Had it 10 years now and no plans to sell it! We are the second owner and it had done 142l when we bought it. We’ve only done 43k in the last 10 years. I fitted all the black bits - all genuine MINI parts. Latest addition was the halo lights which took me ages to find. The last photo was installing them.
My currrent (basic) set up is a pair of Play 1s in the living room and a Play 3 in the kirchen. I have resurrected an old Pioneer stack system which plays via a connect gen 2. This is mainly for my collection of CDs and bits of vinyl.
The TV is an LG G4 mounted on the wall.
I’ve never been able to output TV audio to my Play 1s. At our last house, I had a Bose Acoustimass set up with a ZP120 amp connected to the old LG we had. Moving to a new house last year I haven’t installed the Bose, so it’s just the Play 1s.
The Arc Ultra arrived yesterday. I set it all up last night temporarily to try it out.
Im a bit undecided to be honest. Its a great sound but its very ‘central’ in the room. I think my expectations were a little higher in terms of stereo sound. It might be that I’ve spent all my adult life with a speaker either side of the room in one way or another.
I tried a film on Amazon Prime but checking the Sonos app it wasn’t playing in Dolby Atmos. So not a true test. It still sounded great though with loads of bass.
We then tried some music. On Apple Music there are a few spatial audio playlists so we did a comparison. We played a track through the Arc then again on the Play 1s. There was a bit more clarity from the Arc but I found the sound didnt travel far enough sideways to achieve that stereo sound. The Play 1s sounded as good I would say but in a different way. In terms of stereo sounds they are on stands in each corner of the room so they work really well.
We are going to give it another go today with Apple TV 4K and play a film from their list which is showing as dolby vision and dolby atmos. This will be the first film in Atmos we’ve tried.
Reading other reviews it seems its more suited to TV audio than music. I think I would agree with that.
Its a shame the Play 1s dont work as rears. I did know that before I bought the Arc before anyone mentions it!
Got a great deal on the Classic at the moment. £643 with a cover, 2x half moon cast iron plates. Arriving on Monday.
Brand new in the box. Lights, wiring, instructions.
I’ve been looking for this kit for years and never seen one come up for sale. I did manage to buy two brand new light units a couple of years ago but have never been able to find the wiring for them. Tried dealers and all said discontinued/ no longer available.
Then this popped up on eBay the other day!
I haven’t tried to download it in case it messes it up but it’s there in the app
I have a 2nd Gen doorbell which I bought as a temporary measure until I could get my wired pro back up and running. The plan is once I can get power to my front door I will re-install the pro and fit the 2nd gen to the back door.
Last couple of days, it hasn’t detected anyone walk past my front door. The postman has been, Yodel pushed a small package in the letterbox which wouldn’t go all the way in so I had to phone my neighbour to retrieve it as we are away for a few days. I only know this as they sent me a proof of delivery photo. The Ring didn’t pick him up attempting to post it.
My neighbour duly came round and took it out of the letterbox but it hasn’t picked him up either.
Usually, it will pick up people walking past and if anyone is stood by the front door for a little while (postmen, neighbours etc) it will also capture them as I would expect it to. However - nothing.
I haven’t changed any settings so what has happened?
Every now and again I get the glowing orange ring anc so I say “Alexa what are my notifications?”. The reply is “Andy, I don’t have any notifications for you but there is a notification for another profile - would you like to hear it?” When I say yes the response is “Andrew - there’s a low price offer on xxxx”.
I don’t ever recall setting up a profile named Andy so I have no idea where it’s coming from?
First time out today. Hoping for decent results with it.
I was a Zwifter not long after it launched back in 2015. I used it a lot at the time. I think it was £8 a month back then.
I combined it with cycling to work 4 days out of 6 (shifts). I stopped using it a couple of years later and came back every so often when there was a free trial. I used to like doing the group rides but my shift pattern got in the way so I couldn’t always do them as they were on certain days. That contributed to me stopping it.
Now I’ve retired from work, I found myself inactive and so I started again to keep the fitness up. I paid the yearly subscription and I’m getting back into it. However I find myself saying “I’ll do it tomorrow” quite often!
I read some comments on other forums about it being a winter thing and I should be out on the bike during the warmer months. I do ride outside although not as much as I should.
I’m interested to know how often you all use it currently.
Solved the problem of the wobbly Weber Rotisserie ring as they don’t fit on the Performer properly due to the lid holder bolts. It wasn’t a great fit on my previous Master Touch to be honest. There were also gaps, which I also had previously. This lost a bit of heat as a result.
I’ve put a strip of gasket tape around the bottom and it’s a nice snug fit now.
Currently sitting waiting for a chicken to be cooked for dinner!
I activated the cellular function on my AW via the watch app in October last year. I am on EE. I used it for a few months but didn’t really get any benefit from it so I cancelled it via the app around a month ago.
Being a complete knucklehead, I didn’t check last months bill and today’s bill came showing the charge for the cellular service (which has gone up from £7 a month to £8.50). I called EE and told them I had cancelled it around a month ago using the Watch app and they said I should’ve called them to cancel it. They said that by using the Watch app, all I did was pause it. They likened it to removing the SIM card from a phone. I disagreed with their analogy. Who pauses a contract on a phone and still pays for it?
Now I’m pretty sure when I de-activated it via the Watch app there was a clicky that said “cancel plan” or something similar. Anyway, it was enough for me to think I’d cancelled it.
Anyway, they have cancelled it from today but I’m annoyed with myself for not spotting this earlier. Lesson learned!