Has anybody connected their iPhone through these addons through their Alpine stereos:

Alpine KCE-300BT Bluetooth Interface

Alpine KCE-422i Full Speed Connection Cable for iPod

if you have, could u please comment on what works/doesnt work? as i just bought an alpine stereo with these addons and wondered if they will work with the iPhone or not.

thanks alot

I've got the older Bluetooth module, and it connects just fine with the iPhone for handsfree use. Doesn't let me play music through bluetooth though.

And the ipod cable works just fine. Although the iPhone prompts that the device wasn't made to work with the iPhone, and wants to know whether to go into airplane mode or not. It's not a big deal, just ignore it.

All the id3 data comes up fine on the head unit.

cheers glad to hear that it work, installing it all on the weekend, hopefully iphone comes by then!!

oh, another thing....

Don't bother installing the Bluetooth module unless you are going to be using it with another phone as well.

Apparently the iPhone will work as a hands-free unit, using it's built in microphone when someone calls. I say apparently since no-one has called me when the iPhone is hooked up. I have a 4G ipod there pretty well all the time, I only swap when I need to charge the iPhone.

either way they are both going in, so will test it all and report back on here,

cheers

I try Pioneer DEH-P55BT with bluetooth, the phone connect and show level of signal and battry status you can make calls , but you can`t listen music.

Hi thesource

I have both modules on my Alpine car stereo system.

The iPod cable works fine as long as you put your iPhone in iPod mode before connecting.

The bluetooth 300BT works but, at least in my case, is not very reliable. I'm seriously considering installing a Parrot system

Regards

I got my alpine head unit 9887 installed with the ipod cable.

Plug in my iPhone, and the 9887 friend my iPhone. Now I can't restore and can't switch on. I think my iPhone board is gone....

Think again before pluggin in...

I forgot of my Alpine head unit model number
but it's a touchglide model plus hooked up an alpine ipod interface.
When I got the iphone 3months ago, one day the phone was low battery.
I realised the iphone should be able to charge via the ipod interface.
Actually the head unit can browse all the songs from the song and have fully funcational control by the head unit.
when an incoming or out going calls, music will suspend.
Soon as you hang up the music back on.

Better to have the iphone pair with a bluetooth handfree while you using it as mp3 storage.

using 9887 with the iphone.

works ok sometimes. as in able to use the search function. other times, the search function does not work. but still able to play music.