Kenwood Excelon - Garmin POI's?

I had one of the Kenwood touch screen units that used the Garmin interface in one of my cars and I had no problem using the custom POI's including the traffic camera files. Just choose the SD card when I ran the POI loader and after turning on the Kenwood unit inserted the SD card and it asked if I wanted to load the POI file and selected yes and when done it tells you and you then can remove the SD card.

It works with both the standard Kenwood units and the Excelon series.

Garmin firmware updates from the Garmin site and map updates were also done with the SD card and the Kenwood update was done with a CD.

The bluetooth update for the unit was done using bluetooth itself with my laptop to the head unit and that also worked fine.

Thanks for the info. One last question, though. How can I remove the POI's at a later date? From the within the head unit itself I would assume? The Nuvi way would be to use POI Loader.

Thanks again.

You can remove them from within the units menus or they are automatically replaced every time you update.

I was wondering if you have decided if you are going to do the upgrade from the Pioneer to the Kenwood?

I love Pioneer's equipment and all my audio equipment and flat screen TV are all Pioneer Elite but in car audio the Kenwood is far superior and using the Garmin interface with the Kenwood is pretty hard to beat. The 2012 Kenwoods are getting very good reviews and the new much faster processors have a lot to do with that.

Not sure yet as I'm in the process of getting a new car first. After that, I will concentrate on the radio. I was pushing more towards the Kenwood but I was disappointed to see that they removed the mini-USB connector from the back of the head unit. I want to be able to get to the .System folder with a laptop to make some manual adjustments but I don't think that is possible anymore. I know you can upload updates via the SD card but don't think there is a way to get into the system folders anymore. If there is a way, please let me know.

Thanks.

to a computer. I don't know about the 2012 Kenwood units but earlier models had a USB port which can be used to connect to a computer. Just make sure the installer runs an accessible cable. Use it with a laptop.

To be clear I'm not talking about the USB port used for IPOD or music. A separate "service" port.

Yep. I was referring to the 2012 DNX9990HD. The older units had the USB service port.

Which Kenwood model do you have? Reading good and bad RE: both Pioneer & Kenwood.

I have a Kenwood DNX6990HD. I like it. I got it b/c of the Garmin system. But you have to "trick" it in order to load you old way points. I read about it on another forum. Custom routes will be lost, and have to be rebuilt w/in the HU. I am trying to figure out how to load a POI file now.