Unfortunately, the updates BKB had been working on still weren’t suitable for our purposes of Remote Tilt. Luckily, I decided to bite the bullet and spent the weekend cranking out all the needed fixes, optimizations, and quality of life improvements to get things dialed
I don’t have the time at the moment to make a proper tutorial for setting up and updating, hopefully can very soon, and still need to do real-world testing to confirm the reduced latency and remote battery life is suitable. But if anyone was waiting to wire theirs up, you can at least go ahead and do so!
Wire the CAN on the side of the receiver (not the CAN port in the middle, thats for daisy chaining other CAN devices) to the controller, and wire the other 4-pin to either UART or PPM (if PPM, use the TX pin for signal). I highly suggest UART as it gives access to using the thumbstick click, remote buttons, and mode toggle for potential future features in Refloat, and it seems to perform better currently, but PPM is available if necessary.
Please note, for those of you without a CAN port (Floatwheel/GTV/XRV/PintV), you are in a bit more of a predicament, as CAN is required to be able to access the receiver in VESC Tool and update it. I’d imagine you’d have to take advantage of another controller that does have CAN for updating. That said, once updated, it does work with just the PPM or UART connection alone, CAN is only required for updating.
Just wanted to share an update for those who were waiting to at least be able to wire theirs up. Just note, I would not turn on the remote and receiver at the same time until you’re able to update, as the remote is able to throttle it with the default firmware. Hopefully I can update you guys sooner than later on how to properly update (if you try to follow their YT guides, SKIP the code_server lisp script to your board, this wipes the Float Package and isn’t necessary for us)