matt having a prob with the blue tooth,cant seem to get the software to see it, blue soliel see's my phone and connects but must be a setting as it wont even let me put a number in via software,
gone with mappoint navigation it has a built in pluging but when it starts it gives you no options to do any thing.

so will you be adding the tpms, it looks good, just need to change the pic of the bmw for a RR, V8 facelift Range Rover Autobiography 22" wheels.
1976 Harley Davidson Iron Head Sportster

hi dave

in the plugin folder there is the mobilephone.net folder and there is an ini file in there, you need to edit this file it will have the mac address of my mobile phone, you need to change it to the mac address of your phone.

Yes i can add the tpms to the software but i will need a copy of the original skin files that come with the unit so i can modify them to fit our range rovers, if you can supply them i will start modifying them

Matt

hi, got it on the bluetooth and yes i have the skin for the tpms, will send it over to you.. V8 facelift Range Rover Autobiography 22" wheels.
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daveo wrote:

hi steve, no i did look into this, it was harder then i thought as my boy would not losen is grip on his controller

Oh- and the other thing I forgot to mention yesterday: gutting the old monitor for the switch controller/switches and using these in the new monitor housing. Theoretically, this leaves enough options as you have many more buttons - and you're still on iBus. The silly part is, the LCD controller and switch interface are all on one big board. Space-wise you shouldn't have a problem though. Plenty of room behind the new monitor.

Alternatively, this guy made his own switch interface as he completely rebuilt the old monitor: http://web.comhem.se/bengt-olof.swing/button_electronics.htm
There is also a thread on MP3car on this. He sold the switch interface to a couple of others on the board.

It was considerations like his that kept me with the old monitor and a touch screen overlay. I have to get back to work on that too, btw. It's running on the bench - been that way for a year tho... 
RRC 2Dr, RRC 4Dr,
P38, and 2 L322s
(wife thinks I'm nuts - prob right, too)

Also worth checking what Art Tevs has been doing. He replaces the non touch screen with a better screen and fits his own PCB into the bord monitor. So no touch screen but better button control

http://projects.tevs.eu/OpenBM .
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just saw this too
http://store.mp3car.com/Arduino_Uno_R3_p/opn-013.htm 
RRC 2Dr, RRC 4Dr,
P38, and 2 L322s
(wife thinks I'm nuts - prob right, too)

thanks, thats the programmer me and matt have, we have a loader file that does the job but it will not load.
still trying, the file has reference to the ps2 keyboard so yes steve your tip was right V8 facelift Range Rover Autobiography 22" wheels.
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I just want to see it all go!


Cuz I might be the first in the queue for the skin/sw...
 
RRC 2Dr, RRC 4Dr,
P38, and 2 L322s
(wife thinks I'm nuts - prob right, too)

Hi Guys, I am tho one who wrote the code for the arduino to translate the screen button presses into ps2 keyboard commands
I Do check my emails but I just don't reply
Matt has the code that was written and uploaded to the arduino, not sure why he can't seem to get it working as once I was told it wasn't working I re uploaded it to the arduino and verified it correct, Ill disable comments on my youtube channel to make you happy


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hi davetrees, Matt has managed to get it loaded now, not sure what the prob was, i have been working with Matt on the project and it was the buttons that had stopped the progress until we came across your video,any way well done super work, just finished my screen conversion,i used the Samsung screen, very happy with the quality.
do you have any more info that you can share with us,any pics or pin outs for connecting to the switches,

have you looked at the 2010 switches on our cars, but need can bus to ibus conversion...
thanks for replying
Daveo V8 facelift Range Rover Autobiography 22" wheels.
1976 Harley Davidson Iron Head Sportster

I haven't seen the inside of the 2010 switches but I would imagine they are very similar to others I've looked at,
the easiest way to interface those switches to our cars would be to fine the output from the button resistor matrix, before it goes into the can bus encoder, extent those two wires through the clock spring, and build a very similar controller to the one Ive given the code to, to convert those resisted values to ibus messages, or key presses into your carpc, Easy!

i have been chasing an interface box that i was told about that lets you programme to listen for the can bus messages and when it heres them it outputs the pre-programmed ibus message, but i have not found it as yet,i ave changed my steering wheel for the 2010 and fitted the paddle shifts but really wanted the 2010 switches to finish it of,
thanks for the info V8 facelift Range Rover Autobiography 22" wheels.
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Matt! This is awesome! Any more up-to-date info on the project? I'd be very interested in a parts list and if you have a beta (or not-so-beta) version of your software. I have the same year RR so I'm very interested in getting something like this installed in it! Thank you in advance for any info you can provide.

Did this project die?

this might help mister D,

http://www.myrangerover.co.uk/MyRangeRover/IN_CAR_PC_PROJECT.html ... - .- -.




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