Just completed my iphone integration mod, which is based on my original AV in car entertainment mod that I did back in 2008.

Pictures and video are at the bottom of this intro

Some of you may remember my post back in 2008, where I installed an AV unit which gave me 2x AV inputs on my nav screen. I used AV1 as a double DVB Tuner and left AV2 in the glovebox for an auxilary input such as playstation etc. These AV units were also linked to the aftermarket headrest screens I installed.

After over 2 years of usage, I decided to change things around for better practicality. The changes I did are:

• Moved Double DVB Tuner to AV2
• Built a iPhone dock into the ashtray using Apple's AV Composite cable
• iPhone dock is now the new AV1
• Created a new custom auxilary box under passenger seat that provides RCA connections to just the rear headrests only allowing the use of something like a playstation on back headrests only as a 3rd AV source with Infrared Headphones. This allows the driver to be using another AV source seperately.
• And finally, I decided to get rid of the aftermarket headrests as they rattle alot. Now i have integrated a 7" screen into my factory headrests.

Video Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BsnydB7Gfc


Some photos attached below:

 

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last lot of photos

 

Clean!!!!!!!!

 

Wow....very impressive and clean installation !! Love to have similar set up like yours in my car. Great job !

 

Nice install!!! It's good to see that monitors could be integrated into the head rests as they are pretty small. Cool set up you have there. It's like having a computer in your car now...

 

I'm definitely feeling that iPhone integration mod for you!

 

wow, very nice mod! Can you only operate on the iPhone? would the touch screen work on the nav?

 

wow that is so sick !!!!

 

Wow, that's sick. Do you have much trouble with where your iPhone dock is mounted? Does it partially block some of the buttons on your center console?

 

Thanks everyone for all your positive feedback

Yeap it can only be operated via the iphone itself which is positioned on the dock (ashtray area). I'm currently looking into either an app that may exist or i may be making my own that will allow a user anywhere from the car (back or front) to control the iphone that is on the dock via another iphone or ipod touch. This will be using a adhoc wireless connection instead of bluetooth so that it doesnt effect the bluetooth phone that is already in use by the car.

As most of my family members have iphones and ipod touches it can be setup so that they can control video playback or even play iphone games all on the incar screens via their own ipod/iphone

 

no trouble with buttons at all. at first it seemed kind of strange as i felt i needed to keep looking at the iphone but with practice i've actually just learnt to look at the nav screen and know exactly what area of the phone to be pressing. and the best thing is with the iphone 3gs voice control i can launch music tracks etc easily

 

Hey bro, is this the screen splitr app on cydia? I have the cable but It only lets you see youtube, photos and videos.

 

Awesome job, so cool!

 

Great work! Thanks for sharing your expertise.