Thanks, Nick. All sounds good. Just a couple of followups:

7. Do you have any pictures of the HD antenna installed?

In an Odyssey? I don't think so. I'll dig around.

No; a picture in any car would do, really.

11. You list a restriction on 3G iPods -- what does it mean that it "Does not support Albums/Chapters. FF/RW Does not work from radio."

3rd Gen iPod's do not have the capability to do such things remotely. 4th gen's and above are much more powerful. It also will not start by itself when you switch to it, and it may not stop correctly when you stop the car.

Sorry for being dense; I'm still not sure what this means. What does it mean to not support Albums and Chapters remotely. Does this have to do with selecting music, or what?

 

I'll hunt down a antenna pic. There's not much to see, so I don't keep them handy.

With the DICE kit you can skip through the music albums on the iPod, but the 3rd gen iPod does not support that. Neither can it skip chapters in podcasts/audiobooks.

 

Found one! This is inside the car. It's placed further out than it needs to be so you can see it better. Usually it runs right alongside the edge of the glass.

 

I sent you this as an email but decided to also post this here in case others had the same question. I have a 2004 acura tsx with nav. this model is not listed as being compatible with hd dice on the site but i read somewhere that all hondas/acuras 2003 and newer were compatible. will this model work on my car? also wat would the interface be like if it does work? my radio only displays the station that it is tuned to, will i at least be able to see the station number with the hd dice since i know i wont have text.

also on a side note, with the release of the new zunes is there a cable planned to be released sometime in the future by dice that will allow audio and charging the same way the current ipod cable is?

 

Thanks, Nick. So, the cable from the HD Dice is feeding in to the little stick-on black box from the top, and tucked neatly behind the pillar covering? And that thin line leading down from the little stick-on black box is the actual antenna? Do I have this all right?

 

I responded to your email and I'll cut as paste my response here;
You're in a bind - the 04 TSX does not support text or XM. The kit will work still! But you won't be able to see any real information. The most you'll be able to see it is the last 2 digits of the frequency you're listening to, for example if I was listening to 106.7 The display will say 67. That's the most we can eek out of the car. In 05 the TSX supported text and XM radio.

In 2003 Honda radio began to support XM, but they didn't roll it out to all their cars at once.

No, the Zunes don't have the market share to make this a profitable venture, and that's assuming the Zune's firmware is able to handle an integration kit. Apple has 80% of the market share. Microsoft needs to step up and subsidize development costs

 

Yup, you're totally right. You can push the antenna box closer to the pillar so it's not as exposed.

 

Are there any actual owners of this thing? Any testimonials? Do any retail stores sell it?

Also, any recommendations on who to have install it for those who don't feel like disassembling their dashboards and drilling holes? It didn't work out so well the last time I did that. Dashes seem to be getting more complicated with time.

 

bUMP?

 

Hi Nick,

I have an 09 Acura MDX with nav and entertainment package. I would like to be able to use the buttons on my steering wheel or the nav/radio head unit to control my ipod. I'd also like to be able to see the albums/artists/songs/playlists/etc on the nave screen. Is this possible?