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You should be able to integrate with your Bose system. Look for Parrot ISO harness adaptors specific to your installation. They usually come with a mute box to work with amplified systems. You can tap into the amp control wire coming from the F500 to the ND-G500 as the mute wire. I had to use a relay with mine as the amp control wire doesn't go all the way to ground and the harness mute box I purchase was sensitive to the 0.12V still present. One brand of harness is Quick Connect. You can find them with a Google search.

It sounds like normal F500 behavior. I assume you have something connected to the AV source, e.g. an iPod. If so, the F500 will not unmute unless you turn off that source. Even if you pause the iPod, it will still not unmute. You must either disconnect the iPod or turn the source to off. However, the nav voice/bluetooth phone work differently. The nav voice should mute and unmute the F500. A bluetooth phone should only mute when making a call. So really, the only somewhat strange thing is the iPod. I suppose since the sound is generated by the iPod and not the F500, the F500 assumes t

Nick, Not sure what is going on with your bluetooth (that has actually been the one stable thing with my F500 - works great), but when I set up my F500/ND-G500 with the ISO harness, I switched the pins. I know others have noted this. I'm not sure if all the harnesses for the ND-G500 have them switched or just some. It's easy enough to check. I've pasted a link below that came up from a Google search. Probably not the best picture, but the first one in the list. In this picture, the large double-ISO connector is shown as two separate connectors A and B. The red accessory wire should

You will need the ND-G500 to amplify the line level sound from the F500. Without an input into your factory HU, there is no way to amplify the sound to your speakers. With the ND-G500, the included harness uses ISO connectors. You can simply buy a vehicle specific Parrot harness (I use the QuickConnect version - you can find it at their website or several others) and it is essentially plug and play from there. The plugs that would go into the HU would just stay unconnected.

Nick, That's correct. It should get power via your OEM harness. That will provide 12V (acc and bat) to the ND-G500. The ND-G500 will provide 5V to the F500. It should work. However, as I said my setup did have a factory amp, so it's a little different. I've never tried using the ND-G500 as a mute box, but that is what it is supposed to do (i.e. pass the headunit audio through to the speakers unless it gets the amp control signal from the F500). Make sure you set the F500 audio to "Preout" in the settings menu. I also bought an external mic and active GPS antenna which definitely ma

No, not at all. That is what I use. I meant that your car may have upgraded sound with a Bose or Infinity (or the like) system. You will still use the ND-G500 to amplify the sound (phone call, nav voice, iPod) coming from the f500 and will be sending this out to the car's speakers. On vehicles with Bose/Infinity/etc amplifiers, the headunits typically output a line level signal (like a headphone jack) to the amp which amplifies it and sends it to the speakers (also allows for surround sound/subwoofers in OEM systems). The ND-G500 will be sending the f500 sound out at speaker level, not li

It depends on the harness/vehicle. I used a QuickConnect Parrot harness for my vehicle with an OEM external amp. The harness includes a little box which converts the speaker level output of the ND-G500 to line level when sending it to the amp. It also functions as a mute box. The harness has a connection for a Parrot mute wire and there isn't an equivalent wire from the Pioneer. The blue/white amp control wire from the f500 is close, but I ended connecting this to a low voltage trigger (Peripheral TR-7) and a separate relay to fully ground the harness' mute wire. Works great, but took a w

I am doing something similar but with the ND-G500 amp. I have the amp control wire connected to a special external mute box (a quickconnect QCHBB) which I needed to connect the Pioneer ISO harness to my HU (without having to wire to the factory external amp). It mutes well but sometimes doesn't un-mute immediately (10-60sec delay). I was wondering if this could be due the fact that there is still 0.18V. Do you ever see this? I was thinking of trying your negative trigger relay and assume it would look something like the "convert a positive output to a negative" as seen on this site:

Did you ever figure this out? It drives me nuts, too.

I had an F500BT/ND-G500 installed on my Hyundai Veracruz with Infinity external amp. To make it plug-n-play, I provided the installer with a QuickConnect Parrot ISO harness. Since the ND-G500 outputs speaker level, the harness (called a QCHBB) has a little box which converts to pre-amp level. The box also functions as a mute box and the installer tapped into the blue/white amp control wire from the F500 to function as the mute wire. Things worked reasonably well, but intermittently after turning off the iPod AV source or ending a phone call, the system wouldn't unmute for several (3-4) min