How to play stereo at same time as sat nav

bod1467

londonTiger wrote: »

well you paid about £30 or so for your silly satnav app which probably is a nuisance if you want to listen to music on your phone and/or take calls from your hands free.

Free app (Navmii), and calls work fine. I don't use it for music as I have my Ipod hooked up to the MDI input in my car.

But don't let facts get in the way of a good (unsubstantiated) rant, eh?

FWIW I don't use audio prompts as the visual cues are usually pretty good.

REDDDRAGGON

littlerock wrote: »

I have an android phone. Is there an app for this?

Google Maps works.

BeenThroughItAll

londonTiger wrote: »

get a dedicated sat nav, not a sat nav app.

using sat nav app on your phone is clumsy as hell for reasons you have identified and more.

Which reasons have been identified?

londonTiger wrote: »

well you paid about £30 or so for your silly satnav app which probably is a nuisance if you want to listen to music on your phone and/or take calls from your hands free.

Nope, Google Maps works fine for me. Works alongside my music via BT seamlessly, thanks. And it's always up to date.

littlerock

Sorry but I have a sat nav (Garmin nuvi) and my question was whether it could be configured to work with my car cd player so that it only cuts in when there is a direction to broadcast. Not really bothered about sat nav apps. on phones

Bowling_4_Gold

littlerock wrote: »

Sorry but I have a sat nav (Garmin nuvi) and my question was whether it could be configured to work with my car cd player so that it only cuts in when there is a direction to broadcast. Not really bothered about sat nav apps. on phones

The answer is no. The only way you will get it to work is by listening to music on your phone instead of the car's CD player and also using a sat nav app on said phone.

If you are interested in the above, Here Drive+ is a sat nav app available free to Windows Phone users. It has full, offline maps available (so you don't need to use your phone's data connection unlike many Android nav apps). Windows phones are available from £30 upwards

wongataa

littlerock wrote: »

I know this has been asked before but I can't find it. I have a Garmin Nuvi sat nav and an in-car CD player. How do I configure the two to operate together? (I have lost my Garmin user guide).

Go to the Garmin website support section and find the manual for your satnav. Then you can find out if your satnav can do what you want.

IamNotAllowedToUseMyName

littlerock wrote: »

Sat Nav appears to broadcast through car speakers but there is no auto switch from one to the other if we are playing music, seems to be either or.

Are there any sat navs which will do this?

We haven't really established how you are connecting things together. If you have either a cable link or a Bluetooth link for an external Garmin and you are switching between one or the other using the input on the car stereo then the answer will not be on the Garmin, the answer will be that it is up to the car stereo. It will probably just be treating the aux or BT connection the same as trying to switch between the radio and the CD player.

The place to look is in the car player manual not on the Garmin. If the car has some sort of support for phones, as opposed to just another input then it is a possibility that the car will support what you want, but in reality I think it is highly unlikely and the best you can do is to simply use the internal speaker of the SatNav and not play music too loud.

REDDDRAGGON

littlerock wrote: »

Not really bothered about sat nav apps. on phones

littlerock wrote: »

I have an android phone. Is there an app for this?

Hmm..............