PURE ONE Mini, Compact Portable DAB/FM Radio - Black

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Test things before upgrading a product – e.g. remember to verify if a particular station/multiplex has good reception that day and in that location.

If you have one of the following models or if your radio is showing 'For upgrades, visit pure.com', you may need to upgrade your radio for DAB+ support. Pure - we are experts for stylishly designed and simple to use music systems. Whether that’s an internet radio with incorporated DAB and DAB+ technology or an outdoor or smart speaker. With our range of award-winning audio products we are amongst the leaders for digital radios globally. Naturally it's only a mono design, but Pure has squeezed in both DAB and FM tuners plus a handy line input for connecting a portable, a headphone connection and a USB connection for future upgrades. DAB+ is the next step in radio listening. With higher quality audio and access to exclusive stations such as Magic Chilled and Jazz FM, now is the perfect time to upgrade.Aware that not all USB cables are created equal. Search in box for another. Curiously, seems to have a USB symbol on both sides, thus making it more of a pain to insert the correct way around. The manual for the Pure One doesn’t list a way to display the serial number. We’ve tried on our One Mi Series 2 and can only see the software version and the device identifier. If you still have the box for the radio the serial number may be displayed on the outside. Set the radio to update mode as described. Attempt update. App immediately says radio cannot be found.

Try and tune into a DAB+ station. Opt for Gold. Appears in the station listing twice, once as Gold on local mux I know I definitely can’t get in this room, and as Gold UK on D1 in DAB+ (40k), which is what I need to test. I can’t receive Radio X on my Pure Evoke 1XT. Where do I apply for the free software available to upgrade my radio? Great news. Hopefully this will encourage people to upgrade and give a push towards more DAB+ services and at some point, a transition to DAB+. Maybe I’ll retune it just to be on the safe side. Choose Autotune. Wonder as I wait, as I do every time I’ve done this, on the inconsistently of TV/radio tuning menus and whether on not this device has a ‘Purge’ option to get rid of stations or secondary services that no longer exist.

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Just about but I have an Access file with an inventory of my property, including serial numbers, I tried reading the first one with my bar code reader but the barcode did not show all the digits when decoded. If you’re asking people to enter more than one code, perhaps you’re doing it wrong. (Can’t a unique hardware identifier give you all the information a serial number can?) Notice letters are lower case. Enter again in uppercase in case of sloppy programming. Still rejected. Hmm – mine has 6 numbers, 2 letters, but then a gap and 1 number at the end. Move radio around in light whilst squinting at barcode. Is that a scratch in the label, where a number used to be? Wonder what to do. Can I get the serial number via the radio’s UI? Poke around the settings menu a bit. Doesn’t look like it.

This maturing of the Mini range is a great, if subtle, success. Its body is gloriously smooth to the touch and no longer feels – or looks – particularly cheap. It’s still not going to challenge the Evoke series on style, but if that’s a big turn-off that’s something you can tell just from a picture or two. Observe, optimistically, that BarcodeScanner doesn’t mention QR codes at all. Looks much simpler / duller than rest. Decide to choose it, based on similarity to own personality. Retry firmware upgrade. (Pure app has a button for this). This time, takes a lot longer (promising), but fails again (not so much). Radio has restarted, seems OK. Can receive Radio 3 on BBC multiplex. Go to the update menu and verify the version number has incremented.Realise I have a number and a barcode, so if I can just scan the barcode… With a unhealthy level of cynicism, open iPhone camera app, knowing that it will scan QR codes, but assuming Apple, whilst having invested considerable developer resource in creating an animated poo emoji, have probably deemed that enabling the camera to scan a linear barcode is too niche of a feature to bother adding support. This assumption is proved correct. A number was indeed missing – the ‘1’ had been scratched off. (To the app’s credit, although I can’t copy paste it, it remembers the last number I scanned when I subsequently reopen it, and it tells me what type of barcode it is.) The other one stops part way through the install and says it has lost the cable connection. I have done a reset of the Highway but still the same. I must see if there is any other reset that I can do to initialise it. Bear all this in mind (including the likelihood of users of all abilities making mistakes) when contemplating marketing material for digital switchover. The Pure One Mini Series II uses a single 3in driver, to handle the whole frequency spectrum. However, so do several of Pure’s larger classic models, including the Evoke 1-S and Evoke Flow.