DICE Silverline Install- illustrated guide

I just finished putting the DICE Silverline into my '08 Prius. I took some pictures as I did the install and made an attempt at putting together an illustrated guide, basically showing how I did it. I also took some pictures of a few of the MFD screens showing the DICE unit in "MP3" and "satellite" mode.

Sorry that I had to break up the file into 4 pieces- the server wouldn't let me upload it as one file.

I hope you all find it useful.

 

Eko-

Just out of curiosity, how did you get my 17mb .doc file (Word) down to only a few hundred kb's as a .pdf file? Did your conversion program do that automatically? I had a lot of difficulty trying to upload that file and couldn't figure out, for the life of me, how to make my 17mb file smaller!

Thanks,
ualdriver

 

Cobraz-

I think you directed that question at me and unfortunately, I don't know for sure.

ualdriver

 

Not a stupid question but yup, through that docking cable.

 

Honestly, I've only been playing with the unit for a few days now, but I'll have to admit that I was slightly disappointed with what the unit can do. For example, for a guy like me who is pretty computer and gadget literate, I find the interface on the MFD pretty confusing, especially at first as it is not very intuitive. Frankly, I'm still trying to figure the thing out. For example, if you look at page 9 of the guide, the upper left picture is basically the "default" screen you're looking at when using the iPod. You would think that pressing the "RAND" button would randomly play the songs in whatever folder you're in. Nope, or at least it's not working for me. Also, when I e-mailed DICE for technical support, no one answered my e-mail, which is part of the reason I created that install manual in the first post of this thread.

On the plus side, there aren't a lot of choices as far as integrating your iPod with your Prius, and the DICE box is $100 cheaper than Vais. It does keep your iPod charged, and once you get used to the awkward interface it does allow you to control your iPod, with limitations, through your MFD. This is convenient and probably safer than dinking around with your iPod itself while you are driving (using the AUX plug in the center console).

Anyway, those are my admittedly uneducated observations. I think there are some threads in this section that talk about the DICE and Vais in more detail.

ualdriver

 

Good question. I just went out to my car to check. You don't have to unplug the iPod to play a CD but you do have to press the "DISC/AUX" button on your stereo to switch between using the DICE module interface on the MFD and CD changer interface on the MFD. It seems to switch pretty easily between the CD interface and the DICE interface. The DICE module remembers where you left off on the song you were playing before you pressed the "DISC/AUX" button, the CD changer does not.

 

When you press the "DISC/AUX" button, the MFD completely switches between either only the CD changer mode or only the DICE module mode.

 

Thanks for the kudos. The hardest part of making the whole guide was trying to figure out how to upload it to this forum! The file was so big (17mb) that even though the forum guidelines say you can upload a .doc or .pdf file, it doesn't work until the file size gets down to a few megabytes. I wish I could have had you convert it 2 days ago when I was trying to figure out how to make the file smaller!!! Thanks again.