Hi Guys,
I appreciate some guidance. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have attempted my first Remote Starter installation in my car but I am having a couple of doubts and concerns. Here are some of my questions
- What firmware should I be using? ADS-AL(DL)-HA3 firmware or DBI-AL(DL)-HA3 firmware for the iDatalink bypass module? What is the difference between the two? I currently have the DBI firmware installed.
- In the main ignition of the vehicle I connected the following
DESCRIPTION VEHICLE WIRES REMOTE STARTER WIRES
12V (+) INPUT White 2x Red
STARTER Yellow Purple
ACC Red Orange
IGNITION Pink Pink
NOT_IDENTIFIED Orange Not_Connected <-- Not sure what this cable is but when I use the key to start the engine, the voltage drops while the STARTER is running and goes to 12V when the key is set to the "ignition" should i connect the pink/white cable from the RS? Some other forums call this the secondary ACC. Is this needed? what would require this connection to be enabled?
- My understanding is that the Bypass module should be able to get all the information from the CAN bus and control the majority of the vehicle behavior. I am having trouble getting the remote starter to trigger the horn or enable the parking lights or even get the status of the Park/Neutral switch.
So here are the other additional connections I made:
- For the bypass module, I connected the CANH, CANL, Key Data, and IGNITION keys just like the bypass instructions call out.
- Between the Remote Starter and the Bypass module i connected the D2D cable.
- For the remote starter, the I connected the ground and the heavy duty starter cables mentioned before.
Now when I tried running the starter, I could hear the RS click, but not start anything. Running the remote starter shutdown diagnostics, it said it was erroring out because it didn't have the parking/neutral ground connected. So as a test, I just grounded that cable and now the remote starter seems to be working. This makes me nervous because if all of the instructions don't mention the fact that that cable from the remote starter needs to be connected, I wonder what other cables need to be connected that I may be missing. Any of you know?
Any insight will be greatly appreciated.