So, basically, you want to take a camera
and the above mentioned control unit from
an Audi R8 and implement this into an Audi
A3? I'm not sure if this will work at all
(completely different subject).
To find the desired sequence isn't quite
that easy. You will have to do some signal
analysing of the Audi R8's CAN Bus. I'm no
expert here, but basically you will need
to collect data being sent on the CAN bus
in an as "quiet as possible" enviroment.
There is a lot of traffic on the CAN bus,
since this is where all signals of the
different sensors and control units travel.
"As quiet as possible" simply means you
need to reduce the amount of traffic on
the CAN bus (put control units to sleep,
take out the power fuses, etc, etc). Once
you have data how the "quiet bus" looks
like, then you will have to initiate the
camera function. The problem here is that
there are several commands that will be
sent to the control unit of the camera.
Furthermore the control unit of the camera
will send some commands back.
E.g. something like this ("translated" into english):
Navi--> Camera: Camera, wake up please
Camera--> Hello navi, I'm here, what do you want?
Navi--> Camera please send me your data**
Camera--> Navi, Okay here is your data**
Camera--> Navi, all data sent
Navi--> Camera Okay, thanks
Navi--> Camera We are done, please go back to sleep to save power
Camera--> Navi, okay, good night.
This is a *very* crude example of what will happen.
As you can see, there is a lot of info just to do
some simple things AND you will need to find out
which bits are the data, the start and end blocks
surrounding the data, the init sequence, the handshake
protokoll, etc.
This is definitively NOT a trivial task and not
something that can be done in an half-hour's time
(even if you exactly know what the Audi R8's CAN
bus data looks like).
**data: You will also have to find out if the
data is *video* data or if this data also contains
the distance info. Newer cars use this data, for
example to control the autoranging cruise control
(front camera, of course). I don't know if an R8
still has the ultrasonic transducers in the rear
bumper to provide distance infos while parking or
if they rely soley or partially on the camera.
If you find schematics of the hookup bewtween
the camera, it's control unit and the final
display unit, you can tell if the camera is
sending a simple video signal or if it contains
more info (which would make sorting out the
signals even more difficult). Maybe someone on
the forum can tell us more on the R8 (I'm not
rich enough to be able to afford one ;o))
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