first model year Empulse

[Brammofan]

Back on topic. I hope software upgrades and minor adjusments do not require a trip to the stealership or a visit from a tech. Please make it simple so we don't need to rely on a technician.

Agreed.  Not to mention that a service philosophy of "everything by house call" is simply not sustainable.

[Vibetrippin]

concidering that the bike is a rolling computer and that a USB port is part of the construction, I wonder if it would be possible to have firmware upgrades be downloadable to your computer and then plug a USB drive into the bike and have it autorun...

[protomech]

I think Brammo would be very happy for their more technically-inclined readers to do their own maintenance. It's much cheaper to send a box with a replacement circuit board / fork / display unit (and paid return postage) than it is to send a technician. To that end, I'd love to see more details on the guts of the bikes (see p. 55 and 78 in the 2010 enertia manual for what I'm talking about).

[#47 (formerly 9 of 30)]

I heard references to the possibility of the bike updating it's own software by WiFi. If you stopped near a WiFi hotspot and the bike finds it, it would check for updates. If there is an update, the bike updates itself.
Well, it would work!

[FreepZ]

If you stopped near a WiFi hotspot and the bike finds it, it would check for updates. If there is an update, the bike updates itself.

Wow. I hope not. My TV already does software updates. Sometimes it takes 10 minutes to turn the thing on with all the updates it's trying to do. Imagine stopping at a light for 30 seconds, and when you try to start up again it says: "Updating, please wait..." Argh! 
I just hope that the software that is released with the bike is well tested so that updates would be nonessential.

[protomech]

I heard references to the possibility of the bike updating it's own software by WiFi. If you stopped near a WiFi hotspot and the bike finds it, it would check for updates. If there is an update, the bike updates itself.

Surely not. There is zero chance Brammo would allow the bike to update while in motion -- or likely even if not plugged in and locked into charge mode.

[Brammofan]

Interestingly enough, when BrammoJen updated my firmware it had nothing to do with that USB stick under the seat.  Rather, she unscrewed the cable that fits into the back of the dash (speedometer and LCD display) and ran a cable from her laptop's USB port to an adapter that plugged into that port.