ALP Connect (Apple Version for AL Priority) with Users Manual

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I just received the BT module today (it's smaller than I expected) and having just now hooked it up and tested it out, I must say I am VERY impressed! In fact more than I thought I'd be.

A big big thank you to kasher1979 for sending me the module for testing and video making!

I'm really impressed at the way it can immediately start alerting when backgrounded on Android. It switches right over to the app if you're running something else in the foreground like YaV1 or Waze and you instantly get the info and can JTK. I didn't test this with the iPhone, but it looks like with iOS, you just get a pop up alert and have to press a button to manually switch back to the app, a limitation of the OS.

Oh, it does work fine on my jailbroken iPhone 6 with 8.1.2. The module is more like the V1C LE than the V1C in that you don't need to pair the module in your phone's settings. This confused me at first. You just go right into the app to pair and connect. I didn't realize it was a BLE device and am still "programmed" to do it the old way by default.

It doesn't play nicely with my car's stereo to play alerts over it. It works, but I can't listen to the radio while the app is paired and playing music. It completely takes over and I think it's a limitation of my stereo system itself because I've noticed similar issues when trying to make phone calls. I tried duck and mix, but the only thing that gives me my stereo back is force quitting the app. Thus I'm going to play over the phone's speaker instead which isn't very loud (one of the main reasons I opted for the HiFi module instead), but given the fact that it flashes in my face with the YaV1 phone on my dash and the LED in my instrument cluster, it'll get my attention. I'll have to test later how loud my phone is when actually driving. (I wish I knew how to hook up the mute wire to my vehicle's stereo.)

Another issue I saw is that on Android, it alerts to the PL3 as "ProLaser 3 or 4" while on iOS it alerts as "ProLaser 3." Not sure why there's a difference there.

Is there any problem with displaying the BT module's serial number rather than blurring it out? I'm going to be doing some demo videos for both Android and iOS and comparing it to the HiFi module and wanted to know if I should go in and blur it out in the videos.