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Dublinbikes stations back in action after connection fault

A total of 36 bike stations were affected by the fault yesterday.

Updated 25/07/2017

DUBLINBIKES STATIONS ARE all operating as normal this morning after an issue yesterday that left many cyclists unable to use the system.

Yesterday the company said ”a significant number” of Dublinbikes stations had been disconnected from the network due to the faulty connection.

A total of 36 bike stations were affected by the fault.

This morning Dublinbikes said there was an issue with an “external communications provider”.

“Our data communications provider resolved this issue earlier this morning and all of the Dublinbikes stations are now operating,” it said.

The Dublinbikes scheme has 66,000 long-term members.

In total this year, over two million journeys have been taken on the bikes, which are stationed around the capital.

Since their launch in 2009, over 19.8 million journeys have been taken, with 95% being short enough to qualify as free.

- With reporting by Michelle Hennessy.

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    Mute Dean Mac Glennáin
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    Jan 11th 2015, 12:12 PM

    Battery for a month :O how is that possible !

    Oh wait it’s a nokia . .

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    Jan 11th 2015, 12:00 PM

    2 gb in 6 seconds very nice :)

    Also the electric car thing…. hmmmmm that superchip is killing the battery. If u was to buy an EC today I want to be sure it can go as far as possible on a charge.

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    Jan 11th 2015, 2:41 PM

    I built a system with a raspberry pi, a screen and a microphone. Where by you could say lets say “baked alaska” and the screen would then display a recipe for baked alaska (off the bbc website). The issue with it 1.) it was that the voice control that I used, used the google speech recognition. Which didn’t like either my accent or microphone leading to a lot of errors. and 2. Wasn’t very tidy with wires hanging about so I took it apart. Was handy for a while though

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    Jan 11th 2015, 8:04 PM

    Any other craic?

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    Mute Daithí Ó'Céileachair
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    Jan 12th 2015, 5:47 PM

    Philips have been making long battery life phones like that for years, google the Xenium range. They are great

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