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Old 20th April 2014, 02:16 PM
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Originally Posted by ScottB5 View Post
.... but the downside with them is that you have to move the IR receiver to the front of the car or have it in a position that you can point the remove at it.
Hmm. I had a DVD player in my Passat that also had USB and SD slots.
I extended the IR 'eye' to hang out the lower corner of the glovebox (as that was where DVD player was). That would be more difficult on the A8.

The Raspberry Pi would be good, but frequently gets corrupted and OpenELEC and RaspBMC have awkward interfaces. I couldn't get the iOS remote app to work at all over WIFI, it just hung. So at the moment I have nothing. Maybe I will get one of these...
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/high-...980133704.html
when they're back in stock. Annoyed as it was £37 a couple of weeks ago.
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