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IBOX FMT2BT Car FM transmitter

enkiEnki wrote 04/13/2021 at 11:40 • 3 min read • Like

IBOX FMT2BT Car FM transmitter

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1 The device

This is a "cup-shaped" car FM transmitter that supports:

It's OEM'd by IBOX (https://www.ibox.pl/akcesoria-samochodowe/2050-fmt2.html) and available in many electronics stores in Poland.

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2 The internals

The internals consist of only 1 PCB with all of the connectors and buttons. There is a vertically mounted 5 V power supply which has been unsoldered to make better view of the board. The board has "AD-BT-A23 V1.0" and "2016.11.21" silkscreened on it. The PCB photos with all of the important parts highlighted:

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Designation Label Description Type Datasheet Notes
1 5V/2.1A External power output USB-A connector    
2   7-segment 3.5 digit display     Transmit frequency
3 PLAY USB stick for MP3 playback USB-A connector    
4   Micro-SD card slot      
5 LED9 Status LED      
6   FM trasnmitter QN8027 http://down.cosou.com/xintechsz.com/QN8027.pdf (mirror)  
7   Bluetooth Antenna     Can transmit RDS
8 U1 Main SoC JL AC1749DEP587-01   LQFP-48, ZhuHai JieLi (珠海杰理)
9   Power supply input (unsoldered)      
10 C22 RF coupling capacitor      
11   Microphone connector      

I was unable to find any information about the particular SoC when searching for the exact mark on it. This is likely because JieLi makes a number of chip "families" marketed towards different products and then makes a unique label on each chip based on the exact customer/product it's supposed to go.

By looking at their site I figured that for my device the closest one should be the Jerry Bluetooth series chip AC690N/AC692N.

I found some AC6921A chips on aliexpress http://aliexpress.com/i/4001141547298.html which had the same case and a pinout diagram in the auction:

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As well as AC6901 chips http://aliexpress.com/i/10000054405573.html with similar pinout diagrams:

AC6901A-pinout.png

I tried to match both of these chips to what I was seeing on the board but unfortunately none of them match. The pinout that I was able to verify so far:

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Some other links discovered during research:

https://github.com/christian-kramer/JieLi-AC690X-Familiarization

This is information about the AC690X Bluetooth chip from the same company. This one is different (different package) but things like flashing protocol and so on can be similar.

JL Bluetooth development board chip AC692N series 6925A/6926A/6925B dual mode 5.0 Audio BLE

A development board for the 692X series chips. The development board description provides a convenient link to download an SDK and documentation for the development board: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1_rg1CTtwDWYpuCx29A9cRrXnMHIq35l0 (mirror)

JL Development Board Support JL 690X Whole System Jieli Bluetooth Development Board

A development board for the 690X chip, this one unfortunately doesn't come with a SDK download link.

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