Universal Wireless car Steering Wheel Controller, ALLOMN Car DVD GPS Player Steering Wheel Wireless Remote Controller with Audio Volume Bluetooth Switch for DVD Player GPS Navigation System

This will be the most useful review of this universal steering wheel control you can find. Really these instructions will apply to any of these Chinese aftermarket SWCs that use the two wire analog output. Before I bought this SWC I read the reviews, searching to make sure that this could interface with a big name head unit (not just the cheap android head units out there that have built in SWC decoders). I saw the reviews stating it worked to a degree with the Axxess, and worked well with the PAC, interface adapters. I know the Axxess brand so I started trying to get the SWC to work with that. To sum that up — don’t even try. I returned the Axxess interface and bought the PAC. It took me about 20 minutes to figure out which wires to connect together and how to program it. There are no instructions anywhere that clearly tell you how to set this up. That is partly because this is an aftermarket SWC, not an OEM SWC built into your car. It is also partly, poor programming instructions for the PAC SWI-RC-1. See my attached pic showing how to connect the wires together. I decided to run both boxes off of my accessory signal power, since they are very low power devices. They also share the 2A fuse that came with the PAC. So far no issues running it like that. The wire connections in text format, from SWC to PAC: WHITE -> WHITE, GRAY -> WHITE/BLACK STRIPE. It’s that easy. To program the PAC for the SWC button assignment, you program the buttons in a specific order for the brand of head unit you have. See my second pic for some popular brand button assignment orders. You can program each button for a short, and long press. You hold the program button on the PAC for a couple seconds till the LED turns green. Then within 7 seconds being pressing buttons in the order listed for your brand radio. For a short press, hold the button till the LED on the PAC turns red. For a long press, keep holding till the LED flashes red/amber. It’s that easy. If only someone had bothered to write it down. Oh hey, I did. It’s your lucky day. Now for the SWC itself... it’s pretty nice. The casing quality is excellent. It has button repeat if you hold the buttons down (very important for volume, and probably a good reason not to long press assign the volume buttons). It makes up for having to surrender my volume knob to upgrade to this floating screen head unit. Overall good quality and works really well. The one downside is that there are basically no instructions for any of these devices, for this scenario. Hopefully I’ve solved that problem for others.

This is my 2nd one of these i've installed in a vehicle, I use them for aftermarket radios so not the intended application, they are meant for adding steering wheel controls to factory radios, and all I'm looking for is volume controls and next track. So I'm basing my review on the fact that I'm not using as intended, as well as product quality.Great Build Quality:This is the main thing I purchased a 2nd time for. I tried the Metra Access Universal RF steering wheel controls, which is exactly designed for my use case, but it had issues, the main one is the flimsy feel of the controller on the wheel, it goes on with a big rubber band, even with adhesive backing it had too much flex to not get frustrated using. The ALLOMN adapter has a metal bracket that screws on to the wheel, if it's not tight enough you can add some padding and screw it back on,. And then the controller slots on and off the bracket easily for changing the battery, it is just a great design and the main reason for the 5 stars.Programmability, this is where it doesn't shine as much, but again I'm not using as intended. Using the PAC SWI-RC-1 interface to pair this with an aftermarket radio, results vary, as both the ALLOMN and the PAC SWI use resistance based signals, and resistance can change with wire length and temperature, and it seems like the ALLOMN signals are very close together, so just a slight change in resistance will cause the button mapping to change. All I want is volume up/down and next track, that's it. if I have 3 buttons on the controller that do that in a somewhat normal fashion then I'm good. I mapped everything out before buttoning up, then when I tidied up the wires and put it all back in the dash the button mappings changed, but it's liveable.I've looked for better options, if PAC would make something like the Metra with a better controller I think it'd be great, as their programming options are much better than Metra's. But for right now I'll keep on with this and keep an eye out for something better that feels as solid. The market for these isn't that big, and I think getting smaller as most newer cars come with Steering wheel controls standard so not holding my breath.

Product worked on first try with Pioneer MVH-X560BT radio.A word of advice; the output of this unit is a universal resistance signal, which is not a direct match for the radio (or possible any radio for that matter). To work with your radio you need a Steering Wheel Control Interface (I used the PAC SWI-RC, but your car may already have one). The interface takes the universal signal from the remote, then outputs the correct signal for the radio you have (the PAC SWI-RC supported a ton of models). Again, think of it this way: the control outputs to a universal known set of values; these are then converted to the specific set of values your radio uses through an interface. In this way, any remote could work on any car with any radio. So don't expect to just wire this to a radio and have it work, it might, but most likely it won't.In my case I wired the two white output wires (key1 & key2) to the white analog input of the PAC SWI-RC (the device shows three inputs, but really they are all the same wire with just different resisters at different points which you don't need for this remote). I then removed all the other wires except for red (+) and black (ground) from each device. I wired the red wires to the accessory circuit, and the blacks to the frame of the car. Then on the PAC SWI-RC I set the radio switch to #7 (for Pioneer, the output mapping), and set the vehicle type to #9 (key1 and key2 interface input mapping). The last step was to program the interface by telling it what each button was, and what it should output when pressed. I then hooked it up to the radio and it worked first time.

This SW controller is of excellent design and construction. Especially the bottom part which is made of metal - grab the wheel strong and provide a firm base to handle button pushing. I like use of physical click buttons due to durability. It works with my Android SWC app. Do have some suggestions for improvement:1. The battery holder is hard to pull out. I suspect the supplied CR2025 cell won't last too long, it is already drained when I received it. I managed to squeeze in a CR2032. Better yet, allow installation of 2 CR2032 cells, make it last much longer without needing to remove device and replace cell every month.2. How about a sliding power/off switch at the side? This cut off the Bluetooth radio which is constantly on and drain the battery.3. It's not lighted but making it do a quick light up is welcome. Yes more complicated so charge a bit more.4. If this is intended for Android car head units then there is no need for the bottom phone on/off button. Because Android HU cannot do phone calls even when they have a 4G cellular connection. Suggest make them for >> << next/previous album.5. The little booklet is more confusing than good - written in Chinese and 'Chinlish'. I'd be happy to write an instruction for free.

I really wanted to like this product. I was hoping it would work. I saw that it had a lot of mix reviews so I took a gamble. Worked okay for the first few days after that it stopped working. Tried reprogramming it and nothing. The worst part though was after asking for a refund or an exchange they wanted proof of it not working. I told them I have already disconnected it and they ghosted me after that. Emailed them a few times and never got a reply.

Al principio los mandos funcionan pero luego de repente se queda pillado el controlador y hay que desconectarlo y conectarlo, como se comprenderá esto se vuelve imposible si el aparato esta detrás de la radio

stays on steering wheel excellent. receiver works excellent. some remote buttons don't work and sometimes short out causing the head unit to mute a lot. seller tried to tell me its was the radio, so I didn't program the mute button, problem fixed but now missing one button function.

Installed it in a 2002 avalanche that did not have steering controls. Has been a very nice option to have and works flawlessly with our double din entertainment system.