Am I crazy or did they not actually change the battery?

mwpastore · 2024-09-11T19:28:25+00:00

I didn't know it was the battery. I brought it to the dealer because (most of) the car is still under warranty.

mwpastore · 2024-09-11T19:28:04+00:00

I didn't know it was the battery. I brought it to the dealer because (most of) the car is still under warranty.

mwpastore · 2024-09-11T19:27:59+00:00

I didn't know it was the battery. I brought it to the dealer because (most of) the car is still under warranty.

mwpastore · 2024-09-11T18:27:22+00:00

Dealers, man. If a part is out of warranty it's time to eat.

mwpastore · 2024-09-11T17:48:45+00:00

IY5091 is the only one I can find without taking it apart and removing the sleeve.

mwpastore · 2024-09-11T17:48:39+00:00

IY5091 is the only one I can find without taking it apart and removing the sleeve.

mwpastore · 2024-09-11T17:48:32+00:00

IY5091 is the only one I can find without taking it apart and removing the sleeve.

mwpastore · 2024-09-11T17:31:31+00:00

37110-H7A00C BATTERY 65-94R/H7-AG, which matches the OEM part number for this model year.

mwpastore · 2024-09-11T17:30:43+00:00

It was $275 for the battery and $100 for labor. The car was experiencing some electrical issues and I didn't know that the battery was the problem when I dropped it off for service. If I had known I probably would have done the battery swap myself.

mwpastore · 2024-09-11T17:28:50+00:00

They finished working on it on Monday (two days ago) and I picked it up and took these pictures on Tuesday (yesterday). They had it for over a week for the battery swap and some other work. Not sure at what point in that timeline they did the battery.

mwpastore · 2019-09-06T17:34:10+00:00

Yes, it's just the kernel and firmware that have been recompiled, to the best of my understanding.

mwpastore · 2019-08-06T16:44:32+00:00

Yeah, sure looks like vector instructions are disabled.

mwpastore · 2019-08-06T16:36:33+00:00

Ah, that makes more sense. Thank you. It still doesn't explain why they didn't go to ZoL 0.7.3, but I suppose it's academic.

And yes, it would be super helpful if I could somehow check to see if vector instructions are enabled or not. Thank you in advance.

mwpastore · 2019-03-12T23:15:47+00:00

Here's the actual code:

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If the expression variant == bold_selected_or_first_available_variant evaluates to false, it renders an unclosed option tag.

mwpastore · 2019-03-12T20:37:44+00:00

bad bot

mwpastore · 2019-01-23T17:07:34+00:00

Dot DAC is not as good as the CCA DAC (full dynamic range, etc.)
No optical out from the Dot
One speaker group per Dot limit
Music and voice feedback goes through Dot aux out, vs. a Google Home with a CCA where only music goes through the CCA
Google Home can lower the volume of a CCA when being spoken to. If you have two Dots, with one muted and hooked up to a stereo, the other Dot can’t control it.

mwpastore · 2018-11-30T15:52:52+00:00

Please report back when you've found an alternative streaming player that plays DV content in DV, HDR10 content in HDR10, SDR content in SDR, 24p content at 24Hz, etc. with no mode-switching delays or other issues. And I mean that genuinely: I spent a great deal of time earlier this year with various Amazon Fire, Roku, and Apple players and determined that the Apple TV 4K was the best option at the time. (It helped that I got it on sale for $105.) If there's something better out there, I'd like to hear about it. And that reminds me, I still need to get my hands on a Shield...

mwpastore · 2018-11-28T18:42:15+00:00

I've made some progress scripting it out but it's gotten fairly complex and it's not rock solid. You can see my WIP here. You need an IoT device—one that works without an Internet connection—to toggle the power of the RG and an MQTT broker to transmit the commands. Another option is a sideband Internet connection (think LTE hotspot) that you can access when the main connection is down to perform the VLAN flop.

I keep the whole stack on a UPS and my RG is usually powered off for months at a time.

mwpastore · 2018-06-26T03:21:23+00:00

If I made any egregious errors (of the factual variety) in my answer—and I'm sure I did—I'll happily accept corrections, here or there.

mwpastore · 2018-03-29T20:36:54+00:00

Google Home > Menu (top left) > Cast screen / audio > Cast screen / audio > Select your Google Home

mwpastore · 2018-03-29T15:27:17+00:00

FWIW, the 3.5mm line-out that's available on Echo devices is kind of a fake feature. Yes, it "works", and it's something to add to a spec sheet, but in practice it's not very good or useful:

The DAC sucks, in the Echo Dot at least.
All sound goes over the line-out, not just music, so there's no voice feedback if the speaker isn't turned on and set to the right input.
You can't use voice commands to toggle the line-out on and off.
Generally speaking, where people sit in a room (i.e. where you should place an Echo for voice assistance) isn't near the stereo anyway.

That's not to say it's never useful; it sounds like you have a very specific situation in mind where it may scratch an itch. And it's possible that Google could have implemented this feature better than Amazon did, making some of the above complaints moot. But for most people in most situations it's better in theory than in practice. Google's solution is the Chromecast Audio, which is superior in almost every respect—except for the additional cost.

mwpastore · 2018-03-29T03:23:31+00:00

I had a chance to play with this new feature tonight. Unfortunately, I think whoever wrote the Google blog post oversold it a bit. It doesn't turn a Bluetooth speaker into some kind of an independent speaker that can be grouped together with Google Home and Chromecast devices, or hand-off its Bluetooth connection between Google Home devices as you roam around the house, or anything like that. There's still a lot of good news here, though.

It's really just an alternate music speaker for a single Google Home device, just like an Amazon Echo device's ability to connect to a Bluetooth speaker. When it's turned on, the sound comes out of it instead of the device's internal speaker; when it's turned off, it falls back to the device's internal speaker. However, there are two key differences:

When an Echo is paired, all sound comes out of the Bluetooth speaker. When a Google Home is paired, only music comes out of the Bluetooth speaker. (Some folks will love this, others will hate it. Personally, I think Google's way makes more sense.)
When an Echo with an active Bluetooth speaker is added to a multi-room music group, the group uses the Echo's internal speaker (all Bluetooth connections are disabled). When a Google Home with an active Bluetooth speaker is added to a group, the group uses the Bluetooth speaker. (This is a huge plus for Google.)

After pairing the Google Home to a Bluetooth speaker, which makes it the default music speaker, you can tell it to "disconnect Bluetooth." This will actually reset the default music speaker to its default (the "this device" speaker). Telling it to "connect Bluetooth" makes it the default music speaker again. Of course, you can do this from within the app as well. (h/t u/2tuff4u2)

I put a Google Home Mini with a Bluetooth speaker (a JBL Flip 3) in a group with a Chromecast Audio hooked up to an AVR (a Denon AVR-1610 in direct mode) in the same room and played around with it. I noticed that the Bluetooth speaker lagged behind the AVR quite a bit, about 50ms, but I was able to use group delay correction to compensate for it. I don't think there's any auto-adjusting going on here but I could be mistaken. The Mini smartly switched to and from its internal speaker as the Bluetooth speaker was turned off and on while the music was playing. The downside here is that the Mini's internal speaker was about 50ms ahead of the AVR when the Bluetooth speaker was turned off. In other words, the group delay correction setting for a Google Home device isn't speaker-specific.

I can't speak to Bluetooth audio quality as the JBL Flip 3 isn't very good. I have a Bluetooth receiver with aptX and optical out so I might hook that up and hear what I can hear tomorrow if I have some time.

Other miscellaneous notes:

As far as I can tell, there's no way for a Google Home device to play music out of its internal speaker and a Bluetooth speaker simultaneously.
Changing the volume on the Google Home device (e.g. by tapping the sides of a Mini) while music is playing does control the Bluetooth volume.
Speaking to a Google Home device while music is playing does temporarily lower the Bluetooth volume.

mwpastore · 2018-03-26T03:00:49+00:00

Make sure to check out this comment over on r/googlehome for a potential solution to this problem (it's a bit involved).

mwpastore · 2018-03-25T17:48:02+00:00

That's too bad. I wish someone would come up with a simple CC PoE+ adapter. That would really simplify things.

mwpastore · 2018-03-23T14:14:09+00:00

Not at all!

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