Instablaster.

I'm sure they could fix that for you.

Either no tone or with iPhone tone the board is random

@@MingIslands nope it isnt, they seem to indicate a certain revision. as of writing this comment, the 2023 revision of the xy-bt-mini are now blanked out, meaning there is no notification sound, like at all, they are just silent.

That is why I resoldered the connectors.

That could also be remedied with a case that holds things down in place, those thick sticky heat sink 2-way tape pads perhaps on the inside of a sturdy casement???

@@12voltvids Goes without saying. But you have to wonder how long those solder joints will last even though you've redone them. The smaller the mechanical joint, the weaker it is without some form of reinforcement. The old through - hole has that extra reinforcement due to the larger solder pads and the actual strain relief of the leads going through the board. Extra points if it is soldered on both sides and a plated through via. Jason, yes, anything to help keep the part from physically moving will help. But just like in a building, the stronger the foundation, the longer the building will last. Ergo, the stronger the board connection of the high stress part, the longer it will perform well. Any enclosure reinforcement of the part to the board is icing on the cake.

Well this module is going to be built into an old clock radio. I just found another Yorx AM/FM/FM stereo clock radio with the beautiful VFD, just like the one I swapped the VFD tube on, but this one the tube works perfect. It is going to become a bluetooth capable radio. The AM/FM/FM Stereo switch will be rewired for AM/BT/FM stereo.

@@12voltvids not necessarily a commentary on this particular piece, but rather a general statement on the difference between T-H and SMD where repeated stress on connections is concerned. Since your board will be static, that sort of failure should be nil.

I have one that says: Bat Tree low, prease chahge.

You heard it connect didn't you. Just some tones. No voice prompt on this one

12voltvids I had to ask because ICStation says it has a voiceprompt. Thanks for clarifying.

@@KernelPanic Yes I was expecting it to have voice prompts as per the web site as well but the one I have just beeps which is much more pleasant. I have another one to do which is similar but has an amplifier built in and you know that that means... A bluetooth speaker project.

Mine has just the sounds for pairing and unpairing. No voices!

Ik i am late unfortunaly you need special JieLi programmer to change the sounds and some have the voice and some dont

Yup just plug it into the aux in.

It is capable of 16bit 44.1khz stereo sound which is similar to cd quality but it is compressed audio due to limitations if bluetooth.

He has already done that on an earlier video, Boombox is maybe what he called it, don't remember but an excellent video to help solve that problem. ThriftyAV.

Thank you, Thomas. I'll do a search!

You would have to build a power section to drive a distant type signal for antenna. Not feasible

That tip is like 4 years old and still going strong.

It is stereo.. just using a cable to combine to a smaller feed.. but it's still stereo

Repair? Pairing isn't supposed to be without user interfacing how would the board know what to pair to? But it reconnects to the paired device when it receives power again, just tested it.

justwanna seeif it will work without restarting on a loop

No problem, I'm powering it from 3.7 cell, converted my wired gaming headphones into wireless Bluetooth ones

@@Grandafmor Hey! I was trying to do the same thing! It also serves to charge the battery an old Nokia BL-4C cell phone? thanks

@@superatendedordeb0lud0s34 depends if battery has protection circuit, but I wouldn't trust charging from this board, best way would be to use separate charging board like boards with tp4056 from aliexpress, they are rather cheap and reliable, and you should look for ones that provide undervoltage protection as well as charging

@@Grandafmor and what about using one of this shorturl.at/kpwD3 ?

@@superatendedordeb0lud0s34 Not sure, those mini adapters can have lesser sound quality and annoying announcement voice, but if aren't concerned with that it should be ok.

The ones I have used are all controlled by the phone volume and when turned up they give a good output level.

More than enough.

Remember that Bluetooth operates in same frequency band as 2.4g wifi. Wifi has much more power and can easily drown out the very low power Bluetooth signal. Bt was originally developed to connect your phone to a headset or your car. Out on the road there are not dozens of close by routers competing for bandwidth.

It is a basic device dont expect miracles.

No.

This is exactly what I did in my daughter's car. Plugged it into the rear aux input and tucked it away in the console.

@@12voltvids great! I found a updated version of the module on Ebay it has bluetooth 5.0 for less than $10 cheap upgrade for your car!

K S it will brick it, the battery needs a balancer.

Yes it is stereo.

You need to find the input points on car radio mainboard, from the cassette player, and solder an 3,5 mm jack audio wire to this unit. This would be the difficult part. Put the unit back in the dashboard and route the audio wire under the dashboard in order th have the jack connector near the cigarette lighter. Then buy a 12 v lighter socket charger and find the best solution to mount the bluetooth module on it and power it. At this stage you have a functional BT connection. In order to make the car radoo cassette player to play the audio coming from bluetooth, you need to take appart a audio cassette, remove all internals, like band spools, put back together only the casing and insert it into the player. That would start playing, but the audio signal would be from bluetooth. Done. I did this 15 years ago on a Dacia Logan first gen which had only radio cassette player. Instead of using bluetooth, I connected the 3.5 mm jack to my MP3 player, and years after that I listened my MP3 music in my car. I sold it this way, and the buyer was happy to connect his phone to the player.

If you run a steteo to mono cable you will end up with mono.

12voltvids perfect! Have a nice quality single speaker that I will build in a small mono amp fed by this board. Cheers.

Yes I believe i did a video where I put a small battery powered Bluetooth board into a little plastic box with 2 speakers.

I don't believe so, because the mute on the bluetooth receiver controls the power amp, so when it is not actively streaming over BT it keeps the amp in mute mode

@@12voltvids Thanks for the reply!

No, headphones only, or drive an amplifier.

@@12voltvids thanks for the quick response

That doesn't save a lot of weight and no you will need an amplifier to output to car speakers

You can get a similar version of this, but with a built in amplifier, which should work good for your project

You can rename device name in android device

@@sanb3586 thanks for your advice very useful

Just for reference kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bcdzbKiHvJuUlqM.html

Lmao it doesn't even cost a $ to manufacture these in china

@@KuntalGhosh True, it costs little money, but I think it’s part of the CCP plan to take over western civilization. To send a letter to the other side of the world is more expensive than that.

With my ears and i can confirm it is indeed stereo.

Stereo of course.

@@12voltvids tq for u r information

Is it pure stereo?? Please help 🙏

Canada

I know, but do you live in Vancouver?

@@infinitecanadian Not in Vancouver city but I am in the lower mainland

I live in Abbotsford.

@@infinitecanadian You close to Paul carlson's place. He is out there in the valley. I'm west of abby on the beach.

It just requires 5 volts via USB and its current draw is very low. I don't think there's powerbanks that wouldn't work.

Does it?

This unit does not support a microphone.

When powered the LED goes on. When paired the LED goes off.

Of course it is stereo

@@12voltvids thanks