I recall Dave even mentioning that UEI already had a Bluetooth stack and protocol designed that they offered to use with the 121GW, so this tells me they already had a Bluetooth meter.
I don't recall ever saying that.
Hi Dave, sorry for the late reply. I didn’t set notify on this thread.
I may be wrong, but I believe it was mentioned in the Kickstarter live stream video talking about Bluetooth, but this video is now gone from the Kickstarter campaign, so I could only reference your channels YouTube video that seems to have been edited with a 20 minute difference in overall video time.
I think it was around YouTube’s video mark of 48:08 to 48:50 seconds (or kickstart time stamp 57:07 to 57:59). But their is also 9 seconds of the Kickstarter video missing that was cutout at the end of this topic according to the Kickstarter video time stamp.
Its hard to say for sure since the YouTube video has been edited, and after that 9 seconds from the Kickstarter time stamp is gone at the end of that topic. So I can’t say for sure if it was in these 9 seconds or not, but I remember the whole topic part was about Bluetooth. The Kickstarter time stamp goes from 57:49 to 57:58.
So I know my memory isn’t the best these days, but I was watching the live Kickstarter originally. Other parts about that live stream stayed with me more then the Bluetooth stuff. I remember watching the live stream and the comment on your YouTube video at 49:46 about not knowing if a hardware issue will make it obsolete. It made it sound like no one beta tested outside your lab except maybe Joe with his hardware robust testing.
I thought to my self “maybe I should cancel the order now” since I pledged before you started streaming live. I think you said it’s hard to debug your own stuff, and that’s so true.
Just curious, but was it a UEI non-disclosure agreement that stopped you from sending meters out to a few others for functionality and firmware testing? I know you can have beta testers also under NDA’s, I’ve been under two since I started my channel 2 years ago helping find software bugs in products before they are released. After all, I think this might be the first meter UEI built using the ST microprocessor?
But I still took the risk, now I hope UEI doesn’t take long to update the firmware with fixes for some of the issues discovered. If they do a firmware update, will a beta versions be available publicaly for some to test before the final firmware update is release to all?
And I almost forgot, did you pitch them my idea of dumping the EEPROM calibration data to the SD card before any calibration changes are made as a backup, giving the user a restore point if they mess up the calibration? I know you said it was a good idea, but not sure if they will add that to the firmware on the next release or if they have the space for additional code. Or even how often they plan on doing firmware bug fix releases. But this was more of a feature idea that could help cut back on support emails.
Thanks,
Scott