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Install inLINK NGX

The Infinitybox inLINK NGX Interface Kit puts three features on one small circuit board that lives inside your MASTERCELL NGX: Remote Keyless Entry, Passive Keyless Entry and the Infinitybox inTOUCH touch screen interface. Use one of them or use all three.

The kit comes with two 4-button key fobs. Those four buttons give you eight functions with a range up to 100 feet. Lock and unlock your doors, arm and disarm your security, run your lights or pop your trunk. Pair your phone to inLINK NGX over Bluetooth and your car unlocks and disarms as you walk up to it, then locks and arms as you walk away. Connect to the secure Wi-Fi network that inLINK NGX broadcasts and you get a full set of touch screens for your lights, windows, locks, heat and A/C, ignition, starter and anything else running through your IPM1 Kit or inMOTION NGX. No Internet connection and no data plan.

Order inLINK NGX with your IPM1 Kit and we install it at the factory. Add it later and you install it yourself. This post covers how to install it yourself. The board is plug-and-play and there is nothing to program. Your MASTERCELL NGX finds it on its own.

Please note that this blog post covers the MASTERCELL NGX in our Next Generation IPM1 Kit. The inLINK NGX board is specific to our Next Generation hardware and only installs into the MASTERCELL NGX. It will not work in our Legacy 3-Cell Kit, Legacy 20-Circuit Kit or Legacy 10-Circuit Kit.

Before You Start

Work on a clean bench with good light. You will have the MASTERCELL NGX circuit board out of its housing, so ground yourself before you touch it and handle it by the edges. Static kills electronics.

If your MASTERCELL NGX is already mounted in your car, disconnect your battery before you unplug anything.

You need a Phillips screwdriver and a small screwdriver or pick.

Your inLINK NGX kit includes the receiver board, two screws, two plastic spacers, two key fobs and an installation guide. Both antennas are already connected to the board.

 

Step 1: Disconnect the MASTERCELL NGX

You need to get to the back of your MASTERCELL NGX. If it is mounted in your car, take it out. Unplug the two input connectors and the CAN connector. Press the lock on each connector and pull it straight up.

Unplugging the two input connectors and the CAN connector from the MASTERCELL NGX to begin the inLINK NGX installation

Unplug the two input connectors and the CAN connector from your MASTERCELL NGX.

Step 2: Remove the Screws from the Back Cover

Set the MASTERCELL NGX on your bench with the inSIGHT screen facing down and the back cover facing up. Keep it in this position for the next several steps. If you turn it over, the buttons fall out.

Eight screws hold the back cover to the housing. Back all eight out with a Phillips screwdriver and put them somewhere safe. You need them again at the end.

Backing out the eight Phillips screws from the back cover of the MASTERCELL NGX with the inSIGHT screen facing down

Back all eight screws out of the back cover and put them somewhere safe.

Step 3: Remove the Back Cover

The back cover does not lift straight off. Reach underneath and push up on the input connector pins with your fingers. That pushes the back cover away from the housing.

Lift the back cover off. The circuit board comes with it. Set the housing down and leave it face down.

ushing up on the MASTERCELL NGX input connector pins with your fingers to separate the back cover from the housing

Push up on the input connector pins to lift the back cover off the housing.

Step 4: Set the Spacers on the Board

Find the two holes in the MASTERCELL NGX circuit board below the inSIGHT screen. Set a plastic spacer over each hole.

The spacers do two jobs. They hold the inLINK NGX board off the MASTERCELL NGX board, and they line it up so it plugs into the socket correctly. Leave them sitting in place and move to the next step.

Placing the two plastic spacers over the mounting holes in the MASTERCELL NGX circuit board below the inSIGHT screen

Set a plastic spacer over each of the two holes below the inSIGHT screen.

Step 5: Plug in the inLINK NGX Board

Hold the spacers where they are. Line the connector on the bottom of the inLINK NGX board up with the pin header on the MASTERCELL NGX board.

The header has one more pin than the connector. Line them up so the leftover pin is the one furthest from the inSIGHT screen. Every other pin on the header goes into the connector.

Press the inLINK NGX board down until the connector is fully seated on the header. Check that both spacers are still lined up with their holes. If one has shifted, move it back with a small screwdriver or a pick.

Route the thin wire antenna under the inSIGHT screen. That is the 433 MHz antenna for your key fobs.

Seating the inLINK NGX board on the MASTERCELL NGX pin header and routing the 433 MHz wire antenna under the inSIGHT screen

Seat the inLINK NGX board on the header, then route the 433 MHz wire antenna under the inSIGHT screen.

Step 6: Screw Down the inLINK NGX Board

Run the two 4-40 screws through the inLINK NGX board and into the spacers. Snug them down until the board is solid.

Important: Do not over-tighten these screws. You can crack the circuit board.

Driving the two 4-40 screws through the inLINK NGX board and into the plastic spacers with a Phillips screwdriver

Run the two 4-40 screws through the board and into the spacers. Do not over-tighten.

Step 7: Mount the Wi-Fi Antenna

Pick up the front housing you set aside in Step 3 and keep it face down.

The flat rectangular antenna on the black wire is the Wi-Fi antenna. It mounts inside the front housing, in the open area next to the inSIGHT screen opening. The double sided tape is already on the back of it. Peel the backing off, set the antenna in place and press it down.

Pressing the flat rectangular Wi-Fi antenna into the inside of the MASTERCELL NGX front housing next to the inSIGHT screen opening

Peel the backing and press the Wi-Fi antenna into the front housing next to the screen opening.

Step 8: Put the MASTERCELL NGX Back Together

Keep the housing face down through this whole step. Turn it over and the buttons fall out.

Check that both antennas are still connected to the inLINK NGX board. The Wi-Fi antenna wire needs to sit flat so it does not get pinched.

Bring the circuit board and back cover down onto the housing. Line the input pins up with their holes. Press down evenly until every pin comes through and the back cover seats against the housing. It should sit flat with no gap.

Pressing the MASTERCELL NGX circuit board and back cover down onto the front housing so the input pins pass through their holes

Press the board and back cover down until every input pin comes through and the cover sits flat.

Step 9: Reinstall the Back Cover Screws

Run all eight screws back into the back cover and snug them down.

Important: Do not over-tighten these screws. You can strip the plastic.

Driving the eight back cover screws into the reassembled MASTERCELL NGX with a Phillips screwdriver

Run all eight screws back into the back cover. Do not over-tighten.

Step 10: Reconnect the MASTERCELL NGX

Plug the two input connectors and the CAN connector back in. Push each one down until it locks. Check your configuration sheet to confirm each connector goes back where it came from. Your configuration sheet is the single point of truth for your system.

Mount the MASTERCELL NGX back in your car and reconnect your battery.

Plugging the two input connectors and the CAN connector back into the MASTERCELL NGX after the inLINK NGX board is installed

Plug the two input connectors and the CAN connector back in until each one locks.

Confirm inLINK NGX Is Installed

Power your system up and check the System Inventory screen on your MASTERCELL NGX. inLINK NGX shows up in the list. That is your confirmation that the MASTERCELL NGX found the board. Click here to learn how to read the System Inventory screen.

There is nothing to program. Your key fobs are ready to pair and your inTOUCH screens are ready to connect.

Questions about installing inLINK NGX? Call our team at (847) 232-1991 or fill out our contact form at this link. We are happy to help.

CAN Control of inVIEW

Three Ways to Control inVIEW From Your Infinitybox System

The inVIEW Wiper Control Module is a full member of the Infinitybox ecosystem. When it’s part of your system, inVIEW receives its commands over the Infinitybox CAN network — the same network that ties the rest of your Infinitybox components together. That means you can operate your wipers from any of the control interfaces in your system, and it all works over a single pair of network wires.

To get inVIEW talking on the network, you’ll connect CAN HI and CAN LO to the Infinitybox CAN bus. Be sure to follow the instructions in your inVIEW manual to make these connections correctly. Once inVIEW is on the network, you have three different ways to control it.

Control With Switches Wired to Your MASTERCELL

If you’re running physical switches in your build, you can wire them to the inputs on your MASTERCELL and use them to operate inVIEW. This lets you keep the tactile feel of real switches — whether that’s a factory stalk, billet buttons, or toggles on a custom panel — while inVIEW handles all the wiper logic behind the scenes. Because your switches only need to trigger a MASTERCELL input, you can leave the big, clunky factory wiper control switches behind and use whatever clean, compact switch fits your build.

You can assign your MASTERCELL inputs to any of the inVIEW functions, including low, high, intermittent and washer.

To assign your MASTERCELL inputs to the inVIEW functions, reference the inCODE NGX instructions. inCODE NGX walks you through mapping each input to the wiper function you want it to control.

Control From the inTOUCH Screens on inLINK NGX

If your system includes inLINK NGX, you can control inVIEW directly from the inTOUCH screens. The Wiper Control screen puts every function right at your fingertips on the display. And because inTOUCH runs over your inLINK network, you can pull it up on any smartphone, tablet, or other WiFi-enabled touchscreen that connects to inLINK — giving you wiper control from whatever device is already in your hand.

inTOUCH Wiper Control screen on an inLINK NGX system displayed on an iPad, showing Low, High and INT buttons in a row with a wide Wash button below, and navigation buttons along the left for other vehicle functions.

inVIEW wiper control through the inTOUCH screen on inLINK NGX

From this screen you get low, high and intermittent wiper speeds, along with a wide Wash button for the washer pump. Navigation along the side takes you to the rest of your inTOUCH functions, so wiper control lives right alongside everything else in your system — no extra switches required.

Control From the inCONTROL

The inCONTROL gives you another clean, switch-free way to operate inVIEW. Start from the home screen and rotate the ring to highlight the wiper function, then touch the screen to open it.

Infinitybox inCONTROL round display showing function icons arranged in an arc on the left with the wiper icon highlighted, and the Infinitybox cube logo on the right.

Selecting wiper control on the Infinitybox inCONTROL

That brings you to the inVIEW wiper control screen, where low, high, intermittent and washer are arranged around the display. A yellow arc around each function shows you whether it’s on or off, and touching a function turns it on or off.

Infinitybox inCONTROL wiper control screen with HI, INT, WASH and LO functions arranged as four pie sections at the 12:00, 3:00, 6:00 and 9:00 positions, each with a yellow arc indicating whether that function is on or off.

The inVIEW wiper control screen on the Infinitybox inCONTROL

One Module, Your Choice of Controls

However you like to interact with your vehicle — real switches through your MASTERCELL, the inTOUCH screens on inLINK NGX, or the inCONTROL — inVIEW responds to all of them over the Infinitybox CAN network. That’s the advantage of building with Infinitybox: one wiper module, controlled however fits your build.

For the wiring details specific to your wiper motor, see the manual for your version:

Updating inTOUCH MAX Screen

This blog post will walk you through the steps to update the screens and code on an Infinitybox inTOUCH MAX Screen.

Please note that these instructions are for the legacy inTOUCH MAX screens that were manufactured through 2013.  If you have an inTOUCH NET smart device interface, this does not relate to you.  Unless specifically directed by a technical support representative from Infinitybox, you do not need to do this.  You can stop reading here.  

Here are the instructions.

  1. You will need an SD card that is a maximum size of 2GB (a smaller card will work fine).  It must be formatted as FAT16 (or just FAT) not FAT32 on a PC not a Mac.  You can find a video showing how to do this by clicking this link.
  2. You will receive an email from Infinitybox technical support that will have the files needed to be loaded onto the SD card.  Save these files to the SD card.  Do not put these in a folder on the SD card.
  3. Power down the touch screen and the complete Infinitybox system.  Insert the SD card into the slot on the screen. The SD card slot is located on the opposite side of the circuit board where the REACH serial number sticker is.  This picture will show you where the SD card slot is and the proper orientation of the card.

    Location of the SD Card Slot on the Infinitybox inTOUCH MAX Screen

    Location of the SD Card Slot on the Infinitybox inTOUCH MAX Screen

  4. Power up the system, the screen should be blank and the green LED labeled D1 on the back of the screen should be lit and the LED labeled D2 should be flashing rapidly. After about 30 seconds, the D2 LED will stop flashing and the screen back light will turn on.
  5. The screen is now reprogrammed, remove power from the screen and remove the SD card.

Please contact Infinitybox technical support with additional questions.