IPOD to Sansa Dock Connector

[John Brown]

Is it possible to convert or make or obtain a ipod to snasa Dock adaptor?

[saratoga]

Is it possible to convert or make or obtain a ipod to snasa Dock adaptor?

For what purpose?

[John Brown]

for example if i would have a ipod dock and i what to get the same features i would just put it over the ipod connector and connected my sansa?
This could easily be solved if for most of ipod stuff there would be a sansa version but there isn't  

[Chronon]

That will not work unless you're only accessing only the power or line-in/out pins.  Many of the iPod accessories communicate with the iPod via a proprietary protocol.  The Sansa will not be able to send signals that these peripherals can understand.

[John Brown]

ok thankz but is it posible to make a sansa remote to navigate through albums and such (i have a e250r so i don't have rockbox)? The one they sell can only up/down vol adn change song. Is their a way to mod it or to use a ipod remote to do that?
* it all comes down to obtaining a remote for my sansa to proberly navigate it.

[Llorean]

No. It wouldn't talk the same language as the iPod remote. The first step would have to be installing Rockbox, and getting Rockbox able to speak to both types of remote.

[John Brown]

So i'm better off tring to help devlop rockbox for e200r users, like me. It's too bad i can't help because what they need to do is too possible for normal end users.

[zonavar]

Sorry to re-activate a topic that's been idle for a while...

I have a Sansa E280 with Rockbox on it. I have an Alpine 9886 head unit in my car which has a USB port and also has an Ipod interface connector for which I have the proper cable to hook to an Ipod. I don't have or ever want an Ipod. 8-)

Can the Ipod cable plug directly into my E280? If not is there any sort of adaptor out there (perhaps from Sandisk themselves or a 3rd-party) that will connect a Sansa E-series player to an Ipod connection such as the cable for my Alpine head unit or to say an Ipod docking station?

I've never actually seen an Ipod up close to physically compare the connector with the one on my E280 but I'm betting they are different both in design and pinout, but I could be wrong.

Thanks, Craig.

[saratoga]

Can the Ipod cable plug directly into my E280? If not is there any sort of adaptor out there (perhaps from Sandisk themselves or a 3rd-party) that will connect a Sansa E-series player to an Ipod connection such as the cable for my Alpine head unit or to say an Ipod docking station?

The answer is still no.