Reverse Engineering a VanMoof E-Shifter – Part 2 – Decoding the Signals

Nice write up! I am also fiddling with my bike and have just figured how to pull the binary from the main M4 soc. Perhaps you could share your work with <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Bernardus&#x2F;openmoof">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Bernardus&#x2F;openmoof</a><p>(Not my repo but has a lot of good info, I plan to share the binary as well once I made some progress in reversing it)

The VanMoof e-shifter is awful: Every shift comes as an interruptive surprise which makes for a very uncomfortable ride. The test ride was the reason I did not get one.<p>Cowboy bikes are much better, but mine broke on the second day. I sent it back.<p>Now I got big legs thanks to those brittle novelty iPhone e-bikes failing me.

&gt; The reliability of this e-shifter in the X3 and S3 has been argued as the cause of the failure and eventual bankruptcy of VanMoof<p>I always wondered what exactly the problem e-shifters were trying to solve was. Is it the &quot;ugliness&quot; of shifting cables? Route them through the frame...

Can the second analyzer software not do the same measurement as the first? Coming from a point of ignorance here: I lucked into some higher and DLAs (though not 5v compatible so they wouldn&#x27;t directly help here) and their softwares allow both decode and measurements

Intriguing stuff here from a geek perspective, as I have an X2 and am only plagued by a lack of gears. I would expect e-shifters to have been made reliable by the time the 3 series came out, I didn&#x27;t realize they were that bad, especially as I would love to see them everywhere. Having to adjust my son&#x27;s bike shows how tough shifting gears can be, and the cable is constantly stretching. Plus, the whole getup freezes in winter.