We all got the USB dongle… I am sure there SOMETHING you could improve since the eTap release many moons ago. How about give the old 11sp eTap some love?
eTap has ben around for maybe 4 years, if not, close… there was a section in Sram’s website where you could sign up for updates on these firmware updates, and as you said, there hasn’t been one. I think they gave up on that idea about a year ago, their complete groups started shipping without the dongle.
Hey just because you created a mechanism to fix bugs doesn’t mean there has to be bugs!
Give credit to SRAM for pretty much knocking eTap out of the park, reliability-wise. It’s astonishingly reliable for a completely new type of system.
Meyer acknowledged that existing Red eTap hardware could technically be made to work with the new bits, since the basic wireless language itself hasn’t changed. But because the old levers aren’t fitted with Bluetooth (current Red eTap uses a separate USB dongle for that task), implementing the necessary firmware updates was deemed to be unreasonably challenging on a wide scale.
From James’ article on Cyclingtips. Doesn’t peak 100% directly to your question, but…
Hey just because you created a mechanism to fix bugs doesn’t mean there has to be bugs!
Give credit to SRAM for pretty much knocking eTap out of the park, reliability-wise. It’s astonishingly reliable for a completely new type of system.
I would like to believe so… but the engineer part of me just don’t think so. But I would give credit to SRAM for the reliability of eTap since launch.
I’d also love something to be done with the dongle… for instance I found the rear derailleur of my tri bike was hitting my spokes when all the way in and not under chain tension. Was getting some chain skip on my rear cassette… seems to have resolved, not sure how it got so out of whack but micro-adjusting with the blips is kind of pain… doing it by yourself.
It’s electronic and it’d be nice if there were an app or way to tune it say from my laptop.
Running e-Tap on both my road and TT… love it! The geek in me would like to be able to tune it though some sort of app/interface.