can you use bluetooth head sets with the new bikes or do you need the cords ?

 

cords

 

bummer

 

Actually...to listen to audio (no transmit) you can connect a Bluetooth transmitter to the 7-pin DIN connector. You'll need to make an adapter (to go from the DIN connector to a 3.5mm plug on the transmitter). BlueBridge (Miccus) make such transmitters, available on eBay for less than 40 bucks. This requires some soldering, and the pin-outs for the plugs. (I have the pin-outs if you need them. PM me.)

Alternately, you can get a pre-made cord and dual-channel Bluetooth transmitter (operates two headsets at once from a single source) from Sena. Cost is about $150 for both the cord (to plug the transmitter in to the DIN) and the transmitter.

These are not optimal solutions. But they'll get you Bluetooth connectivity. I have the former setup, i.e., a Chatterbox headset, and a Miccus transmitter. It's easy to use. I turn the Chatterbox on first, hold the 'on' button down until I hear a tone in the head-set, then hold the 'on' button down on the transmitter, until the LED on the transmitter starts blinking red/blue alternately. Within 30 seconds the transmitter and headset pair-up.

HD states somewhere you need a download to make the radio output to the 'headset'. Mine worked without this.

Theoretically you could wire up both a Bluetooth transmitter and receiver to the DIN plug, and operate with Bluetooth just as you would with a cord, 'listen' and 'talk'. This would require a transmitter and receiver, or a device capable of both, to be plugged into the DIN. (Though I wasn't interested in 'talking' via the Bluetooth connection, I have the DIN pin-outs for the 'mic', too, I believe. I tested the 'listen' function via Bluetooth, but didn't test the 'talk'. But there's no reason I can think of talking wouldn't work as described).



Alan