Pro Nav integration advice please.....

[stupot67]

Evening All,

Had my Zed for a month or so now and I'm putting together plans for things I'm going to do over the winter!

Apart from wheels and tyres (Anybody looking for a set of MV2's in a month or so, you know where to come ) - What I really want to sort out is the Nav/Stereo (Non DSP, changer in the rear centre consol), I'm looking to integrate music from either a USB stick or any other mass storage device with text on the nav screen.
I've searched the forum but most people seem to be using I pods/Phones and opinion seems divided between Intravee and Denison, but not many threads regarding USB.......

Any advice or experiences appreciated.

Ta.

Stuart.

 

[PerryGunn]

Evening All,

Had my Zed for a month or so now and I'm putting together plans for things I'm going to do over the winter!

Apart from wheels and tyres (Anybody looking for a set of MV2's in a month or so, you know where to come ) - What I really want to sort out is the Nav/Stereo (Non DSP, changer in the rear centre consol), I'm looking to integrate music from either a USB stick or any other mass storage device with text on the nav screen.
I've searched the forum but most people seem to be using I pods/Phones and opinion seems divided between Intravee and Denison, but not many threads regarding USB.......

Any advice or experiences appreciated.

Ta.

Stuart.

I looked into this a while back and came to the conclusion that the Intravee was the easiest way - I'm not an Apple fanboi and didn't own an iPod or iPhone so picked up a second-hand iPod on eBay which has been dedicated to in-car use

 

[Stuart Truman]

The Intravee will interface to a large number of Alpine devices, most of us use the KCA-420i iPod adapter, but they do also do a USB interface.

The Dice solution can do both iPod and USB, as can some Dension devices but I've not tried either of these in a zed.

A frequent gotcha with devices handling USB is how many objects, folders etc they can manage and the maximum capacity and formats they support.

 

[stupot67]

Thanks Fella's

Also been looking at Grom, some really good reviews but no mention of it on the forum!. I was also thinking of picking up a used I pod just for the car (It had a unbranded IPod interface in it when I bought it) - but I cant stand I Tunes, after removing it from my laptop because it insisted on being my default player no matter what, it took 14Hrs to defrag the hard drive :x !.

Stu.