Faria Gateway Box Replacement with Garmin MFD

[mjmaatman]

WakeHawk This thread inspired me to do a similar project on my 2006 SV211. I purchased a Veratron VMH35, a VMH14 Satellite Gauge, and the Veratron Engine Box. I got the basic wiring done at this point. Can you provide detail on how you hooked up the Engine ECU? The current 3 pin connector in my boat has two wires, that the manual says are data ground (black) and data (white). Shield says not connected. The J1939 adapters and the Engine Box I purchased show CAN High and CAN Low inputs. Do the two existing wires get connected to the CAN High and CAN Low inputs I.e. data ground to CAN Low and data to CAN High?

[WakeHawk]

mjmaatman you are correct, the white wire in the factory boat wiring is the CAN High wire, and the black wire is the CAN Low wire.

[Miljack]

WakeHawk is your Fusion head unit setup for Apple Car play? I think they have released some of those head units now...

[WakeHawk]

Miljack yes, the Fusion MS RA-770 I installed does have Apple Car Play

[Miljack]

Do you notice the sound quality as being better for streaming music than bluetooth? I've been using Deezer in my car and notice a big difference when I plug it into Apple Car play (Toyota requires plugging into the USB port for Air Play).

[WakeHawk]

Miljack, I gave you some bad info the other day, the RA770 doesn't have Apple Carplay, it does have Apple AirPlay 2 so if you connect to the stereo's wifi you can wirelessly stream over the wifi. I've used all 3 connection methods, the bluetooth and airplay sound about the same, when I hook in using the USB port is a little bit clearer. I think the stereo's DSP really cleans up the audio no matter how it is getting there. Occasionally the bluetooth connection would get buggy and randomly drop, but this was pretty rare. Fusion released an updated firmware a few weeks ago that I installed, haven't used the stereo for an extended period of time to see if they finally completely fixed the bluetooth randomly dropping.