I mean you are a full grown man who builds skateboards and makes dick jokes online in your spare time.
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Glad to hear it, that will be great for the esk8 community.
I didn’t forget, I didn’t see it as needed. WATT/Current Mode info will likely be included in the EXTRAS: section at a later date.
The purpose of the tutorial was to walk people, step by step, into updating the Ack firmware and configuring their VESC’s so that they can have the features they want, not JUST the features that Trampa wants them to have. It is not an all-inclusive documentary, I was pretty clear on that. But good on you for trying to find ANYTHING you can that I did wrong…
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OK, point taken 
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BTW, I think you’re doing a very good work. I just don’t want like in the other forum flame wars. But, isn’t my forum so lol 
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My bad. My assumption that you code for a product Trampa owns the TM too and at the direction of Ben who is an employee of Trampa still seems pretty valid.
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@Trampa I was reading a lot of your comments when educating me on both forums about the VESC project. Do you came to a conclusion how much the VESC project is based on software and Bens work? Is it 90+%, 95%, 98%, 99% or 99.5%?
Vesc tool BLE setup metr pro https://www.electric-skateboard.builders/t/focbox-unity-enertions-responsibility-to-contribute-to-os/86263/21 https://www.electric-skateboard.builders/t/new-vesc-from-china-seems-like-not-only-maytech-is-making-vescs-now/5207/592 https://www.electric-skateboard.builders/t/street-carve-kaly-6374-190kv-mbs-110-ollin-vesc-12s4p/17282/115 https://www.electric-skateboard.builders/t/any-interest-in-a-trampa-vesc-6-group-buy/94966/25 https://www.electric-skateboard.builders/t/alternative-esc-odrive/94300/6 https://www.electric-skateboard.builders/t/tm-drums-being-beat-again-vesc-infringement-warning/52908/20
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I appreciate you saying so, it means a lot.
Truthfully and with all the honesty, that is not my intention. This is the only way I found to get people an easy to use method of getting a safe reverse and keeping PPM support. Sure I took a couple of jabs at Frank, it’s not like he hasn’t taken them at me. Frank/Trampa has proven, over & over, that he is not going to listen to us as a community, that he decides what we need and that is what we get. I’m done with that.
To be clear…I never said anything about Ben, I never do, he’s a ghost who I know nothing about, I only have assumptions.
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Then they should call him “man-childish” . Implies a modicum of respect for the small step above children that most of us are here. I mean, it’s not like Mike picked his nose and wiped it on Frank. 
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hold my beer
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Ack did send pull requests (as far as I remember) that I think sat for a year or longer.
Enertion doesn’t contribute and they never will. Jason doesn’t support open source. He’ll even tell you that.
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Benjamin included watt mode into the current (Current Mode) already so there’s no need.
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Hi,
as promised I’ve ported the smart reverse function back upstream.
See: https://github.com/vedderb/bldc/pull/96
Isn’t tested yet, and I’ve to modify the UI (vesc_tool) as well.
Please @Trampa @mmaner and whoever has coding experience to review my code. I’m not yet familiar with the entire codebase so the first PRs will require more feedback than usual.
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That’s great, I appreciate the effort. While I do code, it’s not in that arena…webapps, DB, etc.
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I use flipsky ESC with default VESC_tool and now vesc_tool mobile. At no point did I feel coerced into buying VESC6 from Tampa. My old setup uses one vesc 4.12 from TB and one from chaka, works with them too. Actually it’s a breeze with the new setup, thanks to Ben. So now, I am trying to figure out how is the vesc_tool making it harder for other companies to sell their hardware. I give up.
Unless you are talking about hardware that’s derivative of VESC or other hardware designed by him, which would be plain stupid because that expects Ben to hunt down all variants of the hardware and write code for them too?
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Thx @mishrasubhransu for your words of clarification.
It’s so much harder for other companies these days to sell VESC-based hardware that there is almost no more choice in the market. Irony off
I was speaking specifically about the new lack of support for PPM and the added support for NRF. Now that Trampa is selling an NRF remote support for PPM devices had been severely downngrade, an attempt to force people to buy Trampa’s NRF remote.
I thought that was obvious from the context, maybe not.
I find it funny that every rebuttal of my argument has included descriptive terms like “childish” and now “stupid” yet is really lite on facts.
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What was downgraded about the ppm support?
If you read Frank’s comments you will see where he says multiple functions like reverse are not supported via PPM because it doesn’t work, even though we’ve been doing it for years, and that you HAVE to use an NRF remote to do it…pffft.
The original vesc tool still supports regular current control that has reverse no?
It’s just the minimum erpm direction switch that is missing that makes the reverse feel much safer.
And I mean vedder seems to have a hard on for NRF style remotes, and while I do agree it’s the future, there’s simply no reason other than laziness to add the erpm direction switch, the pull request has been there forever.
So they haven’t exactly downgraded anything from the original firmware, they’ve just refused to add a very popular feature that exists on a different fork and that’s been asked for many times.
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Per Frank, reverse is not supported on PPM. There are other fictions, many listed in this thread, that are not and no longer supported as well. Work day from hell, just don’t have time to look them up right now.