I struggled with posting this, and where to post it, but thought the HUBB Pub might be the best place to get your thoughts.

A few years ago, ARB released their LINX system which allowed users to control lights, accessories and even tire air pressure from the simple to use display in the cab. The LINX system was a success and now ARB is releasing a new standalone product to control tire pressure using the same technology from the LINX system, controlled by your cell phone. Leave your deflators and air pressure gauge at home and let the innovative ARB Compressor Connect module do the work for you. Utilizing a bluetooth module, the Compressor Connect system allows the user to set a target air pressure and simply hook up the air hose and relax.

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I'm not a fan of letting software do relatively simple things for me when I can do them myself quite easily.

I like the idea of dash controlled tire pressure, etc. But from my phone? I'm not sure I get the benefit of it. If I'm stopping to use my phone for this, I might as well just do it manually with my compressor and tire gauge.

You still have to get off the bike, get out and hook up the air hose, detach and put it away....? Plus you need your phone out, which means protecting it from the weather and having some bare fingers to manipulate the controls? I feel like I must be misunderstanding the point, since this doesn't seem like much of an advantage. Maybe if I could punch in a tire pressure without dismounting and the rest happened automatically.

Besides, I'm still going to carry a pump because, you know, there are electronic gremlins out there just waiting for me to let down my guard. Plus a pressure gauge, for the same reason. And what are these "deflators" that I'm going to be leaving at home?

Mark

I don't own a mobile phone so you can guess the rest.

Just a gizmo/gadget for the younger generation that thinks everything is controlled by an app, my 12v compressor has an analogue gauge on it & then i recheck it with another analogue gauge (ta be sure ta be sure) Simples.

Mezo.

TPMS will be mandatory within 5 years, so the monitoring bit seems pointless but maybe useful for retrofit systems, the displays are never as well developed as a smartphone.

I dislike anything that can let air out of tyres. All valves leak. The 150 year old schreader valve made by a known tyre manufacturer is proven and leaks a fraction of nothing when you catch some air and vacuum it. Chinese tat screw on magic eyeball things can result in a dangerously low, pressure in minutes because they use rolling O-rings on pressed surfaces and other stuff you wouldn't want in a kiddies bicycle pump never mind a 100 mph vehicle. This is a start-up company so my worry would be its Chinese tat not something Michelin tested in Finland.

It is not clear how the compressor attaches to the tyre. If you rig a hose how does it differ from a current compressor? The military have had cab valve controlled TIS since the 1940's so amphibious trucks can get off beaches. After 80 years no one has solved the problem of an air tight seal between fixed and moving parts. The military don't care, squaddies break everything anyway, there is no performance related pay and flat tyres at tye top of a beach is solved by sunbathing or airstrikes. We are a different market . Jost are close, they are using the axle case as a reservoir so the seal fixed to moving is buried and central. Fred in his shed runs plastic pipe down the mudguard!

On a JCB I'd wait until I can spec it as a TIS from the factory. On a Hilux probably the same but I also can manage without. On a bike I don't want it.

Andy