car stereo to pc
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Forum Name: Car Audio
Forum Discription: Car Stereos, Amplifiers, Crossovers, Processors, Speakers, Subwoofers, etc.
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Printed Date: April 28, 2024 at 3:19 PM
Topic: car stereo to pc
Posted By: keegun
Subject: car stereo to pc
Date Posted: February 26, 2009 at 2:17 AM
hi im a student and working on my final year project which is connecting a car radio to a computer and designing a graphic user interface to control the radio from the computer. can anyone please give me some ideas or guidelines on how to connect the car radio to the pc.advice on any model of car radio will be alright
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Posted By: soundnsecurity
Date Posted: February 26, 2009 at 11:02 PM
seems like a cool idea but i have no idea of how you would do it. except to write a program that controls a wireless IR transmitter that uses the same signals as the remote for the car radio. if you know how to do these things, i think that would be easiest. but, i guess you could also built an analog interface that mimics the faceplate controls and interfaces with the faceplate connector. as far as getting power to the radio, thats easy because computer power supplies put out 12v . the hardest thing you will you will probably need to figure out is how to run the sound from the radio through the PC. my guess would be to get a sound card with an RCA or 3.5mm headphone jack input and run that to the radios RCA output.
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Posted By: terror-tron-74
Date Posted: February 27, 2009 at 1:47 AM
i know you can transfer sounds from the comp to a head unit. you can select tracks from the computer and play them through your haed unit. as far as controling the head unit from the pc, u will need a interface program. or maybe a usb, cable from pc to head unit, but you will need some type of program.
Posted By: keegun
Date Posted: March 16, 2009 at 3:55 AM
im looking into the infra red option but im clueless on what hardware to buy.i got the radio which supports the remote control feature
Posted By: soundnsecurity
Date Posted: March 16, 2009 at 12:42 PM
the way I would do it would be to make a physical interface to the circuit board of the remote and use a computer program to control some switches that activate individual buttons on the remote. this is just a concept and i have no idea as to what kind of hardware you would need to use to do this
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Posted By: j.reed
Date Posted: March 17, 2009 at 9:03 AM
Go to youtube.com and type carputer. There are quite a few there with vids of people building them. Im sure someone could help you with it. Also i found a site that does them. customcarputers.com ------------- 
Posted By: soundnsecurity
Date Posted: March 17, 2009 at 1:54 PM
j.reed wrote:
Go to youtube.com and type carputer. There are quite a few there with vids of people building them. Im sure someone could help you with it. Also i found a site that does them. customcarputers.com
but thats not what hes talking about. he wants to control a normal car stereo with a computer interface. personally i think they are sweet and i will definitely be building one once i save up about 1000 dollars. its really not that hard to do if you know how to match computer parts. -------------
Posted By: keegun
Date Posted: March 19, 2009 at 12:54 AM
yeah the carputer thing is not what i want because the radio will be interfaced through the dashboard yet im not using the dashboard i want it from the radio straing to pc .
Posted By: dstang24
Date Posted: March 19, 2009 at 2:46 AM
I would say if you're actually in school for something like programming or electrical engineering you might consider using an Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). See if your school offers a class pertaining to it. The FPGA can be programmed using VHDL code, which for a programmer is a very straight forward language. The FPGA can then be directly connected/soldered to the input at the faceplate plug or directly to the buttons on the faceplate. ------------- Team Edge Audio
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