iPhone integration - MK3 Mondeo

monkey_boy

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Hi All,

I'm looking for some advice on how to get the music and calls from my iPhone into my car, without replacing the OEM Sony HU. If the music can be controlled through the HU then great, and if there needs to be some buttons neatly mounted somewhere then that's fine too. What are the options?

Cheers,
 
Linky

I Have one of these. Does everything you need. Very good unit too.

tentatively going to say "/thread" ;)

EDIT: Oh, one thing i need to mention - make sure you're on iOS 4.1; The A2DP profile was updated - enables skipping of tracks through the HU :)
 
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My Dad has something similar to that, it uses the car speakers and can read out the options/menus and who is calling - its pretty nifty :p
 
MrLOL said:
that looks like a great price

so how does it work then ?

Does it use your car speakers or its own ?
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It's a very good unit, uses the cars speakers (you can have your car's stereo unit switched off too!). The guy who fitted mine did a really good job; no wire visible anywhere.

Pressing and holding the Next / hang up button starts the iPhone Voice control. so you can "call Bob" or "Play songs by...." basically makes life easy when driving.

Pressing and holding the Previous / Hang up button is redial.

All the rest is pretty obvious.

A little extra: I've bought the Copilot app for my iPhone and this integrates with the iPod; so it plays music, fades it out, gives you instructions and then fades the music back in; all through the car speakers.

Very happy with mine.
 
MrLOL said:
how does it plug into the car speakers ? My inbuilt head unit doesnt have a aux input or anything like that.
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When i had mine fitted the company rang me up, asked what car i had and then brought the appropriate wiring loom. They take your stereo out and plug said loom into the back of it; you'll need your stereo Keycode (if applicable) to hand ;)
 
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Mr. Gary said:
It's a very good unit, uses the cars speakers (you can have your car's stereo unit switched off too!). The guy who fitted mine did a really good job; no wire visible anywhere.
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You can have your HU switched off but it will still control the ipod? so there are two ways of controlling the ipod/iphone? HU and IOPlay unit?
 
monkey_boy said:
You can have your HU switched off but it will still control the ipod? so there are two ways of controlling the ipod/iphone? HU and IOPlay unit?
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Assuming it's similar to the Parrot kits then the head unit isn't involved at all, the unit has it's own amplifier and cuts the car's original head unit off when it use.
 
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Wicksta said:
Assuming it's similar to the Parrot kits then the head unit isn't involved at all, the unit has it's own amplifier and cuts the car's original head unit off when it use.
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Monkey_Boy, Wicksta is correct. You've got the ioplay HU which does all the controlling, play / pause, next, previous and volume. your car stereo doesn't get involved (except to shut up when required ;)).

You basically have 2 orange boxes behind you stereo:

One that recieves the bluetooth and one, as Wicksta says is an amp.
 
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