HD Radio Cables READY! - Page 36

AcuraTLFan · 04-05-2008, 01:01 AM

I'm having a problem with HDRadio and RR. I'm running the IOGEAR serial->usb. Everytime i hiberate with the HDRadio running and when I restart the system, the HDRadio is not working. It doesn't "click" to indicate that it turned on. Only way to get it to work is to exit and restart RR

Any suggestions?

mitchjs · 04-05-2008, 11:55 AM

its the IOGEAR serial->USB

option1. better drivers
option2. better serail->usb (ask for recomendations here)

bottom line with these, its all about the drivers!

i only use FTDI based

mitch

rgarjr · 04-05-2008, 01:58 PM

Mitch is right. Get only an FTDI chipset USB to Serial converter.

AcuraTLFan · 04-05-2008, 10:19 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by mitchjs

its the IOGEAR serial->USB

option1. better drivers
option2. better serail->usb (ask for recomendations here)

bottom line with these, its all about the drivers!

i only use FTDI based

mitch

Thanks mitch...option1 worked perfectly.

rgarjr · 04-05-2008, 11:06 PM

What software u guys hearing you HD? Cuz I just can't get road runner to work with HD. Mitchs Sat amp program works great controls the visteon great.

mitchjs · 04-05-2008, 11:11 PM

some simple rules to live by:

-Make sure you have .NET 2 installed (for the HD Radio to work)
-Run runme1st.bat
-Set radiomode=8 in RR.INI
-Set hdradioport=X in RR.INI

rgarjr · 04-06-2008, 01:42 AM

Yup I'm running the latest MS frameworks and have ran that bat file. Settings are double checked on the rr.ini file as well. Just no luck on this with RR, i dunno maybe its because I'm running Vista. Could be also the skins causing it not to work, since DFX3.0 just simply freezes up when clicked on HD radio.

Even re-installed RR and a skin. I guess for now I'm gonna listen with SatAmp program and wait for CentraFuse to come up with their update.

mitchjs · 04-06-2008, 01:46 AM

try another skin!

Carwings-v1.0 is nice!

OR you got something else snagging the comport!!!
iguidance?

mitch

lor109 · 04-07-2008, 08:52 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by greatwhite

nah, the 300 radio is just like any other factory radio, marginal at best. Mine was the factory RB1 sat nav radio and it hit the shelf about 4 weeks after I bought the car. The chrysler 380w amp was right behind it..............

Pretty much crap. Fit the dash and interior look nicely though..............

So the quest for a non-mast antenna began.

who do I turn to?

Why Google of course!

Seems moptorcycles and hot rods have already figured this one out.

A quick "peruse" of a couple hot rod forums later turned up something they use for radio instead of the mast antenna (and something I knew about a long time ago but forgot):

Dakota Digital amplified antenna

Supposed to be as good as a 31" mast antenna and it receives FM AND AM unlike the non-amplified "stick on" antenna's which, according to what I've read lately, only do FM (not a piece of info that's easy to find either

)

But......yipes! They sell for 80 bucks plus shipping!

That won't do.

Then a quick sidestep over to ebay grabs me a dakota digital ant 1000 for 35 bucks and 3 bucks shipping. Shipped for less than half the asking price on the Hot Rod and Harley shops. Cool.

The Harley forums and the Hot Rod forums I visited said it works as good as if not better than thier stock antenna. Probably a little optomistic, but it is 12v powered antenna with amplifier built in. If it works anywhere near thier claims, it may be a viable alternative to the mast. In my case, the only alternative (not drilling a hole in that nice 300M body)

I'll post a quick review after it gets here for those not wanting to install a mast antenna on their in-glass antenna equipped cars (or those that just want to shave the bloody thing off).

I'm so close now:

Mputer radio integration (thanks to mitch for the cable and Hugenious for the Void skin)
Hd/ananlog am/fm (thank visteon)
no noise! (thank to me finding my screw up ie;mic in vice line in)
Dakota digital (hopefully for a decent amplified antenna

Here's hoping the visteon, mitch's cable and the ant 1000 are a match to my radio hopes......

Hey waita minute! Anyone ever stop to realize how much they've spent to get sound like the factory radio already has?

Any word on that antenna??? I have an In-Glass as well, and I don't want a mast. Let us know how it works out.

greatwhite · 04-07-2008, 05:08 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by lor109

Any word on that antenna??? I have an In-Glass as well, and I don't want a mast. Let us know how it works out.

Still waiting...............

Dave323Ci · 04-09-2008, 03:17 PM

Finally got my sound card and HD radio installed on my test bench today. I'm impressed. Thanks Mitch for the cable and all posters for the advice. Still need to work out some skin items.. like getting the BAND working and significant volume difference between HDRadio and mp3s. The lack of AM/FM was keeping me from installing and now I can do it this weekend!!!!!!

greatwhite · 04-09-2008, 04:29 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by Dave323Ci

Finally got my sound card and HD radio installed on my test bench today. I'm impressed. Thanks Mitch for the cable and all posters for the advice. Still need to work out some skin items.. like getting the BAND working and significant volume difference between HDRadio and mp3s. The lack of AM/FM was keeping me from installing and now I can do it this weekend!!!!!!

Which skin are you using?

If it's void, simply tune in an am station (ie 94.90) and program it into the "hidden" button preset. For FM, tune in a FM station (ie 100.10) and program this into the second "hidden" button. Then the BAND button will work fine.

If you direct tune your stations, it will wich band automatically.

The sound diffrence between MP3's a radio could be a setting for your sound card. Make sure your wave and line in volume settings are similar.

Which sound card and drivers are you using? I'm using and audigy 4 and the KX driver project. I had a similar issue until I realized the levels were set differently between lines.

Cheers

pcpete · 04-09-2008, 11:35 PM

Have been using cable and visteon for a about a month now, every thing works great, thx mitch, and all the help in this post, and roadrunner too.

Don't know how everything works internally, but I would like to change the way the radio turns on and off.

When I select radio the radio clicks on , the radioskin shows up, and the last selected radio station starts playing through winamp using winamp linein plugin.

What I would like is for the radio to click on when roadrunner starts and stay on all the time.
I can have my linein on my soundcard active all the time.
When I select "radio" from the skin, I would like the visteon to "hardware mute off" and when I select music or video etc the visteon would "hardware mute on"

Is this possible?

Regards

Peter

mitchjs · 04-10-2008, 05:14 AM

pcpete...

the mute should be the "sound card line in mute"... not any "hardware mute"
does the tuner stay on, after the 1st time going into hdradio?

remember, im not a carpc person, and dont use RR daily.. only to mess

mitch

Dave323Ci · 04-10-2008, 07:21 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by greatwhite

Which skin are you using?

If it's void, simply tune in an am station (ie 94.90) and program it into the "hidden" button preset. For FM, tune in a FM station (ie 100.10) and program this into the second "hidden" button. Then the BAND button will work fine.

If you direct tune your stations, it will wich band automatically.

The sound diffrence between MP3's a radio could be a setting for your sound card. Make sure your wave and line in volume settings are similar.

Which sound card and drivers are you using? I'm using and audigy 4 and the KX driver project. I had a similar issue until I realized the levels were set differently between lines.

Cheers

Thanks -

I'm using DigitalFX 3.0 -- Haven't messed with it much so I'm sure it'll work out the Band issue. If not then direct tuning will work fine since I only ever use 1 AM station.

I did check the levels for wave and line-in which made them closer, but still a big difference. My sound card is USB Turtle Beach Advantage SRM. Yesterday was the first time I used it - so far so good, but we'll see how it works in the car -- I was just using headphones. Since I've been collecting parts for almost a year I'm pretty excited to get this thing installed before it's time to trade in the car...