Group Buy / EOI new generation DNS head units (RNS-510 alternative)

[swyner]

I have a trip planned to the US on October 7th. Sandy, is there any possible way it will be available by then? Today was supposed to be the final software and hardware fixes.....

[sinclap2]

I have a trip planned to the US on October 7th. Sandy, is there any possible way it will be available by then? Today was supposed to be the final software and hardware fixes.....

To be honest, I'm not liking your chances of it getting there before the 7th; if it helps I'm crossing my fingers for you!

[kwalsh24]

I have one on the 25th, I sure to hell hope its in my hands by then!

[DkN]

Funny thing is when the order is through, those from outside Australia will receive their units first since they will be directly shipped from factory via DHL, so October 7th is still likely as long as things progress according to plan.

I almost forgot (and I really shouldn't have, being Chinese) that it was mid autumn moon festival yesterday. What I didn't know though was that it meant two days of public holiday in China, which wasn't the case before I left China. So naturally I'm getting nothing from any of my contacts yesterday and today, but I'll update everyone tomorrow.

Regarding MDI, the DNS renders it obsolete. DNS has its own aux and USB / iPod cables, you could just wire them through to where your MDI currently is when you install it.

I know the unit can handle up to 64GB SD card or USB flash drive, but I don't know how it would handle SSD and mobile hard drives. Main issue is power and number / size of files, I'd have to do some testing.

[moda]

If you were so inclined you could hack up the MDI connection out to each of the DNS's inputs. It'd take a bit of guess and checking (with a multimeter) to work out what pin did what (since i'm assuming VW doesn't have a pinout diagram for the MDI) but you could definitely do it. Correct me if i'm wrong but the MDI is USB/iPod, and has a separate Aux-In?

My car only has Aux-In in the centre arm rest, so i'll probably hack it up to connect to the DNS, but i'm no stranger to electrical work :p

Given the moon festival that probably means we won't see an update until Monday, yea?

[DkN]

Audiosources usually works on Saturdays, but they might get lazy and take the (very) long weekend. I'll pester them tomorrow regardless.

[swyner]

Funny thing is when the order is through, those from outside Australia will receive their units first since they will be directly shipped from factory via DHL, so October 7th is still likely as long as things progress according to plan.

Please Sandy, I "need" this for my trip. HAHAHA. I love technology. Turns from wants to needs so quickly.

[kwalsh24]

I second that haha. I miss having GPS in my car and I don't wanna install the ans unit that I have for my dads car, but may have to if its not here by Oct 25th lol

Please Sandy, I "need" this for my trip. HAHAHA. I love technology. Turns from wants to needs so quickly.

[raymondtrudeau]

Oct 25th. A good day. My birthday. Ha ha

I second that haha. I miss having GPS in my car and I don't wanna install the ans unit that I have for my dads car, but may have to if its not here by Oct 25th lol

[swyner]

Ok Sandy. Let's hear some good news this weekend. Based on your preview video I don't think anyone on this thread will mind getting the unit with only a few non functional related bugs (like SD card music artist title). As long as they have whatever hardware tweak they were doing lets get this show on the road!!!

[sinclap2]

Audiosources usually works on Saturdays, but they might get lazy and take the (very) long weekend. I'll pester them tomorrow regardless.

I know I am! I'm not Chinese and it isn't a long weekend here but I am have a four day weekend.

[kwalsh24]

Agreeeeed! I wont be using that anyhow, not unless it effects the USB playback as well, however even then I can live with that and get a firmware fix at a later date.

Ok Sandy. Let's hear some good news this weekend. Based on your preview video I don't think anyone on this thread will mind getting the unit with only a few non functional related bugs (like SD card music artist title). As long as they have whatever hardware tweak they were doing lets get this show on the road!!!

[Jeffbucc]

Re: Group Buy / EOI new generation DNS head units (RNS-510 alternative)

Agreed. I can live with the small glitches. If it will indeed get to the USA by the 7th +- a few days, I'm a happy camper.

[chillybone]

The ans unit never even got the sd and iPod music title and artist listing fixed. The ans still had many bugs. Why would this unit even ever be big free?

[Jeffbucc]

Re: Group Buy / EOI new generation DNS head units (RNS-510 alternative)

The ans unit never even got the sd and iPod music title and artist listing fixed. The ans still had many bugs. Why would this unit even ever be big free?

Well this is a huge step forwards hardware wise, plus they are marketing it as their flagship, so I imagine they would do more support for it.

Man so many of you guys have the sky is falling syndrome. If you want OEM pay for the RNS-510 and have something that won't support any file formats, won't play movies off SD card, and has an incredibly laggy interface. This is 5-600 cheaper than an RNS, it is a first run hardware and software.

Have some patience.