josche

You sir, are awesome. Thank you.

I have a 2005 S4 (same dash as any B6 A4 or S4) with the Bose package. I've done a number of head unit installations in the past, but I think I'm in a bit over my head with this one. Here are the issues/questions I have: 1. What's the best way to get switched power to the unit? I'm using a wire tapped into the fuse box for the windshield wipers, which works, but I'm wondering if there's a Can-bus adapter somewhere that would be better? 2. How can I get the illumination functionality to work? My understanding is that this is also tied to can-bus with the factory stereo, but I have n

I think the original post was pretty clear in stating that you will have to catalog each time you turn on your truck or else you will not have VR control of your iPod. I was looking for more folks to confirm this, but mostly this thread has been people discussing off-topic issues.

Although I'm disappointed that the functionality doesn't appear to be what I was led to believe, I'm glad that my unit isn't the only one that works this way. If other posters are to be believed, it appears that some of Pioneer's customer support people have been mistakenly advising people that they can turn off the VR Catalog function and still retain VR functionality as long as their iPods keep the same content on them. This is not the case, but it should be. Whoever originally posted the issues/problems sticky for this line of units should be organizing all of the known/confirmed p

I've gotten the impression from reading other posts that if you let your iPod VR Catalog synch once, then you can turn off this feature and retain voice recognition as long as you don't update the songs on your iPod. This doesn't seem to be the case for my F700bt and I want to see if anybody else can confirm. Here's what I did: 1. Started the system with VR Catalog turned on. 2. Verified that VR works with the iPod ("play the album ...") 3. Turned off VR Catalog option in the menu 4. Verified that VR still works 5. Turned off system 6. Turned system back on 7. Attempted to use