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So been running the media player and working through having the USB hub power up and down when the raspberry Pi wakes up and sleeps. A start up script triggers one of the pi's gpio pins high which triggers a audrino relay, this turns in the 12 volt to 5 volt power supply . This powers the hub and give the blueray player enough power to operate. the audio quality achieved by the Pi and optical dac straight into the dsp as worked out very well. With the system at full volume there is no background noise . Have given the system a bit more time alignment so from the drivers seat the left and right speakers have enough delay and offset for the stereo image to appear dash hieght and centred . I've also moved the midbass roll off up to 75 Hz without effecting midbass impact too much. Also added an M3 theme to the media centre menus.

Looks like the media player will play most formats . Almost worth plumbing via aux input for USB audio libary duties .

Great project. Probably the cleanest picture you can get TV wise. Did you go to the trouble of adding the ir receiver ?

True, but the RS is closer in terms of performance. STs and MPS don't seem to be ..... from what I've seen running re11s

I kind of like the flashing yellow triangle light on the dash with these tyres. Comes on randomly for no apparent reason. Maybe 235s on the rear is the key. I'm now worried about getting owned by 105v shod Focus ST drivers.

Review a bit suspect . Rates the 105v high in many areas. Got a rear set in the garage on a spare set of rims. Very easy to spin up . The m3 will do this if you down shift to 2nd and change up to 3rd which caught me by surprise. Haven't had this with any other tyres let alone PSS.

Even 18s in 235 & 265 can be $2000 plus. Issue seems to be a small market. My last couple of sets have been via tirerack as couldn't get re11 or pss locally in that size. Btw Bridgestone are export controlled meaning if NZ doesn't stock you choice of tyre or size you are forced to other brands. I tried importing re71r earlier this year. Went to PSS in the end at $2.2k.

One night spent in Hamilton to find bonnet badge plastic gone. What's that about .....

Like to give it a try if that's ok. Have a win 10 32 bit netbook if that's suitable. Notice rattle was less up the Wellington gorge tonight . Better for the trip. Viscos fan replaced about 60,000 kms ago. Car at 122,000 km , cooling system untouched but water / oil gauges reading normal.

Quite interesting . I notice the car knocks quite a bit of late ( fourth gear up inclines) Doesn't like the blended Mobil 98 for some reason where it seems to knock even more. I'd largely run it out of the tank on the way to Auckland. Last dyno day (hub) about 30,000 kms ago saw a result quite a bit higher. That time they where saying the car was on the lean side. Anyway , enjoyable day and quite a fun 1300km road trip.

Hybrid , where are you seeing that kind of info ?

Will be interesting for mine. Two hub runs and roller this time. 30,000 kms between runs as well

I brought a freeview terrestrial tuner kit for the BMW TV module www.pibus.info . I hate having a module that didn't work. Use to watch TV in the car whilst parked up when waiting for the wife to finish work. Not into driving and TV , but its handy to have the audio only sometimes. I decided not to go with the USB input for playing media or the ir input. The TV module is still controlled from board monitor. BMW tuner module Circuit board. Tuner module converting to smb aerial connectors. Drill a couple of new holes for new antenna connectors Module finished. Next stage, connecting iphone video output to TV tuner aux in.

Got around to fitting Freeview tuner module in the M3. Nice and straight forward install. (blue board in photo) more info on kit at www.pibus.info Reworking a couple of areas of my car stereo where in hindsight I should have done better.

Control protocol different on e91 and not downwardly compatable dispite similar appearances to Ibus based units.

Thanks Scott The media software is quite well developed (kodi with large fonts) the serial controller on the pi bus is looking at the ibus for the hex codes from BMW board monitor controls. Basically the media centre is controlled by the bmw buttons and knobs so no need for iphone control. kodi is quite good. You can run different skins and choose menu options. Playlists etc. It can also be remotes controlled via iphone app if needed. There is also support for airplay , but a quick check showed issues with ios 9.3 on my phone. The wider system has some good features. When powered up at home it will WiFi attach to my home storage system and sync any new music libraries. It will also rip CDs and convert to flack which might be handy. Audio app looks like this http://kodi.wiki/view/Music_playback

ok. Car concerned is one of the tidiest in the country ( imho) Was SMG sorry .

The yellow one is supercharged and now sites on Work rims. Tastefull mods and upgrades.

A cab for inspiration. Would drive on any day

added all USB , sata, audio and power cabling Mounted raspberry pi. Used standard PCB header connectors from Jaycar electronics so everything can unplug from pibus board. Bluray player had small m2 screws. Drilled holes in old 3.5 drive bay bracket and mounted player. Re assembly Back Added Molex connector which has input from reverse light and output trigger for BMW video module. Basically the piboard tricks the video module into thinking a reverse cam has been trigger. It will either output camera or media centre to BMW board monitor. Last bit was adding a USB Async sabre audio DAC. Its not normally needed but my aftermarket DSP has a digital input. This means I can go digital audio straight to the processor from music content stored on the Raspberry. It will avoid the audio from going through another three sets of analogue audio stages before hitting the amps. It should in theory provide very low distortion through to the audio amps. http://hifimediy.com/U2-DAC.

Re-used factory connection sockets for changer audio output and power / ibus . System will require about 3 amps at 12 volts when running. Existing cd charger power wire ok at this level. Old alpine pcb Replaced with audio and raspberry pi and USB powered hub power. Pi bus daughter board for raspberry pi. Clever design. Has microcontroller that listens for ibus signals such as infosystem on , boardmointor controls , steering wheel audio buttons etc. It controls start up and shutdown of Raspberry, audiophile grade audio which is feed back into factory stereo replacing cd changer. Also does video switching when selected. Either reverse camera or raspberry pi running openekec OS and xbmc media centre. More detail at http://pibus.info/ Added an old CPU fan to the case. Just in case ......get it ....... Also a couple of RCA sockets for reverse camera input and system video output. EDIT , fan didn't work out , CPU fan far too noisy. Could hear it inside car. Has been disconnected but unit temp ok on PI without it.

Coupe or Cab ? i know of a cab in Wellington . One of the fussiest car collectos II know.

Was meaning the star badge , but I'm guessing AMGs in the 80s where more like what Alpina is to BMW. Car in question http://www.supercars.net/blog/1988-mercedes-benz-300-e-amg-hammer/

A simple bit of research would have led to amg hammer. Fav car with that badge on it.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Ban or public flogging