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One original mature age VW enthusiast owner from new.
Reluctantly selling as I have a Mustang now. ;) Missus says I can't keep both as much as I love this car. It will be hard to let it go.
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Yes but doesnt it only have limited application support unless you have a particular phone model that's rooted and with a modified rom in the headunit to give you full access to all apps in...

Yep!! That's exactly why I havent tried to upgrade my RNS510. Car Play and Android Auto are crippled with very few applications supported.

I've spent time getting an Android Auto equivalent going...

Well....

After fiddling with chromecast and wireless hotspots with all the different media player and server solutions... I've come back to JRiver Media Center 23 for Pi running on my battery...

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Some more updates.

I played with llama and tasker automation to try get the tablet to cast automatically but haven't got it working yet. Ideally you just want to get in and have it work...

Some of you probably already knew this... the chromecast audio can handle 24bit 192khz streaming and optical output. The internal chromecast DAC also handles it without resampling and actually...

This works way better than I had expected, and it doesnt look too out of place in the age of displays popping out of dashes.

It remembers last playing track and you can set a couple of the apps to...

Video explaining and a demo!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpqZ1yGJznI

Yeah thanks I'm pretty happy with it.

I made a few more modifications to the setup to simplify it now.

I now have a chromecast audio setup along with a creative labs E5 DAC.

Amazing little...

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I've just been through the whole range of options to upgrade my RNS 510 on a 2010 R36 I've owned since new.
No problems with my current one, i just wanted something more...

I bought a set of replicas a year ago and they are still perfect despite the **** roads in Sydney and taking a few hard hits on pot holes with 44psi. They are omanyts 19x8.5 et45 replicas with...

I have a MY10.5 R36 48k kms that the dealer just replaced my RCV on after I diagnosed and ordered the part from polarbear in the US. Mines a pxe16 Sanden compressor. I had intermittent to no cooling...

I have a MY10.5 R36 48k kms that the dealer just replaced my RCV on after I diagnosed and ordered the part from polarbear in the US. Mines a pxe16 Sanden. I had intermittent to no cooling and only...

Not really, the look will still be factory, and I'll have a full PC to drive from the factory RNS-510 touch screen. Yeah I don't really want the PC NAV, I'm just using it for media playback with...

I want something of a factory integrated system. I'm looking at a few options for the media player. In a perfect world I'd love to use JRiver but I may have to resort to using the XBOX One Skin for...

If everything goes to plan with the "Beta" testing Im going to put in a car pc with softstart, controlled shutdown and resume from hibernation support.

Something like this
Fully Assembled Car PC...

Hi All,

To celebrate 5 years with my R36 and to kick off the next 5 years, Im going to put in a car PC video/music server with touch screen support! :)

While I'm at it I'll start looking around...

My beloved R36 has just been refinanced for another 5 years with another 3yr extended warranty. :)
Halved my repayments in the process.

I looked at Golf VII R, Audi S3, Skoda Octavia RS and even...

Sounds really great! (excuse the pun!!)
How long did it take to find the bits. I cant imagine wrecks come up too often?
I found some parts stores online that have all the bits but the "H" version...

No you don't need the MDI to do BT and have the text displayed. Some RNS 510 units wont work with the 9W7 though, or will work but text display or MFSW wont work. Most of that can be sorted with...

You need the MDI option to use usb. It's normally installed in the top of the glovebox in the passat and pulls down with a tab that you pull on while you have the glovebox open.
You can retro-fit it...

Its not id3 browsing built into the 510 as such, you need to create the playlists and folder structure with a separate program on a PC with id3browser and then the 510 can navigate the folders and...

iPhone Siri navigation FTW!
VW need to update their nav units and adopt apple carplay.
The RNS510 is doing ok for a 7 year old technology, but it's easily outclassed by smart phones now. I don't...

Yes that's one way of doing it with structured music folders but that's a bit of work in itself to maintain and it doesn't really give you much flexibility for accessing your music. Its also slower...

Ok so I decided I want to play some foo fighters..
I navigate to artists and then F

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Navigate down to Foo

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