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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.