Does this happen with one particular preset, or all of them?
It happens often with the Darksaber preset, but I’ve had it happen with one or two others.
What does the serial monitor say when this happens?
I can’t plug in the board while its inside the hilt. I have the Darksaber V2 design so there is no way to access the board without taking it out. At least as far as I am aware. The issue only happens when I use the gesture control to turn the blade on and off.
Guess I really need to add some code that saves the serial monitor data to the SD card…
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That would be great! Could a serial monitor stream be added to Forcesync? (or is it already there and I just havent found it?)
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I have no idea what forcesync can and cannot do, because I did not write that app.
If you have a bluetooth module, then you just need to hook it up to something that can show the stream of bluetooth data, similar to how the serial monitor does it, then you can enter the command make_default_console which make all serial console output go to the current stream. (Which in this case would be bluetooth.)
Maybe this would work?
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That sounds like a great solution–sadly, I haven’t done c++ development since the early 90’s and I’m rusty (more like corroded). I’ll stick with a hardware solution for now–but will get back to it. There are a few Proffie Bluetooth capabilities I’d like to experiment with once I get through my current build projects.
someone:
“Rust Mentioned?!”
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No C++ needed.
You just load the BLE console in a browser, connect to the saber, then type in the command. Now you basically have a serial console.
Fair, I’ll give it a shot–but I’m actually more concerned about not knowing how to use GitHub than the coding…
No github needed either. Just go to this url:
Does this require Chrome? (I’m thinking for WebBLE…?)
I used the ancient art of RTFM to discover the answer is yes 
Hmm. I can see the saber in the bluetooth devices list in windows, but it says “needs an app to connect.” Using the link you posted, I can scan, but not find the saber. I think I’m missing a driver. I’m traveling next week, so this will go to the back-burner. Thanks.
BLE doesn’t really have drivers, if it doesn’t work, it’s just the wrong app.
I thought I had a link somewhere to web page that can do this, but I can’t seem
to find it now.
It will be added in the ForceSync Pro app version. You can read more about it here: https://shtokcustomworx.com/pages/forcesync-mobile-app 
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