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Originally Posted by Jaycee
Thanks Jochen, all points noted and understood. The telephone is the old Motorola V50 and there is no pairing button on the cradle, so I obviously don't have BT. I'll change the SES settings back to standard to avoid a possible problems.
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Yep, thoses Motorola phones were made in the dark ages before BT existed :-)
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Originally Posted by Jaycee
I noted the point in the readme file (and has been mentioned many times on here) about the X5's "Show arrival time" function, and as my X5 was built before 09/03 I checked the box, but when I did so the nav unit no longer fed distance and arrival time info to the on-board computer when I entered a new destination, so I went back and removed the check mark from the box and all was OK again.
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You did the right thing. One or the other makes it work.
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The blindingly obvious fact I'd missed here is that, although my car was built before 09/03, I've upgraded the original MKIII nav unit to a July 2004 MKIV version which came from a German X3, so the X5 "Show arrival time" characteristic wasn't applicable.
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Ah, the blindingly obvious is always hard to see
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Originally Posted by Jaycee
Jochen - a small point about the log file, if I open the log file from the "Tools" dropdown menu it gives me the log file from only the very first time I used the program. If I wish to view a complete log of everything from the first to the last use then I have to manually navigate to the NavCoder folder and open the NavCoder.log file. Am I doing something wrong here?
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Nope. That's Windows for you. NavCoder is writing to the file all the time, but Windows caches the file writes, and dumps them to the drive occasionally.
So the only time you can guarrantee to view the entire contents is when you stop NavCoder, then open the log file.
It's a Windows thing, I cannot change it.
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Another point about the "Code navigation" screen, when I use the "Query VIN" button it always returns the following : "Error when requesting VIN from the LKM: No response from device (timeout)" Am I trying something that isn't possible due to my system's configuration or age?
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Hmmm... I do have a small coms bug that I am trying to find that occassionally results in the inability to interpret the replies to a query.
To improve the ability to read the data, turn the radio off. This reduces the ibus traffic enormously, and makes it easier for NavCoder to read the data.
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Now I've enabled TV in motion I think my next task will be to fit a hybrid digital/analogue TV module, there should then be less distortion as one drives along. I'll also be looking to fit a voice recognition unit as they look fairly useful.
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The hybrid is good - as long as you live in a country where DVB-T MPEG2 is broadcast. That means the hybrid tuner does not work in NZ or the USA/Canada.
Also, I recommend fitting a reverse camera (easy) and then a DVD player, or hard-drive video player.
I used my Video iPod to play DVDs in the car, and the picture quality was stunning. I compressed a movie down to only 500MB, by optimizing it for the size of the BMW screen. It was really cool.
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With regard to watching the car talking to itself, it is absolutely amazing to watch how much data is moving around the system.
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Yeah, fun isn't it :-)
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I think I'll have to try and source one of the 3-pin connectors that the I-Bus/Gnd/12v cables use and graft in a flylead as it's a bit annoying having to remove the CD player everytime.
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Tip: these plugs use the same pin size and spacing as computer main board plugs, so they are really easy and cheap to find in computer shops.
Enjoy!