carpc in BMW

[jammykam]

Originally Posted by E5M1R

You wil nead something like this
http://www.europeanautosource.com/pr...roducts_id=345
or
http://www.europeanautosource.com/pr...roducts_id=630

so the charger menu is activated and you will get sound trough the adapter.
Then you will have to look for a specific i-bus message when you switch to the charger, so it will give signal to CarX to switch to RV camera input
Theoreticly it is possible, however i dont know of anyone that did it.
Maybe you should try talking to Kiwi he if anyone knows how i-bus works and what the possibility of doing this is

I was thinking about doing this a few months back but didn't think I'd get enough use to go through all the hassle in the end.

But anyway, from what I've read it switches over to CarPC mode when you switch to Tape mode on the head unit, correct? So can you not change a setting in CarX to switch when going to Aux mode? You can buy/make your own Aux In cable then and have stereo sound... Get to keep all your current bits and pieces then...

I was in my local electrical store the other day and noticed the Acer L3600. It caught my eye because it was so tiny... not much bigger than a laptop ut fully packed. Pretty good spec plus it had soundcard, tv tuner, fm tuner and vga out all built in and only about £400... thought it would be awesome for a CarPC project... man I'm sad