Cianbros

So I installed a reverse camera up to the radio, I plugged into the radio this black small box, I did looked it up - it seems to be some form of Canbox so im assuming the radio is getting information from this. Now I'm not sure why (as im convinced i originally has this plugged in when i originally had the battery draining issue) but after putting this in and the gps everything just worked, the radio knew what my car was doing (Turns off and on with ignition, backlight turns on when i put my lights on)

Haven't seen anything like that and at the moment the reverse camera isn't set up to the power. I will test it when I'm home but I believe I left it disconnected in fear of it draining my battery

The two wires you disconnected, the red and orange I believe, I also disconnected them and that didn't seem to work for me, it cut power completely from the radio, I had to attach to switch to the red wire which was the power one. As for the can us I'm not entirely sure, what app do you use on the radio to test the canbus. I know there was a black box that came with it that you plugged in and I believe this was something related to the canbus (perhaps preprogrammed if those exist?) however the pin that it was connected to was always hot and instead of testing it I just decided to disconnect it altogether as my purpose for the radio is only music, navigation, videos etc. Not entirely sure as a whole but if it were the case that the black box was related to the canbus you could do the same thing I did with a multiple wire terminal blocks instead of single wire terminal blocks.

Update: Battery wasn't drained over night, going to call this a success 😀

Hello, so can update to this post, I have added a switch to the power cable of the radio, now I am in the testing phase into making sure anything that I have done is draining the battery in some form or another. Here is a YouTube video showing the set up.

Okay I will test it out and if everything goes well I will try adding an external switch and update with the finished product, thank you very much for your help 🙂

Thanks for your reply, I will disconnect the car radio and test it out to see if the battery goes flat, how long do you think I should wait for to make sure its not effecting the battery?

Yeah it seems that certain Canbus models drain the battery with some android head units (from what I understand), the fix for this requires you to check your Canbus model number and cross reference it to a list that was floating around this forum somewhere. Then doing as Jr said about coding the Canbus to your car. Personally trying to find the easiest method as I'm not great with electrical jobs, I figure to bypass this whole thing is to just attach a switch to somewhere along the main power to the radio, run the switch out to somewhere in the car I can flick on and off and that would stop the drain and allow me to turn on the radio separately from the ignition. It would also cut out the Canbus drain since there would be no current at all? That's the theory anyhow.

Also to save myself the hassle of upgrading and coding my can gateway I wonder if I could just do a DIY job on it and cut the main power cable and attach a switch to it and run that to beside my steering wheel and that way I can switch off and on the power. Wouldn't this fix the whole issue altogether with not only the radio turning on when the ignition is out but also the canbus network draining the battery. Not entirely sure if it is possible but just theorising.

I understand what you mean about the live and switched live cables and that may be the case but I've read in this thread that the Octavia II doesn't have an ignition switch, so that would mean that even if I did switch the wires it would still draw power from my understanding? I apologise, I am clueless when it comes to electrics. Interesting stuff, would it be possible to do this at my home or would I need a professional to code it?

Sorry I forgot to mention I'm also trying to figure out exactly what pins do what inside my radio to make sure the adapter is lining up with my car connection

Hello, I've installed a aftermarket android radio into my skoda octavia II 2006. This one to be exact: Junsun V1 The installation went okay my issue is that when I take the key out of the ignition the radio doesn't turn off and drains my battery. I know there is something I have to do with the yellow and red wire within the adapter given from the product but I'm clueless when it comes to electrics, if somebody could explain to me what I have to do/get that would be amazing thank you