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The End Of Fleshlight Launch Firmware Bricking

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Took a bit of a diversion from buttplug/syncydink over the past few days.Having finally gotten sick of reading all of the reports of people having their Fleshlight Launch bricked by firmware updates, I spent the weekend writing my own firmware loader. I now have a node.js/typescript based loader that can load Launch firmware (and as soon as I get one, Pearl 2 firmware) from desktops. I'll be porting this to work in Chrome, so that we can hopefully fix firmware loading from Android, which is usually where problems crop up.

I'll be writing a full blog post about the internals of firmware loading, but that may be a bit. Some fun facts I learned along the way:

Support For New Lovense Hush Toys

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Just a heads up since Lovense Hush toys seem to be pretty popular.We had a user show up on the Discord today reporting a Hush toy that would not connect to the Windows Buttplug App Suite. They had direct ordered it and received it sometime last week (last week of August 2017). 

Turns out that Lovense is loading new firmware onto toys, and also changing their device names and service IDs. We've updated the Windows Buttplug Server for this new device, and CI Builds of 0.1.0.464 or later should work. I'm hoping to get support into buttplug-js this evening.

Metafetish Dev Log Week Of 2017 08 28

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Just posted a new Dev Log on the blog! Now that we've got releases out, going to try to get back into a better writing cadence so we're not developing in a black hole.Right now, we're in the middle of the black hole, try to develop *out *of it. Buttplug was in development for so long and has so little documentation that it's hard for users to figure out what to use where, and what works on what platforms. This became very evident when I posted about syncydink on a couple of forums over the weekend and was met with a lot of either silence or "???" in response. I'm going to be spending the next while trying to fix that somehow. This may end up in me begging for tech writing help on twitter. :)

Buttplug Game Vibration Router

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A couple of weekends ago, I got the stupid idea of "Hey. Rez Infinite came out. Wouldn't it be funny if I could make it work with the original USB Rez Trancevibrator?"48 hours and a lot of education about DLL Hooking later, it was done. We now have a way to control sex toys via Gamepad vibration command on Windows, with no modifications required to the game in question. This works with any game that supports XInput (XBox Compatible) gamepads, and I'll be extending it to work with vibration commands to Oculus/Vive controllers soon. Also, this currently only works with toys that vibrate, as that's all I've had time to implement. This certainly can work with the Launch, Vorze, and other toys, I just need to sit down and figure out the translation algorithms to do so. 

I've now run it by a couple of testers, and it seems to work, so I'm releasing it only to Patreon members first. I'm planning on making a Buttplugin' With qDot video about this and releasing it to the general public next week, but figured it might be fun to have more people trying it with games first.

Syncydink Vr Works On Android Chrome

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I've just updated the Syncydink tutorial, because thanks to some nudging from a new patreon on here, I just finished some fixes and we now work on Android Chrome with VR and no extra software/apps requiredhttps://metafetish.club/t/tutorial-syncydink-v20170821/82

Basic steps:

Buttplug Js Aka We Now Support Mac Linux Android Chromeos

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As of yesterday, I managed to get the javascript web technologies version of the Buttplug Server done. This is now integrated into Syncydink:https://buttplug.world/syncydink

If you go to the site now in Chrome (and yes this requires chrome, for WebBluetooth, and you will need to use https), then go to the Buttplug tab and click on "connect local", the "Start scanning" button now triggers a search for devices.