So I had to wait a few days to get a variable voltage power supply (you can just see it on the left) but this was pretty easy to set up.
I dialed up 5v and 1amp and nothing happened. Uh oh I thought. Then when I increased the voltage a little, the little blue light on the device lit up.
I looked around and noticed an old speaker from a lovely old Sony mini-stereo I had. I had no idea if it still worked but I thought I would give it a try.
It immediately sprang into life (Garbage – I’m only happy when it rains) and it sounded bloody good!
Oh, I missed a step – connecting my iPhone to it via Bluetooth was typically straight forward. Only oddity was that it seemed to have two Bluetooth profiles:
- Wuzhi Audio
- Wuzhi Audio App
I think the App one is for an App which can control certain settings. I downloaded what I thought was the app but it looked pretty ropey so I gave up on it and got back to the task in hand.
I then decided to run out and grab a speaker from my car (partially to see if it’s bad compared to the Sony, people have been saying how bad these original Citroen speakers are) and then, when on the street, remembered by car was in the garage having an MOT. Doh!
Still, this is progress.
Next step. Test with a speaker from the car. Hopefully that doesn’t sound bad (will test it back to back with the Sony speaker). If it does sound a bit ropey I can always invest in some new ones for the car.
Next test after that is to test the set up with the power supply from the car. I need to double check how I plug in to the custom ribbon on the Citroen audio.
The other big step will be getting the audio cage which this will sit in and the 3D printed fascia will attach to. The more I think of it, the knob will be in the middle.