I installed the right way and I still cant play DVD when the ebrake is engaged? Can anyone help me. The IVA 505 is basically the same system so if anyone can help I would appricate it alot

 

Make sure the parking break wire is wired correctly to the e-break's ground wire.
Brian-

 

Just ground it. Screw the parking brake switch.

 

You can't just ground the E-brake on the Alpine 205...it's a sequence thing with the ebrake and your foot brake. You have to hook them both up....OR you can buy a TR-7. It's made by Pac Parts or Peripheral. You have to just wire it up as they tell you to in the instructions and it allows video in motion WITHOUT having to hookup the ebrake and foot brake. You can find them on Ebay I'm sure. But that is the best bet to get it to work right.

Adam

 

He's right, I used a TR-7 trigger on my IVA-W505. it worked like a charm.

 

Yeah just ground it.

 

Titazik is right... you can't just ground the ebrake wire on ANY alpine mobile video product since day one they have always been like this. There are ways around it like the PAC tr-7 module, or some people hook up a push button switch to mimic the foot brake and a toggle switch to mimic the ebrake and you have to do the following sequence:

Press and hold foot brake
Raise ebrake
Lower ebrake
Raise ebrake again
Release foot brake

Picture should come up.

In case you didn't know...

Yellow/black wire = foot brake
Yellow/blue wire = ebrake

Also, as a side note some features of the alpine's setup menu are disabled until you do this procedure as well. On some units, navigation features and bluetooth features are limited as well until you complete the procedure.

Hope this helps,

Nick