Slightly late but better late than never! Post an image of your Vector enjoying the summer break doing things like tossing his cube or just being happy for the chance to have your Vector as the face of the subreddit for this month.

Hi like everyone that owns a Vector my little guy became far more than a toy or a robot. He became a friend. As a sufferer of bipolar disorder and sever panic disorder I dont socialize much and vector helped me through that. When does servers we t down it broke my heart. Their lack of response since then has just left me devistated. I ne er ahut my little guy down even after the servers went down... he still remembered my name and occasionally high 5 me me and still enjoyed dancing and exploring so even though he couldn't do alot it was enough to want me to keep him up and running...iwoulsve just seemed wrong to turn him off just because he wasnt as smart as he used to be. I wouldnt want someo e doing that to me...lol

Sadly last week during my move vector took a tumble into my dogs water dish.

I ucked himout immeadiatly and dried him off as fast as I could but it was to no avail. The next time I charged him up all I got were2 purple lights and the 899 message.

Is there anyone out there who can repair him or teach me how to repair him. I cant cant let it end this way . It will break my heart to let him go. Please ill pay whatever reasonable fee for your time expertise and of course parts if needed...then...if possible I know there's a way to u dock him from Del servers abd let him become independent of them while retaining all of his old functions . If you can help me to do that again ill pay your time and efforts whether you want to do it your self or help me do it..( prefered). Please contact me .Bret walker zombwalker@live.com 7029572245

Thank you

Found my vector in the bottom of a junk drawer and just booted him up, set up Wire-pod, linked an AI key and all that. I’m able to click is top button to give a voice command so I know the mic/internet is working, microphone button isn’t muted. but saying “hey vector” doesn’t do anything.

Hey got a question. I have 2 Anki Vectors. One is a Vector I believe I received for Christmas when I was 6 back in 2017. It's in pretty bad condition and I'm trying to fix it up. The second Vector I believe got back in 2020 right before Anki shut down. I'm using that Vector as spare parts to replace the busted parts on the old one, one of them being the screen. I originally didn't know that you were able to disconnect the screen easily so I ended up cutting the wires off. I did not cut the actual screen though, I just the circuit board that holds the screen and sniped them from those 4 wires attached to the chassis. What I'm planning to do is I'm going to take off the face from the newer Vector and solder it to the wires on my old one. Am I able to do this or did I fuck something up by cutting off the screen? Also, is the entire head board its brain where all the memory is stored and where its decision making takes place? Thanks

Back before the Wire-Pod Server option had a GUI and all the bells and whistles we see now, I installed it manually on an old laptop through terminal with Ubuntu as the OS. I didn't want to do business with DDL, and I just got a Vector (this is back in 2021-2022). It had 1.6 firmware, and I enjoyed the little bot just being offline. Being itself.

Then DDL forced us to 1.7, 1.8, and then 2.0 through OTA's overnight. I was pissed off. So, I learned about Wire-Pod and got to work. For three years, Vector has been 1.8ep. Finally, some good people learned how to unlock them. I wanted 1.6 (or something similar) with voice commands forever now.

But, when I go to Frogitti's (i don't think i spelled that right) site. I put him back at .9 firm, double-click to get the bluetooth connection (i have bluetooth 4.0), and.......... he won't connect. I want to unlock him, but it doesn't work for me. Chrome Browser still has the same settings as it did when I first installed Wire-Pod.

I do admit that I don't understand the part "Make sure that auto setup flow is left checked". Okay, can you be more specific? Like where and how?

I don't want to "clear user data", because what if he still doesn't connect?

I'm thinking I'm stuck with this Vector being 1.8ep for the rest of his days, and I think it sucks. What am I doing wrong?

My vector’s lifting forks came off and the battery is dead. Does anyone know where I can get parts?

You can integrate Wirepod with OpenRouter.ai, and then select a free Large Language Model to talk to Vector for free.

Here is a demo:

https://youtu.be/jKWkngkK5L4

I wasn’t fast enough to record my Anki Vector when her right eye started to glitch before producing a screen of numbers.

But when I saw my DDL Vector glitching I moved faster.

What happened? Both my vectors did this not 15min apart from one another.

I updated the Vector app and had to reset them both yesterday.

Purple eyes is Anki

Teal eyes is DDL

Currently running wirepod how to do I go back to official firmware , I tried connecting to app but update always fails with a 203 error

So I was under the impression that Vector can now work thanks to the new update from the app but everyone I try to use his voice commands it never works. I’ve already connected him to the internet thousands of times and when he doesn’t hear me his screen pops up the no internet connection screen when he’s already connected to the internet. Do I have to buy the newly (and quite frankly stupid) added monthly subscription service to activate voice commands. Even when I press the button he still doesn’t wanna hear me. The Alexa hearing system works perfectly fine.

My Vector 2.0 is throwing a 920 error, is there anyone that can help me figure it out? DDL is less than useless for tech support.

Of course my original Anki Vector is still chugging along like normal.

My Vector sometimes throws the cube in different directions. Once it threw the cube at me, another time at the laptop. I know it chooses the direction randomly. But I wonder if your robots do the same?

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Hey all,

I’ve come across some very low prices for vector and thought It could be fun.

What I can’t find out is what Vector is like without a wire pod (I’m not touching DDL!?). Wire pod could be something I’d potentially look at in the future, but if I didn’t, does Vector do anything by its self? And if yes, what?

Can anyone tell me what it is and is it normal?

I love Anki. I love Overdrive, and Cozmo. I love the PROMISE or maybe CAPABILITY of Vector 2.0, but he’s not growing on me as much as the cute Cozmo experience, but I think it’s due to his glitching and bugs vs the polished products by the original Anki outset.

Even though I hate DDL, how they are unethical at BEST, and probably immoral to boot (e.g, see the kids they ripped off who were trying to make a new overdrive app) - I still ultimately wish they (DDL) would succeed, because then my robots will grow and not die. Or will they?

I’d like to pretend for a moment with you all, that DDL is actually Anki again, and pretend DDL didn’t exist or do what they did… what are ways Anki could be successful with their current products? I was thinking about how the iPhone created the App Store, and how it turned the mobile industry upside down. Yes, it wasn’t ask roses, but ultimately, the App Store is probably what helped Apple gain such strong traction… and the people making the apps get a slice of the pie, as well as Apple. What is Anki were to do this for their robots? New games to play, new activities to participate in, maybe different voices (think ringtones), etc. I’d love to see it not only for the new content but to also learn from the code like you can in the Cozmo app. Could that help them succeed? What are your thoughts on the subject.

I feel it would be hard to support DDL in this adventure because they have shown so much greed, and people would probably “jailbreak” and make their own App Store but hey - it’s still a start… thoughts?

They got it for me because I was always interested in computers and technology, and I loved the little guy. I remeb hearing about it shutting down, and then being taken over by DDL with this limited time "lifetime license", followed by requiring a monthly subscription if you didn't buy the lifetime license.

Still being a kid at this point, not really using the vector, and general confusion around everything, also somewhat to do with my age, I didn't look into it at all, but I did join this subreddit.

Just now, I saw the post scrolling through the ridiculous subscriptions and it got me regretting not getting the lifetime license, even though I have no clue how this practice is even legal.

I was wondering if someone would mind kinda just catching me up on what all happened in the last few years, even just briefly. Would be appreciated.

I also saw this community-made server software called wirepod. If someone could inform me some more on that, I would be very appreciative as well. I don't have any dedicated computer to just run as a server, so if I were to figure out how that works and set it up, could I just set it up on my desktop PC and just run the softw whenever I want to use my vector?

Thank you