WiiM Ultra... Am I missing something?

[staticV3]

Hi,
is Room Correction supported on Android now perhaps?
I own a couple of Android phones and I am realy counting on RC feature on Ultra
no iphone though

To make full use of the WiiM's room correction capabilities, it's recommended to make manual in-room response measurements of your system using a UMIK-1 and the free software Room EQ Wizard.

You can then let REW calculate EQ parameters according to your needs and finally, copy those parameters into the WiiM Home App.

The automated room correction built into the WiiM Home App is great if you want to put in minimal effort, but has some clear downsides like being based on a single sweep and the unknown quality of your phone's mic (unless you connect a proper mic via USB).

 

[tomasso]

You can. It's not great.

so Android supported .
Why is not great? Can you please shed some more light?

 

[Mort]

Yes android. You'll have to read the reviews here and other forums.

It's a very new feature on a very new product. You can't expect it to be very good, it will take time.

 

[fragzone]

It's an egregious and lazy oversight in 2024 IMO. I see it time and time again. Yamaha could get it right in 2015 with a 32 bit ESS dac and speakers attached.
-ethernet & wifi
-optical
-3.5mm analogue input
-bluetooth
-usb b input driverless plug and play with any PC.

 

[gwing]

so Android supported .
Why is not great? Can you please shed some more light?

I believe the main reason for "not on Android" was that, unlike iphones, there is no standardised microphone hardware and so it was not possible to do room equalisation, which normally require a known and calibrated microphone.

So they have now apparently found a way of working around this but will still have the same underlying problem. If you can use a known and calibrated measurement mike such as the UMIK instead of the Android phone's built in jobbie it may work better. i.e. it's not that Android microphones are bad it is just that they can have different responses to each other.