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Offline sulaco

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Phatbox + Alpine
« 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?
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Re: Phatbox + Alpine
« Reply #1 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. :)
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Re: Phatbox + Alpine
« Reply #2 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.
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Re: Phatbox + Alpine
« Reply #3 on: April 10, 2005, 10:55:56 pm »
Isn't M-Bus the protocol that BMW uses?
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