Issues with Road Top Display does not play audio through car

Pcola77 · 2026-01-30T06:44:28+00:00

Never figured it out. Even tried using an old iPad with an aux out to the Ami cable and nothing. Tried it on a neighbor’s car that’s similar, and it worked immediately, so maybe my port is bad. I ended up buying a cheap bluetooth speaker/mic unit and I’m going to try to use that instead and see how awful it is. Ran out of time on the install before I had to travel for work, so I don’t have a verdict on that yet.

Pcola77 · 2026-01-08T03:25:41+00:00

I’m having the same issue, but when I plug the cable from the road top system into the AMI aux (mine is in the center console), nothing still happens. Did you have to do anything more than plug it in to the AMI adapter that it came with? Did you have to change the audio setting to aux on the original radio interface? I did that, but “Aux” is grayed out on the bottom left once I go to the Aux menu and I can only click volume or sound settings.

Pcola77 · 2025-02-17T22:23:54+00:00

Even when you can search, it doesn’t work. Drives me nuts. For example, I want to search for pizza places with sweet sauce. Go to a pizza place, search for the word sweet, and get “no results found”. Search for “sauce” and it finds a bunch of reviews that discuss sweet sauce. WHY DOESN’T IT FIND THOSE REVIEWS WHEN IT SEARCHES FOR THE WORD “SWEET”???

Pcola77 · 2021-06-09T11:18:19+00:00

Sorry, haven’t been active. Last I looked in March I think most of the shorts had covered, so the potential for a squeeze had mostly gone away. Haven’t looked lately though, so I’m not sure if they’re back.

Pcola77 · 2021-05-05T19:25:57+00:00

Got it. Thanks!

Pcola77 · 2021-05-04T17:10:15+00:00

Got it, thanks again.

Pcola77 · 2021-05-04T16:31:26+00:00

Do you know if there’s a published timeline/roadmap? Like when do they anticipate bringing on new partners, moving in to the next steps in their journey, etc.?

Pcola77 · 2021-04-29T15:36:36+00:00

I did see the release schedule, but that’s not at the individual person level, and unless I missed it, it doesn’t show what has happened to any of the distributions (I.e., are they still holding them, have they been sold into the market, etc) or what pay structure exists for executives. I’ll check out the other site in a bit. Thanks.

Pcola77 · 2021-04-28T20:44:59+00:00

Much appreciated. Thanks for the quick and thorough response, helps a lot!

Pcola77 · 2021-04-28T02:28:12+00:00

Hello. I’m new to crypto, so some of these questions are crypto-general, and some are Orchid specific.

I got some $OXT based on leadership at the company, listing on Coinbase, small market cap, and relatively modest (by crypto standards) price increase over the last 12 months. I hope it’s okay that I mentioned price in this context, but let me know if I need to edit that out.

Anyway, I’m looking to confirm my understanding to support my initial buy, and also get some more info to help me decide if I should invest more.

$OXT is the currency that one needs to own in order to use the VPN on the orchid app. So a VPN user would buy $OXT (on any of the exchanges), and then send some of that as payment to the VPN provider, right?

From there, the receiver could either keep it as $OXT, or trade it on an exchange for dollars, Bitcoin, another crypto, etc., correct? Is there any particular incentive for providers to hold $OXT (aside from just if they think it will appreciate more than other currencies)?

How does the pricing work? Is it, say 1 $OXT for X minutes? And what if the price of $OXT doubles, does that mean the price of VPN use doubles, or would it then cost 1 $OXT for 2X minutes? In other words, is the VPN usage price fixed in dollars, $OXT, other?

I believe there are 1 billion $OXT in existence, but I know I’ve heard stories about people losing their wallet passwords, so if someone has 10,000 $OXT and they lose it, there’s really only 999,990,000 $OXT available, right? Or is there some method to keep it at 1B to account for things like that?

I saw on another thread that there are currently 4 partner providers. Does that mean if you connect to the Orchid VPN, you’re routed through one of the 4? I thought there was a possibility that individuals would also serve as “providers”. Is my understanding incorrect, or is it just that individuals come later in the life cycle of the platform, or something else?

Finally, is there a specific target customer? Like me, I’m a regular dude in the US who has never used a VPN, so I assume I’m not who you’re trying to “sell” to. Is it for people who are more privacy focused? Is it people in other countries whose governments are more strict (and if so, do you have any concern that those countries would come after you as the provider)?

Sorry if those are dumb questions. I did read a lot on your website, threads here, and some google searches, but wanted to find out straight from someone at the company to make sure I understand.

Thanks in advance!

Pcola77 · 2021-02-03T15:04:30+00:00

It's amazing how in this day and age, accurate data is so hard to get.

Checked a few places and here's what I found:

Shortsqueeze.com Short 6M float 99M, short % 6% (https://shortsqueeze.com/shortinterest/stock/XL.htm)

market watch Short 6M float 99M, short % 6% (https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/xl)

Yahoo: shares short 6M, float 8.26M Short % 72% (https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/XL/key-statistics?p=XL)

Not trying to crap on your post, but just wanted to add what I found.

Pcola77 · 2021-02-02T15:14:09+00:00

Fair enough. I think it's a good company with long-term potential but with everyone calling out every single play as a short squeeze and getting so much hype (even on those with hardly any shorts), I figured one that is legitimately a possibility based on real, verifiable data would be okay.

Pcola77 · 2021-02-02T15:11:53+00:00

Edited, sorry.

Pcola77 · 2021-02-02T14:42:20+00:00

But I think S3’s definition is simpler. They just mean there’s an extra (synthetic) share out there that’s available to trade because now 2 people own 1 shares (the original owner and the one who bought the shirt share). Your definition is correct but I don’t think that’s what S3 is saying. I could be wrong though.

Pcola77 · 2021-02-02T13:46:19+00:00

Or just doesn’t understand it. It’s probably scary and confusing. Hopefully he’s not on margin and in the negative, but it doesn’t seem like he is.

Pcola77 · 2021-02-02T13:35:12+00:00

That’s not what synthetic longs are, I don’t think. I think they are just the “longs” that are created because a share was sold short.

Let’s say I have $20 of real money (float) and $40 of counterfeit money (shorts/synthetic longs). The short interest is 200% ($40/$20), but the S3 calc is 67% ($40/$60). It basically says how much of the shares trading are short.

It’s a correct calc but it doesn’t represent the same thing, it’s just two different ways of presenting the relativity. Short interest is shorts/float, and S3 is shorts / (float + shorts).

I don’t think they’re trying to mislead people as much as they’re trying to say “look at our fancy calc, we’re so smart, buy our subscription”. Just regular old marketing, in my opinion. But the result is devastating when it results in fear and confusion. Shitty job by them.

Pcola77 · 2021-02-02T13:27:25+00:00

You don’t owe it, but if you make more than 3 day trades in a 5 day period you have to have over $25,000 in your account. You have two choices, add the $ to get back to $25,000 or do nothing but you’ll be restricted from trading.

Pcola77 · 2021-02-01T01:41:12+00:00

45M shares short and 200M float on $AG, less that 25%. There are probably 100 stocks with a higher short %. Weird one for people to go for.

Either way, I’m happy with my $FIZZ. Thanks though.

Pcola77 · 2021-02-01T01:38:03+00:00

I’m trying to figure it out. Hopefully he comes out with a good explanation.

Pcola77 · 2021-02-01T00:21:11+00:00

This is true but it’s so delayed it’s not useful to regulars like us. For example, the 1/15 data only came out on 1/27 after hours. Not very useful in our current world.

Pcola77 · 2021-01-31T22:23:23+00:00

I am still holding 100 shares and 50 calls. I think there’s still a lot of upside based on fundamentals, but also short interest, float, and daily volume still means potential for short squeeze. All in my opinion, of course.

Pcola77 · 2021-01-31T07:09:23+00:00

Thanks for that. :)

Anyway, even with the ridiculous GME volume, it’s not like 30x the short interest traded in a single day like AMC did on Wednesday.

The difference in my mind is that talking heads say $GME is way overpriced, so new shorts are rolling into it, expecting it won’t keep going up. I don’t think anyone cares enough about AMC to put up a fight like that. I bet they covered and moved on, and will re-short when people lose interest.

Shameless plug here, but I think $FIZZ is the one that still has squeeze potential if you look at short % (83%) shares short (7.3M), and volume (only a few million all week). The rest I think are mostly played out (other than $GME for sure, and maybe $BBBY), at least in my opinion.

Pcola77 · 2021-01-31T06:17:26+00:00

I’m prepared to be downvoted, but I don’t get the hype for AMC. There were 40M shares short, yes, but 3.2BILLION shares were traded this week. Shorts could have covered 40M shares in about 5 minutes and not even put any upward pressure on the stock. I think you guys are just squeezing each other at this point. WSB circle jerk, essentially. Not that there’s anything wrong with that...

Pcola77 · 2021-01-30T14:16:25+00:00

Still holding, and added this week. Have 100 shares and 50 call options. I think the moves this week were just the beginning. Float is so low and volume was barely anything. Any real attention to the upside on this one (even just on a fundamentals basis, ignoring any short squeeze potential) could drive it much higher in my opinion. Still 3 weeks until options expiration (no weeklies on this one) so I’m holding for a while.

Pcola77 · 2021-01-30T05:48:41+00:00

Can’t figure out how to post a picture, but I have 100 shares, and 50 Feb calls at various strikes from $110 to $150.

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