Maestro ADS-MRR Universal Radio Replacement and Steering Wheel Interface

Not happy. It was not advertised as a used product. It arrived with half of the cables missing.

Great product and great Support. Hooked this up with DMX1037S and it goes along very well. The support personals via the 12voltdata forum are excellent. They are fast to attend to the queries and helps. Easy to install as long as you follow their installations and have a bit of knowledge on the radio wires.

I have been installing aftermarket stereos in my vehicles since I started driving in the 80s. It has been a few years since I have done one, and I was amazed at how far the technology has come with units like this Maestro ADS-MRR. I was able to program it specifically for my older truck I just purchased - a 2014 F-150 with a tiny, stock 4.3" screen. During programming, it showed a diagram of my steering wheel buttons as I chose what function I wanted to use with each button - very specific and VERY helpful! There was no guesswork. One word of caution - I used a MicroUSB cable I already had connected to my computer and it did not power on or cause the computer to recognize that a new USB device had been connected. I knew the cable was good, so I thought maybe the unit was bad or needed something else done. I tried a different cable and had the same result. When I used the cable that came with the unit, it lit up and connected just fine. I don't know why - it is just another MicroUSB cable, but for some reason, my others did not work. The one supplied is a little beefier, so maybe that was it. The unit works great. Setup was not difficult. The instructions are not as thorough or understandable as the video they had for my vehicle on their website. Using the two together helped make the installation easier. All in all, I highly recommend this unit. I am thoroughly pleased with the result and have a fantastic stereo setup in an older truck.

The factory stereo in my 2009 Ford Escape was very closely integrated with the medium speed CAN bus. There was no ignition +12V or illumination wires present in the connector, as both those signals were sent serially over the bus. The Sync (APIM) module, the Satellite Radio Receiver (SDARS) module, and the auxiliary display above the vents (FDIM module) are all only controllable via this bus. I was extremely pleased to find that this neat little product was capable of retaining ALL of those network functions with my new aftermarket radio. It provides the necessary switched 12V outputs for accessory and illumination, it can retain full Sync functionality (personally I have it disabled), full factory satellite radio (including channel names, artist/title of tracks, presets, etc), and it even displays the current time and date on the auxiliary display (time synced from the aftermarket radio, which itself syncs from GPS). It also provides a bunch of other useful feature, such as VSS (vehicle speed sensor) pulsed output, reverse lamp output, and parking brake output. The built in steering wheel control interface also works great. I love that you can flash the firmware and settings easily over USB, and all you need to do is create a free account. I found a minor bug/limitation with my specific aftermarket radio, where the auxiliary time display takes up to 60 seconds to "refresh". This means upon startup it spends up to 60 seconds displaying a completely wrong time/date. I contacted idatalink support, and within a day they had figured out what was going on, and they'll be releasing a patch to work around this limitation in the near future. If you want to upgrade your stereo, but your factory radio is CAN bus dependent, I highly recommend this product! I don't think any other competing product comes close to this level of integration (especially since most aftermarket radios have built in support for this interface).

Una maravilla de integrador. Funciona a la perfección, aunque si requiere dedicarle un buen rato, y el cableado tambien requiere de atencion, pero bien vale la pena el esfuerzo