Honda has released an accessory called the Honda Music Link that lets you control your iPod directly through your car audio controls. Does anyone happen to have pictures of how it looks in the S2000? I'm curious about where the iPod connector cable is routed to. Can anyone provide a link to installation instructions? Thanks in advance

 

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[QUOTE=Doink!~,Jan 11 2006, 01:02 AM]Honda has released an accessory called the Honda Music Link that lets you control your iPod directly through your car audio controls.

 

I just bought it yesterday from a dealer and installed it today.
It works fine on my 2005 model. Although, I would like to make it clear that it is VERY HARD to operate. You control the iPod from the dash and/or the original stereo and you can change songs, etc... The problem is that when you plug onto the Honda Music Link, the iPod screen goes white with a check mark and there is no song info on your stereo screen so there is no way to know where you are on your music database.
The TTS software that comes with the Honda Music Link (for iPod

 

The music link does plug into the AUX Cd changer/XM radio port on the back of the stereo, it just does so behind the seat of the 04-06 models. The 04-06 cars are "prewired" to mount the XM reciever under the soft top's plastic bottom tray.

I'm pretty sure the song navigation isssue is due to the OEM radio.

I'm curious what part # the dealer installed in your 05. My last check of the install directions list a S2K and Pilot LX specific Music link unit that wasn't available for ordering until Febuary.

 

if anyone has noticed
at the end of the instructions it says the driver side auto feature is disabled if the battery is disconnected. and it tells you how to enable it again

 

I had some emails about my install so I wanted to share this update with all:
I installed it at a local electronics store. He charged me $45.00. THe dealer wanted $215.00 to install!
I really didn't know where to put it or what to do because I didn't have the "official" instructions so he just plugged it and pulled the cable through the dashboard in the passenger side and he left it hanging right next to the little basket web that is right there. I really like the position becuase the cable connects to the iPod and then I hide the iPod in the basket and it is almost invisible. Since he wasn't a Honda Certified Tech I didn't want him to open the whole car, so that's why he didn't put it all the way to glove box, but that's just me.
The best advice I can give if anybody is going to use the Honda TTS software is to organize all your music PERFECTLY into 15-20 playlists, for example, Dance, Latin, Electronic, Other, Etc... so you know where to find a particular song. It took me like 4 hours to organize all my songs into all these playlists but once I finishied and run the TTS software again, now music is 10 times easier to find.
Let me just say that the controls on the left dash do work perfectly and the sound is truly amazing.