[JonEQuest]

I have Bluetooth phone and want to add the ability to do Bluetooth audio from my phone and use the steering wheel controls. I am confused at all the options for different setups so I posted what mine is for advice.

I have a 2008 E93 with the Logic 7 system and CCC iDrive. I want to add Bluetooth with good quality audio to it and have heard about a combo box. I have not taken my 2008 apart yet but my 2007 had a box in the back by the logic 7 amp that had different color connectors to plug in what I assume is the phone, CD changer (I don't have one) and other things. It even had an unused active fiber optic cable that I found taped on the harness that was lighting up red when I un-taped it. Is there a way to add an input for Bluetooth to that box? Is that a Combox that I have read about?

[ctuna]

If you had a live Most Bus cable that had light shinning out of it
and it was only taped that would indicate your most bus is broken
and you should have no sound .


http://www.e90post.com/forums/showth...4#post23244354
The link inside this now points at the wrong box see my last entry in the
thread.
The guy that wrote the DIY thread does a real good job of revewing this
device and of the install. Also I would install it the way he did.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Bluetooth-U....c100005.m1851

Go to the idrive sub forum if you want to pursue the combox
but I believe you would have to update the ccc to cic to get it
working.

[JonEQuest]

Originally Posted by ctuna

If you had a live Most Bus cable that had light shinning out of it
and it was only taped that would indicate your most bus is broken
and you should have no sound .


http://www.e90post.com/forums/showth...4#post23244354
The link inside this now points at the wrong box see my last entry in the
thread.
The guy that wrote the DIY thread does a real good job of revewing this
device and of the install. Also I would install it the way he did.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Bluetooth-U....c100005.m1851

Go to the idrive sub forum if you want to pursue the combox
but I believe you would have to update the ccc to cic to get it
working.

The car audio and phone was working fine. This was an extra wire, probably for something like a CD changer that was not installed and not coded in for the system to "look" for it. That is what makes me think of I can get a box to simulate a CD changer I can use that input for a nice fiber audio connection. It would probably be called "CD Changer" in my IDrive menu, but I can live with that.

[ctuna]

Well Johnny the cars made before 2010 for the Us all had
pre wiring for options. The most bus options be most of it.
That means CDC player which goes to the amp and the Sat module
TCU/mulf module. However the Most Fiber Optic Links are
not wired into the Most Loop at the Most Hub until the device
is added. It they were there would have to be a Most Loop
jumper on each one at the point where the module plugs
in or the Most Loop would open and nothing would work.

when is says prep for something it meas the wiring is there
but that something isn't.

You sure can get that CDC emulator Jonny.
However if you put the device where the cdc is meant
to be you will have to add that leg of the fiberoptics
into the active most loop at the most hub.
this confuses some people.
You also have to enable the CDC option in the Radio or
idrive through coding.

[JonEQuest]

Originally Posted by ctuna

Well Johnny the cars made before 2010 for the Us all had
pre wiring for options. The most bus options be most of it.
That meand CDC player which goes to the amp Sat module
TCU/mulf module. However the Most Fiber Optic Links are
not wired into the Most Loop at the Most Hub until the device
is added. It they were there would have to be a Most Loop
jumper on each one at the point where the module plugs
in or the Most Loop would be open and nothing would work.

when is says prep for something it meas the wiring is there
but that something isn't.

Yes, I understand "most" of what you wrote. I know that it has a closed loop and if an item is missing the system doesn't work. But for some reason there was a plug that had been taped up in the driver's rear quarter panel to the wiring harness since the car was built. When I untapped it to look at it out of curiosity it was lit up red. Definitely not coded in the "loop" yet but it is there. I noticed it when I was taking everything I could out, to try and fix a crushed frame rail.
My point is that it seems that if someone makes a Bluetooth receiver that puts out via fiber optic cable I could code whatever that prewired accessory was as active and use it as an input. I suspect it was probably a Satellite radio or CD changer input. I have a dummy (empty) satellite antenna on my trunk.

[ctuna]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Bluetooth-U....c100005.m1851

[JonEQuest]

Originally Posted by ctuna

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Bluetooth-U....c100005.m1851

..... Yeah, that's the ticket. I need to look into that.