I purchased this unit to go in my 2006 Prius. The Prius has bluetooth for phone, but not for audio A2DP. There's a aux jack in the arm rest that I use to connect my iPhone to the car stereo system using a standard male-male headphone cable. I got tired of doing this, so I bought a bluetooth FM receiver. That didn't work since I live in the Dallas metroplex and have no consistently open FM frequencies. I looked at the Belkin F8Z492-PBluetooth Music Receiver, but it has to be custom rigged (that means a DIY hack) to power it in a car. I also considered the Belkin bluetooth in car adapter, which is basically a cigarette lighter plug with a headphone cable and a usb slot for plugging in your phone if you want to charge while playing. It was much more expensive than the Miccus.
I received the item in good order from Amazon. No complaints there. The unit comes with a short (8"), male-male headphone cable to hook the unit to the car aux jack. It also has a rigid adapter that allows you to do the same thing. I assume for cars with jacks on the dash board. It also comes with a mini-usb to usb cable so you can hook the unit into a USB cigarette power supply. All in all, a good connection kit.
Set up is easy. Just plug the unit into your car aux jack using the provided cable or plug and pair with your phone. To pair, you need to hold the button down on the unit until it quick flashes, then you turn on your phone's bluetooth to pair up. Strangely enough, I never had to enter a security code. The manual says you should. Not to worry, it worked and the sound was as good as the my wired setup. I was very pleased
That is until I got out of the car and went to work. When I came back, I expected my iPhone to find the Miccus and start playing music. No signal. Odd. Looked at the unit and it was blinking blue as it should. Looked at my phone and BT was on and it showed the Miccus, however, it showed it as not connected. To make a long story short, I had to tell the iPhone connect. On the iPhone this is a big pain. There are no shortcuts to BT on an iPhone. You have to go through three menus just to reach it and then select the item you want to connect to. Interestingly enough, my Prius does not have this problem, When I get in the car, the Prius automatically connects, I don't have to think about it, or touch anything.
I thought this was something I could live with. I was concerned about the battery as it is only rated for 8 hours. If you leave it on, so it will pair when you get in, you'll run it out. Not to worry, I just hooked it to the power supply. Unfortunately, while hooked to the power supply, I get the dreaded feedback hum that comes from using such an adapter with an audio device. That was a dealer breaker. On top of that, if I turn the unit off to save battery, then I have to pair it again with my phone. So it goes like this:
Miccus left on:
1. I get in my car with the iPhone BT on.
2. I unlock the iPhone and I go through 3 menus on the iPhone with a fourth press to connect to the Miccus. A total of 5 presses.
3. I exit the BT setup and go into the iPod app.
4. I hit "Play" to start getting music.
5. On exiting the car, I have to turn the unit off and turn off the player. This is a pain as I have fat fingers and end up hitting jump back or forward on the iPhone and have to goof around finding my place in my audio book again. When wired, the player stops automatically when the wire is removed.
Miccus turned off:
1. I get in my car with the iPhone BT on.
2. I unlock the iphone and go through 3 menus on the iPhone and wait to connect to the Miccus.
3. I hold the button down on the Miccus for 7 seconds to get it in discover mode and wait for it to pair with the phone.
4. I exit the BT setup and go into the iPod app.
4. I hit "Play" to start listening to my audio book.
5. On exiting the car, I have to turn the iPhone off.
6. I then have to press and hold Miccus button until the unit beeps twice to tell me it's powered off.
Hardwire cable:
1. Get in car.
2. Plug wire into iPhone headphone jack.
3. double press iPhone home button to bring up shortcut iPod controls.
4. Press play
5. On exiting, pull wire and unit shuts down.
For those of you who may ask if I read the manual, I did. In the manual it describes exactly what I documented above. It starts out with "If you get more than 30' from the unit, you may lose the signal, Follow these steps to reconnect".
I have returned the unit to Amazon which was quite easy. I reboxed it. Put it in a shipping box with the barcode label inside the package as instructed and UPS came to pick it up. I didn't have to put on a shipping label, they had one preprinted and I didn't need to be there for them to pick it up. Oh, and it didn't cost me anything:-)
In summary, the unit does what it says it will do. The sound quality is just fine. If you use it on your home stereo, you should like it just fine. In real world use, it's just not suitable for use in a car with an iPhone.
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