viper 5101 remote start issue

Hello!

So the story goes, when I bought my 2010 Legacy GT (6 speed), the previous owners have installed a Viper 5105 remote start system.

I bought it certified from the dealer, and they said they dispose of any aftermarket stuff like that when the car is traded in, so I ordered a remote off amazon, and I synced it up to the remote start system.

The doors lock / unlock, the trunk opens, but the damn car won't remote start.

So I start doing some research, the lights flash 7 times when I try to start the car, which means manual transmission mode is enabled.

I read up on how to activate the remote start, which means every time you exit the vehicle, and you want your next start to be done by the remote, you have to do this weird safety thing press the brake, then engage the e-brake, then release the brake, then press the remote start button, etc.

My only problem with this crazy method is that it doesn't work. When I try to do it, nothing happens, no flashing lights, nothing.

My question is this, I can turn my remote starter to automatic transmission mode, most people say this is un-safe. but, being that Subaru has this magical parking brake that you have to disengage every time you start the car, and it is engaged every time your car is turned off, can't I just run the remote start in automatic mode? This would require some sort of bypass to the clutch safety switch, but my biggest fear, which would be the car being in gear, and someone accidentally pressing the remote start, the car should just stall right? Seeing as the parking brake is engaged.

So that being said, I switched it to automatic mode, and I tried the start, the car turns on, but wont start, if I get in and press the clutch in, the car starts up.

Any advice on the issue would be helpful.

If you have a manual transmission and it still flashes 7 times, there might be something else wrong.
Having said that you can program it to auto but you would have to do two things.
1) Find the vehicle NSS output at the engine management and connect it. Might be called MT gear position or neutral sensor, this wire will read as ground only when the gear shift is in neutral.
You can connect it to the BLACK/ white H2/2 going to the parking brake but diode isolate. All manual Subies have it.
GREEN/ black at engine Control Mod behind glove box, white 35 pin plug (C), pin 35.
2) Clutch by-pass: BLACK/ blue (-) from status output, (diode isolate if this goes to the by-pass) at clutch switch, white 5 pin plug, pin 2.
Do not change your transmission type until you've done stage 1.

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Thanks.

I got it working in automatic mode, I put the car in gear and tried to remote start it and it would not go, so the neutral safety switch is working.

Good, leave it in auto mode now.

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Amateurs assume, don't test and have problems; pros test first. I am not a free install service.
Read the installation manual, do a search here or online for your vehicle wiring before posting.