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Phatbox / Keg software and support => Phatnoise Hardware Support => Topic started by: sulaco on April 10, 2005, 03:47:12 pm

Title: Phatbox + Alpine
Post by: sulaco on April 10, 2005, 03:47:12 pm

I would love to use my Audi Phatbox with an Alpine head unit so I can ditch the horrid Concert unit.

I know there are after-market adapters available to use an Alpine changer with an Audi head-unit, but do any of you rekon these would work "reversed"? All these adapters do is convert the bus language, so I presume it would work?

Any thoughts/ideas?

Title: Re: Phatbox + Alpine
Post by: judb on April 10, 2005, 04:28:29 pm

my understanding is that alpine does not publish the specs openly for the ai-net interface.  phatnoise would have to reverse engineer that interface to create the headunit firmware.

Being that they appear to not be making any new product announcements / major updates to the phatbox and are working on other projects I think this is highly unlikley.

We need to see if we can get a copy of the AI Net specs and kidnap a phatnoise engineer. :)

Title: Re: Phatbox + Alpine
Post by: sulaco on April 10, 2005, 08:30:11 pm

The adapter I was looking at was for the old M-BUS protocol, but the head unit im looking at is compatible with both AI-NET and the older M-BUS.

Title: Re: Phatbox + Alpine
Post by: judb on April 10, 2005, 10:55:56 pm

Isn't M-Bus the protocol that BMW uses?