It’s been about a year and half since I last touched this. Truth be told it’s been sitting in my desk drawer since the last post. But I finally got around to breaking our the wires and hooking it up on a breadboard. It was pleasantly straight forward.
The big “trick” in getting it to work is to put a jumper in between the IPOD_TX and IPOD_DE lines (Dark Green and Black) Once you do that, and supply 3.3v, it’ll turn on.
Since I don’t have any RCA jacks, or a 4 pole 3.5mm jack, I just used a 3 pole jack, with video on one channel and audio on the other. (Then I just used the same audio input for both the left and right channels.)
Once this was all set: SUCCESS!
Unfortunately, some time in the last year and a half, I lost the cover for the inline remote.
I’m really glad I pulled this back out.
Hey, I was looking to do something similar with a myvu media player I bought on ebay. I have a raspberry pi running linux, and I want the video output to go to the myvu glasses. I was just wondering if it’s necessary to keep the inline remote, or can I just cut that out? Let me know what you think. Thanks.
More specifically, do you think that I could disassemble the glasses and connect the micro-display screens to my computer without the inline remote. I think the inline remote contains the video-decoders, step-down converter, and the micro display controller. I’m assuming the micro-displays won’t work without these, but if that isn’t correct I would be very happy. If you can shed any light on the matter, I would be happy.
To quickly answer your question, no the remote cannot be removed as you assumed this is where some of the magic happens, but if you have the time and patients you can move the remote closer to your hardware setup so that you have one “simple” cable to your headset. Also I have found that some myvus pertaining to this model may have a different color scheme for the wiring from the ipod connector to the pendant i will post my pinout soon so if anyone is having problems for wiring this could help, my setup involves a umpc with a vga converter so it was more indepth than the pi but you can pull it off easier with the pi…hope this helps cheers
Hi, I realise this was a long time ago but could you share the pint of you cable to connect video output to the myvu
*Pin out of your cable (apologies for my fat finger typing)
Do you know the pinout of the iPod connector so I can make my own connector cable instead of cutting it off? I guess since it doesn’t support any ipod or ipad we have now there’s no point to keep the connector on the glasses?
If you have one with an ipod connector, I would assume it follows the standard ipod pinout.
http://pinouts.ru/PortableDevices/ipod_pinout.shtml