Nav plus and TV inputs - Page 3

The_Laird · #21 16th March 2011, 02:56 PM

I had a Dension unit in my A8 - not bad at all. Effectively, you create playlists (as long as you like, so multiple CDs per playlist - my favourite was a playlist of my favourite track from each Cd on the iPod!) to replace the 6 CDs and then it plays each playlist as if it were a CD - controls and display exactly as the CD autochanger. No track info other that 'CD 2 Track27' for example, but it does charge the iPod. I just bought an old iPod off my kids and left it as a permanenet fixture in the car (below the centre armrest)

jayzee · #22 16th March 2011, 04:15 PM

Thank you both

The thing that confuses me about all of this is do I need to buy one of these Denision or Dice control modules?

If I connected directly into the tuner via an apple composite lead and extension - would I not get playback that way? Appreciate that I will lose control via the head unit and not have the CD info (although RNSD doesn't support CD text anyway).

My train of thought was do above with a Dice cradle to charge the unit without the"control box" thingy.

Is this too simple? Am I missing something?

PsYcHe · #23 16th March 2011, 08:36 PM

OK..

You could get one of the sync&tv-out cables for the ipod and just connect it to a USB charger for the car and run the tv-out cables to the RNS, but you'd need to control it from the iPod.. the Dension lets you control the ipod from the RNS.

jayzee · #24 17th March 2011, 06:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PsYcHe

OK..

You could get one of the sync&tv-out cables for the ipod and just connect it to a USB charger for the car and run the tv-out cables to the RNS, but you'd need to control it from the iPod.. the Dension lets you control the ipod from the RNS.

Ah, many thanks. The penny has now finally dropped on how this would work

Looks like the module is needed then to control the ipod from the head unit

HPsauce · #25 9th August 2012, 12:37 PM

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Originally Posted by IT

Tuner A was fitted to all cars upto VIN WAUZZZ4D-1-003650 (the dashes can be ignored for the purposes of comparision) This VIN was approximately Spring 2001.

Apologies if I've asked this before, but if I did I lost the reply or wasn't specific enough.......

I have one of these tuners, which obviously no longer tunes in to anything, but I would like to add a DVB-T tuner to the Aux inputs, and as noted in a separate rather rambling thread I've tested this works "in principle". http://forum.a8parts.co.uk/showthread.php?t=4687

I did ask there about the aerials and whilst I did get a "discouraging" reply I wondered if anyone does know a definitive answer.

I presume the TV aerials (4 small plugs) are hidden away somewhere, but I have 2 questions (for my PF S8):
Where actually are the aerials?
Are they powered (voltage?) or passive?

Basically wondering if there's a way I can reuse them rather than fitting a new one somewhere.

Architex_mA8tey · #26 9th August 2012, 05:59 PM

The tv aerials run along the bottom of the rear screen in most later cars and I believe in the rear bumpers in very early cars
If you do a search on the forum for my thread that mentions phantom aeriels there is a guy in Edinburgh that does adapter cables so you can still use the oem diversity aerials and take the feed into whatever equipment you need to

HPsauce · #27 9th August 2012, 06:04 PM

Ah right, I have that link "saved" (it was parkmyauto.co.uk) but had misunderstood what it was, just reread in detail.

I'll get in touch with them ASAP.
Edit: Just sent them an email explaining what I want to do and asking a few questions.

I'll report on detailed progress back in my own thread to avoid "polluting" this one. http://forum.a8parts.co.uk/showthread.php?t=4687