer once I take all the inner trims off. I am hoping there will be enough room to squeeze a phono socket through the rubber boot between tailgate and roof - shame to have to cut and then re-solder.

Am also wishing I hadn't ripped out all the cabling for the wireless transmitter which would have been fine for the power and video for the camera.

Have sized it against the existing "glass" though, and it is the same size. Need a dry day and have a bit more tweaking to do on the system before I go ahead and fit. .
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