A/V Input Instructions
09-16-15, 10:11 AM
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Gonna try
From your picture you can see you dont have the RCA cables seated all the way.
But just incase you did and are still having problems, try this,
Take your iPod with all this and try connecting it to your home tv. You can test the HDMI part of it, then you can try the RCA cables to your TV (most tvs still support an analog RCA video input).
If you get good picture in all these cases then I would say the RCA to 3.5mm jack is your issue.
But just incase you did and are still having problems, try this,
Take your iPod with all this and try connecting it to your home tv. You can test the HDMI part of it, then you can try the RCA cables to your TV (most tvs still support an analog RCA video input).
If you get good picture in all these cases then I would say the RCA to 3.5mm jack is your issue.
09-16-15, 05:09 PM
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Okay, so what I was trying to explain is take everything into the house and test it on a normal tv.
So your setup is like this (for the car)
iPod->LightingAdaptorHDMI->HDMItoRCAConvertor->RCAcableto3.5mmJack
Start with iPod->LightningAdaptorHDMI->TV and connect that to your home tv HDMI port. If you have video and audio, you know THAT part of the chain is good. If you don't get audio/video then you have narrowed your problem down to either the iPod/Adaptor/or HDMI cable.
Then iPod->LightingAdaptorHDMI->HDMIRCAConvertor->TV (using some old RCA cables..) If you have audio and video, then you know that part is good. If it doesn't work but it worked in step one, then you know the rcaconvertor box is bad. If everything works, then the only parts left is the rca to 3.5mm adaptor and the car itself.
So your setup is like this (for the car)
iPod->LightingAdaptorHDMI->HDMItoRCAConvertor->RCAcableto3.5mmJack
Start with iPod->LightningAdaptorHDMI->TV and connect that to your home tv HDMI port. If you have video and audio, you know THAT part of the chain is good. If you don't get audio/video then you have narrowed your problem down to either the iPod/Adaptor/or HDMI cable.
Then iPod->LightingAdaptorHDMI->HDMIRCAConvertor->TV (using some old RCA cables..) If you have audio and video, then you know that part is good. If it doesn't work but it worked in step one, then you know the rcaconvertor box is bad. If everything works, then the only parts left is the rca to 3.5mm adaptor and the car itself.
10-28-15, 06:00 AM
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Hey conradRC, did you get any luck with this? I'm having the same issue that you're having.
10-28-15, 06:15 AM
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I was looking into this last night and somewhere it says you have to get the correct RCA/AV cable. Basically try to plug the thing in completely. You will see that it works with a little bit of static. I am actually going to radio shack today to see if theres a better cable than the one i got off amazon.
10-28-15, 10:23 AM
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I was looking into this last night and somewhere it says you have to get the correct RCA/AV cable. Basically try to plug the thing in completely. You will see that it works with a little bit of static. I am actually going to radio shack today to see if theres a better cable than the one i got off amazon.
I found out the problem. I bought a cheap $3-5 yellow white red cable to aux and it didn't work originally. So I ended up going to RadioShack and spending $20 for a overpriced wire but it worked
10-28-15, 10:35 AM
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I was looking into this last night and somewhere it says you have to get the correct RCA/AV cable. Basically try to plug the thing in completely. You will see that it works with a little bit of static. I am actually going to radio shack today to see if theres a better cable than the one i got off amazon.
10-28-15, 10:49 AM
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10-28-15, 10:54 AM
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01-26-16, 08:12 AM
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So I successfully did this a few months ago as well, and its great, my biggest problem was the inverter I was using to power the apple tv unit itself was causing interference and I was getting a few wavy lines. (lines that didn't appear when i bypassed apple TV and plugged my phone in directly) - so i'm fairly confident its not my cables but the inverter doing it. Can you post how you're getting power to your apple TV? what inverter in particular?
01-26-16, 11:58 AM
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I barely can notice a noise on a display, this is probably caused by DC module, but I will try to shild it like apple does in its original power unit.
And the most hard thing for me was to find appropriate WORKING AV cable (that RSA to 3.5 jack). I tried like 4 of them.
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