I'm very tempted by the Avin Avant 4 (even though it will cost me a lot to import to the UK), particularly for it's ability to integrate with my car's IBUS and OBC, to enable things like visual display of the parking sensors, showing you when lights are on, and even being able to code things like the door open chime etc.
This is the system in question: https://avinusa.com/avant-4-multimedia-navigation-system-for-bmw-3-series-e46-m3.html
I've also noticed Avin do an 8.8" widescreen model - https://avinusa.com/8-8-multimedia-navigation-system-for-bmw-3-series-e46-m3-model-hcpx69088e46.html - Which bears an uncanny resemblance to the 8.8" one by some chinese 'brands', like this one: https://www.erisin.com/erisin-es300...-3-series-325-e46-m3-rover75-mg-zt-p0509.html
So it seems Avin get their units manufactured in the same factories in China, but I guess they just make their own software?
Does anyone know if any of the other chinese ones have managed to add this IBUS feature yet?
Cheers
AFAIK, Avin just package their head units with the Resler iBus interface and the iBus App, but both are available seperately. I use a Dasaita 9" head unit in my E39, along with the Resler Interface and IBus App, and have full control over the factory DSP Amplifier, all OBC functions, PDC etc. The iBus App is expensive, and a bit buggy, but they are actively developing it, so hopefully the bugs get fixed. Check out these links for more info:
Resler iBus interface
iBus App
iBus App Wiki
iBus App Thread on XDA
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AFAIK, Avin just package their head units with the Resler iBus interface and the iBus App, but both are available seperately. I use a Dasaita 9" head unit in my E39, along with the Resler Interface and IBus App, and have full control over the factory DSP Amplifier, all OBC functions, PDC etc. The iBus App is expensive, and a bit buggy, but they are actively developing it, so hopefully the bugs get fixed. Check out these links for more info:
Resler iBus interface
iBus App
iBus App Wiki
iBus App Thread on XDA
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Thank you so much that's really helpful! So presumably, I could just buy any Android HU then, and then the resler interface and iBus app, and it will work?
Robotson said:
Thank you so much that's really helpful! So presumably, I could just buy any Android HU then, and then the resler interface and iBus app, and it will work?
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Presumably, yes. That's all I did. I can't guarantee that it will all work on any head unit of course, but as long as it is a reasonably new unit then it should work fine. The iBus App crew recommend XTrons HUs, but I bought a Dasaita and it works fine.
What flavour BMW are you putting it into?
jrobbom5 said:
AFAIK, Avin just package their head units with the Resler iBus interface and the iBus App, but both are available seperately. I use a Dasaita 9" head unit in my E39, along with the Resler Interface and IBus App, and have full control over the factory DSP Amplifier, all OBC functions, PDC etc. The iBus App is expensive, and a bit buggy, but they are actively developing it, so hopefully the bugs get fixed. Check out these links for more info:
Resler iBus interface
iBus App
iBus App Wiki
iBus App Thread on XDA
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jrobbom5 said:
Presumably, yes. That's all I did. I can't guarantee that it will all work on any head unit of course, but as long as it is a reasonably new unit then it should work fine. The iBus App crew recommend XTrons HUs, but I bought a Dasaita and it works fine.
What flavour BMW are you putting it into?
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OK great : ) I won't hold you personally accountable if it doesn't work!
It's a 2005 e46 M3 coupe. As its one of the last built, hopefully it will have all the necessary OEM technology inside to enable all of these features!
Robotson said:
OK great : ) I won't hold you personally accountable if it doesn't work!
It's a 2005 e46 M3 coupe. As its one of the last built, hopefully it will have all the necessary OEM technology inside to enable all of these features!
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Ah, nice! Yes, it should all work fine. The biggest problem I had with my installation was in getting all of the steering wheel buttons to work as expected, so I'm keen to hear how you go. Although the iBus App will handle the steering wheel controls, I use the Canbus Box that came with the head unit. Single press functions work fine, and I have limited remapping functionality available, but I would love to be able to get double-press and long-press functionality going, as well as more remapping ability.
But overall, I'm really happy with my setup. It sounds fantastic to my non-audiophile ears and it's great to have modern functionalty available in a 21 year old car
Keep us posted with how you get on
jrobbom5 said:
Ah, nice! Yes, it should all work fine. The biggest problem I had with my installation was in getting all of the steering wheel buttons to work as expected, so I'm keen to hear how you go. Although the iBus App will handle the steering wheel controls, I use the Canbus Box that came with the head unit. Single press functions work fine, and I have limited remapping functionality available, but I would love to be able to get double-press and long-press functionality going, as well as more remapping ability.
But overall, I'm really happy with my setup. It sounds fantastic to my non-audiophile ears and it's great to have modern functionalty available in a 21 year old car
Keep us posted with how you get on
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Great, thanks for the help. OK that's interesting, I didn't know about the double-press functionality either, that sounds good! I've always wished I could pause music from the steering wheel - I wonder if that will make it possible?
I've got an Erisin Android 6 HU in my current 330ci, which I'm really pleased with - got Android Auto working well with it, and I love that. I am a bit of an audiophile, but I'm not prepared to spend stupid money on getting music in the car sounding the best it can be, because most of the time the road/engine/exhaust noise means you never hear anything perfectly anyway. But I was pleased with how the Erisin was actually a sonic improvement over the old OEM satnav & amp. The M3 has harmon/khardon though, so it *may* be a closer thing!
I will let you know. I was all set for the Avin Avant 4, but now I know they're just the same as the Chinese HUs but with slightly different software, I may just buy one the cheap ones and try to get all the same gear working on that. Won't be for a month or two though, as I have tyres to buy first
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Hi guys
I am posting my video for steering wheel control suggestion, really hope in future android hu can do more than basic function.
Someone interested in can contact me for more detail
This way I have done for Newsmy Carpad 3 with xposed additon module
You'd probably be better off learning Chinese and telling it to your device's manufacturer.
Hello all
I have bought this android units for my car.
fr.aliexpress.com/item/33056901151.html?spm=a2g0s.9042311.0.0.365a6c37Ao6RyL
it's a very well radio but
--> it's not possible to customize the homepage (only the wallpaper)
--> the radio app is really not userfriendly, i don't have all options, and the connection is not very fluent.
so, do you now how can i personnalize the homepage with widgets and apps ?
the MCU is : android trunk m0 ac8227l
thanks for your answer
I really someone can help on this and I agreed, its a good unit for its price. Just very limited customizations.
So I just installed the beautiful Amazon special lol it works great and I think runs Android but after looking up stuff might be winCE with an app. Here is my info:
Make:
SWM
Model:
N6
Version info -
(Android man) APP-RES-UI1-20200605-0.1
(MCU chip icon) JST-V3.7-20200525-0.1
(Bluetooth icon) BT-V1.0-20191218-0.1
So is this a real unit or Chinese windows clone? If I need to I’ll take it apart as I need to upgrade the steering wheel controls later anyways. Thanks all.
TheSirLogan said:
So I just installed the beautiful Amazon special lol it works great and I think runs Android but after looking up stuff might be winCE with an app. Here is my info:
Make:
SWM
Model:
N6
Version info -
(Android man) APP-RES-UI1-20200605-0.1
(MCU chip icon) JST-V3.7-20200525-0.1
(Bluetooth icon) BT-V1.0-20191218-0.1
So is this a real unit or Chinese windows clone? If I need to I’ll take it apart as I need to upgrade the steering wheel controls later anyways. Thanks all.
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It is fairly easy to see. Restart the unit and see if it say Android during the boot. Does not look to me like a pure Android however.
We are a company focusing on developing and making Android-based head units. We want to get key navigation information from popular Android navigation apps, like Google maps, Waze, Here WeGo, to display on the home page of our head units and, if supported, on the gauge cluster of vehicles. Can someone shed some light on how to achieve this? Thanks.
Which type of head units? MTCD/E type or other type?
Knowing this might help get your query best visibility.
marchnz said:
Which type of head units? MTCD/E type or other type?
Knowing this might help get your query best visibility.
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Thanks for your reply. I thought Android navigation apps have universal protocol to send out key navigation information. Anyway, currently we mainly use Rockchip PX6 and SC7862 two platforms to develop vertical screen head units.
Thanks, I will request a moderator move your question to the generic Android Head-units forum.
Hello all,
at the moment I am using MTC Devices with PX6 and the HAL9k Mod. Thinking about buying the new Snapdragon 665: Qualcomm QCM6125 devices like this one
AU7 Android 10 Navigation:DSP DAB+ BT 5.0 Wlan 7" Bildschirm für VW Toyota KIA
mic-autoradio.de
There are a few must have features from the MTC devices, anyone here who can tell me if this is possible?
- read out key press (custom script with Tasker)
- disable icons and text in statusbar (only use a few, cause i have a custom script with tasker that shows music information which is playing in the middle of status bar)
- to do this, on MTC device I needed the app MTCService to read out the media information (unfortunately haven't found another way which works for all my apps like deezer, poweramp, NavRadio+ ...). Anyone experience with this?
- fastboot would be nice
I think that's all
Hope someone of you out there can give an answer.
Thanks in advance
Christoph