I know there were some probs early on with the PIE adapter. Anyone using it now without probs?

I'm looking to connect both XM satellite and ipod directly to it with the appropriate splitters/adapters. Anyone doing that successfully?

 

I got a PIE for the same reason about 1 month ago. Install went great and the everything sounds perfect too. Did not use the car for 3 days & when I went to work on Monday, it said NO AUX AUDIO!!!!! I was not happy and did a little reasearch - I hard wired it to the center dash 12V and I think when the car 12V power shuts down (after a few days) so did the PIE. I just pulled the fuse (#61 under the hood) and all was back to normal.

 

Some questions if you don't mind:
- where did you run all the wires, splitters, etc? Any pics?
- where do you keep your sat tuner? ipod?
- are you using a switcher to switch between the sat and ipod? If no, did you just use a splitter?
- so does pulling the fuse keep the 12V dash outlet constant on? Won't that kill your battery?

I'd really like to do this so that the xm tuner in on the dash somewhere (I'm thinking just lwfy of the shaker, below the turn signal stalk), the ipod is in my console, and all wires iare hidden. You think that's possible with the PIE?

 

I just disconnect the negative battery terminal when it does not recognize it-works every time. Happens maybe once every two months or so.

 

What power source did you connect yours to? Are others having this same issue? I'm not really willing to put up with that.

 

it is not the power source; it is the software not being compatible with some shakers; this was the exact same problem peripheral had - they had to recall and reprogram all their units - tooke them about 5 weeks to figure out the problem but is not fixed and are shipping out replacements; dont know if PIE fixed the problem or not; heard they had; this may be one of the earllier units.

 

Someone did a "how to" thread for the PIE which was great on the site... if you do a search you will find it.

I hate seeing wires so everything was hidden in my install. I mounted my rodey above the rear view mirror (On the pony black-out on the glass) -see pic. this location works well for me b/c it's out of the way, you can 't see it from the outside + it's easy to change the station w/o really taking you eyes off the road. Wires run accross roof down side piller behind glove box to radio.

PIE behind radio and power spliced into the 12V dash (behind). My rodey actually broke 2 weeks in and delphi is sending me a new one now - I have RCA to a Y connector and just swap out my Nano and Rodey as needed. I clip the nano to the XM holder base and it works great.

I think it does lose contact with the shaker and you need to "shut off" the power (12v) to reset the PIE - that's why I just pulled the fuse for the 12V under the hood and it did the trick. My PIE is only 1 month old and my GT was built 4/20/06 (hopefully the holiday did not effect production)!!!

 

So the rca's go into the PIE, and then splits into two separate mini-plugs, one for the nano and one for the Roady? And how do you clip the nano to the Roady base?
Sorry, still confused - if you pulled the fuse, how does the 12V outlet work? Do you mean you pull the fuse and then re-insert it?

 

Tes- RCA to the PIE than Y adaptor to the rodey - I use the same one for the IPOD.

Yes- I just pull the fuse to shut down power to the 12v then plug it back in - so the PIE resets.

 

Thanks for the reply. I definitely consider that a bug, and one that I'm not willing to put up with.

I'm trying to decide if I should go the PIE route, or just get an after market head unit that's sat/ipod capable - like the Alpine CDA-9856.
I'd rather keep the stock look of the shaker, and I prefer to control my ipod directly, not through the head unit. But I want it to WORK without having to reset everything every so often.

Anyone using PIE with NO problems?