Zumo 660 & Bluetooth

[Frank G]

I have a 2012 RT Ltd with the Zumo 660. I can Pair My phone (Blackberry Z 10) to the 660 and I can Pair My Headset (Interphone F3s) to the 660. Everything works well. Can talk to the wife, Listen to the GPS (660), and answer and make phone calls. What is missing is the ability to listen to Slacker Radio from the phone through the GPS to the Headset. Is this possible? If I take the GPS out of the equation and pair the phone to the headset I can listen to Slacker Radio. By the way the Interphone F3s and F5s are state of the art with long battery life, exceptional sound quality, and static free.

 

[billybovine]

I have a 2012 RT Ltd with the Zumo 660. I can Pair My phone (Blackberry Z 10) to the 660 and I can Pair My Headset (Interphone F3s) to the 660. Everything works well. Can talk to the wife, Listen to the GPS (660), and answer and make phone calls. What is missing is the ability to listen to Slacker Radio from the phone through the GPS to the Headset. Is this possible? If I take the GPS out of the equation and pair the phone to the headset I can listen to Slacker Radio. By the way the Interphone F3s and F5s are state of the art with long battery life, exceptional sound quality, and static free.

I think, but not sure it has to do with A2DP protocol (Stereo Music). The Zumo 660 is only able to pair with one device with that protocol so it either connect to the headset in stereo or the phone in stereo but not both.

 

[Frank G]

Thanks for the reply, Sounds Logical. Not sure how to continue the conversation. Guess we will just leave the GPS out of the loop. Very disappointed with the stock radio system on the spyder, or do I not know how to use it.

 

[Trickie Dick]

I had the same issue. I decided to just bluetooth the phone to the headset and not worry about listening to the GPS. I can see it and that's normally enough. If I know I'm going into an area that has a lot of direction decisions, I just connect to the GPS and turn off the music. I probably should be paying attention to where I'm going anyway. :yikes:

 

[harrypottar]

It's possible to have a blue tooth adapter added to your spyder. This way you pair the headset to the Spyder, the spyder audio including GPS will play through your headset. Simply plug the phone audio into the spyder audio and pair the phone part to the Zumo.

Finless bob did a video a while back of a self installed blue tooth adaptor which is cheaper than the BRP option or just have your dealer install the BRP one

harry

 

[shooter]

I have a 2012 RT Ltd with the Zumo 660. I can Pair My phone (Blackberry Z 10) to the 660 and I can Pair My Headset (Interphone F3s) to the 660. Everything works well. Can talk to the wife, Listen to the GPS (660), and answer and make phone calls. What is missing is the ability to listen to Slacker Radio from the phone through the GPS to the Headset. Is this possible? If I take the GPS out of the equation and pair the phone to the headset I can listen to Slacker Radio. By the way the Interphone F3s and F5s are state of the art with long battery life, exceptional sound quality, and static free.

The 660 has a memory card slot you can download MP3 songs to play through the media player on the Garmin.

 

[billybovine]

Thanks for the reply, Sounds Logical. Not sure how to continue the conversation. Guess we will just leave the GPS out of the loop. Very disappointed with the stock radio system on the spyder, or do I not know how to use it.

I am not familiar with your headset because I use a Sena. The Sena headset is able to pair with 3 BT devices at once. One A2DP (stereo music device) and 2 HFD (Hands free device). I pair my Z10 with my headset and it takes 2 slots. The A2DP slot and 1 HFD slot. The other HFD slot I use with my GPS. That works for me so check to see if your headset capable of that as well.