Looks like you did a great job! Enjoy!

Dwayne

 

That was a perfect job.

 

Colour me impressed. I am so glad that mine came with the RSE fitted, as my competence level stops at refuelling. And unlike others, my grandson has used the system pretty much nonstop since he discovered it.

 

What a great deal of work. I’m more envious than the level of my ability to tackle such a daunting project and my grandchildren manage with a central placed iPad. Thank goodness

 

 

Do you have a list of what ccf lines you changed to enable the RSE?

 

I added the rear seat entertainment screens shown above in this thread back in 2018. Last month, I found a local salvage yard that had a junked XJ that was pillaged for parts. The interior seats were in great condition, and they had the 10 inch screens on them. I made the purchased and they threw in the entertainment module. I cleaned them off, and the seats looks brand new! As such, I upgraded from the 8 inch headrest screens to the 10 inch seat-mounted ones. It was plug and play, but you’ll need the newer module as it formats the picture for the large size screens. It’s an easy upgrade if you can find the parts.

 

Worth mentioning that with the tech today, it would be much better from a functionality, screen quality, and ease of installation to create or buy some kind of nicely integrated magnetic mount for a tablet or a CarPlay stand alone screen with screen mirroring. With a tablet, you can download lots of content to it for watching, or put it on your phone's hotspot for streaming. With a CarPlay screen that has mirroring, you can just play off your phone so your phone is like the remote control. The Click and Go Jag system is pretty close to what you need for these applications.

 

Tricky to control the rear-seat entertainment from the front screen if you don't use the integrated stuff, though.

 

Not if you have the tablet on a magnetic mount and just pull it off to control it and put it back. Hopefully, you can plan it to set it and forget it with enough content to play for the trip.

Or if you are using screen mirroring, then you can completely control what is on the screen from the phone in the front seat.

It's just better to use the new tech available. When they came out with this OEM back seat stuff, the tech world was very different.

 

I respectfully disagree.

 

What content options do you have to play from the front screen?

 

I have a 128 GB memory stick plugged in to one of the USB ports, with movies and TV shows on, and I have copied some movies and TV shows on to the car hard drive: The driver (or more often the front seat passenger) can select from any of those on either media on demand (with different content served to each of the rear screens) - or we can also select a TV channel for either rear screen - using the native interface on the touch screen. I occasionally use a DVD, but I find them a little cumbersome. The grandkids each have a set of Whitefire headphones welded to their heads, and live in their own little world.

I am told that I could put a fire stick in too, but neither I nor the grandkids have yet seen the need. It's possible that CarPlay could be pressed into service too, but it is new to me so I haven't tried that yet.

The twelve-year-old could probably serve himself with an iPad, but I can't imagine that the three-year-old could be self-sufficient. We are fortunate in that the three-year-old is comfortable in headphones, but when they slip off we suffer through listening to Meg and Mog or Bluey on the main speakers.

I am sure that the resolution of the video, and the refresh rates, and other techie stuff are not as modern as if we used BYOD media, but I'm not sure the kids care.

 

Yeah, I would never go back to that old world way of doing things. Tech has passed you by.

 

Yup.

 

@ABrice If you are still around, so you happen to still have all your notes from doing this? I happen to have a 2011 XJ that is my primary project that does not have RSE but my parts donor is a 2012 and does have it. I am crazy enough to put forth the extra effort here and nothing about this scares me in the least. Other people play games or put together puzzles. I do this! In fact, I already have to take the headliner down to fix the sunroof but also ..well Jaguar headliner so, you know. Got a redo it. Might as well do this all at the same time.

Mike

 

Hey Mike,

This project was a while back. Another forum member sent me some notes and diagrams to complete this. I may actually still have them. Send me a PM with your phone number and email address. I’ll talk you through it and shoot the wiring diagrams to you.

 

@ABrice Did X-Dave give you SDD instructions on how to "pair" the rear remote to the front head unit? I'm trying to install a replacement rear remote to my RSE equipped 2012.

@farm-jag Have you installed the RSE yet? Did you find where in SDD you can "pair" the remote to the head unit?

 

I didn’t think that you could control the front unit with the rear remote. I never had a reason to control the front screen. When I installed the RSE, I had to go into the CCF and enable the companion docking station by selecting a frequency. Once I did that, I was able to control the rear screens. I’ve purchased 3 remotes and they all controlled the rear screens no problem. I didn’t think that you could control the front screens. Were you able to control the front screen with your old remote? What can you control?

 

Once "paired" the remote communicates (you could say controls) the front head unit to load dvd/fast forward etc for the rear screens, see attached guide. The remote does not control the front screen in terms of what it displays. Could you share the X-Dave instructions for CCF modification - I have been unable to get my replacement remote recognized by the head unit and maybe there is a mismatch in CCF.