Cable Forum - What have you just bought?

Can you let us know your thoughts on it after using it, please - I’m thinking of getting one.

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Strange how doing/buying one thing leads to a cascade effect…

SWMBO convinced me we should have the hall, landing, stairs, and upstairs office re-decorated (new wallpaper with appropriate paint shades, all woodwork painted) - this led on to new carpets (apparently to "help brighten up the area and match the new decor better"), and we might as well replace the furniture in the upstairs office and hall as well, so ordered new solid oak desk, two drawer filing cabinet, three drawer cabinet for the office and a bureau for the hall…

Now, apparently, this makes the lounge look "faded", so we "need" to replace the lounge carpet and our 2 and 3 seat sofas with new lighter (colour) carpets and a 2 and 3 seater electric recliner sofas from Parker Knoll she’s been keen on since she saw them at her brother’s…

When it arrives I'll update you, buy it from their website it's cheaper than Amazon but it will be shipped by Amazon Logistics. https://www.aawireless.io/en/products/aawireless-two

thenry

02-07-2025 14:50

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Why not just plug your device?

SnoopZ

02-07-2025 18:43

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Originally Posted by thenry (Post 36198841)

Why not just plug your device?

It's a pain in the ass to have to get it out your pocket and plug it in with every journey I wish to use it on, which is 99% of journeys for me because I always want to see live traffic when driving.

The only time I plug it in is when I need to charge the phone because Bluetooth drains the battery, so a 3hr commute I will always plug it in, luckily that isn't very often.

tweetiepooh

03-07-2025 10:09

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I just got a new TomTom partly because the stand is powered and the unit connects by magnet to that, so I can remove it without playing with cables.
What I think would be good is something I could attach to a phone with a connection to the power socket on the phone. The combo connector/phone could then be attached to a mount that provides power to the adaptor.

SnoopZ

03-07-2025 12:24

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Originally Posted by tweetiepooh (Post 36198862)

Is there a reason you are going old school and not using android auto or apple car play? Maybe you vehicle doesn't have those features I guess.

Taf	03-07-2025 14:09

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Gold paint for a friend who could not find stocks anywhere.

He used to pay £14.95 for 250ml cans at B&Q, then they stopped selling it.

I went down a rabbit hole trying to find stocks and was tipped-off by an employee who used to make it. Some places he mentioned were asking £50+ per can, plus P+P, but one was sending it out free P+P for £10.99!!

SnoopZ

03-07-2025 15:20

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Originally Posted by SnoopZ (Post 36198840)

When it arrives I'll update you, buy it from their website it's cheaper than Amazon but it will be shipped by Amazon Logistics. https://www.aawireless.io/en/products/aawireless-two

Just tried it out, plugged it into the cars port clicked a few buttons on its phone app and that was it, so no messing around with pairing to Bluetooth I believe that was sorted via the app and I only clicked something on the cars screen once.

The proper test will be tomorrow on my 30min commute into work but so far Google maps just works and my Tidal music service sounds great, hopefully battery drainage won't be any different to my old Motorola MA1 dongle.

One of the options my old dongle didn't have is to change my car screens DPI, I wanted to try this because my screen is rather small so when Google Maps is used it doesn't display the report button, so after trial and error I now have this option.

Taf	03-07-2025 19:23

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I found 2.4kg of chilli-spiced chicken wings half price in Morrisons. I've just cooked them, and now the lad can stuff himself silly.

SnoopZ

03-07-2025 23:09

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Cheap soldering iron and hot airgun station off AliExpress, hopefully it'll be good enough for replacing my PS5 potentiometers on a few controllers that have stick drift without me destroying the PCB tracks.

Soldering mat and PCB vice from Amazon.

tweetiepooh

04-07-2025 10:39

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Originally Posted by SnoopZ (Post 36198871)

Is there a reason you are going old school and not using android auto or apple car play? Maybe you vehicle doesn't have those features I guess.

My car missed those by about 6 months, I have Sync2 not Sync3. If it were 6 months newer it would have those features and this would be a no brainer.

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I have treated myself to a Pit Boss PBV24CB Champion Barrel Charcoal Smoker

Jaymoss

04-07-2025 10:50

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a whopping pack of sirloin steak gonna treat myself now I have no weight to lose and with the exercise as long as I am careful I can eat what I want

nashville

04-07-2025 23:44

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A new Electric kettle from Tesco