First of all, I want to thank everyone who has posted comments about their install of a DNX7100 ~ made it very easy for me to complete the installation of my unit
After finally getting everything wired up the only thing that doesn't work correctly is both the wireless remote as well as the PAC SWI JACK. Anyone have a similar experience? I'm going to call Kenwood support but was wondering if there is a setting or something that would prevent either one of the remote devices from working...
This unit rocks and I highly recommend it
Thanks,

 

tape up the end of the headphone jack connector for sony radios on the SWI-JACK. Most likely it is touching metal and it will stop the IR on the radio face from working and also the steering wheel controls from working. Been there, Done that...lol

 

Thanks Travis, as usual you are right on target ~ the PAC SWI JACK was causing the Wireless remote not to work. I'm going to call PAC as I may have a bad unit as I can't get it to program correctly and if its hooked up to the Kenwood input wire (blue-yellow one) it causes the wireless remote not to work either.
Thanks again,
Doug

 

If you are following the programming guide from the PAC site you will find that the track and seek functions are not programming like the sheet says. It's more of a trial and error procedure to get it programmed right.

 

To close out this thread, the PAC SWI interface did end up being faulty...I installed a new PAC SWI and everything went like it should have other than (as Travis indicated above) was that the order I had to follow to get the button programmed correctly was different (last 2 steps) than what the instructions stated:
Vol+
Vol-
skip (press program button once)
Source (button below the volume pushed toward the center of steer wheel)
skip (press program button once)
Track+ (button below the volume pushed toward outside of steering wheel)

using this order everything works as it should

 

The cool thing I have found on the kenwood units is that you can change the way that it seeks and skips. So basically you can change the setting on the radio and then your steering wheel buttons will either seek to each station, search by each digit, or skip to each preset.