iPhone;560230 Wrote: > Think more outside of the box. I use a 12V to 5V 4Amp DC/DC power supply > that is wired to a switched hot IE key must be in the Start/On position > for the Touch to draw power. No battery draw unless driving. I have had > no issues using Toshiba USB powered USB Drives. Probably because they > are portables and designed to take some knocking around as well as > sitting on a small piece of memory foam in the lower cubby hole. And > even if you don't have Aux In on your head unit, some factory units can > have an adapter added to get the signal in though I highly recommend > after market head units with Aux In. > > Or one can just use a small Inverter to power Touch via the OEM PS and > then even use external powered USB drive since one has the inverter to > plug it into. > > Could you update over WiFi, I guess so, but why bother. Its a USB > drive, bring it in and do a direct update over a USB Cable.
Updating over wifi would be nice though, since you could use something like synctoy on windows or rsync on linux/mac to do a quick update. You might even be able to do something automatic as soon as the device is seen on the network so you car system would always be insync with your home system. Course the trick then would be to figure out a good system to save battery power. Ideally would be to have some type of time delay circuit to cut the power after say 24 hours. That way for most trips the Touch will always be ready to go, and only need to do a power up if the car has been parked for awhile. -- m1abrams ------------------------------------------------------------------------ m1abrams's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=850 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80255 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
