[APP] BrickController2

[mahjqa]

I'm having trouble with brickcontroller2 version 3.1 on an Ipad- after running for a couple of minutes the steering servo locks itself at a 90 degree angle. It doesn't seem to be a mechanical issue, restarting the profile in the app zeroes the steering again. Does anyone know of a fix? I tried putting the steering servo on different ports, but no luck so far. The hub's firmware is up to date. 

I'm reading things about forked apps in this thread, but I suppose there's some jailbreaking to be done to run these on Ipad, or am I wrong there? 

[gyenesvi]

34 minutes ago, mahjqa said:

I'm reading things about forked apps in this thread, but I suppose there's some jailbreaking to be done to run these on Ipad, or am I wrong there? 

Well not exactly, no need to jailbrake, rather you have to be able to download and compile the code and install to your iPad as a developer / test version. And I am not sure if you need an iOS developer account for that or not, maybe your iCloud account is enough. I used to have a paid developer account, now I don't but I can still use it for installing test software on my phone..

So the short answer is that this mostly works for software engineers who know what they need to do, at least on iPhone / iPad. Maybe on Android some precompiled version could be made, which could be easier to install..

[ludov]

You need to put the device in “developer mode” and then you can install apps signed with a regular iCloud account. However, it seems that such apps have limited “lifetime” and after a week or so are disabled. In any case, you need XCode, which is a seriously big installation. 

[mahjqa]

Yeah, that requires a bit more commitment than I'm into. I'd be willing to contribute financially to get the brickcontroller2 app updated and properly into the app store, but messing with developer profiles more commitment than I'm into. 

In the mean time I installed brickcontroller2 on an old android phone, which for now seems to have fixed the issue. 

 

[Joranprins]

On 6/3/2025 at 10:13 PM, vicocz said:

Hi, I maintain personal fork of BC2 and as it looks the original repository is somehow out of maintanence right now, I'm having my own builds and releases. Recently I've added base support for PFX for my own as my PRs to the original reporitories are not getting merged. There are additional features from other contributors as well. E.g. MouldKing support.

Have a look here, if you are interested: https://github.com/vicocz/brickcontroller2/releases

 

Regards

Vit

How do i get your github repo in my phone? Do i need to compile it myself or do you have an apk for android?

[The Brick Fire Station]

For Android there is .apk file. For ios i didn’t understand how to manage :/

[AVCampos]

At https://github.com/vicocz/brickcontroller2/releases, scroll down to "Assets", expand it, and you should have there a link to an APK.

[TheShadowDeamon]

On 10/15/2025 at 9:23 AM, AVCampos said:

At https://github.com/vicocz/brickcontroller2/releases, scroll down to "Assets", expand it, and you should have there a link to an APK.

Hello, I bought a Sony Xperia L4, currently runnining Android V9. I can download and run the App from the above link, but It doesn't detect my Mould King hubs (4 & 6) - Am I trying to use too old a phone, or is there some other issue?

[AVCampos]

If it can run Android 9, it should be new enough for BC2: I have phones that are way older have earlier Android versions, and they work. The issue may be with the MK hubs not being compatible, either by design or due to some hardware revision that made them incompatible (I don't have any myself to try out), or, less likely, there's something wrong with your phone. Have you tried connecting to some other kind of hub, such as SBrick, BuWizz or one of LEGO's PU hubs?