DNS series head unit (new generation dual core RNS-510 alternative)

**robk5787** · 15-01-2014, 12:34 PM

Would be great to be able to forward though Pandora stations (over Bluetooth through my phone) utilizing the steering wheel controls. I know this is small on the scale of "please fix now," but would be nice all the same. Kind of sucks I have to push the skip button on the screen in the music section of the Bluetooth screen. Looking forward to getting a mirror link module soon. Does anyone know if the units are in production yet?

**asa572** · 16-01-2014, 09:55 AM

Originally Posted by DkN

So your radio just randomly has no sound on startup, or always has no sound on startup, or is there a pattern?

So I'm back to driving the golf after selling my 147.
The unit was playing from the SD last time I drove it.
So it started this morning playing SD with sound.
then I switched it to radio and it had no sound.
Had to shut down and restart unit to get sound on radio.

**SteveBne** · 16-01-2014, 10:36 AM

Can someone tell me how good the Podcast playback from an IPod is? This is the main thing I do in the car and want the ability to fast forward and skip 30 sec forward on a podcast with steering wheel controls.

As mentioned by robk5787 the ability to skip Pandora playing from phone via steering wheel would be great too.

**Fdandy** · 16-01-2014, 07:29 PM

Originally Posted by SteveBne

Can someone tell me how good the Podcast playback from an IPod is? This is the main thing I do in the car and want the ability to fast forward and skip 30 sec forward on a podcast with steering wheel controls.

As mentioned by robk5787 the ability to skip Pandora playing from phone via steering wheel would be great too.

The last test I did, sound was fine however only plays on one side of the car. Aux input sounds good too, however only is heard on the opposite side.

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**moda** · 16-01-2014, 10:15 PM

Originally Posted by SteveBne

Can someone tell me how good the Podcast playback from an IPod is? This is the main thing I do in the car and want the ability to fast forward and skip 30 sec forward on a podcast with steering wheel controls.

As mentioned by robk5787 the ability to skip Pandora playing from phone via steering wheel would be great too.

Podcast playback works just the same as music does. I'm not entirely sure if you can actually see the podcasts on the unit, though (iOS7 separates Music and Podcasts, annoyingly, it should be fine if it's just an iPod though). So the skipping forward and back is the same as music.

It doesn't matter anyways, because with iOS6.2 and above you can control playback on the device, which to me is a much better way of controlling playback (especially if you've got a big library like I do, it would take an age to find what I'm after on the unit).

My usual flow for listening to a podcast goes turn on car/headunit -> wait for boot -> plug in iPhone (if you wait for it to boot and plug in the iPhone it goes straight to iPod playback) -> open Podcasts app -> Select podcast to play, and it takes over from the music app and starts playing as normal.

I can have a bit more of a play with it over the weekend if you want any more details.

**SteveBne** · 17-01-2014, 02:55 PM

Originally Posted by moda

Podcast playback works just the same as music does. I'm not entirely sure if you can actually see the podcasts on the unit, though (iOS7 separates Music and Podcasts, annoyingly, it should be fine if it's just an iPod though). So the skipping forward and back is the same as music.

It doesn't matter anyways, because with iOS6.2 and above you can control playback on the device, which to me is a much better way of controlling playback (especially if you've got a big library like I do, it would take an age to find what I'm after on the unit).

My usual flow for listening to a podcast goes turn on car/headunit -> wait for boot -> plug in iPhone (if you wait for it to boot and plug in the iPhone it goes straight to iPod playback) -> open Podcasts app -> Select podcast to play, and it takes over from the music app and starts playing as normal.

I can have a bit more of a play with it over the weekend if you want any more details.

Thanks for the info. I want to plug ipod into unit and have full control on the DSN as most new car units do these days. If I can't have podcast names/song displayed on the DNS for selection then no point getting it as can plug into aux now and control playback from ipod.

**moda** · 17-01-2014, 03:49 PM

Originally Posted by SteveBne

Thanks for the info. I want to plug ipod into unit and have full control on the DSN as most new car units do these days. If I can't have podcast names/song displayed on the DNS for selection then no point getting it as can plug into aux now and control playback from ipod.

Yea, just had a play with it now. Because of the way the iPod playback system is coded in the DNS *currently* (it's being rewritten, it's basically a copy of what's in the ANS at the moment), there is no way I can see of pulling up podcasts on the unit. It may be my iPhone being funny, though. Basically, it will show up a list of Albums/Artists/Genres, but no listing for podcasts/playlists etc. Even if it did have a section for podcasts, you wouldn't be able to skip forward and back 30s on the unit.

Only way of doing it is on the iPhone/iPod itself, which is fine by me because it's a much faster way of navigating big libraries. The other part of it is the metadata issue (see the google docs sheet), where if you choose a track on the iPhone/iPod, the metadata is incorrect. It's just a bug and should be fixed in a later update, though.

**swyner** · 17-01-2014, 10:47 PM

Sandy, any word of new firmware? Nothing urgent for me but just have some weird quirks that happen very randomly....the steering wheel controls sometimes (once per day) are slow to respond to changing stations and volume...very noticable when GPS is running. Second, I had the reverse camera go on, then the colorful vertical lines show up and no image....then would not switch to camera view until I reset the unit. Very random, but takes away from the "reliability" of the unit and worrying when and if something isn't going to work properly.

**moda** · 19-01-2014, 09:54 AM

^

New firmware would be nice, no stability issues on my side, but more just minor annoyances (mainly in iPod/SD playback heh).

Passes the extreme heat test, even my prepro unit, as with most places down the eastern coast, it's been 40+ degrees the entire week, hoped in my car on Friday and was being told it was 48 degrees (it's often hotter out on site than in town, and the pit floor is even hotter still!), DNS worked fine.