MIB Cluster Map

Puts your phone's map on the digital cluster of Volkswagen-group cars with a Harman MIB2 / MIB2.5 High head unit ("Discover Pro").

Phone	On the cluster	State
Android Auto	The Google Maps or Waze map, live	Working on VW MHI2_ER_VWG13_P4521 and K4525, SEAT MHI2_ER_SEG11_P4708 and P4709; Skoda MHI2_ER_SKG13_P4526 and Golf R P4512 with a trial line
Android Auto, on firmware without a map profile	Turn-by-turn arrows, distance and track (adi961's jar, our fork)	Working on four trains, including SEAT P4708/P4709
Apple CarPlay	The Apple Maps or Google Maps map, live	First car run: on the dash of a Golf R (P4512); fitting it between the dials is under test. See CarPlay

It installs from an SD card as a software update. No toolbox, laptop or command line is needed. The installer checks the unit and installs what fits it: the map, the arrows, or nothing. If nothing fits, it collects the files needed to add your unit and changes nothing.

No VNC and no app on the phone. The phone sends its own cluster video stream, and the head unit passes it to the cluster the same way it sends the built-in VW map.

Caution

This modifies system files on the head unit. A mistake can leave the phone connection, or the whole centre screen, not starting. Use it only on a car you own, keep the SD card, keep the battery charged, and never install or test while driving. No warranty of any kind. Read Safety and recovery first.

Install

1. Make the SD card. Format a 2 to 32 GB card as FAT32. Download the zip from Releases and copy everything inside it to the card:

   (SD card)
   ├── ClusterMap/
   ├── Custom/
   ├── metainfo2.txt
   └── _Swdlautorun.txt
   

   Put it in SD slot 1, with the other slot empty.

2. Run the update. Engine running or a charger connected. Hold MENU until the service screen appears, then Software updates/versions > Update > the SD card > MIB Cluster Map. Let it finish (a "Version back documentation" screen at the end is normal: press Cancel), then hold the power button for ten seconds to reboot. Audi: the update menu is BACK + upper-left button and needs developer mode switched on in the head unit (5F). An autorun file on the card starts the update without the menu: tested on a VW, untested on Audi (see the Install guide).

3. Use it. Plug in the phone, start a map, and switch the cluster to its map view with the steering wheel buttons. iPhone: once after installing, Forget This Car in its CarPlay settings and plug it in again.

The update writes what it did to ClusterMap/update_result.txt on the card. It also adds a ClusterMap screen to the green engineering menu (hold MENU > Testmode > Green Developer Menu) for status, logs, uninstall and the turn-arrows switch.

The green menu and SSH routes, every setting, and recovery are in the Install guide.

Uninstall: green menu > ClusterMap > Uninstall and restore original state, then reboot. Or, without the menu: on a computer, move UNINSTALL.txt from the folder to uninstall, move this file up one folder up into ClusterMap, and run the same update again.

Will it work on my car?

Head unit	Firmware train starts	Today
VW Discover Pro 9.2 in (MIB2.5 High)	MHI2_ER_VWG13_	Map on P4521 and K4525 (software 1367), both road-tested. P4512 (Golf R) and US P3662: install with a trial line. Others wanted
SEAT with the Harman unit	MHI2_ER_SEG11_	Map on P4708 and P4709 (1010×376 cluster window). Arrows on both
Skoda with the Harman unit	MHI2_ER_SKG13_	Map on P4526 with a trial line (first car run); ask for the line
VW Discover Pro 8 in (MIB2 High)	MHI2_ER_VWG11_	Unknown: on K3342 the collector did not find libautoreceiver.so, which the map hooks, but it only looked in one folder. Being rechecked (#28)
Audi MIB2 High, Harman/Tegra	MHI2_ER_AU	Unknown: same as above on K3346 (A4 B9), being rechecked (#14). An RS3 (software 1168) is still to be tried. The update needs developer mode (see Install)
Audi MIB2 High, Qualcomm	MHI2Q_	Not this project: see kamgurgul/mib2q-carplay
MIB2 Standard (Composition, Discover Media)	MST2_	No. A different unit; nothing here applies

You need a digital cluster (Active Info Display) for the map. The train is on the green menu Status screen; "Software: 1367" under Setup > System information is a hint, not proof. You do not have to work it out: the installer checks the real firmware itself.

Not listed, or "wanted"? Run the update anyway: it installs nothing and collects what is needed to add your unit. See Getting your unit added.

Status

Experimental. Developed on a VW Golf 7.5 (P4521) and tested on a Tiguan (P4521), a Passat and an Arteon (K4525), two SEATs (P4708, P4709), a Skoda (P4526) and a Golf R (P4512). The Android Auto map runs at about 30 frames per second, with and without a route, and comes back by itself after the phone is unplugged and plugged in again.

Part	State
Android Auto map, installer and uninstaller over SSH	Tested on cars (Golf P4521, SEAT P4708)
Software update and green menu routes	Tested on cars (Golf P4521, Golf R P4512)
Hardware video decoding (GAL_PLAYER_DECODER=hw, off by default)	Fails on the car and falls back to software decoding; under investigation
CarPlay map	Shown on a car (Golf R, iPhone over USB) after a firewall fix; layout between the dials under test
Long drives, reverse camera, waking from sleep	Road-tested on K4525; otherwise little testing
Autorun install without the service menu (Swdlautorun.txt)	Tested on a car (Golf P4521); Audi untested

Showing the arrows and the map together works on SEAT with CLUSTERMAP_KEEP_ARROWS=1, but not on VW, where the map goes blank when a route starts. Not possible so far: zooming the cluster map from the steering wheel (why), and switching between the phone's map and the car's map from the steering wheel.

Documentation

Page	For
Install guide	Install routes, the menu, settings, logs, safety and recovery, getting your unit added
CarPlay	The CarPlay map: design, status, testing
Development	How it works, what was learned, adding a firmware, building

Reporting a problem

Open an issue with your car, firmware train, what you did and what you saw. Attach the logs from green menu Save logs to SD, saved before rebooting. Read them first: the system log can contain phone names and Bluetooth addresses.

Credits

• chopinwong01: mhi2-android-auto-video-vc, the hook and player this project is forked from. Its design notes and development story stay there.
• andrewleech and OneB1t: VcMOSTRenderMqb, the cluster rendering path the player derives from.
• jilleb, olli991 and contributors: the MQB Coding MIB2 Toolbox. Its NavActiveIgnore.jar (contributed by andrewleech) and the signed header of its update metadata are bundled unmodified under thirdparty/ (MIT).
• adi961: mib2-android-auto-vc, the turn-arrows jar. Bundled under thirdparty/ (MIT) as the arrows mode, built from our maintained fork.
• harman-f (mhi2_altscreen_carplay) and aberbic (Audi MHI2 AltScreen): the open CarPlay cluster work the CarPlay map builds on. harman-f's hook is included from source under GPL-3.0.
• Mr-MIBonk (M.I.B.): the Swdlautorun.txt trigger for installing without the service menu.
• lito69, tulio150 and DaniFR3: car tests and porting files for the SEAT and the settings.
• kamgurgul, wasimlhr and luka-dev: the MHI2Q projects whose notes led to the connection-loop fix, and the open QNX toolchain.
• FFmpeg: H.264 decoding, statically linked, LGPL v2.1 or later.

License

GPL-3.0, the same as upstream. See LICENSE. Release packages contain files built from this source plus the MIT-licensed items above. They contain no Volkswagen, Harman or Apple program files.

Not affiliated with or endorsed by Volkswagen AG, Harman, Google or Apple. Android Auto and Google Maps are trademarks of Google LLC; CarPlay and Apple Maps are trademarks of Apple Inc.