Navall III - some generic questions

[Christopher]

Just getting the hang of the system after installing it this weekend and have a few questions (that may be obvious to some who have had these systems for a while - so apologies if they are TOO obvious!)

- the plugs at the back were not quite as described in the manual (what's new!? ) I figured out which of the two gold coax connectors was for the antenna for radio - what is the other for?
- the two USB sockets at the back (with extension cables) are they the usual usb you would find on a tablet? and can be used to plug in say a memory stick with audio/ images/ data as usual? what else? (did I read USB 'camera' in the manual?)
- I have yet to connect my iPhone (5) I am hoping there is iPhone control in there(?)
- I may also put content (audio mainly) in the micro sd card on the right - what type of audio file is preferred? and how do I guarantee the track/album/performer name and album art is preserved?? (can I just dump the content of my iTunes folder??)

Thanks for any pointers - enjoying playing with my new toy

Best

[ProfDave]

the second gold coax is for the sat nav module

WRT music I have used MP3 on the SD card and it then picked up all the album art from the internet; as its an android device I think this is probably the one as the M4a files are only apple (I think!!) as when I take iTunes stuff and copy on my android phone it converts to MP3

I also use blue tooth music a fair bit straight from my phone which seems to work really well and would not require any file changes

[ProfDave]

WRT the USBs; I only put one in and ran a USB extension to the Glove box; guess you could consider using an iPhone one there. I tend to use Bluetooth though rather than wires.

[Christopher]

Originally Posted by ProfDave

the second gold coax is for the sat nav module

WRT music I have used MP3 on the SD card and it then picked up all the album art from the internet; as its an android device I think this is probably the one as the M4a files are only apple (I think!!) as when I take iTunes stuff and copy on my android phone it converts to MP3

I also use blue tooth music a fair bit straight from my phone which seems to work really well and would not require any file changes

Thanks for this. The GPS has a different connector on a fly lead on my Navall, which I connected up, so the 2nd gold connector is "free" ... is it redundant perhaps?

Thanks for the rest re music, I will have a play - I will see if I need to download any particular player too

Cheers

[steveo]

Hi Christopher
Coolcat will be along shortly!
Regards
Steve

[GeraintUK]

the other connection is for a WiFi antenna.

hth

[coolcat]

Originally Posted by GeraintUK

the other connection is for a WiFi antenna.

hth

Is the correct answer

......and yep, I'm here but you guys beat me to it

[Kennyeth]

One of the rear USB`s on mine came connected to the longer USB cable from the rear of the screen so I left that alone, I think it`s to do with inbuilt DAB. The other USB can be used for storage of whatevet you want, I have had a 64GB USB thumb drive into it with music, film and .pdf files all of which can be played,viewed or read.
In that same USB socket I have also had connected (obviously not at same time) smal hard drives, these have been self powered (getting power through USB) I had a 320GB and a 1TB drive again with music, films and files and all were able to be accessed.
To give you an idea about what a 1TB (terabyte) will hold...

...250 DVD films (2 hours in length).

320,000 high resolution digital photos.

17,000 hours of music:
To put that in perspective that’s 708 days of non-stop listening to music, without sleeping –
that’s just under 2 YEARS! Knock yourself out!
Ken.

[Hairy Harry]

Having now got all the Navall3 "bits" including the DAB aerial, I thought I'd have a trial run to connect everything up on the dining room table (wife out!). I think I was actually the first to order a Navall3, but for a variety of reasons have only just thought about putting it all together. I have a few questions for you very clever people:- There are four leads out of the top left of the unit 1) USB to connect to a flying lead I think 2) GPS Antenna 3) aerial lead to extension lead from boot (?) 4) USB lead plugged into USB from I suppose the internal DAB radio Is this correct - if so neither of the gold aerial sockets are required?? The only phono connections used are red & white plugs - aux audio for the DAB radio and the brown plug for the rear camera input. Question what is the green plug for - says subwoofer?

Final question my car (a ZTT V8) has a Harmon Kardon unit is the amp still wired up as described by Kris ie separate speaker wires from amp wiring to wires adjacent to head unit?

Any thoughts would be much appreciated

Many thanks,

Geoff

[Christopher]

Well I've still not hooked up my iPhone to the unit - I have AirPlay and can see the Navall BT but I think I need to download a music player that can play music through Airplay(?) the one that's there doesn't do anything.

I've also plugged in the OBD BT dongle and unpaired my phone and paired the dongle. The app then still refuses to do anything - it can see and identify the dongle but the bullet "torque can talk to the ecu" (or words to that effect) has an exclamation mark next to it - not sure what to try next???