Both my Apollo’s 770 and 400 WiFi work flawlessly love the Apollo series
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Havana, are you using the 770's and 400's wifi on your own network on the same boat or connecting to other boats via Partybus? The Partybus feature over wifi is what I have had trouble reliably connecting.Both my Apollo’s 770 and 400 WiFi work flawlessly love the Apollo series
Sky, whatever was wrong with my old unit was in that connection. All I did was unplug the head unit and send it back then plug in the new unit. Just saying is all
That's great that you got it replaced and all is good now. Hopefully it will get some good use this season.
David, I know Havana has an Apollo and a 400 in his boat.
Well in case anyone is interested in the Apollo series answer
The remote will only change songs,pause,power on/off etc in partybus mode it didn’t change the volume on the Apollo 400 in the salon. I could not find a way to toggle between head units.
im thinking the same will happen with your units. David
Thanks for the intel!!
Hmmmmmm... I have been considering the Rockford Fosgate 8BB. RF and RM are more closely aligned (Fusion is Garmin). I believe that you get 4 zones and 4 independent inputs on that...ie ability to play different sources in different parts of the boat simultaneously. It about a $1k investment. Given current events, that will have to wait a while.
We installed the RA-770 with two of the NRX-300 NMEA2000 Fusion remotes one forward of the helm and one down below in the cockpit. I like the seamless integration and the ability to power on and control the system from any remote. Paired with Fusion Link on my Apple cell phone the system fulfills all our needs. The Aux out on head unit connects to the Solon Bose system and with the app on my cell phone via Bluetooth we can listen to anything the head unit can provide without leaving the solon.
The only down sides is from the Garmin MFD's (8616's), it seems only the volume can be changed; quite limited as I'd like full control from the MFD's also but can't seem to figure that out. And, if the sun is baking down on the head unit it will overheat and trip off line with loud pops in the speakers - that's not good. The head unit's internal amplifiers are not used but rather we have 4 JL amplifiers.
We have Sirius XM on the boat but also stream Pandora when in cell range; the partybuss feature really serves no benefit for what we use the system for.