H-120 and Acura

[glacius]

I've got a new Acura TSX on order and I've been reading in some forums that the best way to hook up an iRiver to the stereo is with a SoundGate RCA adapter.. I was wondering if anyone here has had any luck doing advanced connections to a car stereo, more specifically an Acura Navigation system.. My "pie in the sky" wish is that I could get ID3 data on the navigation screen since we know the iRiver spits that data out to the LCD remote through that wacky jack..

Any comments?

- g

[Lewis]

The output for the remote is a video output, not a text output, if you wiggle the plug loose the whole screen gouse funny, if it was a text output only the text would be wrong.

So it can be done, but it would have the same image as you get on the remote itself

[glacius]

Well, I know other popular DAP players can transmit the data to head units, particularly Alpine, and I wasn't sure if this is possible with an Acura head unit with Alpine roots..

I may just have to suffer with the DAP in the arm rest and the LCD remote hanging out beside my shifter..

- g

[stripwax]

Originally Posted by glacius

Well, I know other popular DAP players can transmit the data to head units, particularly Alpine, and I wasn't sure if this is possible with an Acura head unit with Alpine roots..

I may just have to suffer with the DAP in the arm rest and the LCD remote hanging out beside my shifter..

- g

Hm, maybe this is something that RockBox could do in the future (with only a tiny modification, I would imagine it's possible to send the actual ID3 / OggInfo tags out over the remote control socket.. not quite sure what kind of interface you'd need to get that data into the Acura tho)

[glacius]

Originally Posted by stripwax

Hm, maybe this is something that RockBox could do in the future (with only a tiny modification, I would imagine it's possible to send the actual ID3 / OggInfo tags out over the remote control socket.. not quite sure what kind of interface you'd need to get that data into the Acura tho)

Well, this new Alpine VehicleHub takes in ID3 data from an iPoo, so I guess it's possible that they could extend that out to our baby..

- g

[Revenent]

I have almost the same thing - except I have the 140.

I haven't found anything that would drive the Navi unit using the remote output.

I thought the remote driver was a LCD output - i.e. there's no real logic on the remote itself translating data.

So the interface would have to translate LCD commands back to raw data and then drive the Navi display with that raw data.

[Mike]

I don't think any of the manf.'s are extending this ability to anything but the Apple--something about having the market share of the world, unfortunately ...

[glacius]

If I'm going to install a simple RCA input so I can use the line out of the iRiver into my car stereo, do you think the iRiver is best suited in the glove box or the arm rest? I was thinking glove box so I could lock it up and run the remote to out through the center console, but the arm rest has a power jack inside it and an indentation to allow wires to easily come out of the arm rest when closed.

- g

[Mike]

I tried mine in mumerous places and ultimately ended up using the center console ashtray, of all places--the player in the case fits and balances there well. I also can reach the player easily without using the remote, and can see the larger display.

Just try the various locations and see what you like.

[glacius]

Mike,

So you already have the iRiver mounted in an Acura? Is it a TSX? Does it have navigation?

I'm curious to know what product you used to hook it into the stereo.

- g

[Mike]

Sorry, I just have my iHP in my VW Cabrio, connected from the headphone jack of the player to the aux. connection on the front of the car stereo (bought partially for that reason). It takes me 5 seconds to put the player in the center console ashtray and connect the lead to the player and the other end to the aux. connection.



Altho it would be great to control the player from a steering wheel remote, I'm content.

[stripwax]

Originally Posted by Revenent

I haven't found anything that would drive the Navi unit using the remote output.

I thought the remote driver was a LCD output - i.e. there's no real logic on the remote itself translating data.

So the interface would have to translate LCD commands back to raw data and then drive the Navi display with that raw data.

Well, nothing's available yet but like I said, in theory it's something that Rockbox could do (if there was enough interest and $upport
I'm fairly certain that the remote output on the iRiver is just some kind of serial bus, you could send any kind of data you like. It just so happens that, on the supplied remote, the serial bus is connected to an LCD controller, which takes the command data and feeds the display.
Since the Rockbox gurus have already written a driver for the remote bus to send it "LCD commands and data", it's really a small step to change it into a driver that sends "any other kind of data" e.g. ascii text, binary data, etc

Maybe one of the Rockbox guys could chime in here