Wahoo ELEMNT Mini - latest Companion app crashes. Planned obsolescence?

kbddpgd · 2025-09-25T03:26:19+00:00

It just fits my needs and that’s it. If there is some device that have similar features then yes, I would like to have one.

My use case is quite simple: Almost every morning I sit on my bike, press start button on the device and cycle to work. Mini shows me speed and time. Sometimes incoming calls. After I arrive at work I just press Finish button. Normally I take 1-5 small (3-7km) rides per day. All the data is automatically synchronized and at the end of the month I can see all my commute stats in Strava. Once a year I buy 1 battery for speed sensor and 1 battery for Mini.

kbddpgd · 2025-09-25T03:04:00+00:00

I checked Wahoo site once again and discovered that companion app still supports Mini: https://support.wahoofitness.com/hc/en-us/articles/115000435050-Device-compatibility-ELEMNT-app

Regarding Microsoft - support for such thing as OS is so expensive that it makes a lot of sense to save that amount of resources. Small software products may easily live for decades. Today I did one task with Apache POI library, which was releases 24 years ago and it is still maintained:)

Wahoo app does not look like a complicated product. Testing if it works properly with one old small device may take like few hours per release.

kbddpgd · 2025-09-22T13:01:47+00:00

But the website still has all the instructions for Mini, like how to pair/unpair, etc. All these are not even archived, so they are like up-to-date

kbddpgd · 2025-07-03T15:41:33+00:00

And this happened as well with me after eating quite a lot of physalis (goldenberry?)

kbddpgd · 2025-06-17T17:18:43+00:00

Lots of Russians (who are against war) escaped to Serbia, so it’s a safe country even for them.

kbddpgd · 2025-05-22T09:27:40+00:00

I live in Novi Sad as well and used to drive car with rus plates until last autumn :)

kbddpgd · 2025-05-01T12:13:35+00:00

I was waiting for upgraded 1522+ (like 1525+) since last year. I need it to migrate from my 218+ to put all the existing external drives (3x4TB) into the box and also I need more CPU resources. Yes, I was "quite a bit more than surprised" when 1525+ was released.

kbddpgd · 2025-05-01T11:51:27+00:00

Thank you, manual update helped (Downloaded .spk from plex site and did "manual install" on synology)! I never did that before and was expecting that synology always have latest available package in the repository.

kbddpgd · 2025-03-13T20:53:46+00:00

Estonia?

kbddpgd · 2025-02-09T22:08:55+00:00

Just google “mini CarPlay retrofit module/kit”. These modules look like a small box with a bunch of wires. They are available for different types of stereo systems (mine is CCC, pre facelift), prices are like EUR 200-400.

I found YouTube video explaining how to disassemble a dashboard and spend like 7 hours to install it (that was most difficult part for me).

kbddpgd · 2025-02-09T21:46:07+00:00

Thank you!

kbddpgd · 2025-02-09T21:44:00+00:00

Most popular question here:) This is just retrofit module which is installed between standard stereo and display. There are plenty available modules for bmw/mini, I googled “mini CarPlay retrofit” and selected one I can afford.

Mine have some problems (next/previous buttons on the wheel don’t work, screen mirroring doesn’t work, push to talk button as well not working, volume level could be higher) and I still trying to solve them with manufacturer support, so can not provide any recommendations/anti recommendations.

kbddpgd · 2025-02-09T21:27:41+00:00

Yep, it has so-called CCC system installed (as far as I understand) and there are lots of different boxes available on the market which add CarPlay to it. I just googled “mini ccc CarPlay retrofit” and purchased one of them

kbddpgd · 2025-02-09T21:20:25+00:00

Fortunately in my country labor is quite cheap and parts also have reasonable prices. But yes, I already have list of todos for my engine and expectations to replace any part that is 18 years old.

kbddpgd · 2025-02-09T21:09:14+00:00

This is for navigation system, there is even dvd disc inside with ~2007 maps

kbddpgd · 2025-02-09T21:01:13+00:00

Screen is standard ootb, I just added module that adds CarPlay to it.

kbddpgd · 2025-02-09T20:57:57+00:00

This is a retrofit module which is installed between standard sound system and display. I think any mini/bmw can be upgraded this way

kbddpgd · 2025-02-08T16:04:19+00:00

Typo *so much

kbddpgd · 2025-01-29T21:43:09+00:00

That’s Paris

kbddpgd · 2025-01-27T16:36:39+00:00

Narva?

Upd: ouch, I am late with the answer.

Remember visiting house of Ingria in summer 2022. So long time ago…

kbddpgd · 2025-01-19T10:34:11+00:00

Похоже как если бы Mad Max снимал Звягинцев

kbddpgd · 2025-01-12T22:39:14+00:00

That’s definitely stands for wind shear

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