Using 3rd party bluetooth calipers with the Shaper Origin - Is it possible?
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- This is a video trying out if you can use third party bluetooth calipers to connect with the Shaper Origin.
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Thank you for taking the time and money to clarify this for us.
In my view, actions like this (crippling Bluetooth) and especially charging $200 for Auto Pass have significantly damaged the good will Shaper had developed with customers.
When I bought the Origin, it was clearly a very expensive tool with great potential and Shaper promised new capabilities and upgrades would be forthcoming and free. Both of these SW enhancements should have fit that description. I suspect that the Festool overlords insisted Shaper find a way to extract more money from their existing customers, thus the broken commitment. Very disappointing.
Most welcome, I wish it would have worked, that would have been a more uplifting video. And agree about breaking the promises…
Let me all tell you how lame SO support ar: I shipped my GEN1-I was amongst the initial backers. After upgrading to the latest firmware back in OCT2023, the screen went black. Support then decided I send it to the US. I did, $350 + $52 VAT +$25 Insurance. They fixed it. I was asking them to take it back and trade it in for the GEN2, I insisted via email, and they turned me down. Now, they come up with a trade-in program. I had to re-ship it from their Repair center $35 + Tax, $360 to my country, another VAT15% and $44 for insurance and customs. A total of more than $900. These people have no respect and no appreciation for us- the people who brought them to life and the ones who are paying for their salaries! You dont know how much frustration and pain it has caused me.
Oh your story is bad, so bad it hurts my brain. Outrageous, why would you treat customers that way???
I’m waiting for the day when you pay for firmware upgrades. That wouldn’t surprise me. The SO caliper is overpriced much like the pry bar they just released.
The pry bar 🤣🤣🤣🤣
same with me.. The BT Device is a BT Keyboard. IT works will my Devices.
I have lots of Calipers and now should I dump them?
This is illegal! This is monopoly.
It’s a real bummer, and also bad for our environment to expect people to buy something twice that they don’t need
Great video my friend. When I heard about this product too, I had the same reaction. I never really saw the usefulness for my applications. It was great that you did try a 3rd party device, to validate if it would work or not. Keep the vids coming! 😁
About to travel a bit, so no vids for a while 😆
@@Woodensoulfor work, or pleasure? We just got back from a month in Portugal and Spain. 😊
@@HHWS Health... Portugal and Spain, wonderful countries!
I guess the workaround is to get a Bluetooth caliper, connect it to your computer, and use it in your design software, and/or Studio, then send the file off to your hub. Since I do all my design that way, and never really do it on the fly on the Shaper, this workflow works for me and I don’t need the Shaper Caliper.
Interesting, I only thought of the use case of measuring stuff in the workshop. The use case where I do this on the computer is non existent for me…
@@Woodensoul It's not for me in woodworking...but when I'm doing 3D printing I'm often either reproducing something, and it's nice to get the exact measurements, or I'm trying to fit something into another part. So that's my use case.
I am very new to Shaper Origin. What would be the necessity of a bluetooth caliper in the first place when design is done on a computer or onboard the Shaper itself? Just to avoid manually transferring measurements?
Yeah, that’s pretty much the only reason to use that caliper
If you are in CNC, Laser cutting work, and don't want to repeatedly increment your work by.01mm and cut.. then, yes, it's nice to have these gadgets, but you can do without them.
But withholding wood you never work with that granularity and frankly the SO isn’t that precise in the first place
The pricing of the shaper caliper isn't far off from a Mitutoyo caliper with data out. How's the quality?
The quality of the Shaper caliper? I don’t know, I am not planning to buy it