artinmoTTion

Have exhausted the archives, and still trying to work on a handsfree idea for my (LG) cell phone (that has no real car kit available). I was intrigued by this product from an AW banner ad, and wanted to see if any of our electrical wizards had an idea for how to wire this in. Timely, I think, since some states are instituting a mandatory law on cell phones and driving this week. This device allows you to do hands free dialing even if your (supported) phone doesn't do voice dialing, it appears.

I'm thinking specifically about adapting its (typical) tiny speaker to connect into my (Alpine) stereo's speakers. My car stereo guy thinks it can be set to mute the radio for incoming calls without a problem, but it would be nice to cut the wire to its tiny speaker and adapt it somehow for use in my stereo. Problem, I'd guess, would be with different voltages and line level adapters. Any ideas?

Any different strategies?

thanks, hope this can help others with handsfree as well.

Cheers,

Rich<ul><li><a href="http://www.cellport.com/direct/index.html">Cellport</a></li></ul>

TTempted

is Michigan one of those states?

artinmoTTion

I don't think so, but it should be...cell phones need to be better integrated into cars.

TTempted

or use one of their phones just so that it works properly.

Look at Europe for example...

maaliish

It not complicated at all to wire the kit in. Problem appears when your kit does not have a stereo mute function. In this case you'll need to fab up something that closes the circut when there is signal present at the speaker output of the car kit. BUT its much simpler to just get a carkit for your phone, or a different phone no carkit is available for yours. More on this should be in the tech sections. TT is exactly the same as all other audis in this respect and my carkit worked in both A4 and TT without any mods. One other thing to note is that build in MIC is not a simple plug and play, so use the mic included with the carkit for testing, then look into fabbing up an interface for the car mic. I just ended up using the carkit's mic 100% of the time.

maaliish

have to check with the MFG of the deck on how to interface with it. Existing interface for the stock radio is probably useless.

artinmoTTion

yeah, aftermarket decks in some ways are much more flexible, but not in others. Thanks though!

GranTT MN

how are you going to output to your speakers? You'd need to do something like Jeff Bipes has done with his Bluetooth HF set up.<ul><li><a href="https://forums.audiworld.com/audio/msgs/35830.phtml">https://forums.audiworld.com/audio/msgs/35830.phtml</a</li></ul>

artinmoTTion

thanks, yeah this isn't turning out to be as simple as it should be...