Car Radio Interfacing

Hi,

Does anyone have any information or links to anything about interfacing to car radios? I would like to interface a normal FM Radio/CD player car radio for use as a normal radio/cd player inside. I have a good 12v stable power supply and speakers but would also like line-out facility. If I can control it externally as well (especially volume and play/pause) that would be excellent.

I guess it depends on the manufacturer, but I don't want to purchase one till I know it can be done.

Thanks

Hi,

>Does anyone have any information or links to anything about interfacing to >car radios? I would like to interface a normal FM Radio/CD player car radio >for use as a normal radio/cd player inside. I have a good 12v stable power >supply and speakers but would also like line-out facility. If I can control it >externally as well (especially volume and play/pause) that would be >excellent.

Not sure what you mean by controlling it externally?

But yes, you can take a car radio and use it inside your house or anywhere.

D.J.

Well for instance, my radio in my car has buttons on the steering wheel to change tracks, volume, etc. Now this is a modern car/radio so it is probably all built into a central computer, but I was wondering if there is some way, perhaps over a RS232 connection to let me do that with a normal removable radio...

Well I'm not sure but I would think that the radio would be instaled as a whole unit.

Not sure what the purpose is. A while back my Dad bought a little car radio and set it up in his shop and it worked very well.

Are you wanting to by a car radio or remove one from a car?

D.J.

Well I was planning on buying something off of EBay for example... I assume the one in my car is well built in as there is no 'head unit' for it. Controls and screen are built into the dash.

As long as you have the right power for the radio, you can use them.

Just curious, why do you want do buy an FM car radio?

D.J.

If the radio is in-built in the car then it's probably not easy to do, and I suspect all radios do it in different ways - although my car radio doesn't have external controls, it's still linked to the cars computer, and won't work unless it's in the correct car.

I also don't see the reasoning behind wanting to do it?, just buy a home stereo or a radio - which will probably out perform a car radio anyway!.