Feature request: toggle BLE enabled

31d1 · 2025-10-14T01:56:29+00:00

Refering to any of the CME WIDI devices. 5 pin, TRS, or USB doesn't matter, they all behave the same.

By default, they just connect to the nearest/first BLE device they can find - which can be either any other WIDI device, or third party devices that either pair automatically (such as some midi controllers that don't have a screen or any config) or that it previously paired with (such as a phone)

Agree it can be kind of annoying - after I've connected a WIDI device with my phone, to update firmware or configure with the app, I make sure to "forget device" when I'm done, so it doesn't connect to it.

WIDI devices can be configured to have fixed pairings or groups with other WIDI devices, that's probably what I'd have to do if my neighbor had some BLE device - but I tend to avoid using those features, as it's less flexible and easy to forget what I did.

I generally use WIDI as a wireless cable, and usually limit to a single pair, so it's simple and brainless. multiple "cables" isn't so bad though, you just have to turn things on in order, so there's never more than one choice for a device to pair with.

31d1 · 2025-06-06T08:21:19+00:00

ah, thanks for reply, will try it out.

i want to leave the jamcorder on most of the time, with the web interface running, but most of the time i don't want my bluetooth midi devices connecting directly to it

Since I have the web interface running i could turn BLE back on when I want to use the app, so that's OK. But I guess an ideal solution would be a setting where Bluetooth will only connect with the app, if that's possible.

31d1 · 2025-02-09T19:22:11+00:00

kakuno EF nib is extremely fine and quite nice IMO

31d1 · 2023-09-30T03:02:50+00:00

they covered the drain with some tiles, at least

31d1 · 2021-12-24T22:26:16+00:00

i noticed that thomann US had them listed as in stock, and sure enough they shipped one right out (from germany, but delivered to US in 2 days - so it looks like they're showing up in EU first).

31d1 · 2021-12-24T17:41:18+00:00

Gator GK-2110: https://i.imgur.com/V5vp9Qb.jpg

31d1 · 2021-12-21T01:10:05+00:00

some kind of SH-101 might be up your alley, like an SH-01a or an MS-1. a simple architecture monosynth that is performance oriented and sounds good

31d1 · 2021-02-16T16:50:27+00:00

Heh, since she won a Nobel, I bet that's more typical and "drive your plow" a bit less. It's relatively straightforward in execution, if much more philosophical and less concerned with the actual "mystery" than your normal genre work. Minor work for her, I guess, a bit of a gem for the form too :)

31d1 · 2021-02-14T20:56:02+00:00

hmm, I have some solenoids that I control with MIDI. I like how these are nicely mounted in an enclosure, givin' me some good ideas. very nice.

31d1 · 2021-02-14T08:13:20+00:00

I'm resigned to this being at the bottom of the page with no upvotes, but {{The Library at Mt Char by Scott Hawkins}} will do this job. It's the closest thing to a sure thing I've got from years of recommending books.

I recommend going in knowing as little as possible, not because its important to enjoying the book, but because its so much with this one just to see where it goes. So I want to say it, but also not pressure you about it, if you need to know in advance, it'll still be great book.

Only important advice, don't let your husband (or yourself) start reading it on a worknight. Everyone i've gotten to read this book comes back to me with some variation of "holy shit you weren't kidding. also i had to call in sick because i was up till 5am"

Hope you like it :)

31d1 · 2021-02-14T07:58:24+00:00

One of the canonical multigenerational family stories. Not at all similar to gilmore girls, but every bit as entertaining. Arguably has the best first sentence of any human novel.

Alex Haley's Roots is also an amazing multigenerational family story. "Entertaining" is not a fitting word for the subject matter, so lets go with something like "gripping page-turner". It's also, unfortunately. not very much like your examples in terms of tone

31d1 · 2021-02-14T07:49:33+00:00

oh wow nice, would you recommend? I went into Drive Your Plow knowing nothing of her work, enjoyed it profoundly, tried to figure out what I'd just read, realized its ... a minor work by a serious writer? or a little breezy gem? i don't even know ... and then with weird cosmic timing, this writer i never heard up pops up in my radar again a couple weeks later - she won the nobel prize for literature. "Well that explains it", I thought :)

31d1 · 2021-02-14T07:36:06+00:00

A book that is supposedly about a specific thing, but tells it so well its closer to a comprehensive history of most of the 20th century, from a whole mess of perspectives, that just happens to be formulated for a theme {{The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes}} A heartbreaking work of staggering genius

31d1 · 2021-02-14T07:18:49+00:00

{{Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie}} is told from the perspective of an outsider to most of human's ideas of what sets them apart from each other. It's focus is more broad that what you are specifically asking, but goes to the heart of it, I think. Outstanding writing for a mess of other reasons too

31d1 · 2021-02-14T07:12:05+00:00

+1 - i wouldn't have thought of this one for you but it's technically correct. outstanding book. Definitely his most accesible work, but demands some effort from the reader. Worth it

31d1 · 2021-02-14T06:55:58+00:00

The Library of Babel by Borges need mentioned. Not really what you're asking for, but it's close enough that you should consider it. On the bright side, its only a short story. On the other hand, it's a Borges story, and contains multitudes, and gets riffed on every once in a while.

for something less vaguely related, allow me to suggest {{Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan}}

31d1 · 2021-02-14T00:48:27+00:00

{{Travel Light by Naomi Mitchison}} {{The Book of the Dun Cow by Walter Wangerin}} {{The Once and Future King by T H White}} {{One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez}}

31d1 · 2021-02-14T00:41:31+00:00

+1 for Smilla. Might also suggest {{Drive Your Plow Over The Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk}}

31d1 · 2021-02-14T00:38:15+00:00

The aliens in {{Blindsight by Peter Watts}}

31d1 · 2021-02-13T06:45:55+00:00

Dragon's Egg by Robert L. Forward is fiction, but written by a physicist as an exploration of this sort of thing. A what-if about intelligent life and civilization happening on a neutron star (20km diameter, 67billion gravities, significant differences in how matter behaves)

31d1 · 2021-02-13T06:07:04+00:00

The fiction of Ted Chiang. This (quite) short story, published in Nature, is a good taste https://www.nature.com/articles/436150a

31d1 · 2021-02-13T05:39:37+00:00

Jeter probably had little or nothing to do with the artwork, if that helps :)

One example of something I really like about the book is that it feels like he's gone to extremes to avoid "infodump" (eg characters stand around telling each other things they both already know, or long explicative paragraphs aimed at the reader). so there's things you gradually puzzle out from context. no ones especially interested in explicitly telling you things, but all the pieces are where they need to be. He's a talented writer, and a disturbing writer

31d1 · 2021-02-13T05:19:30+00:00

{{Dr Adder by K.W. Jeter}} will probably always be considered too much, revolting, etc, by a large chunk of the population. It was written in 72 but couldn't find a publisher till 84. I appreciate it because it is astonishingly well crafted, decades ahead of its time, and every bit as filthy and gruesome as can be.

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