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TURNING VOI INTO PERSONAL SCOOTER

Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 10:54 am
by Jonnyboi
I thought that hacking the Voi scooter should have it's own thread as well. How is it coming along for you guys?

Re: Turning Voi into personal scooter

Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 11:27 am
by RSB0
Replaced dashboard only.
Segway app connects, can change lights and name but scooter keeps locked, can't ride it.

Waiting for a reset procedure to come up online or maybe some "stock firmware" flash that can remove reset the lock.

Re: Turning Voi into personal scooter

Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 11:39 am
by MikeLee
some pics of VOI, Segway Kickscooter ES4 - Scooter Sharing Version - SNSC1.0
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Re: Turning Voi into personal scooter

Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 11:59 am
by serrt2
Replacing the main board and dash works but seems tricky to get a legit main board :/ (tips of verified sources are welcome). Otherwise cracking the fw of the main board Would be the best option then you just need a new dash for 30$.

Re: Turning Voi into personal scooter

Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 12:01 pm
by serrt2
MikeLee wrote:
Mon Feb 11, 2019 11:39 am
some pics of VOI,think its ES4,who confirm?
Its a ES4 with a different baseplate, not foldable and lacks rear suspension

Re: Turning Voi into personal scooter

Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 12:05 pm
by MikeLee
serrt2 wrote:
Mon Feb 11, 2019 12:01 pm
MikeLee wrote:
Mon Feb 11, 2019 11:39 am
some pics of VOI,think its ES4,who confirm?
Its a ES4 with a different baseplate, not foldable and lacks rear suspension
Ok,there are versions of VOI foldable,with lacks and rear suspension?

Re: Turning Voi into personal scooter

Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 12:08 pm
by Ben J
Nice pictures.
Why go to effort of blocking out serial number, but leave barcode visible ?

Re: Turning Voi into personal scooter

Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 12:10 pm
by RSB0
There are 2 kind of scooters, both based on the Ninebot ES4

Old Brainless
-> Folding mechanism
-> Tracker is below the scooter, not connected to control board.
-> Apparently the scooter unlocks by somekind of bluetooth mechanism with some hidden code sent by the app still to be known.
-> Underlights

New Brain (like the one you show)
-> No Folding mechanism
-> Tracker is in front of the scooter connected to the control board.
-> The scooter unlocks like most rentals, using that control that receives unlocking .
-> No underlights

By now there are reports that just replacing the dashboard is not enough because the control board is flashed with somekind of custom firmware that keeps the scooter locked.

Reflashing the controlboard with the original (comercial) firmware probably does the job BUT there are still no know procedure online like there is allready for the xiaomi m365.

Share what you can find.

Re: Turning Voi into personal scooter

Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 12:35 pm
by Anonymous2
RSB0 wrote:
Mon Feb 11, 2019 12:10 pm
There are 2 kind of scooters, both based on the Ninebot ES4

Old Brainless
-> Folding mechanism
-> Tracker is below the scooter, not connected to control board.
-> Apparently the scooter unlocks by somekind of bluetooth mechanism with some hidden code sent by the app still to be known.
-> Underlights

New Brain (like the one you show)
-> No Folding mechanism
-> Tracker is in front of the scooter connected to the control board.
-> The scooter unlocks like most rentals, using that control that receives unlocking .
-> No underlights

By now there are reports that just replacing the dashboard is not enough because the control board is flashed with somekind of custom firmware that keeps the scooter locked.

Reflashing the controlboard with the original (comercial) firmware probably does the job BUT there are still no know procedure online like there is allready for the xiaomi m365.

Share what you can find.
Good information you got there. I believe that you could in theory flash the original firmware via JTAG to USB. And a developer has put the original firmware on GitHub, for both the control board and dash. Hope someone can test this out and share us the result.

https://github.com/Ch4rlus/ninebot_firmware

Re: Turning Voi into personal scooter

Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 1:21 pm
by serrt2
RSB0 wrote:
Mon Feb 11, 2019 12:10 pm
New Brain (like the one you show)
-> No Folding mechanism
-> Tracker is in front of the scooter connected to the control board.
-> The scooter unlocks like most rentals, using that control that receives unlocking .
-> No underlights

The tracker is just connected to vcc, - and acc so no real communication there BUT the tracker got a bt chip on it so might communicate with that but I don't think so. If you take one out it remains on the map for days (most likely till someone reports it)