HD Radio Cables READY! - Page 6

Deric · 11-23-2007, 12:27 PM

Just added the HD box and cable to my xmas list

Kamakazie2 · 11-23-2007, 03:51 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by DaveDog

Ok, here's an idea I've had for streaming audio, which I count as AM/FM, XM, Sirius, or Internet Radio... One of you genius programmers would have to come through big time!

A special app that allows you to monitor a set # of stations, constantly scanning them for the song title info, and displaying and updating titles in a skin selection list, you could then select which 'stream' you wish to listen to. The XM and Sirius apps pretty much work this way, this app would have to enable the different streaming services and scrape for the currently playing song. I'm not sure if its possible, but it would

What he said! That would be fantastic. We would need to build a list of streams tho.

JohnWPB · 11-23-2007, 08:51 PM

Ordered a cable yesterday for the HDRadio so nicely donated! by DaveDog, now just waiting for it to get here

I can't wait to get this working.

ThunderStick · 11-25-2007, 09:45 AM

WHen this cable first came out ebay had at least 6 of these tuners at a time. Now ebay has next too nothing for these.
HMMM
wonder why..
Good job mitch

DaveDog · 11-25-2007, 01:45 PM

YEs, the Directed HD radios have become scarce on Ebay, however the Visteon model has recently appeared for around $120 buy it now.

JohnWPB · 11-25-2007, 06:20 PM

Still waiting on my cable, It shipped the next day, but taking longer to get here, as I ordered it during a holiday weekend

so havent been able to test anything as of yet.

Does anybody know if it is possible to hook up both the HDRadio to the computer, as well as have the display connected somehow? It would be nice to be able to use the HDRadio with it's faceplate, when the PC was off for short trips to the store ect.

DaveDog · 11-25-2007, 06:42 PM

John,

currently no, the serial cable plugs into the port you would plug the display into. I suppose a person could make a Y cable with some sort of switch to cut out the electronics in Mitch's serial cable. I don't really know. If anyone, Mitch would have the answer.

mitchjs · 11-26-2007, 01:14 AM

yes, it could be done.... but that display is SOOOOOOOO ugly

it would take some electronics to do it... so its as simple as splicing cables

i wouldnt spend any time trying it

mitch

Sonicxtacy02 · 11-26-2007, 09:09 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by mitchjs

it would take some electronics to do it... so its as simple as splicing cables

mitch

care to um elaborate on that lol. Does it require just wiring or does it require some type of switch as well.

JohnWPB · 11-26-2007, 08:35 PM

WooHoo cable got here this afternoon. Now to find a way to power this thing in the house to test it with RR and make a skin for it.

It would probably require some sort of switch, like a KVM switch for monitor, keyboard mouse kinda thing. I am sure if they were simply spliced, they would interfere with each other, or possibly even short something out!

The cheap way, and probably a lot of work, would be to use 8 micro relays, one for each wire. When the power was applied to the relays, the computer would be connected, when relays were powered off, the external screen would be connected kinda thing.

Heck a Fusion Brain could then be used to switch back and forth with a press of a button on the screen hahha.

It probably could be done fairly simply. The plugs are just PS2 plugs, and there are plenty of places to dig up old mice to rip apart

blk02si · 11-27-2007, 04:22 PM

Just ordered my cable from your site mitch, looking forward to some HD in the car, finally a good sounding AM FM unit.

My email is joe dot shock at gmail dot com

I think I am going to buy the visteon tuner from ebay for $120, merry xmas

I will also be designing/coding a HD skin for my shock series RR skin.

mitchjs · 11-27-2007, 07:43 PM

you would have to electrically "merge" the RS232 signals
remember rs232 has a negative swing

basicly u have TX from the pc, and TX from the display, both need to go to RX on the tuner

my 1st thought would be to bring em to ttl

course there could be collisions...and then the message would be lost

u could buffer the data... course now u got a microcontroller, and ram involed

u could also use ur pc... one comport the tuner, the other the controller
and pass data...

now u got to code

mitch

blk02si · 11-27-2007, 09:03 PM

I agree, ditch the fugly controller and pipe that signal straight to the serial port of a PC.

Nanner · 11-29-2007, 09:02 PM

I finally got my HD Radio installed in the car. It sound OK, better than the Silabs but it just doesn't sound right at times. MP3s sound somewhat better than the radio. How bad is the distortion that's been mentioned? What does it sound like? I'll probably pull it out again this weekend and ground the RCAs.

mitchjs · 11-30-2007, 01:55 AM

ground the RCAs!!!

just take a jumper wire for now, and listen!

shield to gnd(black) on the power connector

mitch

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