Ordered new 8" 2DIN Sat Nav Stereo for my VE Series I

yeah there are 3 options for "key color" in the settings.

I have the s100 unit in my Colorado and that is pretty much the same setup but wince6 and on that option 1 is green option 2 is red and option 3 is green.
on this s160 unit the 1 and 3 are green but option 2 does not light up, so its a software issue or the led driver for the red leds is stuffed.

my ac controls are not working with this unit atm.
I think the canbus module I got is faulty, waiting for matt to reply and maybe send another one.
if that don't work its going back lol, cant have a non working aircon.
it will be a shame if I have to send it back because its pretty decent, droid 4.4 with 5 in the works and the nav is all android based not wince.

 

I was a bit stumped why there's claims that dig options has a setting on their VE S1 unit for dual zone climate control but it says nothing on their site so I emailed Matt and the reply is:

"Thanks for your email

Right now we are working on a solution for dual. Our current solution is for single only.

We will have a solution by the end of this week I hope."

 

yeah the ac controls don't work with the dual zone hcm, matt is sending me an update this week to test on my dz hcm.
you can buy a single zone hcm out of an omega,sv6,ss for about $50 from the wreckers and swap the dz for the sz, this works as I have done this to get mine working until they update for dz.


also while I am here I managed to get the full specs on it.


it has 2 sd slots that can both be used in the system for storage, I have put 64gb cards in both and tested them and they work fine using FAT32
the usb is capable of using atleast a 2tb portable hdd using FAT32, I have a 500gb connected to mine and it works fine for video and music.
I have not tested other filesystems, exFAT will probably work but I am pretty sure NTFS wont work because that's a microsoft proprietary file system.

it is a full android system "4.4.4 KitKat" there is no wince for nav and stuff its all just android.

testing the leds in the face plate they are green and blue(turquoise) no red so I have bought a pile of red smd leds from china and I am going to change them the hard way.

 

yeah that part is a shame, hoping they fix that with the dz release. As far as the dz goes, I'll just wait until it's release, couldn't be arsed to go to sz then back to dz.

Nice find on full specs by the way.

 

Thats odd!. Would have thought green and red!

 

you can use both sd slots for the system.
i removed the igo that was installed on it and installed a newer igo primo and hema explorer and put all the maps on the "map" sd card.

if you want to see the cpu/ram specs on any android device use cpu-z


the face plate has green and blue leds for each button so it will take about 30 or so leds to replace them all or less if you just remove all of the blue and just replace the green.
i am waiting for my leds to arrive i have bought 3528 and 0603, not sure what ones it needs they are about 2mm in size.
the leds only cost about $2 for 100 so i don't mind trial and error finding the right ones, but i will change all the leds to red ones.

the dual zone ac fix is in the works i am just waiting for matt to send me a new canbus decoder and a software flash to get it all working.

i did have one issue the other day, i jumped in the car at work on my lunch break drove home and music was playing fine, when i drove back to work the unit had "enter password to decrypt storage" on screen and nothing worked at all.
so i got back to work turned car off and turned the ignition back on and everything was working fine again, no password bs on screen.
so if this happens to anyone just turn ignition off and on and it should be good.

 

red leds arrived today and I have replaced the green/blue leds.
the ones I used were red 0603 smd leds and the cost about $1.30 for 100.

here is a few pics...



they look a bit orange in the pic but they are red and match the ssv dash color perfectly

something that may help others doing this.

you see around each led is the white outline, the fat or thicker side is negative

 

I managed to find some time to put an install guide together.

it should give you the general idea on what you need to do to install a aftermarket radio.
Install a Dig Options s160.pdf

 

I just used an iron and solder.

and you will need something like this unless you have really good eyes
LED Magnifying lamp with third hand | Jaycar Electronics


not sure with the leds they might just fit.
the leds on the radio board are all 3 volt.


but you can measure the leds in your unit and compare them to this.

 

Emailed Matt at DIG today. He said he is expecting the dual zone HVACs in the next two weeks.

 

that's the same iron I use, I wired mine upto a 4.5volt power pack so I don't need batteries.

my dual zone canbus decoder is in the mail, once I test it and let matt know if it works good you should be able to get the dual zone version from him.
fingers crossed it all works good

 

Sounds good. The only thing that stopped me purchasing was that they are currently single zone.

 

if you don't like the interface/skin you can buy a modded rom/firmware for this radio.
it allows you to choose a few different skins and it is rooted so you can install apps that require root access

NOTE: this does require you to flash new firmware to the radio and if you do it wrong you can stop the radio working!!

just for reference
the radios model is: S160
and the ve commodore firmware is: M505

http://kotixworld.wixsite.com/navimods/s160-gg74p
forum
https://www.roadnav.com/forum/firmw...cussion-thread-updated-to-31-08-2016-firmware


a few pics attached shows my radios interface.

 

Any update on the dual zone mate?
The skin for the headunit looks nice and clean. How does it compare with the stock skin?

 

the canbus box matt sent didn't work, it may have been faulty just waiting on matt to reply so I'm stuck using the single zone hcm still.

 

Thats a damned shame.