Bluetooth telephony is a different protocol to music streamingI, being stupid, thought that if I enabled the old Bluetooth phone thing in the centre console to connect to my phone, it would let me play music from my phone.
It doesn't.
The phone feature works so having limited fun with the linguatronic.
Hey ho. I sometimes forget the car is 17 years old
Bluetooth telephony is a different protocol to music streaming
Bluetooth telephony is a different protocol to music streaming
Get one of the Bluetooth adapters if you have the auxiliary port. They are very cheap and work brilliantlyI, being stupid, thought that if I enabled the old Bluetooth phone thing in the centre console to connect to my phone, it would let me play music from my phone.
It doesn't.
The phone feature works so having limited fun with the linguatronic.
Hey ho. I sometimes forget the car is 17 years old
Plug one of these in
Unfortunately my W211 doesn't have an auxiliary port in the glove box. That would have been useful.
It might not but Many MB's are pre wired for it , for example 2006 W203 c class (depending on which head unit is fitted) has the plug already in the loom and a punch out indent in the glove box to accept the rest of the loom , which is a genuine part supplied by MB = instant factory 3.5mm input.
Hi - Yes you can see that the place is in the glovebox BUT the hole to put a 3.5 jack is not there. Instead it is covered.
Yes , it's a 'pop out' they molded them in all of the gloveboxes at some point those cars that were due a 3.5mm jack simply had the 'blank' popped out if the car in question was going to be fitted with a plug. Just like older cars have tons of plugs and wiring in them that was intended for the more luxurious cars in the same range and simply sits redundant in the poverty spec model.
When CANBUS took over in vehicle "wiring" the need for most of the cabling was significantly reduced as more control units were introduced to receive and act on the signals transmitted
Trouble is, nowhere to store the discs in a MercPlug one of these in
Oh, good idea! That would be easier than trying to run a cable from phone to port.
I owned a 211 with one of them for five years. Never discovered it. Sold it to a member here who had music playing through it immediately.
Oh no. I don’t know the solution to that other than a replacement head unit that does Apple CarPlay etc
Aaaaaw man! That properly sucks! I don’t know about tech, but I saw it had the aux option. Asked on here for some advice and a few days later I had music streaming crystal clear from my iPhone.
I ended up buying this 2-in-1 Wireless Bluetooth 5.0 Transmitter Receiver Adapter Audio 3.5mm Jack Aux | eBay
