Someone here has be be able to crack this HDRadio for the car! - Page 4

sama · 01-24-2007, 10:35 AM

I wouldn't worry too much, the car is very reslient...

I had a short on a circuit for the ibus lines, and it was fine. I took it off right away though.

I even once put the battery terminals the wrong way around once, after checking it 3 times... I don't knwo what happened to me, I think I took too much medicine or something. Anyway, I got off lightly with only the FM antenna amplifier blowing up.

Kamakazie2 · 01-24-2007, 11:36 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by sama

I wouldn't worry too much, the car is very reslient...

I had a short on a circuit for the ibus lines, and it was fine. I took it off right away though.

I even once put the battery terminals the wrong way around once, after checking it 3 times... I don't knwo what happened to me, I think I took too much medicine or something. Anyway, I got off lightly with only the FM antenna amplifier blowing up.

Just try explaining that to your dealer..

My Blinkers, windows, a/c, radio, and cd changer dont work...

DaveDog · 01-24-2007, 05:40 PM

Had a chat with mitchjs last night, basically asking him if it was worth going down the path of decoding the I2C bus to perhaps eliminate the need for the ibus/usb converter, and having a I2C/USB direct interface. He thought the cost wouldn't be much less and that the path we are currently following will be the easiest.

Kamakazie2 · 01-24-2007, 08:26 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by DaveDog

Had a chat with mitchjs last night, basically asking him if it was worth going down the path of decoding the I2C bus to perhaps eliminate the need for the ibus/usb converter, and having a I2C/USB direct interface. He thought the cost wouldn't be much less and that the path we are currently following will be the easiest.

Yeah he PMd me last night. I think that we are good the way we have done it
1. We have a stable interface
2. Its has Roadrunner support
3. Its possible that we might be able to add other devices on later

Kamakazie2 · 01-26-2007, 08:57 PM

Ibus has arrived!!! The build starts in the morning..

DaveDog · 01-26-2007, 09:24 PM

Mine arrived today also, not sure if I'll have time this weekend, damn girlfriend

Kamakazie2 · 01-26-2007, 10:12 PM

Thats why you need to get engaged.. my fiance will be out planning for the wedding

Kamakazie2 · 01-27-2007, 04:45 PM

Building complete... of course i cant get the ftdi unit to show up as anything under com4... otherwise ibuscomm wount work..
Will post back later once i get it conigured right.

Kamakazie2 · 01-27-2007, 07:56 PM

Is there any test software out there that i can use to send the strings to the ibus com port?

I wanted to find that BMW Ibus radio test software but i cannot find it. what data needs to be sent to the com port. do i send the actual command strings echoed to the com port?

Im no porgrammer so im gonna need some help from the experts out there. I finally got the com port set to 4 so ibusrr should find it now.

IBusManiac · 01-28-2007, 02:06 PM

yeah you can use

WinIBus or IBusAnaluser

Plug in the ibus interface to your PC

Then send ibus commands, they will go out the PC Tx line and appear on the PC Rx line

Kamakazie2 · 01-30-2007, 11:11 PM

Still wokring on the interface.. right now im trying to integrate the buttons into RR.. i will have more this weekend.

Kamakazie2 · 01-31-2007, 08:17 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by IBusManiac

yeah you can use

WinIBus or IBusAnaluser

Plug in the ibus interface to your PC

Then send ibus commands, they will go out the PC Tx line and appear on the PC Rx line

Are there any english versions of these programs

On the ibus yahoo forums they had a software that had all the buttons of the radio. I cannot find that anywhere.. does anyone wher ei can find that?

sama · 02-01-2007, 02:39 AM

that's the old ibus analyser that I told you about in pm. I can get it for you when I get my pc out of storage again, but lots of searching will also reveal it, I'm sure!

Kamakazie2 · 02-01-2007, 09:11 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by sama

that's the old ibus analyser that I told you about in pm. I can get it for you when I get my pc out of storage again, but lots of searching will also reveal it, I'm sure!

Ill keep an eye out.. thanks!

Kamakazie2 · 02-05-2007, 06:03 PM

Finally got the software. I have it all wired up.. now all i need to do is figure out the init commands to send to the unit and hopefully i can get a response.