Apple Tv Install To 370Gt

[MikeLo]

Just picked up a 370GT Skyline and have been playing with the system, and as much as I like Japanese I have decided that my spare AppleTV 1 with a 120GB and wifi would be the perfect media and video player for my car.

Here's My current plans.

1. Rip apart the apple TV and chuck out the power brick replacing it with a 12v to 5v DC DC converter 10 ams and hook in to the main board. (Easier than you think just solder up a couple of wires and your done, waiting for the DC DC converter purchased for $30 on ebay.

2. Run Composite video out of the back of the Apple TV by just plugging into the green component output and installing the COmposite Apple TV hack. 9Google Apple TV Hack for more info on this)

3. Hook up the AppleTV unit in the car either in the boot or inside the center console.

4. Use the I-phone Remote App to control the Apple TV, Add a dock so the iphone lies flat by the gear stick and this lets you control the AppleTV like the touch track pad you get on a laptop.

What I could do with some help on is where can i get instructions on how to pull apart the center console to wire this in, I wanted to add a switch so I could still use the AUX port in there, and wondered if there is any room under there or best bet is in the boot. If its in the boot whats the best way to go about wiring this to AUX inputs.

I know the TV tuners back there, and was wondering can you rip that ou and still its feed to the TV1/TV2 channel leaving the AUX port free.

Any help on how to get stuff wired into the car would be much appreciated.

[MikeLo]

IF i you can wire up the touchscreen to this, it would be the ultimate In Car system.

I saw Chris Rogers had mentioned he had managed to hook up the touch screen to a SAT Nav unit. There is a plugin for AppleTV that lets you use the USB port and hook up a Mouse, so if there is anyway to get the XY co-ordinates from the Touch Screen and feed them through to the USB port you would have the ultimate in dash system.

Chris if you have any info on what the integration you did on that unit is in theory (don't expect you to give away any trade secrets), but if there is a standard interface for the touchscreen and a way to hook in to it, getting it working with the ATV is a possibility.

[Chris Rogers]

not easily. and you are right I will not go into it on here. google CD4053B and work back. also google PIC61F84.

[MikeLo]

Thanks Chris i'll get on it...

First Fix Done, to see how she looks on the screen.. No Major dramas, resolution is ok, HD would be better.

Waiting for the 12v PSU replacement to come so I can wire this directly into the cars power. Currently using a 150w inverter. Hopefully crack the soldering iron out and get everything wired into a single connector to easily hook into the car.

Here's some pictures of progress...

Although I would like hints in pulling up the Center console and if there is any space under there, can cut down the size of the atv once the 240v power supply is stripped out. Other wise she's off to the boot.

The other mod that I would like to do is access the controls on the dial I want to either splice the buttons or wire them to the atv. is there a way to wire a switch into these 5 buttons, or grab there output so can wire them to the ATV.

[MikeLo]

Some useful information on splitting RGB cable to the RGB+Sync and enabling the monitor when not in park.

http://www.l8ter.com/?p=148

[Chris Rogers]

mike hate to be the one to burst the bubble - the screen in the JAP V36 is not analog. it runs a dedicated sony chipset designed for that system.

[Alkatraz]

Mike, the article that you link to about how to watch video whilst in motion, is written for the V35, according to the title. Do you know if the v36 is exactly the same, ie. need to ground light blue wire and cut the white one?

[MikeLo]

I don;t i'm afraid, i'm leaving the dismantling of the dash to the experts, but I did ensure that this was included in the cost of the car. So once i'm ready to fit the Apple TV i'm going to see him and work on hooking my unit into the center console while hes working on the dash. So i''ll let you know if its the same connectors and try and grab as many photos as I can while he's pulling her apart.

The US guys recommend putting a switch on the speed sense wire but as the GPS is useless at this stage with JDM av console don't see the point. Also the AV unit for the 370Z over here looks totally different and doesn't support TV, I have wondered if anyone knows how to get an image of the USDM software as thats pretty close the JAP software, but believe you need to flash the firmware thats on a chip in the AV unit and not on the hard drive. I would love to get a dump of both the USDM harddrive and JDM and compare the POSIX software installs on the pare of them.

If anyone has pulled the HD from there V36 i'd love to take a copy of the image, I here its a bit fiddly to pull out, else was tempted to do when the guy was working on my Dash. And clone the HDD after unlocking i with HDTOOLS. A developer I work with is very handy with decompiling software whose keen to help take a look, be great to compare with the US image and see if could swap some of the menu files....

[MikeLo]

Interesting find on ebay, adds two extra video inputs, or a nice but expensive RGB lead....

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Infiniti-G35-G37-NAV-Video-Converter-Add-DVD-TV-Camera-_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQhashZitem588b862200QQitemZ380297945600QQptZCarQ5fAudioQ5fVideo#ht_2030wt_834

[MikeLo]

Just gets better and better...

Heres another one...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Infiniti-G35-G37-NAV-Video-Converter-Add-DVD-TV-Camera-_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQhashZitem588b862200QQitemZ380297945600QQptZCarQ5fAudioQ5fVideo#ht_2030wt_834

[Chris Rogers]

and for the top spec version NONE of them will work..

find me somewhere to host a 30GB image and I'll hand you a jap one. the addressing on the USDM one will be different as it is a different box with different video intefaceing and no TV option.

since you have a Jap car there pull the dash down rip the drive out , unlock it and play. then work out a way to yank the firmware image out of it and decode it. the image will be written for a hitachi SH4.

if I had the schematics for both units I would be memory mapping them and writing code to suit. ( I can do hardware I totally suck at software.)

my 2c.

[Chris Rogers]

Mike, the article that you link to about how to watch video whilst in motion, is written for the V35, according to the title. Do you know if the v36 is exactly the same, ie. need to ground light blue wire and cut the white one?

same idea. though there are two identical plugs on that unit. make sure you grab the right one.

[Chris Rogers]

as for getting an USDM image. ebay and LKQ are your friends. waste some money with them.

[MikeLo]

I think the furthest I would be able to go with My knowledge with this would be to hex edit the hard drive look for the ASCII Character sets and change them from JAP to ENGLISH text.

My mate lived in Japan for 5 years and was a god send the other day, bascialy allot of the words on the menus are actually english but in japanese symbols. So if you could find the standard ASCII text characters and swap them this may help. These are the ones that are less squiglly, those other ones are nouns.

Given the amount of time to analyse, i'll leave it to the russians, cost me a serious number of favours to get one of my devs to look at it, in the mean time, I got a bit over excited and just order A complete master unit assembly from the US. From what I can see from the connections and parts should work. Without having to purchase too many more parts.

Hoping for.

English menus

Music Box in English with 3000 song ripping... (currently only lets me do 6 CD's)

Voice Control

Bluetooth

SAT NAV (yes no maps yet so useless, but you need this unit for the rest of teh stuff, but if they do ever emerge adding going to be easier, Infiniti M37 will be released in Aus next year same car)

Quality audio, i have the fm hack but the quality sucks

Hook in reversing and side camera, this may need to be a video hack as I cant see this feature on any US cars...

Not bad for $200... for an expensive paper weight if it doesn't play nice, but then would have theHDD to play with and compare file structure to the JAP and can look at plan B..

Worried the screen and buttons won't play nice... and i'll need to order them too... What the odds Chris?

[Chris Rogers]

get the lot, screen,buttons,box,panel. its ALL different and won't boot off the jap unit. further to the point you will have to hack the video cameras BACK into the system.

hex edit you can do. I never got that far. as it was people would ask for the world and expect it to be served on a platter fro free. not my thing.

the russian fellow worked for oracle at one point and could quite easily do it. not sure if he still is actually. take a bit of initiative and crack it yourself and make a buck or two

[ChrisB]

Mike, be a hero and crack it for us all. I'll be your first customer.

[GFXman]

necroooo

Guessing nothing more happened here?

[Chris Rogers]

Nope. I quit mucking with them a couple of years back.