dirt cheap hands free through your car speakers

jazzajack

couldnt afford to have a hands free installed so I made my own.

I bought a pc conference microphone and lead splitter from maplin . I already had a standard audio lead. removed glovebox in my focus removed av socket , plugged standard av lead into it and fed wire behind dashboard and out into storage area under stereo . Stuck microphone on to dash with supplied small sticky pad , fed wire into same storage area . connected both wires to splitter , single jack end in to phone ( iphone 5s ) I have enough wire to put phone pretty much wherever i want , and when not in use the wire is stored out of sight behind the storage area door. Works great (have to have stereo on aux , but that doesnt bother me as i always listen to music from phone anyway ) incoming calls come through the speakers and i have auto answer active on my phone so it automatically answers after 3 rings. Totally hands free. probably been done before , but well proud of myself lol. The microphone is very small and unobtrusive but is great , i dont even have to raise my voice !
saved a packet ! Total cost 8 pounds
works on all phones with jack socket / stereos wiith aux socket

Nice_Weather_For_Ducks

MSE yes, anal yes, understandable NO

jazzajack

what dont you understand ?

neil40

I got Halfords to install a parrot system on my car.It took them 3 attempts and something is still not right .When I use it,my temperature display(for outside) shoots up to 59c!.They must have wired it wrongly.

Frozen_up_north

I use a Jabra Cruiser 2. Cost around £38 from Amazon, no wiring needed and no installation either (clips on the sun visor).

The Jabra reads the phone directory via Bluetooth to announce the caller and will voice dial via the voice recognition in the phone itself, which obviously depends on your phone type.

Audio quality is outstanding, but of course it depends on the noise level in the vehicle.

gjchester

jazzajack wrote: »

c The microphone is very small and unobtrusive but is great

Don't you need to leave the stereo on AUX all the time? or do you switch to it when then phone rings?

A lot of this depends what's installed in the car but not exposed, if Ford didn't put in the gubbins in you can't easily join to them, That said the other side is true you may have had the ford factory fit mic in it somewhere too..