mikey312

I just needed to let everyone know that my Phatbox is up and running perfectly. However, what I really want to say is thank you to Jonah for his perfect drawing and pinout information.

I brought it into a friend who is a graduate student at the Robotics lab a the University of Washington and we did the work there. The professor and grad students were quite impressed with the meticulous work of Jonah.

Wonderful, simply wonderful!


Michael

b-thumper

Ummmm.... isn't the phatbox just plug and play? We have Audis and well, it's an Audi acessory

mikey312

Umm....hmm...the story goes like this:

I hear from a third party that the Audi and VW Phatboxes are the same. I notice that there's a VW dealership in Pennsylvannia that has the thing for $100 less than the Audi dealership here, so I get that. I get it and find that it's only half true...the unit is the same but the cables aren't the same:

<a href="https://forums.audiworld.com/s4/msgs/1380503.phtml">https://forums.audiworld.com/s4/msgs/1380503.phtml</a>

I try to bamboozle an Audi cable from various dealerships and Phatnoise but find that I can't get them to budge. So I end up relying on Jonah's magic:

<a href="https://forums.audiworld.com/s4/msgs/1382656.phtml">https://forums.audiworld.com/s4/msgs/1382656.phtml</a>

The End.


Michael

b-thumper

Wow! VERY cool

jonah

I'm curious to know where you sourced the 13 Pin DIN connector.

mikey312

I got the end from Digikey.com. They have *every* connector imaginable! Including this one:

<a href="http://www.digikey.com/scripts/us/dksus.dll?Detail?Ref=63293&Row=179485">13-pin DIN Female</a>


Michael

S4Czech

Why doesnt Phatbox support Text display like some other cars get? XM radio shows text info/titles 2

mikey312

Because the Phatbox integrates with the stock head unit. Scrolling text would require a different head unit.

The voice SSA stuff isn't that bad actually. I purchased AT&amp;T Natural Voices (it was hard to justify, but I'm going to be listening to this voice *a lot*) so it sounds better than the default Windows voice that you normally get.

Is it as good as scrolling text? I don't think so....not in terms of efficiency anyway. I can read a tag much faster than I can wait for a tag to be read to me, but it's still not bad.

jonah

Although, you can keep your eyes on the road while browsing = good.