Home Mini static
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2018 6:03 pm
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 gun and they came off really easily!
The rest of the kit was a doddle to install and get set up, however the range on the microphone seemed to be very limited. Without thinking I tried a headphone amplifier which was a bad idea! Johnathan is kindly sending a replacement board as I may have killed it...
On listening to the audio captured by the google home before the microphone input stopped working there is a really bad crackling on all the recordings after the mod kit is installed, and there wasn't before. Here's an example My guess is that the board was damaged with all the heat applied by the soldering iron? I've ordered a new google home, so will do a fresh install when the new board arrives!
A bit about my install:
The plan is to install the kit with some speakers wired in around the patio in the garden. I'm using one of these CCTV microphones, as it's an outdoor/waterproof microphone http://archive.is/7ZWPY https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B06 ... UTF8&psc=1
For bench testing (before using the outdoor microphone) I used a lapel mic (note that the example buzzing was present both when the CCTV mic and lapel mic were used) - http://archive.is/whTah https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00 ... UTF8&psc=1
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 gun and they came off really easily!
The rest of the kit was a doddle to install and get set up, however the range on the microphone seemed to be very limited. Without thinking I tried a headphone amplifier which was a bad idea! Johnathan is kindly sending a replacement board as I may have killed it...
On listening to the audio captured by the google home before the microphone input stopped working there is a really bad crackling on all the recordings after the mod kit is installed, and there wasn't before. Here's an example My guess is that the board was damaged with all the heat applied by the soldering iron? I've ordered a new google home, so will do a fresh install when the new board arrives!
A bit about my install:
The plan is to install the kit with some speakers wired in around the patio in the garden. I'm using one of these CCTV microphones, as it's an outdoor/waterproof microphone http://archive.is/7ZWPY https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B06 ... UTF8&psc=1
For bench testing (before using the outdoor microphone) I used a lapel mic (note that the example buzzing was present both when the CCTV mic and lapel mic were used) - http://archive.is/whTah https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00 ... UTF8&psc=1