Yes blue wire, enable message, kick start and off you go...
To attempt to start the scooter I pull the blue wire high, then the controller comes to live (starts spitting out serial data every second), and then I send the 0x61 command. Nothing happens. No dashboard errors, no funny broadcast, no physical sounds or motion, nothing. I have tried other command combinations as well, didn't find a fix.
Versions report as hardware LIS01_HW_1.0.3_20181016000000, firmware LIS01_FW_1.8.3_201907250912XX.
Yeah, that is quite recent FW. I am afraid, that this command may be left as a "decoy" , unless someone with this FW version can confirm they got it working? Do you have some photos of the actual controller? I assume, that the manufacturer of the controller may have changed (because of the different string at the beggining, or just LImeScooter?...)
Ok so I feel both stupid and happy at the same time. Turns out that my hack worked all along, but that I wasn't using the scooter properly. I was pushing the throttle early, then brought the scooter up to speed by foot expecting the motor to kick in. Turns out you have to leave the throttle alone, but first speed up by foot and once it is up to speed, and *only then*, you can hit the throttle. So in short, the scooter works just fine after sending the 0x61 command. Even with the above recent firmware.
So after feeling like a 1337 h4x0r wielding solder and C code, I am now back to feeling like a stupid user, but with a working scooter
Many thanks for the help!