It was very useful in cars when Bluetooth or AUX were not options. Too bad phones don't have it anymore.

@@jk8557 Yeah and another thing I hate about newer cellphones is not having easily replaceable batteries anymore .

It will likely never be useful in a life or death situation because the signal will never be strong enough to go any meaningful distance

@@bunnypeople well luckily we don’t need things to be useful in life or death situations to actually want them

Fascinating What about mesh apps Can my phone work without a phone mast?

Frankly... it's a surprisingly easy way to turn every FM radio in the house into a speaker for anything you hook up to a small FM transceiver.

That's sad to hear. Here in Brazil we still have AM and FM radio + 2g and 3g service

Is that what all those Ham operators do?

At 6:18:35

The images look pretty creepy of you include the timestamp in them :D

@@astronot5555 ??

@@mega_micro sorry 5:18:00 timestamp includes suprise at portal 10 horus loop.

I believe they were only patched in for the announcement of Portal 2, so they probably weren't there when you first played it.

Thanks for coming on the journey with me as I explore interesting technology.

Same

I only knew about the receivers as well

Nokia n97 had it, was great

It's so sad how phones basically get worse every year now. Taking out features, worse cameras, lower battery life.

I think u live in the US so don't know about xiaomi, most of their phones always have ir blaster to control everything, and mine also has ir, in my family, almost no one uses the original remote

​@@Asphalt_Nitro_2xiomi has like under 1% market share in the us of all phones i think

you know what your right ima get a usbc ir blaster

Thank you. I'm going to keep making good videos. I hope you enjoy them.

I still think FM transmitters are way superior than Bluetooth. Especially older Bluetooth standards that still double-compress everything to MP3 instead of lossless.

We got the same phone. This phone was my older brother daily driver and sound transmitter. He always tune it to combo audio tape radio boombox (i think that it was called). Still work but lended to my uncle as his replacement phone some time ago so i don't know much

Some Sony Xperia models have hidden transmitter. Sony Xperia SP for example. Great feature!

Yep, I'm with you. I'm on fibre to the node and it's not much different to when it was ADSL.

@@JanusCycle My old ADSL2 was much more reliable than my NBN. I had ADSL for years with no downtime. FttN has been a joke for the last 6 years.

Thank you, really glad to hear you are enjoying the more niche aspects and videos on the channel.

Thank you for also watching the more unusual videos. I really enjoy making them.

I'm glad you enjoyed this. It was less about correct radio techniques and more about exploring different technologies, in different ways to learn about them. I'm pleased that people with different backgrounds are getting something out of it.

I will have to revisit phone based FM radio one day.

KZfaq has only just begun recommending my videos in the past two weeks. Before that I was getting almost no views for years!

Recording infrared signals sounds interesting. I'd like to try that sometime.

@@JanusCycle If you do please look into making it possible for others to do. I would love for a device to exist that can record and replay infrared signals. It's a very underutilized area. We often have old infrared remotes lying around and no real way to use them. Imagine if we could! The other reason is that while there are still smartphones that have infrared transmitters they almost always don't have receivers and we are stuck with what library of devices is part of the remote app, and if you device isn't there you are (more or less) out of luck depending on how common the device is. I know infrared devices are falling out of favour. But they are still useful in my opinion.

​@@jackkraken3888 i used irplus and android tvbox. There were option to use another remote to wake the box and when i used it, it were showing amlogic code that could be translated to WINLIRC_NEC1 so i built whole remote in irplus. There are irplus audio if you device lacks ir blaster.

Before Bluetooth people shared MP3s with infrared or IrDA as it was called

@@tristan6509 I'm aware of that. But did they support reading ir signals?

I'm thankful that people are actually enjoying watching.

interesting, thank you

Aphex used SSTV on track three of '2 Remixes by AFX'. It's a picture of him and Squarepusher.

It'll be interesting to try this

No Rickroll tho, disappointed.

Catch the wave!

Impressive achievement! I have been wanting to try that.

Thank you for all the outstanding work Amateur Radio has done over the decades! And for now allowing it to be experimented with in different ways.

Hey thanks, those bits are to help convey the feeling of exploring technology. I'm really glad you enjoy them :)

​@@JanusCycleI believe you are the exact opposite of Dankpods, by watchibg your content i actually get to know something. Dankpods makes videos without actual information about the things he records about.

Thank you. I'm glad people are enjoying these more unusual videos.

cool, thanks!

I'm pleased to hear that you are enjoying, thank you.

If you dont mind, could you explain in a bit detail? I am using an android phone with fm radio. But I guess it doesn't have fm transmitter.

interesting, well done.

Where did you get the app from? And how did you clone it? Please don't share link as it might delete your comment.

Whats a dab tuner?