ipod touch, bluetooth playing through car stereos, GPS

[Fayd]

I have a 3rd gen 64 gb iPod Touch.

i want to get a GPS reciever for my car.

i want to play my ipod touch through my car stereo.


can i buy a GPS car kit for the ipod touch (like the tomtom unit, or garmin, or whatever) AND have it play music through bluetooth attached to stereo at same time?

here's the car stereo i'm thinking of buying. not for sure yet. i have to get a new car stereo as my current one is garbage. if anyone has any suggestions on different car stereos, more input is good.

http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/...52921666040163

 

[Fayd]

if i posted this in the wrong forum, as it seems it with no responses, can a mod move this to the correct forum? i can't think of any other forum that fits it better. maybe garage? seems a bit of a stretch...

 

[DivideBYZero]

Does the iPod touch have a GPS sensor? I don't think it does, so this is the issue, you need the BT to connect to a BT GPS puck, but you also want tunes via BT, and that is not going to happen AFAIK.

 

[TheStu]

Does the iPod touch have a GPS sensor? I don't think it does, so this is the issue, you need the BT to connect to a BT GPS puck, but you also want tunes via BT, and that is not going to happen AFAIK.

This TomTom unit includes the GPS chip in the dock itself.

After that point, it shouldn't be an issue to play the music at the same time, but I have never used the BT on an iOS device, so I wouldn't know where to begin.

 

[Fayd]

Does the iPod touch have a GPS sensor? I don't think it does, so this is the issue, you need the BT to connect to a BT GPS puck, but you also want tunes via BT, and that is not going to happen AFAIK.

the iPod doesn't even natively have the stack necessary for a bluetooth gps puck. all it has is the stack necessary to stream audio over bluetooth.

as theStu pointed out, there are car adapters for the ipod that act as both a cradle, and as a GPS sensor. it's one of these that i'm looking at. i'm just wondering if anyone has any experience using these and bluetooth audio at the same time... or if the use of the cradle precludes the use of bluetooth audio.

 

[soccerballtux]

no reason it should, the dock sends the gps through the plug, not bluetooth. And, you can be connected to multiple devices at once.

 

[DivideBYZero]

the iPod doesn't even natively have the stack necessary for a bluetooth gps puck. all it has is the stack necessary to stream audio over bluetooth.

as theStu pointed out, there are car adapters for the ipod that act as both a cradle, and as a GPS sensor. it's one of these that i'm looking at. i'm just wondering if anyone has any experience using these and bluetooth audio at the same time... or if the use of the cradle precludes the use of bluetooth audio.

OK, it wasn't clear you already knew the answer from you OP.

 

[Fayd]

OK, it wasn't clear you already knew the answer from you OP.

i don't know the answer. that's why i asked the question.

i don't know if plugging the ipod into the GPS cradle overrides the way the sound is output.