I installed the unit few days ago and sound quality is great.
One thing I notice is that bluetooth module is never off, even when ignition is off. My battery is brand new but after just 2 days of sitting voltage dropped to 11.4 . This is a big problem if the bluetooth module never sleeps, any fix for this? Would think that rerouting power to radio on only would fix this

 

I just measured the standby drain of the Bluetooth device at 30 mA. I agree this is not ideal and would much rather see it sleep at 1-2 mA, but it is an amount less the the standbv by drain of the vehicle itself. If your voltage is that low after 2 days, I suspect your new battery is not fully charged. These vehicles use 90 AH batteries which should survive a few weeks with this drain from the vehicle and the Bluetooth module combined if fully charged and in good condition.

With or without the Bluettooth module a battery maintainer and an AGM battery are advisable and especially important if your car is not regularly driven.

 

Cambo your bluetooth cable product is ok for XF, my friend have a XF and he is interesting by the bluetooth ?
Thank's

 

Hi i've connected my cable RCA behind radio on the Grey 14 pin connector and i've good sound. I've activate Aux with SDD.
I can connect bluetooth USB in the glovebox and connect my cable on it. Now my phone have streaming on the XK !!
Thank's Cambo for this post.

 

Sorry for my confusion, but is this also a method to have a 3.5mm aux line in for audio on a 2010+ car?

I'm trying to get a good audio connection for the android box I'm wiring in the trunk via GVIF, and for some reason on boot up the bovee dongle tells the android box to keep pausing and playing again. As soon as I unplug the dongle and plug it back in again, it works as it should. No idea what's going on with that. Works perfectly fine on my phone.

Ideally, I can keep the bovee dongle AND hard-wire a 3.5 or RCA auxiliary line in for audio from the android box.

 

Short answer no. You would need SDD in engineering mode to get Auxillary input on the 2010 model per Cambo. This thread is really focused on the 07 -09 models.

 

Thanks, Sean. I figured as much... but I don't think that the solution Cambo mentioned above was ever discussed, unless I missed it? Remember, I have a 2012, so the option in SDD is not even present to program and enable. I'd love it if I could make a harness like the first post and force an auxiliary audio line that way.

Has anyone tried a 3.5mm to 30pin adapter to replace the bluetooth bovee dongle in a 2010+ car? I think if I got audio working with the android box in the trunk, using bluetooth would be unnecessary moving forward.

 

I think Post #6 he mentions 2010 onward optional with CCF in engineering mode but neither here nor there. Can you elaborate on what you're trying to connect from and too? Pics might help trigger some input.

 

I'm happy to take this to the GVIF thread where it's possibly more appropriate.. but here's a summary:

As you know, I'm working on integrating an android box into the car for Torque pro, maps, streaming audio, etc.

Currently, the box will connect to the bovee dongle via bluetooth, BUT the audio will constantly play/pause until I physically disconnect the dongle from the adapter cable, and reconnect it. After that, it works perfectly. I have no idea what's causing the error, since I cannot replicate it with my Samsung phone.

Audio through the GVIF does not work from what I can gather. At the very least, I don't hear anything.

The BeeLink GT King android box DOES have an AV 3.5mm port, so I can probably bypass the HDMI to RCA box for video, and use the RCA's for hard wiring audio. The box does have bluetooth built it, and it connects fine to Torque Pro and seems to run with minimal lag.

My immediate solution is to bypass bluetooth audio entirely, and just hardwire audio through an aux cable...

If a 30 pin to aux adapter module works, that's potentially acceptable....


Ideally, I can have bluetooth AND the 3.5mm aux cable, and just switch between them with a button... but I'll start with just figuring how to hard-wire an aux-in line to my stock system. The audio is coming from something, somehow.. and is an analog signal. Past experience tells me I should be able to hijack that signal without issue.

 

I'd just give a cheap one a try first:
https://www.ebay.com/i/223477158611?...xoCpkIQAvD_BwE

 

I purchased that very one from amazon for a different application and it did not work.

I can send you mine, I never used it and save you $70.

 

Well, if it didn't work sending auxilary audio signal through a hard-wire connection... it's useless to me! Dang. Thanks for the offer, though!

None of the cheaper devices on Amazon have good reviews... that one Q&C linked to just seemed to have the best reviews.

I wonder why they don't work... three of those pins have to be an audio channel... common ground, and L/R signal. Drives me crazy that this is a challenge in a modern car.

 

Cant believe you are complaining, at least you did not have to spend $70 and time to find out what you are discovering for free. In a way we are being taxed 3 times.
We expect you to come back saying you have found a way.

 

Tell you what... If someone can get me the pinout schematic for the jag adapter cable, and you really have no need for it, I WILL take it off your hands and try to rewire it to send analog audio through the iPod connection.

I'm guessing the jag cable has a unique pinout, and the Amazon aux cable just needs two wires switched. I can check continuity between the schematic for the iPod connector on the console and the end that the aux cable plugs into, and see if it matches the audio pinout of the bovee dongle.

 

Here :
TUTO AUX

 

I've seen that. Unfortunately it won't work for newer cars.

I'd need the pinout of the stock iPod connector that's in a 2011+. I will try to see if there's connectivity between the connector at the back of the radio and the iPod dock connector, but if it's converted anywhere to an optical signal it will not work that way.

 

Ok sorry

 

All input is appreciated. You never know when someone will have a new idea that makes it work.

 

Consider reaching out to Harman Becker. They make the AUU that your iPod cables connect to. They might be willing to give you the pinout

 

Harman Becker was not able to help. They referred me to United Radio, who was also not able to help. As soon as I mentioned getting a schematic or pinout, they said that it's not something they do.

I feel confident that if I can get the pinout for the jaguar center console connector, I can build a harness that uses the common ground, L/R channels for a 3.5mm auxiliary input cable.


Alternatively to the cable discussed above... I assume that people have tried this cable:

I'd guess that the screen shows that nothing is docked, so it doesn't work. If that's the case, an alternative way to get a hardwired aux cable is to use modify the bovee dongle which we know tells the radio that something is connected, and add a switch to send audio from a hard-wired 3.5mm aux port instead of the bluetooth interface built into it.