Install coming home feature?

[al3x]

stupid question.. what the heck does that do ? i have it on my car i keep turning it back and forth trying to see what theheck it does and i dont see it ..

That's the coming home/leaving home button. Set to position 1 your lights will light up when you unlock and lock the car.

Set to 0 nothing happens.

[Bische]

I'm really looking forward to seeing if this works, but you might want to shrink the image a little bit :)

Uhm on my screen its resized, maybe thats firefox...

[05a4]

bonus
thnks budd

That's the coming home/leaving home button. Set to position 1 your lights will light up when you unlock and lock the car.

Set to 0 nothing happens.

[SilvA4Q]

Any progress on the write-up Bische?

[Dirty]

bump

[Bische]

I actually installed it yesterday and its working, just 1 more thing to sort out. I wish ihad more free time and less dealing with maintence issues.

I will hopefully get it done next week, this weekend is busy

[LZ5L3.0]

so what all was needed for this to work?

[Bische]

3 relays, 6ft cable, 15 female connectors, 2 washer connectors, 1 switch and 3 wire splicers.

Will do a writeup

Teaser!

[LZ5L3.0]

that would be awesome!

[jayiszraw]

3 relays, 6ft cable, 15 female connectors, 2 washer connectors, 1 switch and 3 wire splicers.

Will do a writeup

Teaser!

thats awesome i cant wait!

[ADCS]

Are there any canadian b6's that DIDN'T come with this feature? Being that they all have auto lights (ie DRLs)

This feature is great when going into the garage, you don't have to turn on the garage lights.

[AvanTTix]

The DRLs and the Coming Home features are totally unrelated. So yeah all MY02s, MY03s and maybe even some later MYs didn't have Coming Home.

[jayiszraw]

Are there any canadian b6's that DIDN'T come with this feature? Being that they all have auto lights (ie DRLs)

This feature is great when going into the garage, you don't have to turn on the garage lights.

only in canada they all have drl in the US they didnt atleast.

[FoRbAnNa]

So how do you tell if you have 'high' or 'low' line specification ??? I have a 53 plate 1.8T Sport cabriolet

Simply... Use Vag-Com and scan the module 9 (Central Electrics).

The part Number should be 8E0 907 279 Letter

If you have one of this:
8E0 907 279 A, 8E0 907 279 C or 8E0 907 279 D, you have the low line module.

If you have one of this:
8E0 907 279 B, 8E0 907 279 E or 8E0 907 279 F, you have the High line module.

However, my searches have tell me that to have all the features, you need the F one. I have bought one F module some day ago in ebay....

If that guy is right you do have the highline, just not the correct module.. How did you come to the conclusion that you don't have the highline? I don't have the boardcomputer and stuff but I still got the F module, checked under the dash. Coming home with auto dimming mirror is one of my next mods

[Bische]

Here is the v1.0 writeup Linky link.

I will take this one step further than just fogs, but that needs some more time.

[SilvA4Q]

My connector was tied up to the light switch cables with zip ties and covered in black tape. Was lying just above the fuse box.
Helps to lower the cover underneath the steering wheel!

do you or anyone else have a picture of the cable? i have the highline module as well as all the DIS features (fuel consumption, bulb out warnings, etc.) but i cannot find the hidden connector for the life of me. any idea of where this is hidden? if anyone has a picture of the connector that goes to the Coming Home switch and where the wires originally come from behind the headlight switch, it would be greatly appreciated.

[fastfastcorrado]

I have a cell phone picture of it, I will email it to you if you would like. I would post it up but I haven't figured that out yet. The picture is of a factory installed plug. The plug pig tails out of the main light switch harness about 8 to 10 inches down so you shouldn't have to look very far. Mine car did not have it. I spent 45 minutes unwrapping the harness before I gave up and decided to look at the control module plug to see if pin #24 was connected. It wasn't so I knew right then I need to make my own. I ended up making a connector from a plug that goes to a PC motherboard.

[SilvA4Q]

thanks a lot for the info. im going to check out the control module shortly to see if there is anything in the #24 slot. would you mind expanding a little on the connector and wire harness you made? i have a feeling that my #24 will be empty also and so far i thought my only option was to source the OEM connector and get some Audi repair pins and make it that way.

[fastfastcorrado]

I did get some OEM repair pins from a nearby VW dealer, they were pretty inexpensive but the plug was about $11 and they had to order it. Since I already had the switch and I'm impatient - I decided to make a plug.
A coworker of mine has a 2004 A4 with the CH/LH already installed, so we pulled the switch to look at the plug. It actually uses a standard 4x2 connector then that is pushed into the Audi harness designed to fit the switch.
Basically I found a 5x2 9 pin harness used for PC mother boards to add USB ports on the front panel. It has two rows of 5 pins with wires already inserted, one pin is blank though.
I used a razor blade to cut the end two pins off to make it a 4x2, remove the wires from 4 of the positions and left the 4 that matched up with the switch. After that I wrapped with it with some electrical tape to bulk it up a bit
then placed some shrink wrap over it to hold it more secure. It fit the switch well so I proceeded to splice the wires in where they belong, bought some friction tape and wrapped it all up with the main harness.

I should note, I didn't run out and buy a USB connector, I had it in a junk drawer of old PC parts... have the highline module, this turned out to be really easy.
For those with the lowline modules this should also work to connect a factory CH/LH switch, however working out all the details for that like Bische did is awesome.

[SilvA4Q]

Here is another DIY for this. http://audiforum.us/c5-platform/5974...-function.html

Has anyone ever followed this DIY for the auto headlights? Im just wondering if because it is a C5 A6 the pin configuration on the module and headlights will be different. I tried comparing it to the coming home DIY write up by al3x and it matches up for the most part but there are extra pins being added to the headlights and comfort module and some pins dont run to the same connections in the different write-ups, leading me to believe that there are differences with the C5 A6 and our B6's.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated, I would love to be able to add the auto headlights now that I have the coming home as well as the auto dimming rearview that has the light sensor.

[SilvA4Q]

its surprising no one has retro fitted auto headlights, I've ran searches to see if there are any write ups on how to do it and no one has made one other than the write up for the C5 A6, hopefully I'll be able to pick up a used auto headlight switch soon and try it out.

[fastfastcorrado]

its surprising no one has retro fitted auto headlights, I've ran searches to see if there are any write ups on how to do it and no one has made one other than the write up for the C5 A6, hopefully I'll be able to pick up a used auto headlight switch soon and try it out.

I did, when I wired up the coming home feature.. but I never got a switch to try it out.. I lost on ebay.. I think it works though becuase if I turn the headlights off and stop on the parking lights selection, the headlights stay on for about 5 seconds..

[mint 1.8t]

I just went out with the VAG COM and found out that the part number on my module end with an ( E ) I do have factory HID's and the have the height adjustment on them when going down hills and up hills.
could I simply add to this using OEM parts to have the coming home feature with all the parking lights coming on with unlocking ? I really didnt want to go the relay route and only have the fogs come on. I would rather have the lights all the way around light up.

[manguyen]

its surprising no one has retro fitted auto headlights, I've ran searches to see if there are any write ups on how to do it and no one has made one other than the write up for the C5 A6, hopefully I'll be able to pick up a used auto headlight switch soon and try it out.

im sure you'll need the sensors. the switch works if you leave it on auto, the headlights will turn on when you start the car and vice versa. but this is not truely auto headlights where its light sensitive.

[mint 1.8t]

I just went out with the VAG COM and found out that the part number on my module end with an ( E ) I do have factory HID's and the have the height adjustment on them when going down hills and up hills.
could I simply add to this using OEM parts to have the coming home feature with all the parking lights coming on with unlocking ? I really didnt want to go the relay route and only have the fogs come on. I would rather have the lights all the way around light up.

I just want the lights to turn on when I unlock the doors at night. Thats all. I dont care for the light sensors for it to know if its dark or not just the ability for them to turn on when I get in at night.

[RH A4CAB]

Will be looking into this today with vcds, will this all work on my B7.

Thanks

[RH A4CAB]

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This is a shot of the vcds screen showing what module i have fitted to my A4 cab , can anyone tell what i need to get the coming home lights working .

[RH A4CAB]

I now know mine is high line , is it still the same procedure as a low line module.

I take it Bische isn't on here anymore.

thanks

[Bische]

I now know mine is high line , is it still the same procedure as a low line module.

I take it Bische isn't on here anymore.

thanks

Yes, yours is a highline and i think you only need the switch(wiring should be there already) and vag-com to setup the coming home

I find it very weird a cab didnt come with this, theyre always loaded

[diagnosticator]

8E0 907 279F Central Electric Module

[RH A4CAB]

Thanks bische . I have no idea either why its not standard on all audis, even a standard 2 door Ford in the UK has this feature .

[RH A4CAB]

bische , this is the switch i have installed without auto and coming home timer.



Do to change to change the switch to the one with auto or add coming home light switch on or both like this .





Thanks again.

[diagnosticator]

Thanks bische . I have no idea either why its not standard on all audis, even a standard 2 door Ford in the UK has this feature .

It's because the Audi of America Marketing Dept is staffed by idiots, IMO.

[AudiA4Turbo22]

It's because the Audi of America Marketing Dept is staffed by idiots, IMO.

Exactly, the marketing team is solely looking for how to make money off stupid things. A base C300 has this feature, heck I think the CC does too.

[RH A4CAB]

Still trying to work out what i need to get this to work on my b7 without switch or auto lights i know i have a high line module , i think i need a switch repair wire and to do some coding , any help would be appreciated .

[samcoussens]

Here's what I haven't found out yet, (english can be bad, I'm from belgium).

If I did the simple ch/lh mod on my Audi a4 b7 (2007) with highline module.
So I connected the wires en installed a new switch for the option.


Would my fis trow a error because I don't use a lightsensor?
And if so, can that be solved? Or do you need to recode the vagcom so that doesn't happens?

As for everyone, I like the feature without any sign or errors.

Maybe a frequently asked question, but after days of research a haven't found a straight anwser.