Frankly to me, Simon has one of the best customer service in China online portals. While some other sites does reply on a faster rate as they have full time customer service personnel, but it doesn’t solve my problem. All I get out of it is being pass around like a ball or giving me SOP replies, which goes no where.
Simon sees my problem, be apologetic bout it, poof conclusion, problem solved. Right to the point.
As for the ordering system, it’s owned by Aliexpress, he just had a store in it. Just like how a seller in eBay is. Problem arises when there are ‘custom’ orders. But then he’s going the extra mile in the first place trying to accommodate us with that custom order.
On other China websites, you’ll just a quick “Sorry, we don’t do that” response.
How is this firmware called?
I thought it is “biscotti” and I downloaded that but it behaves strangely, after bunch of taps (to get to group selection menu) it doesn’t turn off like it should but stays in some low mode!
I just wanted to set one mode (100%) only to get measurements because I stacked additional AMC chips and I flicked quickly (its 2 after midnight here) through last 10-20 pages searching for fw name so I could check if I had wrong fw or my driver doesn’t want to cooperate!
Hmm I looked up but could not find the exact issue. What kind of issue it has? I want to buy this with gearbest coupon but your message made me terrified :S
The Convoy lights that use the new firmware, like this clear C8, are a little harder to set the modes. You have to press the buttons pretty quick to choose your options.
Also, the flashy modes like strobe, Beacon and SOS flash a bit faster than they should.
I got my clear Convoy C8 in mid February and it has this fast timer bug. It was a little bit difficult to configure the desired mode. But because my mode of choice does not use blinkies this problem does not bother me.
Just wanted to confirm (finally) that I downloaded code from Toykeeper’s website (quite confusing site structure) flashed it and it works just fine. I dont know why it did not work with previous driver but I suspect that it has something to do with my adding 4 more AMC chips before flashing while this time I uploaded code first, tested the driver and them added 4 more AMCs.
So, thanks caramba :+1:
Question.
(sorry if there is an answer somewhere above, did not check all the pages)
If I buy any of the bare biscotti drivers at this moment at Simon’s store, will they:
1) for certain have fixed firmware?
2) likely have fixed firmware but you could be unlucky
3) likely have unfixed firmware but you could be lucky
4) for certain have unfixed firmware.
As soon as the answer is 1) I will buy a bunch of these great drivers again.
Hey all. I’m still working with Simon on this. He has a new driver board layout ready that doesn’t ground pin #2 and has more clearance around the MCU for easier flashing. The driver boards are going to be labeled v.2. I do not believe any are being sold quite yet. ToyKeeper recently informed me that she is putting the final touches on the latest revision of Biscotti and it will be delivered to Simon as soon as it’s ready. The updated firmware should be a little more tolerant of slight component changes and therefore more stable. Good things to come, just hang in there.
That is fantastic news J-Dub74 & Simon & ToyKeeper ! With all the low voltage emitters around lately there is a new interest in quality lineair drivers.
I am just guessing maybe the EPROM got erased?