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VETuner Updates

https://blog.smithfamily.org.uk/posts/2026/05/vetuner-updates/

Published: May 19, 2026 10:00

It’s been a little quiet lately so I thought I better post an update. Since the last post there have been over 350 updates made to the software. A lot have focussed on reliability and robustness of the connection, but here are a few of my favourite ‘user…

Kicking The Tyres Of VETuner

https://blog.smithfamily.org.uk/posts/2026/04/kicking-the-tyres-of-vetuner/

Published: April 17, 2026 10:00

This is a walkthrough of what VETuner looks like, and what you can do with it. Initial Connection VETuner uses the WebSerial/WebUSB interfaces supported by the Chrome family of browsers. Typically WebSerial is used on laptops, WebUSB on phones and…

VETuner is live at vetuner.co.uk

https://blog.smithfamily.org.uk/posts/2026/04/vetuner-co-uk-launch/

Published: April 10, 2026 10:00

VETuner now has a proper home at vetuner.co.uk. If you’ve been following along while I poked at parsers, dashboards, serial comms and all the other fun bits, this is the bit where it turns from “odd side project” into “real thing with an actual domain”. …

How Many Sins Had Annie Lennox Commited?

https://blog.smithfamily.org.uk/posts/2026/03/annie/

Published: March 18, 2026 11:58

In the song Missionary Man, Annie Lennox sings Well, I was born an original sinner I was born from original sin And if I had a dollar bill for all the things I've done There'd be a mountain of money piled up to my chin, hey! How much money is that?…

Elephant In The Room

https://blog.smithfamily.org.uk/posts/2026/03/elephant/

Published: March 5, 2026 09:31

You may have seen this story last week. Well that was about me and 999 other people and come April 5th I will officially be one of Thatcher’s Threee Million. I’m 55 and I can’t face the bullshit of interviews so it’s probably game over. I’m good at what…

Major Success!

https://blog.smithfamily.org.uk/posts/2026/02/majorsuccess/

Published: February 11, 2026 17:07

What you see there is the first time I have successfully connected a web browser running on Android to a Speeduino ECU via a direct USB connection. The read rate is poor as it was a very old Motorola that is normally my Squeezebox controller, but it was to…

VETuner Progress

https://blog.smithfamily.org.uk/posts/2026/02/ve_progress/

Published: February 1, 2026 17:22

I’m having so much fun with this! The main thing of note is that I’ve ditched echarts for custom implementations of guages, line charts, heatmaps, and 3D surfaces. This has cut about 70% of the bundle size. -rw-rw-r-- 1 dgs dgs 2889 Feb 1 08:24…

Old Dog, New Tricks

https://blog.smithfamily.org.uk/posts/2026/01/olddog/

Published: January 24, 2026 13:50

I was given some Squeezebox hardware by someone at work. It works really well, aprat from the Duet remotes. They’re hard to see, and lose connection to the network too easily. I was despondent about this, as the Squeezebox kit and software is really…

Sloperator

https://blog.smithfamily.org.uk/posts/2026/01/sloperator/

Published: January 18, 2026 09:00

I am a sloperator. I use LLMs where I think appropriate. The trigger for this post is that I’d always been mildly irked that whilst the pages of the blog had tags, they weren’t clickable and were thus a little useless. So I fired up Gemini in the editor…

Diff

https://blog.smithfamily.org.uk/posts/2026/01/diff/

Published: January 17, 2026 15:29

My Stupid Car has just got a new limited slip diff, but this isn’t about that. One of the benefits with developing VETuner, is that I can fix all the things that irritate me in TunerStudio. Top of the list is the difference dialog. If you load a new tune…

Oh Clock!

https://blog.smithfamily.org.uk/posts/2026/01/clock/

Published: January 1, 2026 09:28

I want to connect the code running in the browser, to the ECU. The browser code sends requests that the ECU processes in a synchronous manner and sends back the data. sequenceDiagram participant Browser participant ECU Browser->>+ECU:…