Experiences of using Pelago electric bike with Mahle 30X motor and its application. Bluetooth connection mostly fails. In the best case, it is possible to get connection after a couple attempts as a new bike, and in the result see total mileage, battery level and general info about the bike which is recognised correctly. People tell that route tracking and other features work fine with Android phones. The guys in Pelago shop suggested that I am possibly the only person in the world that uses Jolla + the Mahle motor in bike so they could not help much. But perhaps among you there is another user, with similar or different experiences? ChatGPT had some ideas but I would not like to use extremely much time for logging and debuging of this Bluetooth issue … And yes, the new Jolla phone, with the version 5.2.0.15 - 16. Just updating to 5.2.0.17. Edit: additional question - is there relation between the location service switch on/off and bluetooth on/off? When moving on a bike or car, one could expect that in addition to bluetooth the location needs to be known well.
Hi,
you’re not the only one on this planet 
I’m using the Mahle X20 with the Mahle app installed on a Sony Xperia 10 II. It mostly works, but I use it only to configure the motor, not to track routes with it. What I’ve noticed is that if BT is swithed off it takes some time for AAS to find the motor after switching BT on - seems there’s a delay before BT becomes available in AAS.
I will try to track routes in the next days to confirm whether that works or not.
Edit: Tested yesterday, route tracking works as well as long as Location Services are activated. Otherwise the route cannot be tracked as the Mahle motor doesn’t provide GPS data.
Thanks @tmichel , I’ll continue testing next week, taking care both BT and location settings, order of switching on BT, Mahle application in Jolla, bike itself. Perhaps it will be necessary to restart BT services, clean old cache etc.
Route tracking now works with Mahle application. Bluetooth connection still does not “find my bike” but after a couple of tries finds it as a new bike. Did several things: learned to activate full accuracy of location (long press on the location icon and then settings), updated Mahle app, checked everything. Recorded by Mahle routes and other data appear nicely via their web interface. Bluetooth issues will hopefully be solved with next Sailfish updates.
Just to report that after the latest Sailfish …22 update and Mahle latest update, that both contained Bluetooth fixes, everything now seems to work well.
I have native Mahle-app on my github-repo. I have used Claude to make, just a warning as here seems to be lots of people that don’t like it.
You can adjust the maps, change the adjust level, record route. Tested and working on my Scott Speedster with Mahle X35+.