two questions about the Sena SM10

[jonnysevel]

Ok I installed the Sena SM10 in my rear trunk. I have one input coming from the satellite radio also installed in the trunk. The Sena is streaming to my scala g9 headsets. This woks really well...HOWEVER..I also had the garmin paired to the scala headsets. As soon as the garmin comes on it over rides the satellite music. SO i am going to run a cable from the garmin to the sena and plug into the aux input. Questions are this:

1) what is the easiest way to get a cable from the garmin on the handlebars to the trunk?

2) Is the garmin tied into the radio and thus easier to build the necessary cable to go from the radio to the sena?:dontknow:

thanks for the help opcorn:

jonny

 

[finless]

As I recall and if you read the Sena manual any sound coming in on the AUX port will override the music coming in on the main port. So that wont help you!

Yes if you have the BRP GPS and cable it feeds into the radio. But from what your saying it sound like you have the GPS bound to the Sena headset? Reason I say that is you only have the XM radio hooked to the SM10 and the GPS interrupts it. Only way that is possible is if the GPS is bound to the headset!

Priorities:
All Sena headsets depending on what they bind with have priorities. As I recall Phone is highest, then GPS, then radio. So your GPS being bound to your headset AND the Sena SM10, the GPS will have authority over the SM10.

As I said I recall that the SM10 also has priorities. Aux has priority over the main music input port. Please double check the manual to make sure I remember that correctly. So if you hook your GPS to AUX whenever it says something it will override the music input. Don't think you can swap the two inputs either. If you put music into Aux then when the GPS talks you will never hear it because Aux has priority!

Spyder Radio:
This one I am not sure since I don't have a GPS, etc and cant test more than one radio function. But I also recall reading the manual and If you have a phone hooked up to the radio via the BRP phone harness and/or a GPS to the radio via the BRP GPS harness, then like the Sena headset, phone and GPS override radio. I am pretty sure but again check the Spyder manual.

So in the end I see no way to not let the GPS override the radio at any time. And this makes sense if you actually think about it. If nothing over road the radio sound then you would never hear GPS or phone calls when the radio is playing.

Now there is a benefit to running the Sena SM10 to the radio. ANYTHING that comes out of the radio (speakers) is thus output to the Sena SM10 and your headsets. Radio, XM radio, GPS, iPod if connected to the cable in the trunk, etc. Right now you only have the XM radio going to the headset from the SM10. If you hook it to the radio then you do not need to bind your GPS to your headset as it will come out the radio. Same with the XM radio.

But I don't think even doing that will solve the priority problem other than to mute the GPS.

Bob

P.S. if you have a BRP XM radio then you also have the entertainment harness. Thus do not make the SM10 cable I show! You have to make a different one that hooks to the entertainment harness. My cable assumes no entertainment harness is plugged in. You would have to unplug the entertainment harness from the radio to plug in my BT cable and thus loose your XM radio.

Also quick question..... I assume you do have the BRP XM radio right? You can change channels on the dash? If not then some of what I told you does not apply.

Bob

 

[jonnysevel]

Ok so great information. So I am aware of the priorities. I did not go with the brp xm radio. Don't feel it is worth it. Got a sat radio and installed in the trunk. I can either hook to aux port and listen through speakers or hook to sena and listen in headset. What is interesting is that I have the gps paired to headsets. But as soon as I turn the bike on and the gps powers up, it totally defeats the music...even if nothing is being said by the gps. If the gps goes through the radio, then i will just make the cable from the radio to the sena aux input and I should be good to go.

 

[billybovine]

Ok so great information. So I am aware of the priorities. I did not go with the brp xm radio. Don't feel it is worth it. Got a sat radio and installed in the trunk. I can either hook to aux port and listen through speakers or hook to sena and listen in headset. What is interesting is that I have the gps paired to headsets. But as soon as I turn the bike on and the gps powers up, it totally defeats the music...even if nothing is being said by the gps. If the gps goes through the radio, then i will just make the cable from the radio to the sena aux input and I should be good to go.

If you connect the radio to the SM10 by building the cable that Finless has explained in another thread to your main port. Plug your xm radio into the ipod port in the trunk. I think that will get you what you want. The GPS is already connected to the radio so it will interrupt whenever it has something to say no matter the mode. You can listen to the speakers or the headset without changing plugs around.

 

[jonnysevel]

If you connect the radio to the SM10 by building the cable that Finless has explained in another thread to your main port. Plug your xm radio into the ipod port in the trunk. I think that will get you what you want. The GPS is already connected to the radio so it will interrupt whenever it has something to say no matter the mode. You can listen to the speakers or the headset without changing plugs around.

yup...That makes total sense!! Now I have to build that cable...