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by altua
Sun Jul 22, 2018 9:14 am
Forum: Google Home Mods
Topic: Having microphone sensitivity issues? Try this
Replies: 2
Views: 38514

Re: Having microphone sensitivity issues? Try this

Ah sorry about that, hopefully it's working now!
by altua
Sat Jul 07, 2018 11:21 am
Forum: Google Home Mods
Topic: Home Mini static
Replies: 9
Views: 60472

Re: Home Mini static

It'd be interesting to try one of those out if you think they work ok, obviously at the moment it seems like a little bit of a waste of a Pi to have it sitting there just to relay a mic input!

Alex
by altua
Sat Jul 07, 2018 11:17 am
Forum: Google Home Mods
Topic: Having microphone sensitivity issues? Try this
Replies: 2
Views: 38514

Having microphone sensitivity issues? Try this

So, you've got hold of one of the really cool Google Home mic in kits that SnekTek sell, get it all set up and then realise that your microphone isn't sensitive enough, or sounds like this? clip.m4a Apparently this is caused by the line in signal voltage, which seems like a really complicated thing ...
by altua
Sat Jun 30, 2018 4:55 am
Forum: Google Home Mods
Topic: Home Mini static
Replies: 9
Views: 60472

Re: Home Mini static

Good news! The kit arrived yesterday, swapped it in and I was back to where I was - i.e. the high static recording above. As suggested I played a message from my phone over the kit and it worked just like your recording. To get my microphone to work what I found was I could install a Raspberry Pi in...
by altua
Mon Jun 25, 2018 5:47 pm
Forum: Google Home Mods
Topic: Home Mini static
Replies: 9
Views: 60472

Re: Home Mini static

Just a quick update to say that I haven’t seen anything come through the post yet so haven’t been able to give it a test yet - turns out Canada is quite a long way from the UK!
by altua
Sun Jun 17, 2018 5:28 am
Forum: Google Home Mods
Topic: Home Mini static
Replies: 9
Views: 60472

Re: Home Mini static

Thanks for the sample file. I'll test the new kit as described above. Yeah both mics have been removed, however I messed about with a soldering iron before getting the hot air gun so not sure if that damaged the board in some way?
I'll post back when the new kit is fitted

Alex
by altua
Thu Jun 14, 2018 6:03 pm
Forum: Google Home Mods
Topic: Home Mini static
Replies: 9
Views: 60472

Home Mini static

Hi all, I've been really impressed with how the kit works, but there were a couple of issues I've had so will describe them here to see what everyone thinks. Firstly it's nearly impossible to remove the mics without a hot air gun, I spent half an hour and didn't get anywhere. 3 seconds with the heat...