Remote Mute Button?

[Kaiser Soze]

Jimbonzzz,

I am so surprised at your reaction to my post, that I hardly know where to begin. I'll start with an apology.

I made a mistake when I didn't look carefully enough at the previous posts. I incorrectly associated you with the person who had posted the link to the other site. That was an innocent mistake. The reason that I made that mistake is that I was confused by the appearance of your name in that post, which was actually done by "infaze". But, given that I made that mistake, was it really necessary for you to go off the deep end?

I studied those diagrams for 5 - 10 minutes, and it did not occur to me that both graphics in each of the two images, were for the plug and not the jack. I did not recognize that the lower grapic in each image, is a graphic of the plug and not the jack. Now that you have pointed that out, it is apparent that the graphic which does not show a wire attached at all, is an end-view of the plug. Now that you have pointed that out, the graphic is indeed a very good graphic. You assert that it *should* be obvious to anyone that both of these graphics are graphics of the plug and not the jack. Perhaps you have a statistically significant sample from which to base that assertion, but all I can tell you for certain is that it was not apparent to me.

More importantly, my intentions were not to be critical of your graphic skills, or your communications skills, or to push your buttons and make you come at me like a rabid dog. My purpose was merely to try and add what I thought would be some useful value to a topic. You have taught me that on this forum, anytime that I endeavor to add something to a discussion, I need to be very, very careful not to do something that someone could misconstrue as a personal criticism, least I be treated in the uncivilized manner that you have treated me.

Just what the hell are you trying to imply here? What are you accusing me of?

That was not in the least bit called for. There was no explicit accusation whatsover. That specific element of my post was altogether subordinate to its intended purpose, and you inappropriately took it entirely out of proper context and blew it out of proper proportion and perspective.

Are all of your posts on here going to obsess on RJ-11 jacks, and accuse the admins of wrongdoing?
If so, you're not going to last very long!

That was not in the least bit called for. For an administrator, you certainly do have a hot temper and a propensity to take something that was not intended in any way to be a personal criticism of you, and used it as an excuse to direct abuse toward someone who was only trying to make a positive contribution to a discussion.

You don't have to concern yourself with whether I will last long. I have apologized to you, and unless you apologize to me, you have seen to it that I will not return to this forum again, ever. Thanks for the warm welcome and the fond memories.

[jimbonzzz]

Apology accepted, sounds like you were just confused and didn't mean to imply that I did anything wrong.

I am sorry I drew the wrong conclusion from your post ops:
But what was I supposed to think? You have to understand where I was coming from: the way it looked to me was that you were trying to say that I "took" someone's images from their site, and used them to make my own drawings without giving credit to the original website, which is definitely NOT the case. Sorry but I wouldn't put up with that kind of crap from ANYONE on here, let alone a newbie!

Anyway, it seems that there were misunderstandings on both ends here, but hopefully they've been cleared up.

So, welcome to the forum!

[whiterabbit05]

i did it with no problems =)

well except one...i didnt look at the diagram close enough and depending on which end jack you are using, when looking at it from the frontal view, the colors go Black, Red, Green, Yellow or Yellow, Green, Red Black

so at first i thought of course the ground would be green, making black the mute wire, WRONG. after i hooked it up the first time and tested it out, everytime i hit my button, the display would go blank. i thought i f'ed something up at first

i then decided to follow the diagram and went with red as my ground and yellow as the mute, which seemed odd cause why would a ground wire be red????!!!! i tried it anyways and it worked fine =)

after thinking about it for a little more, i was connecting the 12v to the data wire at first, that is why the screen went blank on the v1, the data was now being sent out because it saw the 12v wire as the concealed display

Just a tip to whomever is doing this if you cant get it to work like i did. And also be sure to use a phone jack that has 4 pins in order for this to work correctly 8)

[REBinc]

I personally don't understand what the big deal with the mute button is. If I'm driving by myself, I leave it full blast, even with 8+ sources, it makes me happy to see it working. If I'm with someone else, I just leave it low the entire time.

[whiterabbit05]

^and that contributes to this thread how???

pointless post of the year ftw!

[dalesd]

Thanks for this thread. I made my own remote mute switch last night. "Tactile" micro-switch, 10k 1/4 watt resistor, and half a phone cord. I'm not good at soldering, so it took me about 30 minutes to put it together.

I got the wires tight on the first try. (Red & yellow, on my cord, ymmv?)

I have extra parts, so I may try again and this time use shrink-wrap instead of electrical tape.

[Phillip559]

Follow the diagram from Jimbonzz. If you do it correctly it works great. I
also added a resistor since I heard that is the better way to do it. Maybe I am wrong on this but its a done deal already.

Anyway, it works great and I cant imagine life without it. It also works as a mode changing button (just like the momentary switch on the V1).

If you program in k band muting settings and then have the remote mounted mute switch driving will be a great pleasure.