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Dension Gateway 500: iPod for the Porsche
What with Porsche not installing iPod support from the factory, and the fact that their stereo systems are all run through a fiber-optic system known as the MOST bus, a company called Dension have released an interface that sits between the iPod and the MOST bus – The Dension Gateway 500.
I purchased two of the above, one for my Porsche Boxster 986 with a CDR23, and the other for my Dads Porsche Boxster 987 with a CDR24 – The installation on the CDR24 went smoothly and is working, though I was having some issues trying to get it working with the CDR23. (more…)
Logitech Harmony 525: Upwards scrolling
Having had my Logitech Harmony 525 for a couple of months I could never understand why it changed the channels on my TV by only scrolling downwards and looping around the menu, even if I wanted to change to a channel directly above the one currently selected. Mental!
There are no options to configure this on the online configuration process, so after contacting Logitech technical support, a few days later they got back to me having made a “behind the scenes” change to my config file. My remote now scrolls up and down to scroll to my required channel using the shortest direction – Apparently this is something they have to manually add to peoples account. Why? I don’t know…
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