Had this installed for a few months now and it works rather well. It is a parrot asteroid tablet touch screen with Tom Tom Europe installed. This Allows Phone calls, Bluetooth music and tethering to the phone to use internet apps like spotify.
It uses the existing radio and is spliced into the cd changer sound input.
The cd changer is still useable by selecting aux in on the screen.
When I get round to it I am going to put a relay in to interrupt the radios FM function using the Nav mute and mono input as at the moment cd has to be selected on the head unit which isn't really a problem.

 

How did you go with powering it up and shutting it down when the car is started and stopped?

The complexity of that steered me towards using a dedicated SatNav like a TomTom or Garmin which already have the auto power on and off.

 

The unit itself comes with a separate control box which can be plugged into the existing radio wiring harness if you buy the adapter, I just joined the constant power wires to the radio ones and found which one was the switched radio feed, the unit then shuts down with the radio, it also has auto dim which is set by the gps like a normal sat nav does.

 

Luke
I love the idea can you post a little more information please What adaptor is it and is that from parrot, also how do load more stuff, music apps etc onto the tablet you obviously can't whip it out and plug into pc or is it all done with wi-fi magic stuff
Peter

 

The parrot wiring uses standard iso connectors as the separate box has a built in amp, In normal use it would disconnect the speakers from the radio and use the built in amp to play the music and do phone calls or nav. So if you was to install it that way you would need two adaptor cables, one to adapt the radio plug to iso then one for iso back to the jaguar type to plug back into the radio if that makes sense? Any decent car radio shop should be able to supply them. But if you have premium audio then that would not work as there is a separate amp in the boot which the speakers are wired to. Personally I didn't want to pay out for the extra cables and just used snap lock connectors for the power connections then two stereo to stereo jack leads with one end chopped of each and wired to interrupt the cd changer sound back to radio(aI - net cable) . This has been well documented on this forum, from what I could research if you do this with a premium sound radio and cut into the same ai-net cable then the radio would be interrupted as the cd changer goes straight to the amp. Extra apps can be loaded over wi-fi or downloaded on a computer and then side loaded to the tablet with a sd card or with a usb stick, this is how I did the tom tom app as it is 3.3gig and I have a very poor Internet speed of one meg. Everything that I have changed is completely reversible in case I sell the car and a potential new owner would want it back to standard.

 

Luke
Many thanks for the quick reply, you started to lose me as soon as you said ISO
I have printed this off and will give it to my Autolec
Thanks again
Peter

 

No worries, let me know if he needs any other info.

 

That's a great looking alternative, and I love your 'grill' mesh fillers on the sides. Well done.

 

Thanks, I soon realised that the mesh needs something black behind them otherwise you can see into the dash when the sun shines on them, anything wrapped with matt black tape does the trick.

 

Really nice looking install, thanks for sharing

 

do you need to hook up an external GPS antena for this? Im just not sure how GPS enhanced tablets work. Ive always used my phones data

 

Nope it's built into the screen, it gets a good signal in a convertible. I assume the hard top should be the same as other people on the forum have used normal sat navs behind the dash with no problems.

 

Hi


I've just been reading this thread and I've just bought an Asteroid Tablet for my 2000 model XKR with Premium Audio.


Got the unit from Amazon so I can return easily if not suitable.


I'm looking at fitting in in place of the sat nav exactly the same as you've done and would like to know how you fitted it behind the panel. Did you glue it and did you use the supplied bracket that has the suction cup or use something else.


Also I'm looking at connecting it to the 10 pin phone connector under the armrest as I have the premium sound with the old Motorola Startac phone kit and was wondering if you have any info on the pin outs of the Parrot..


After reading your thread I didn't realise that the Nav won't work with the radio and was wondering it you sorted this.


I know this is an old thread and hoping you'll be able to reply.


Kind Regards


Rocky15