R56 Cooper S stereo Y cable
Discussion
Hello all.
The girlfriend wants to listen to music from her iPhone 8 in her Mini. It has Bluetooth for calls, but not music. Tried plugging in just the iPhone OE charging cable with no luck. Believe we need the Y cable? Ideally want to use the steering wheel controls. Does anyone have experience of the Ebay/amazon cables?
I know the car predates the lightning cable. So could use an old iPhone 4 with the 30 pin connector if needed.
Regards
The girlfriend wants to listen to music from her iPhone 8 in her Mini. It has Bluetooth for calls, but not music. Tried plugging in just the iPhone OE charging cable with no luck. Believe we need the Y cable? Ideally want to use the steering wheel controls. Does anyone have experience of the Ebay/amazon cables?
I know the car predates the lightning cable. So could use an old iPhone 4 with the 30 pin connector if needed.
Regards
I don't have a Y cable, I use two separate audio jack / iphone cables. You need to have the headphone socket connected for listening (as an Aux), the USB is for charging. I find I get interference if I have both connected, even if its charging through the 12v socket rather than the USB port so I don't usually bother with the charging. The phone uses the bluetooth for calls so I've found I have to disconnect the headphone cable to actually take an inbound call, even though it rings through the car speakers and interrupts whatever I've got playing on the phone.
Will be interested to know if the Y cables don't have these problems.
Will be interested to know if the Y cables don't have these problems.
I have the genuine Y cable. Got it off Gumtree for £20. Tried using different cables and the only one that works properly with wheel controls is the Genuine one.
Avoid the eBay ones as I tried a few before going with the genuine.
Using the genuine cable you don’t need to disconnect anything to receive a call. It just works.
Avoid the eBay ones as I tried a few before going with the genuine.
Using the genuine cable you don’t need to disconnect anything to receive a call. It just works.
Yes, I think the genuine BMW Music/Media cable is the best option.
I shelled out £60 to for one of these for the other-half's Mini just because I like to use the same Spotifiy integration that I have in my BMW.
However, I think there could be a way to do it cheaper but in clunkier way. Basically you need to break out the audio output from the Lightening connector so something like this would possibly work...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lightning-Converter-Earph...
Then you would connect audio and lightening cables back to the sockets on the car.
I shelled out £60 to for one of these for the other-half's Mini just because I like to use the same Spotifiy integration that I have in my BMW.
However, I think there could be a way to do it cheaper but in clunkier way. Basically you need to break out the audio output from the Lightening connector so something like this would possibly work...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lightning-Converter-Earph...
Then you would connect audio and lightening cables back to the sockets on the car.
Edited by Mosman on Wednesday 7th March 07:44
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