hi Colin, you have done a mammoth job.. just goes to show nothing is impossible, it may cost a fortune or take a while but in the end you have triumphed.. now to what hopefully will be the spin offs from all your hard work, we now know what can be achieved with the aid of the gate way module but on a smaller scale can you say what else can be done by using this module,, again well done  V8 facelift Range Rover Autobiography 22" wheels.
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Cheers Guys
I truly appreciate the comments of support.
This project did get a bit more physical than technical in the end, but i can't tell you how just good and rewarding the end results actually feel. It really is like i have a new Range Rover now and the missus thinks i am the best thing since sliced bread. She actually said she does not want to get out of the car now

Technically i was always quite sure this was possible, after all nothing else changed between the L322 introduction and 2005, and the Gateway ECU that makes this possible does not care about the year of the BMW stuff it interfaces to.

If i had purchased all i needed to do this new from LR, the bill for the infotainment stuff alone would have indeed come to well over 10 Grand. which is indeed a small fortune, However much of this stuff was fitted from 05 to 09 and can often be picked up on Ebay for a fraction of it's new price, and in total i figure i have paid no more than 2,500 all in.

That's absolute peanuts compared to what it would cost me to change a perfectly good vehicle i love for a later one and has undoubtedly added much more than that to the eventual resale value of the vehicle.

As well as creating detailed documentation of all the steps required to do this i have actually also amassed an an almost complete duplicate set of all the main ECU's and wiring i used. So if someone else wants to do this, i would be happy to supply them with most of what they need as well as the information required as a package  2003 4.4 HSE

[quote="BBS SPY"]Well that is part of the Gateway ECU's purporse daveo, and of course what i am clearly using as the base of this entire project as i have previously stated
Without LR producing it as a temporary solution in 2005 only, just so they could add their own infotainment stuff i would not be able to do this project at all.

The gateway effectively taps into the BMW private CAN bus to get all the info it needs for Ign state, current Gear, Road speed, EAS and steering angle. It also taps into the Ibus for the steering wheel controls, clock sync and other stuff.

Then on the output side it provides the Low or Medium speed CAN bus with all the info on it as well as a CCF that the various later systems require, including the Venture Dock. This CAN bus is also connected to the Diagnostic socket and it is over this that the Gateway CCF is configured and access to the IHU and thus the MOST bus systems plugged into it is made.

I am not sure you could run the Gateway ECU without the Head unit, but then there would not be much point to that as you need the Head unit to provide the MOST bus and the screen to see the output of the Venture cams anyway.quote]



Hi again,

I am fitting the Venture cam into the D3 currently, operating in FFRR mode on the touchscreen,

could you advise the colours of the can bus I need to tie into to get the control signals to the docking station, I see pin 1 is negitive and pin 4 is 12v positive.

can you confirm the pins orentation for the can bus?

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Hi Colin

Great work you have done!

I was wondering if you can power the main display with the IHU alone through fibre optics? If so do you know the pinouts for both units?

Thanks
Graham