Also posted in the ICE section, but as specific to Octavia Mk2 hope you guys don't mind the double post...

"OK, fitted one of these Parrot kits to the Fabia - pretty straight forward as it was plug and play into that head unit.

Now fast forward to the Octavia, and needed to buy the wiring harness.

All wired up (plug and play), but no power to the Parrot, even swapping the switched/permanent wiring.

On closer inspection looks like the 'loose' red wire, on the additional harness, should perhaps be connected to a permanent live

Anyone familiar with this - and if so where should I get the perm live from - scotch lock to the straight through red wire in the existing harness?"

Thanks.....

You need to take the power from the top row of switched lives in the fuse box.

I got someone to do mine for me in the end, but that's that's the solution.

Rob

I bought a piggy back fuse and went with the washer jets for my old parrot kit

this one

Thanks guys - permanent live it is then.

Now in my wiring ignorance why has this been left separate - there's already a permanent live feed through to the head unit - why couldn't they have drawn off that? What could I muck up if I just used a scotch lock to splice into the live feed already supported by the harness.

When installing it into the Fabia a separate feed wasn't needed....

Anyway, will order the piggyback fuse device - that's next weekend sorted then

One word, canbus. By the way you want a switched live, not a permanent live. Permanent live is what the stereo has hence working when the key isn't in the ignition

You put the parrot on a permanent live and you'll flatten the battery.

It's really easy, just make sure you buy an extra fuse as the piggy back thing didn't come with one. Well mine didn't anyway

Take a switched live, a permy live and an earthing point from around the box, and connect it up to the system.

Connect a wire to the mute and a wire to the lights and bobs your uncle.

One word, canbus. By the way you want a switched live, not a permanent live. Permanent live is what the stereo has hence working when the key isn't in the ignition

You put the parrot on a permanent live and you'll flatten the battery.

It's really easy, just make sure you buy an extra fuse as the piggy back thing didn't come with one. Well mine didn't anyway

Thanks - thought this was a perm live, as the switched live is seemed to be already connected as part of the harness (that said as long as i get one of each the harness provides the ability to switch the connections in-line) - it's quite strange that only this one wire is left to DIY whereas all the others are nicely in the connectors

Anyway will check the other two that are already wired to ensure that I end up with a perm live, switched live and an earth

Understand the CANBUS issue so will run to the fuse box

Thanks - thought this was a perm live, as the switched live is seemed to be already connected as part of the harness (that said as long as i get one of each the harness provides the ability to switch the connections in-line) - it's quite strange that only this one wire is left to DIY whereas all the others are nicely in the connectors

Anyway will check the other two that are already wired to ensure that I end up with a perm live, switched live and an earth

Understand the CANBUS issue so will run to the fuse box

If I had the time I would take mine out the car and take a photo for you, but it won't happen for a while unfortunately. I just followed the instructions from the Parrot kit. My civic was soo much easier, my Dad's old Xantia too. The fabia for a piece of p, but that was because I bought an alpine unit with built in Parrot