All the years I have owned my Honda Civic,
and that is from new in 2014, I have been dissatisfied
with the original multimedia center, it has not lived
up to my expectations at any time.
I then chose to invest in an Android system, it didn't go so well
I chose a top spec Chinese system with Android 11, 8 core CPU
6Gb system memory and 128Gb storage.
In addition to built-in TPMS and Dashcam with ADAS.
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To make sure I got something that suited my specific car.
I sent pictures and model number and got the answer that they
had just what I needed and it was plug and play.
Unfortunately, it wasn't that straightforward.
I did however receive a harness with the correct connectors,
but almost none of them had the wires mounted in the correct
place in the connector to match the connector on the car
So no sound at all.
After much writing back and forth, they chose to send a
new wiring harness and Canbus connector, but when it finally
arrived it turned out not to fit the car at all!
I then contacted several companies in Europe to see if
they could supply a wiring harness for my Honda,
everything was negative.
No one could make anything for the Danish model
because the Danish Diesel version has a built-in amplifier
So what should I do, throw the system away and say that's it,
or try to make something myself.
I chose the latter option.
Ironically it was the one with the original amplifier that the European companies had mentioned that put me on the trail.
I carefully studied the wiring diagrams I could find, but I couldn't find exactly my version so I had to go by the color codes and connected all the outputs fairly easily.
Then I turned my attention to the amplifier and found out that I should be able to control it from the Android system and I found via the pinout diagram the wire in the car's connector that controls the on/off of the amplifier
and sure it worked.
I still haven't found the right Canbus wires yet though, but it's only a matter of time, but until then my buttons on the steering wheel don't work.
However, I have solved many of the Canbus-controlled functions by finding the control current in the car's system and then connecting it to the system using the pinout diagram
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