Remote Starter+Heated/Cooled Seats???

[Roadwarrior50]

Well i was bored at work today and got thinking about if something would work. Now what i was wondering is if it would be possible to connect the aux outs on my remote starter to trigger the heated or cooled seats once you start the vehicle. So say its a hot summer day, you can hop into a vehicle with nice cool seats. Or in the middle of winter when its -25 out, you can heat the seats as well so you dont have to deal with the ice cold leather.

Like i said this is just something i was curious about, and if anyone here has done anything like that or knows if it can be done.

 

[Frogman]

Well i was bored at work today and got thinking about if something would work. Now what i was wondering is if it would be possible to connect the aux outs on my remote starter to trigger the heated or cooled seats once you start the vehicle. So say its a hot summer day, you can hop into a vehicle with nice cool seats. Or in the middle of winter when its -25 out, you can heat the seats as well so you dont have to deal with the ice cold leather.

Like i said this is just something i was curious about, and if anyone here has done anything like that or knows if it can be done.

Possible? Yes. Easy? Not so much.

You'd have to tap the seat heating/cooling button contacts and run the wires to something like a 2 stage relay that the alarm brain would be able to control. The reason for tapping the switch itself is to send a pulse through the switch to make the seat cooling/heating circuit think you pressed the button(s).

Another way to do it would be with some sort of a temperature switch. Still have to tap the button switches, but the temperature switch, once it received an input from the alarm brain, would automatically select the proper switch and activate it, based on say, the exterior temperature. You could put the thermometer inside, but you'd run the risk of jumping on cooled seats in the winter time, and hot seats in the summer time.

I can't think of any aftermarket companies that have something to do what you're looking for. It would have to be custom electronics. About $25 bucks worth of radio shack parts, and maybe a breadboard for the circuit. Not hard to make, but a lot of testing...