PARROT CK3300 + TOMTOM MOBILE

[Guest davejerome]

I have a C500 with tomtom mobile and a parrot ck3300 GPS car kit. I managed to pair the phone up as a handsfree kit fine but not the GPS.

I re-paired the two devices and chose the option not to use as a hands free kit. This allowed me to use gps on the parrot menu.

What i would like to know is....

...1)can both be used at once or do i have to keep swapping via menus on the spv. (i.e be using sat nav then the kit change for a phone call)

2)how do i connect the gps to tomtom mobile. i have no idea but the parrot site claims that it is compatible.

Thanks

[Guest davejerome]

Well I have found out how you do it. Not a very simple soloution but it does work and best of all you can use the GPS + HANDSFREE at the same time which parrot say you cannot!

The C500 needs specific pairing procedure in order to allow GPS data and telephony (voice) at the same time.

First, delete the paired devices from the Parrot car-kit and from the C500 then follow this procedure:

1/ Prepare the car-kit for pairing in Windows CE mode (Settings > Advanced settings > Pair with phone... > Windows CE)

2/ Pair your C500 with your car-kit (code 1234). Answer YES to "use the device as hands free device"

3/ Disconnect your car-kit from the phone using the car-kit LCD (Settings > Paired devices > "C500 name" > Disconnect)

4/ On your C500, go into Advanced Config. > BT Serial Port config. and Deactivate COM7.

5/ Exit the menu and go back in. Activate COM7.

6/ The C500 will prompt you to select a device supporting serial port profile. Add the CK3300 device again and re-enter pairing code 1234

7/ Launch your navigation software, and set the GPS on outgoing port COM7.

8/ You should be able to connect the Hands-free now (green button push) without loosing the GPS connection

and

This behavior of the CK3300 is the same as with many PDA (with separate phone for telephony) or PDA Phone standalone devices.

Here is the explanation:

The "GPS data" connection must be connected before the "Hands-Free" (telephony) connection. Otherwise the GPS data connection can be activated but the GPS software will not received valid data

Unfortunately the Hands-Free connection is automatic when you power On the Parrot kit.

So you have to disconnect the Hands-Free prior to connect the GPS

Then the Hands-Free will be reconnected automatically when needed (phone call) and concurrent use of both GPS and Hands-Free should be fine

However, the Hands-Free reconnection may not work properly if trying to reconnect via the Parrot menu. We are currently working on this known issue.

Also, we are investigating on ways to avoid the user having to disconnect / reconnect the Hands-Free

That should hopefully be enough to get it working OK.

We also could not get it working [regardless of applying the Traffic update] without renaming the Parrot connection to 'TomTom Wireless GPS'

[Guest noleech]

Thanks for your long explanation. This should help a lot of people to get the initial setup right quickly. (took me hours of of trial and error)

There's a little application called Bluetooth Toggle, which allows you to quickly turn on/off Bluetooth on your mobile.

Using BTToggle I first turn off bluetooth. Then I turn on my car and the carkit starts looking for my phone. Then I start TomTom, which automatically enables bluetooth and connects to the GPS module. Then I just keep TomTom running, or switch back to the main menu if I want to make a call. It does take a while before both bluetooth connections are functional, but it does work eventually.

One thing I can't figure out is how to get voice directions from TomTom to play over my car speakers. They are only audible via my phone speaker. The ck3300 manual says that it supports voice commands, but that this depends on the software used.