BionX display using Bluetooth

[tommy505]

My Terratrike using a BionX P 350 RX was working perfectly until this year. My IOS BionX app started asking for me to log in. When I try, I get a message there is no server. I can see that my phone is trying to connect to the bike but the log in message stops it. The motor, battery, and controller all work and I can ride guessing. I just do not have any indication of assist level or battery remaining.

Anyone have an idea how to bypass the lack of BionX server problem. My local dealer say If he installs the DS3 display, he will have to program the system. That seems to be again tied to the lack of BionX server and he has not had luck with it.

 

[amberwolf]

Since the company went bust, then if the server is something actually on the internet that has to be connected to for things to work, my guess is the server, no longer being paid for, was finally shutdown by the provider hosting it.

If so, it's just another reason to not use apps on phones for stuff like this, if you can't tell if it's written to do that sort of thing.

If not, then the "server" would likely be something inside the app itself, or inside the phone's OS, that has been altered or made inaccessible by an OS update, and would require an app update to fix (and if the app is by Bionx, then since they're gone, it won't get one and is also then broken....so yet another reason to not use apps on phones, etc....)


I don't know a way to bypass it, unless you can find out what data is being passed to this server, and what response is required, and create a program within the phone that reroutes the data and processes it and sends it back to the app.

 

[tommy505]

I made a big mistake with the Bluetooth instead of the DS3 display at purchase. Just hoping someone had an idea. Getting someone to hack the app might work but that's out of my league. Will investigate, thanks for the input.

 

[amberwolf]

On Windows PCs, there are "sniffer" programs, usually firewalls, that can trace all IP/ etc activity on the system--what program it came from, where it's going, etc.

Maybe there is something like that for your phone, that could help you narrow it down?

 

[Cephalotus]

The BionX DS3 display is just a dumb display. No information is stored there. (it's different with the BionX Gen 2 console/display)

Use the standard firmware 4.0 or the firmware 4.1 that includes the debug screen and that's it. No need to "program" anything if the DS3 display does have a firmware.

You can get displays from bx-legacy.com and I assume he can install you the firmware you want.

PS: it is adviceable to buy the display mount adapter, too.