Recent content by bdl99

Also just been reading your Canbus threads and WOW, props to you for everything you have done and shared.

Very neat approach and spoken like a real engineer :)

Great, thanks for trying that and reporting back.

Yes, the "difficult" piece is really the effort required to get to the required points. My interest is in finding solutions that are simple to install even if that means the solution may be more difficult. I've not really played with the Nag screen overrides in a while because currently I don't...

Aha, thanks. So the only way to "Accept" is to press the screen or simulate pressing the screen?

When you say "or press any other button to ignore it" is that is any of the physical buttons regarding the AV unit like "Map", "Menu", "Status" but not the volume buttons?

Ah, the good old 555 timing chip, haven't used one of those in a while. The first thing of course is to see if this approach is even going to work. Regarding the Nag screen, does the enter button on the steering wheel (or any other buttons) not get rid of the nag screen? That would be a lot...

The speed sensor is really for dead reckoning and does help with the accuracy, but given improvements in the GPS technology and the fact the position is overlaid on a map the need for dead reckoning is less important these days (It is useful for things like going through tunnels etc). If you...

Correct, the units are not identical physically, pins are move around and configured slightly differently with different versions of the software but the internal hardware is the same.

You haven't missed anything because I haven't posted details, mainly because I haven't done it on the Leaf yet. I have done it on other Nissan vehicles with the same head unit. It is three RCA jacks carrying standard NTSC composite video (yellow) and stereo audio (red/white) Selection is via...

I will dig out my notes from when I did this, after I added the Aux AV input on my car (not a leaf) there was no need to use the USB approach so I haven't done this in a while.

This is something that has been on my list for a while and like the way you are thinking. Really the only thing stopping me has been other priorities, the fact that it would be much easier with a second pair of hands and finally I'm not sure it is going to work for reasons below: What I know...

Yes, via USB. The files have to be within certain specs, asf or Divx/Avi and particular bitrates and resolution. Some Nissan vehicles also have an auxiliary audio/video input (the three RCA jacks; Yellow, Red and White) but I don't think the Leaf does. Having said that I have been be able to...

True, which is why I said "effectively" and "approach". The point I was trying to make is there are probably four types of owners regarding these bypasses: 1) Someone prepared to do it themselves (like yourself) 2) Someone not prepared to do it themselves but happy to have someone else cut the...

^^^ This is why I created the plug and play kits. Some are very comfortable cutting wires on the factory harness and cutting/drilling holes in the dash, but many more are not. I'm not against the DIY approach and I've actually helped owners with DIY...