Connecting a Audi PB to Sony HU-Help

[az1324]

The traffic pro unit has voice prompts, full navigation, and text display and while its not directly compatible with sony its probably pretty close so all that would be required is a simple translator whipped up on an atmel or pic.  Now get to work  8-)

[My_B5]

The Sony Phatbox doesn't have voice prompts and I think you can only do playlist and song navigation on it.  Have you read the Sony guides on phatnoise.com?

Nuts!! Is this through? No voice prompts on Sony. And Phatnoise wants 600$ for a "CD text changer"!!
My PB has almost the same functions as a "normal" CD changer. No browsing through genres or voice prompts, just playlists up and down & tracks up and down.

When my PB plays the PN playlist "Welcome to phatnoise car audio system", is that just an mp3 file and has nothing to do with voice prompts?

Noone on this board with a real Sony Phatbox?

[S80_UK]

When my PB plays the PN playlist "Welcome to phatnoise car audio system", is that just an mp3 file and has nothing to do with voice prompts?

Correct. That is a pre-recored file - nothing to do with voice.

Les.

[PhatBabies]

who in there right mind going to pay full price for a sony phatbox?  

[My_B5]

We can make SSA navigation with the sony, but would take quite a bit of work... I may do something since my car has a sony interface adaptor but I have to get a few bugs worked out before I work on something like that

Plz, plz, plz  

[sbingner]

The sony interface on my car doesn't work very well... it keeps telling the box to stop then start when I hit unlock on the dorr and stuff...   Thinking of just replacing with a kenwood deck now :\

[crane007]

Sbinger, Need a kenwood->Keg cable (pushing you to get a Kenwood headunit).

I have one that I purchased (I was going to use a FM modularor, but got the Mazda firmware working).


I would sell the cable for $60(US) + Shipping.


Crane007

[sbingner]

lol, I have two kegs and two audi boxes, as well as a KHD-X979 that is sitting on the floor in my computer room and a Kenwood FM adaptor, I think I have that covered for now

[crane007]

  Cool.

Any idea when download.phathack.com will be back up ? Or the Firmware site ?

Crane007

[sbingner]

Until it's back up you can access it via http://www.phathack.com/downloads-direct -- I just haven't advertised that since my uplink is only business DSL (3M/768k)

[zerogz]

Sorry if this is duplication, But I just joined, please don't flame me!
I have a VW PB - sold the Dub - want to put the PB into new car with a Sony head unit - called phat noise, they said that It is not as simple as just plugging in a sony cable and updating the firmware and it is not possible as the internal "guts" are different - not buying it!
do I have to fab the cable myself, or can I buy one some where, or is it really impossible?
Please point me in the right direction, I'm sure the answers must be some where on this forum.
Thanks in advance GZ.

[sbingner]

read the rest of the thread you replied to (this one), and http://forum.phathack.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1143072486

[zerogz]

Yeah, did that, spent about 4 hours doing so after the post , answered 2/3 Q's but not definitively if there is a source to buy cable - not really comfortable w taking the chance of rigging a makeshift cable and frying the hackbox and more importantly my C90.
P.S. before I even found this site I spent several hours searching out various adapter  mfg co's
maybe I'll just stick to the DAT deck , MD and CD changer combo. GZ

[sbingner]

I know of no way to buy the cable, use a Kenwood head unit

[zerogz]

Yeah, thought of that - would seem to be the easy way out - except my best friend is the Sony product rep. - So I'm kinda commited to the brand.
Besides I've never been known to be the kind of person to give up after just 3 posts to one forum and I know of at least one person on this forum that was able to get their hands on a PB to Sony cable, so I'll keep trying, thanks!
GZ     AKA  determined !