[fearlessleader]

From what I remember, you don't have to manually download the binaries yourself. It's all though Brew, and I think it will just download the source files from the repository name. ...

Are you aware of any downsides (space, security, whatever) to using Brew (not just for this, but for anything)? I remember some other package system that caused some grief back in the 9 or early 10 days.

 

[fearlessleader]

Good news everyone. A dedicated plug and play microphone for use with tg timegrapher.

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Based on someone else's recommendation for the same unit (but at a higher price), after two tries I finally got this unit. No instructions, so... some questions:
(1) Is the micro USB just to charge it's internal battery? Or for something else?
(2) There's one "mic jack" on the unit (and two cables came with it)... Is this the output that I'd then plug into whatever my audio-input is?
(3) Is the switch just above the "mic jack" just on/off for the internal battery to enable it's internal microphone?
(4) There are two LEDs -- what's the meaning of each please? Sliding switch made the red led on, then the blue one started blinking... Sliding switch off, turned the red led off (so it must just be power indicator), but the blue kept blinking for a minute (guessing it's just indicating some audio going "out"??) and then finally turned off.
(5) My unit came with a USB-to-two-Jacks --- Is this just to make it easier to connect this TGBC box to my audio input if it's just a USB? I'm also checking the two different cables that came with the unit...
(6) Any experience with holding the box on any side to "move" the watch to different positions? Do "all" positions seem to work the same?

Hoping that my lightning-to-external-mic-jack will work so I can use this TGBC box with iOS timing software.

Thanks!

 

[fearlessleader]

I have purchased the unit and used it since then with great success so I can pretty much answer all of your questions.
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Thank you... WOW, all the answers!!!

For several tests, it didn't work for me. Finally I tried a different audio-to-lightning adapter and voila -- it works! It was a bad "adapter". Sheesh! So few devices left with a mic jack.

Not sure if the readings are good or not, though... The numbers seem fine, but the two parallel "lines" of recorded ticks is always "moving" slightly diagonally up to the right as opposed to being just straight across. Not what I'd expect and I don't know what that means.

 

[fearlessleader]

If you see two clean parallel lines it means the unit is working fine. To tell from the graph and numbers how your watch performs you need to know how to use a timegrapher. You can search for guides on youtube or timegrapher manual on google.

I've read through and watched a few guides... I got it that if the two lines are mostly "clean and parallel" that that's good, but didn't see what it means if those lines are (still parallel) continuously on a diagonal up slope.

I'd like to see what Witschi has on their website, but you need to have device name, type number, and serial number of one of their devices to get access to their "how to use a timegrapher"... but I don't have their box, as I'm using the iOS software timegrapher app.

 

[fearlessleader]

https://www.witschi.com/assets/files/sheets/Witschi%20Training%20Course.pdf

Wow, thank you! Now that IS a course!
And for the other link -- thank you too, I hope that G translate is usable when I read through it.

 

[fearlessleader]

G translate work fine.

I know it works, but I also know the some of it's translation results are... "interesting"