Retrofitted Homelink

[***DK***]

On my quest to retrofit as many buttons as possible to my car I've finally retrofitted Homelink buttons to control my gates.

I followed the DIY below, buttons and grille surround trim came from USA, emitter from Europe and wiring from a guy on eBay.

If anyone else does this, go for the emmiter part number ending B or C as that runs higher frequencies used for most things nowadays (433mhz). I got the A part and have had to make a slight hack to run a remote with a lower frequency to match the emmiter. More details about frequencies at the Audizine link below.

Anyway all working and quite a rare option in the UK (I think).

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[NHN]

Generally there is an intermediary module for audi homelink to interact with numerous gate systems to match frequencies as Audi didn't match well.

Iirc it was Siemens module, I r&d'd this when I lived in Italy, as gates were a common theme.

 

[***DK***]

Yeah the one for my gates is very expensive for what it actually does. Think it's like £100 so I went with a £20 universal remote with relay switch wired to my original remote. Works like a charm.

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[JohnS3]

So which buttons are still missing? What’s next on the retrofit list?

 

[***DK***]

Ha not many, that's probably it for me now. I've done drive select, hill hold, boot release in door card and valet in the glove box.

Obviously there's other things I don't have like heated seats, rear blinds, automatic tailgate but they're all a little too involved for a cheapish retrofit.

Recently completed the facelift LED tail light upgrade.

B8.5 ball s-tronic gear knob (heat and twist method)

DAB radio is underway just need component protection removed and that's good to go.

Would love a face lift flat bottom steering wheel but they seem very expensive so unless I spot a cheap one somehow that's probably off the cards for a while.


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