Can you retrofit a wifi adapter into the CIC?
03-05-2013, 08:33 AM
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Can you retrofit a wifi adapter into the CIC?
I posted this in the e60 section, but given Ive done a full CIC retrofit, I essentially have an F10 entertainment system. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
So Ive fairly well teched out my car.
Its a 2004 545i, but has the full CIC Nav Combox upgrade, making it essentially a 2012. All of which I love.
Recently now Ive put my own personal hotspot in the car, using the power source in the glove compartment to power a portable router & a Verizon 4G dongle.
Love this too.
To run the CIC integration I have an iphone 4 with no cellular data (killed the plan) & running wifi. With the router set up, I now have a great experience with BMW apps I want:
Stitcher, MOG, Pandora all rock. The BMW canned apps from their own app are there as well and just ok.
My question is:
Is there a way to get the wifi from my router to feed the CIC directly? A retrofit for a wifi adapter?
Currently the CIC is supposed to get its data connection through the iphone I have attached using hotspot/tethering activated. BUT since I dont have cellular anymore I cant do that. Ive looked into it extensively, and even if jailbroken, the iphone cannot both recieve & share the wifi signal (even in USB mode).
Anyone smart enough to know if there is another way to pipe my wifi directly into the CIC?
So Ive fairly well teched out my car.
Its a 2004 545i, but has the full CIC Nav Combox upgrade, making it essentially a 2012. All of which I love.
Recently now Ive put my own personal hotspot in the car, using the power source in the glove compartment to power a portable router & a Verizon 4G dongle.
Love this too.
To run the CIC integration I have an iphone 4 with no cellular data (killed the plan) & running wifi. With the router set up, I now have a great experience with BMW apps I want:
Stitcher, MOG, Pandora all rock. The BMW canned apps from their own app are there as well and just ok.
My question is:
Is there a way to get the wifi from my router to feed the CIC directly? A retrofit for a wifi adapter?
Currently the CIC is supposed to get its data connection through the iphone I have attached using hotspot/tethering activated. BUT since I dont have cellular anymore I cant do that. Ive looked into it extensively, and even if jailbroken, the iphone cannot both recieve & share the wifi signal (even in USB mode).
Anyone smart enough to know if there is another way to pipe my wifi directly into the CIC?
03-05-2013, 09:07 AM
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There is a way to get the CIC to use the Ethernet connection. So from there you put that into a 4G router or similar and thats how you do it.
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03-05-2013, 10:29 AM
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That is cool. Going to take a bit of work to cut it up, but very cool.
The travel router I have in the glovebox has 4 ports, so this should be fairly straight forward.
The travel router I have in the glovebox has 4 ports, so this should be fairly straight forward.
03-05-2013, 03:32 PM
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after u will be the guinea pig 
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please post a diy with pictures..so other can follow it
i will donate some$$
thx u
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To Follow Up:
I learned of a jailbreak ipod app called MyWi which allows you to share a wifi data connection through your ipod. Im going to try this first (using tether) to see if that gets the job done.
Im hoping it works & I dont have to cut anything. Will be checking in later...
I learned of a jailbreak ipod app called MyWi which allows you to share a wifi data connection through your ipod. Im going to try this first (using tether) to see if that gets the job done.
Im hoping it works & I dont have to cut anything. Will be checking in later...
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