I installed Vivid 11 on my 2013 Honda Accord EX M6. It has steering wheel buttons for volume, channel, and mode AND seperate buttons for phone. It also has camera on passanger side mirror. Multiple cables came with unit and I had to move TFT box etc for side camera to work.
However, I could not get the phone buttons to work. Installation manual was of no use. I spent weeks researching and finally found schematics for steering wheel from Honda. It became obvious that the three phone buttons were a different circuit than the buttons that worked, presumambly via canbus.
More weeks spent to discover that Honda uses a seperate bluetooth radio that is hidden in dashboard. The wire coming off the clock spring (steering wheel) goes to that radio and not the OEM radio Dasaita replaced.
More research revealed with pin, from the 32 pin connector to the blue tooth radio needed to be connected to Key 1 lead of Dasaita.
Maybe Honda is unique in this design, its OEM radio was a Pioneer. What made it more complicated is tht Honda refers to the bluetooth radio as HFL (Hands Free Link), but its really just the native blue tooth radio that is connected to those buttons on the steering wheel. So much time wasted.
@Jonathan Liss
Did you get your Bluetooth buttons working? If so, how did you connect the key 1/2 wires? I have the same issue.
Sorry its taking 2 months to respond. Yes, I found the appropriate blue tooth wires for the Honda, and I had to splice into them. I had to remove the Honda blue tooth radio which is hidden and not part of the stock radio.
@Jonathan Liss can you stste exactly what you did to fix this. What wire did you connect to key 1.
thanks
This thread is super helpful, thanks for sharing your experiences guys. I'm wondering if anyone knows if this solution would work for other Honda models too? I have a 2015 Civic and the steering wheel buttons are driving me crazy.
I'm sorry it has taken so long to respond. Perhaps you fixed the problem by now. It was my experience, knowledge that a lot of Honda's in your time frame has the external bluetooth radio. You just need to google like crazy to find its location and pin outs.
@Phillip Herr Sorry its taken so long to respond. Do you still need help ? I have pictures I can send. Pls email to pedropucker@gmail.com as I hardly check this formum.
@Jonathan Blackwell Do you still need help ? Yes, Dasaita bluetooth working instead of Honda blue tooth radio. If you need help email me at pedropucker@gmail.com
