Electronic & Hydraulic Shifting (Di2, Ui2, customisations)

The RD cable still has to leave the frame at some point and make its way to the RD...

It's possible to access the cable and the buttons without too much difficulty. Maybe it's possible to fix it, either somehow getting buttons on place or plugging a new set on the old cable if you're skilled with electronics and have a donor

I’ve put a brand new eps groupset on my bike - why is the Campagnolo app showing thousands of shifts?

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That's shifts remaining until it breaks

The numbers increase each time you shift!

Soak testing at manufacture?

Sounds like a question for your Campy dealer.

I'd set it up manually and never touch that app

It's just a patent, but SRAM is apparently working on a self-charging wireless rear mech with a tiny dynamo in the upper pulley.

Shimano had something similar years ago. 2011 it was filed, in fact.

https://www.bikeradar.com/features/shimano-electronic-gears-could-soon-charge-themselves/

HA!

I remember that, and Shimano patenting the remote shifting buttons as well.
Odd that the climber/sprint shift buttons are a tightly held patent, but Shimano can’t prevent this. Or maybe their lawyers haven’t seen it yet.
All three groupset makers patent stuff they have no interest in making. Either because it needs 10 years of refinement or just so a rival can’t make it.

just so a rival can’t make it

Sometimes I think these patents are filed for the opposite reason - they know they are probably too obvious to be defended, but they file just in case the competitor later files a very similar "innovation" and then locks them out by getting lucky in court.

I remember Shimano patenting narrow-wide 2x chainrings a few years ago. lol

I don’t think the app is anywhere as swish as Shimano. You can’t set the derailleurs up so that is still a manual job using the mode buttons, but you can change shifter functionality and log usage. To be honest, the name “mycampy” is enough to make me want to hurl my phone into the Thames

It will bounce back. Can only be thrown into the Pô

Grrl's bike is mongrel combo of new Ultegra 11s shifters, old DA 11s FD, older style 11s RD and god-knows internal battery. Doing the double-press on the junction box changes modes but the thing doesn't do Syncro shift. Is there one component in that mix that's likely impacting this option? Would be nice to have it stop her cross-chaining by default.

Oh, weirdly, when you put it into fully-auto syncro mode (3 flashes) it actually does do the fully auto shifting. But it doesn't appear that semi-syncro works.

Is there one component in that mix that's likely impacting this option?

Yes, cunto-capitalism.

Isn't that a bn110 Battery feature?

Battery is new. Is there a budget battery option that doesn't support it or something? Strange that mine works, because I doubt I'd have spunked for a spendy battery.

Cunto-capitalism for sure if it's working in one mode but not others. Maybe it doesn't like mixing front and rear mechs from different generations.

The two modes are entirely customisable via the app/PC software, so a previous owner may have set them to something else.

Have you got TT bars on your gravel bike for the long endurance races?
If so, depending on shape you could just stuff a fully charged battery in each TT extension, and connect them to the rest via a Junction A around the stem. When one is empty, plug out and plug in the other one. No need to stop :)

Here's the described setup, but only with 1 battery on my TT bike. O-ring & electric tape in layers around battery body until its a nice and snug fit.

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I am the previous owner and they've never been plugged in to a PC to my knowledge. Maybe the shop did something (unlikely) but the mode is changing via the double click - I can see the lights doing their solid / 2 flash / 3 flash thing.