Old school Alpine CDA-7842, Anyone know how to change ai-net into rca aux for iPod???

[peter7del 10+ year member]

I have the AI-net to RCA jack, but I'm not sure which wire/s on the HU needs to be connected, and where they need to be connected, in order for the Ai-net to recognize my iphone. I basically want to fool the HU into thinking my iPhone is a CD changer! Any help would be awesome, thanks in advance!!!

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[tonka 10+ year member]

I'm not shure our headunits would recignize something that new. it probly gives you some message like "AUX input error" or something of that sort.

 

[pickup1 5,000+ posts]

Plug in the ai-net cable in the back,run a rca to headphone jack on your phone.Be sure to turn the aux input on too.Turn the headunit off and scroll thru the fuctions.

 

[peter7del 10+ year member]

OK so I found out that if I connect a switch from the pink/black wire and ground the switch, that causes the HU to display "interrupt." Then, when I play my iPhone, it almost works :/ Basically the HU has both a front and rear output and when I play my iPhone, only the "rear out" works. I can switch front RCA's to the rear and then I hear all the mids and highs. So far I'm halfway there, but If I could just make both outputs work at the same time, I would be happy! Unfortunately this late model HU never knew what an iphone was, but there must be a way to teach it haha! Anymore input would really help thanx!

 

[peter7del 10+ year member]

Hey everyone, thanks for all your help! I finally figured it out! There's a secret AI-net switch under the HU chassis, I switched it and viola, it worked!!! Thanks a lot everyone, now I have an excellent HU with an aux!!!!