u/Nomadness

Is Bluetooth, cable just gives it 5 volt power, and there is a utility in the Mac that somewhat clunkily allowed setting up alternatives to the normal default sheet music reader functionality

The pure hell of dealing with broadlink seems to suggest that there is a huge market opportunity for somebody to do this in a non-obnoxious way.

In my opinion after wasting an entire evening on the rm4 mini, it's simply not worth the bother. Such a piece of garbage with the messiest user interface imaginable. They need to hire a programmer.

I have both a 24 and a 48. The 24 is kind of at the sweet spot for survivability as long as I don't expect a whole lot of leisurely comfort, and I can manage it with my diesel pickup truck. The 48 is just too much... Parking, gravity, overall stress level, everything. I'm getting rid of it after using it for one big move to relocate home base. I would never want to travel at it full-time. It did make a good impromptu building in a place where permits were running 36 weeks for simple pole building! But a poor substitute for that really.

Thank you!

I have a 50-footer in the marina and have been having trouble finding a local broker or any other help to get it sold as I am moving in about a month. I know that's a bit much, it's big! Feel free to PM me

Another accessory is an aft-facing louver attached to the bottom of the 6-in tube under the floor. Before installing this I I wicked in a little bit of Oil-Based stain which just happened to be handy to reduce end grain exposure to moisture. That structure you see just past it is one of the cross members of the Wells Cargo trailer under the plywood floor

https://preview.redd.it/qmy25rne3eth1.jpeg?width=4080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=689777bab942847add9c0d6fe358a8ef822cdb8a

Follow up: One of the necessary accessories is a cover to prevent heat loss as well as block potentially wet nasty stuff from coming inside while driving in the rain. In addition to adding an aft-facing louver, see next comment, I made a little cover out of scrap acrylic and some sticky back foam insulating tape, as well as an n52 rectangular magnet screwed into a little mounting block. This stows on a steel cabinet when not in use

https://preview.redd.it/9qu191533eth1.jpeg?width=2364&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ad7490e17c510b18725eb19ffff91a0cf832280b

A couple of footnotes. First, that fan has a slightly annoying characteristic, an approximately 22 second slow speed cycle as it's internal control loop hunts. It's not a big deal just slightly more in my awareness than it would be if it was a steady state

A bigger issue is that when you turn it on manually with their controller the immediate state is high and then if you keep turning the knob, it goes down to a very very nice low level I think about 8 w. This is fine but if you leave the knob in that low level and then use the Smart switch to control it there's a point at which it doesn't reliably start. Induction motor versus whatever marginal phase cut waveform would normally be keeping it going quite happily once past the static friction stage

They should hire a programmer. Still after all this time it is so buggy. Pixel 10 pro, can't paste into substack note editor, plain text or otherwise. Honestly. The stupidest things don't work.

Gradually doing less and less...

Not conventionally, but yes, I have a media digitizing business (film, video, audio, slides and negatives, occasional oddities like wire recordings).

Just an added note probably redundantly, but letting home assistant initiate the firmware update on the GX this evening (3.75 to 3.80) has me testing to see if my node red code is doing startup reevaluation. My 30-minute timer may never have started.

ADDED NOTE: Yes it did, handled it perfectly exactly 30 minutes after the reboot!

Anyway that's just debugging, but the important point, victron, if you ever Google people's comments about your products, is that there are so many people inventing alternative solutions to what should absolutely be a primary first class policy engine in your shipping product rather than making us all invent distributed little State machines out of timers and virtual switches. It's so freaking simple. Do this:

If sun available, use it for AC loads. If sun inadequate, use shore. If battery low, use shore NOW.
After reboot, evaluate reality. Include hysteresis to avoid chattering

Users should not have to invent multiple creative flavors of this... node red flows, ess tricks, running copper between gx and multiplus, assistants, toggling ignore AC, SOC thresholds and timers, creative additions of forecast and irradiance. We have this whole ecosystem in the forums that is like a cloud around one unimplemented fundamental behavior of the product itself. It's like Mac users having to write a tool for searching for files since spotlight does not exist. Still a great machine, but so many variants of that basic tool...

/Rant

Love it! That is some inviting space.

https://preview.redd.it/2acgzjzvn6rh1.jpeg?width=2903&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1222c0f26b46245f86b6c50dba5c5d1d6db0f5fd

Oh that sounds like a sweet system! Still kicking myself for selling a deliciously retro motorized drafting table that doubled as a standing workbench. I'd be finding a way to use it here! Thing was strong enough to take me for a ride.

Anyway yes, not needing to get behind a console is such a huge thing. In the one that I did for the big digitizing lab in the 48-Ft beast of a trailer, I integrated two big 10-ft tables with industrial locking casters so that I could pull the whole thing out and squeeze behind it. Still a rather unpleasant process but at least possible. In this new system I'm doing everything in a patch Bay and getting rid of the seductive but actually messy motu interface stack where all connections are behind the equipment

And yes! That is an Otari MX-5050. Other than needing me to install the new pinch roller and tweak the associated spring, and that ridiculous high-low switch on the back of all places, it is awesome. I've done a ton of 10-in nab stuff with it.

Oh and that surge protector thing is a weird Amazon Vine find that I have come to really like. Very DIN rail and not normal US color standards, but 4 indivual outlets, theoretically up to 60 amp service so I give it the entire victron bus that is shared by my my bluesea panel, and it has a beautiful little energy meter that blinks at a rate that indicates its current at the moment. They also market it for job sites on long cables, hence the handle on top. "YouTeMei Power Distribution Breaker Box"