5G question

[icedman]

is the 5G clickwheel confirmed to work with the same protocol?

[Gigahawk]

As far as I know the protocol should be the same, however the connector is small enough that I was unable to actually assemble a breakout to test it.

The 5G connector has an extra 5 pins compared to the 4G, which makes sense since the 5 clickwheel buttons are external on the 5G.

I'll attach some pictures of the reverse engineering I did to design the breakout at https://github.com/Gigahawk/clickwheel_breakout_5th_gen

I never got far enough to figure out what pins are actually used for data, but I suspect it's the ISSP pins carrying the actual data, but if you have the skills or can pay for PCB assembly I would just make a breakout and probe the pins yourself.

[icedman]

Thank you for the info. 5G wheels are easy to purchase from aliexpress. I might try it out.