I figured it was a sort of generic question and I didn't want to hijack yours any more.

Anyway it seems to be working fine now. The empeg doesn't seem to care about the echo anymore and I have the empeg booting up and running my program automatically. Main problem is that now the radio keeps forgetting it has CD changer so I have to wait for the broadcast. The radio doesn't seem to understand the announce message.

I already have done my Ibus code now so I won't need yours but thanks anyway. When you get yours up it might be worth comparing to see what each other did.