The CIB (Car PC Interface Box) is the Interface between your CarPC and the BMW OEM navigation screen and the BMW multimedia bus (IBus/KBus).

Additonaly this edition of the CIB offers you cd emulation. so you can use the CD IN of your BMW radio as audio input for your car pc.
You won't have audio gaps when using your car pc with the steering wheel or boardmonitor buttons as with cheap cd emulations!

Also included is the tv free option. With that it is possible for the codriver to watch tv during driving.

Furthermore you'll have the ability to restart, reset or power off your car pc comfortable just with the boardmonitor.

Those functions are controlled by a menu:

The integrated IBus/KBus interfaces uses collisions detection. That is very important. Cheaper interfaces do not have collisions detection and will cause trouble in you car.

The CIB is just plugged between your navigation computer and the BMW.

You get all required cables and harnesses for your BMW and CarPC:

1 cable harness with original BMW plugs for the navigation computer

1 vga cable for the CarPC

1 serial port cable for the IBus/KBus interface

The screen switchting is controlled completely by car-deck.
Also other programs are supported. To switch the screen to the CarPC pin 7 (rts) has to be set high.

Attention: The CIB needs a graphics car compatible to PowerStrip. You have to set up special timings with it.

For more details check the installation guide.