I was wondering if anyone has been looking into integrating Pioneers' IP-Bus with the Empeg.

Others have discussed it, but I don't think anyone ever went anywhere with it.

I thought it would very convenient to have the Empeg emulate a Pioneer changer

Although the Empeg team once designed an OEM MP3 player that emulated a CD changer, there is no functionality in the Empeg Car software to do this, so you'd need to write your own player software. That's assuming you want a Pioneer CD-controlling head unit to fully control the Empeg, of course. If you managed to reverse-engineer the IP bus stuff, and all you wanted to do was send play/pause/next/prev to the Empeg, then some tricky work with the serial plug would do it, you could intercept the IP bus commands and translate those into ASCII commands sent to the empeg's serial port. But that would be a lot of work...

And it still wouldn't allow you to properly control an Empeg mounted in the trunk. There are many things about the empeg that require you to see its display. It's not meant for trunk mounting.


which would allow the use of Pioneer's standard remote for some of the more common features of the Empeg without having to juggle between two remotes.

Oh, is that all you want to do? So you don't really need to mount the empeg like a CD changer, you just want to use your Pioneer remote on it? Ah, that's easy. You don't need to mess with IP bus to do that. Frank Van Gestel has written a program to intercept and display IR remote codes, and then you can use a modified kernel that responds to those new remote commands. Or something like that. I seem to remember that they even got it working with the Pioneer remote already. Anyone have that link?

Question, though: If you already have a Pioneer head unit, wouldn't you rather have the empeg not respond to the Pioneer commands? If both units respond to the same remote, then you're going to be pressing "play" for both devices at the same time. It'd be a mess, wouldn't it?

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Tony Fabris