tbwonder said..
How many others still have the original motion in good working order?

Sadly not me, mine came out of the original pouch in a catapult, and it's still tangled up in Pt Grey weed somewhere

I think Julien has been extremely generous with his warranties.

I got the first Original LCD USB Motion to Australia in October 2018. It was tested thoroughly for GPSTC approval over the next Month or two with excellent results. And then unfortunately, I also lost it from the pouch in the armband in a big crash at Sandy Point.

Julien was finally able to replace it with a wireless one in July 2021 and it has been going perfectly well ever since.

powersloshin said..
I seem to remember that some time ago Julien was asking what features we would like to add to the motion.
I would love a custom page to estimate the distance/heading to the proximity circle after a jibe, similar to what Andrew has done with his Garmin datafields.
For the mini-motion it could be a simple color flashing, like 'red = go upwind-green = bear away'....

I asked Julien the same thing. Hopefully he'll find the time to do it.

Hello,

- New Mini Motion hardware does 28+ hours at 5Hz so would qualify for 24h record attempts.
- New hardware for both is more accurate.
- LCD yields are now normal again so I'll be resuming shipping far away.
- I have not received any complaint about the new charging system so I assume this issue has been solved.
- There's an optional firmware upgrade available: #3201.
- 10Hz is temporarily degraded to 5Hz on the very last hardware version (post-March 2023) as it dropped points sometimes. uBlox removed my previous little 10Hz trick. I found another one but need more data. To be clear: this impacts the very last hardware version only. For any prior version 10Hz is fine and available.
- Yes I'll do it powersloshin/John. But the next feature takes very high priority.

JulienLe said..
Hello,
.....
- Yes I'll do it powersloshin/John. But the next feature takes very high priority.

you're awesome !

12 month anniversary of the top up payment to Julien next week. sigh...

Hold on-off button while it's charging?

If you haven't already could you email [email protected] to let Julien know your motion isn't charging, (if possible with its id # if you can find it from a downloaded file), or let him know who you bought it from so he can trace it and determine the issue

in the past I had a screen device that looked dead, I kept putting it on charge for 20-30 mins every day and eventually it came back. After that I installed the latest firmware and it did not happen again

DarrylG said..
Does anyone know if the LCD motions have started shipping to Australia again? Still waiting on orders from May 2020.

I pretty much got the impression he didn't want to sell to Australia because in case they had warranty issues it cost too much to support them due to postage costs...

decrepit said..
If that's the case maybe he should offer to refund us our money he's had for 2 or 3 years?

He must, otherwise we should call him the "Swindler" from Belgium

powersloshin said..
I never found a more honest person that Julien. When you buy from him you know that he is not an enterprise and have to wait an undetermined time. He offered to refund my money in the past, or another time take the device back for warranty.
I found waiting was worthwhile, now have two great gps.

Yes never had a problem with Julien, and have been happy to wait. Just wondering if he had started production and shipping again.

The last email exchange I had, he said was producing lots of Minis but was struggling with antenna placement on the lcd motion due to the influence of the screen and battery. The Minis don't have this issue because the antenna is concentrated towards the outside. I can't give advice.

sboardcrazy said..

powersloshin said..
I seem to remember that some time ago Julien was asking what features we would like to add to the motion.
I would love a custom page to estimate the distance/heading to the proximity circle after a jibe, similar to what Andrew has done with his Garmin datafields.
For the mini-motion it could be a simple color flashing, like 'red = go upwind-green = bear away'....

I'd like a better way of knowing whether it is on or off. Pity it can't flash the words on / off.

Sounds like Julien has done a fix for this. I haven't used the motion for about 2 years due to injury. I've just updated the firmware and apparently you can go into settings and set it to flash to show its on.