chewtoy

I have the OEM HU made by Pioneer in my 1998 Honda Civic LX and I thought I had gotten the right input at Radio Shack, but when I went to hook it up BAMM .. It did not fit! I said .. DOH and then proceeded to look at the sheets of paper I had printed out from installdoctor.com (or something like that). I just don't know.. So if there is anyone out there that knows what type of input I need and how to hack it so that I can run my computer's audio through the HU, I would be very thankful.

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Meatballman

If it uses a normal Pioneer IP-Bus interface, you need to get a Pioneer CDRB10. I think there may be a way to make your own, but you'll have to search the forums for info on that.

bent

I have the same problem. I've got a 2001 civic, which has the same head unit as your '98. I don't think a converter exists which will let you use the AUX-in in the head unit with an MP3 player. (It doesn't use the pioneer standard, and all the adapters i've seen don't have RCA in.)

If someone knows how to fool the head unit into thinking there's a changer there, and what pins on the connector are for what (Right, Left & Ground) then I might be able to rig up something, but in the meantime, I think we're SOL.

chewtoy

well damn. I took my dash apart and look at the inputs on the back of the radio and found that there are two connectors. One is the one that seems to output to the speakers and seems to have the power hookup for the radio. The other, well I have no idea what it is. It is smaller and in some documents about that radio it seems to be called the BUS... and being that I havce no idea about car stereos I have to assume that this thing might have some corralation to the infamous IP-BUS. But it deffinately isn't an IP-BUS, it doesn't look like it and it has more pins. But nonetheless it is on the back of my stereo and I have no idea what it is used for. I think it might have something to do with being able to hook up a CD changer because my stereo has CD changer controls, but I have no idea.... Is there anyone here that might know what I can do to get my computer to input into my stereo sort of buying a new HU????

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bent

That other connector (it should have 14 pins) is the connector to the CD-Changer. Unfortunatly, you can't just hook an RCA cable up to it and expect it to work, because there has to be a signal that tells the head unit that the CD changer is there, and unless you know what the protocol for that signal is, you're never going to get the head unit to switch over

helloman

Honda radio uses Alpine CD changer..
so, just check with what type of Bus Alpine CD changer uses.

mmmm.

I already changed my HU after searching web and ~~~~.

Thwere was no way to get AUX from Factory streo of Honda..

Good Luck on that

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mr0range

is the 2001 accord EX in-dash cd changer an alpine unit?

CALIBOY

mrOrange: be careful with the accord because the OEM security system is tied into the radio. If I remember correctly it is a real complex operation just to change the radio to an aftermarket one.

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mr0range

hmm yea i dont really wanna mess around with that.. can you think of any ways to get the audio into the speakers? which has less loss of quality.. fm mod or casette adapter? or is there a better alternative??? (i have friends that can do car stereos.. so if its complicated i would ask them for help)

CALIBOY

Well there is a really long route...the only I can think of.

Buy the changer adapter for the accord to alpine changer. Honda's plug and factory changer match while an aftermarket changer from alpine will not plug directly in to your honda pin. So you must buy an adapter...available from Crutchfield or Sounddomain.com. After you have brought the pin configuration to Alpine's you can probably find the documentation on their pins and then try to hack into your radio. This is a rather long way, but seems to be the easiest because there would be more documentation on the Alpine pin configuration than Honda's pin configuration.

Once this is done, trying to fool the changer and all that stuff is up to you to figure out.

I hope all that made sense!! Maybe it was all useless information, but I'm trying to be helpful.

mr0range

well, i cant make much sense of it but thats because you know what your talking about, and i dont

i have friends that im sure would know what your talking about - only question i have, is would doing something like void the warranty on the car or cd changer? if it would.. i wouldnt feel comfortable modifying a 25k car

CALIBOY

Usually dealers don't care too much about aftermarket stereos. Yet, I wouldn't go to a dealer and say..."Check out how I hacked into your changer pin configuration!".

Look at this adapter:
Sounddomain Changer Adapter

By using this adapter, you can put your changer into the Alpine pin configuration. This makes it easier to modify (hack into) the changer wire in your car because there is more information about the Alpine Configuration (OEM manufacturers don't like to release pin configurations). This is all that I was trying to explain and it probably makes more sense now.

Fourgig

Try www.blitzsafe.com and see if they have an adapter with audio-in that plugs into the CD changer controller port.

They made one for me so that I could add audio-in to my stock 2000 Celica stereo. I just press the "CD" button on the stereo and it switches to audio-in.

bent

Blitzsafe didn't have anything that would do it, so I e-mailed their tech support, and they responded (very quickly, I might add):



OOOooo...I've been looking for this part forever! two more months....

Bent

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