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It may depend on which motor you’re trying to derestrict, the newest Smart motor currently 🤔 seems to have the upper hand, though it is unclear whether it can theoretically detect any tuning device which manages to evade its own presumably ongoing telemetry/diagnostic/anti-tamper checks, not that there appears to be such a device thus far made which can do so, I did see volspeed were advertising such a (Smart motor-specific) dongle, but then later appeared to remove same from their pages?

edit: see the ‘Derestricting Bosch smart motor system’ thread, apparently it is indeed now ‘a thing’.
 
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